How do you focus? I tried some astro whilst in New Zealand and my eyes could not get a good focus and the live view was pretty much useless.
-R On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> 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. > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://red4est.com/lrc > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157612824732477/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. Dorothea Lange -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
