Thanks Larry, I'll try it sometime...
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:51 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Live view zoomed in, aim it at a bright star planet etc. Sometimes I'll use a > green laser and focus on the dot in the distance > > On July 16, 2018 10:18:37 AM PDT, Gonz <[email protected]> wrote: >>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 <[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. >>> >>> -- >>> Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc >>> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157612824732477/ >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> >> >>-- >>-- Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding >>it still. Dorothea Lange >> >>-- >>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. > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > -- > 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. -- -- Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. Dorothea Lange -- 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.
