Leaving Friday Night Blues last night, I saw some interesting light on a building, with Orion hanging out directly over the Alley:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4039830969/sizes/l/in/set-72157622528845223/ I also tried another composition that puts more emphasis on Orion: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4039834611/sizes/l/in/set-72157622528845223/ Zab, my girlfriend, laughed when she saw it and said that it looked like the building was saying "Oh no! I've fallen over!". Maybe I should LOLcat it. I tried a wide range of times and ISOs to reduce the noise in the sky, but nothing seemed to work very well. I suspect that it has to do with background noise in the sky because the night I shot the Swanton/Lockheed fire, my shots of the milkyway weren't quite savage quality, but they didn't suck. Has anyone worked out what gives the best results shooting a night sky with a K20? At what point does sensor noise from a long exposure over take the advantage of using a lower ISO? Or, do you pretty much have to go to post processing and stack a few exposures to cancel the noise? ----- Forwarded message from Larry Colen <[email protected]> ----- From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> To: Candice Montgomery <[email protected]> Subject: playing with cameras So, what are the details on the Salton Sea trip? I also tried some night sky photography again last night, they didn't come out quite as well as I hoped, a bit too much noise in the sky. It's interesting whether you color balance on the light from the alley (I did some grey card shots), on the sky, or as tungsten. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157622528845223/ Since you commented on my not bracketing for HDR on the last set I did so on this set, at various ISOs. I was curious what combination would give the best noise in the night sky: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157622653347476/ -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc ----- End forwarded message ----- -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
