that is a nice set Larry. quite enjoyed those... subash
On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 13:12:24 -0700 Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > Some attempts at astro landscapes. > > I don't quite have it wired yet, but I'm learning things to try for > next time. These were done with the rokinon 24/1.4 from the town of > Mount Shasta. A couple of these might print up well. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157697414506681 > > 24mm isn't wide enough to get the full arc of the Milkyway, even > positioned vertically. > > These were done with the DFA 15-30 using astrotracer from outside of > Weed, just off of I-5. I was hoping the smoke from the fires would > be beneficial for foreground effects, it may have caused more > problems, possibly even the rainbow effect, I'm not sure. > > This set doesn't show the ones I tried with the 24/1.4 or the non > astrotracer with the 15-30. I don't think I really got any keepers > out of this set, but I learned a bit. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157698646538354 > > I should go back at about a half moon so that I can get shots both > with no moonlight and also with Shasta lit after the moon rises. > I need to do more overlap on the frames, particularly with the 15-30 > The astrotracer really helps with the sky, and with the dark > foreground doesn't make a lot of difference there. > I should definitely bracket the photos. > I wish there were stacking software that could separate the sky from > the foreground and stack them each appropriately. Also software that > could stitch an astrotracer sky with a non astrotracer foreground, > while stacking them for HDR and panorama. > I also wish the software would use the gps, accelerometer and compass > data to make the stitching go faster. -- 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.
