Night Sky Photography

[Member 5605]

We have a few threads of random photography related potpourri but what about good honest photos we take on a daily basis?

Last night I spent some time up on Mary's Peak to get above the city lights and distortion of town to get away from the house for a bit.

I was on the eastern edge and the warm wind from the valley was gently blowing up and keeping me really warm. Grasshoppers jumping in the grass and responding to my red headlamp.

There is minor touch ups on some photos to enhance the contrast but last night the sky looked amazing of its self. I'm considering one of these as a canvas print for 16x9 on the wall.

Hope y'all enjoy, I'd like to see others as well with any tips and tricks.

Nikon D3400
35mm prime lens
1.8f
15 second shutter
ISO: 1600-400
Manual focus of course

Corvallis/Philomath - looking east
You can see the stretch of Hwy 34 then Albany just up and to the left of that.


Looking northeast towards Hood


Looking north


Looking south

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[308]

Nice job

 

[clearconscience]

Gorgeous man! Can't do that with a camera phone!

I always loved photography but never started doing it much.
Makes me mad now having kids and all our photos are with a iphone and half of them are kinda blurry, just enough to make it bad for printing.

Stupid technology

 

[MountainBear]

You need to be making prints and a website and selling that stuff. You have skills Dyj...

 

[Member 5605]

Gorgeous man! Can't do that with a camera phone!

I always loved photography but never started doing it much.
Makes me mad now having kids and all our photos are with a iphone and half of them are kinda blurry, just enough to make it bad for printing.

Stupid technology

It pains me when I see somebody taking photos with a cheap disposable cell phone knowing that the person in the photo will have four pixels for their nose and one for their eyes.

Watched a grandmother do it the other day. I almost said "can I use my 12MP camera phone. Trust me I'll send it to an email address you specify right now then delete it..."

Can't always carry a full sized camera around but I can keep it handy:

 

[etrain16]

Awesome shots! Great capture of the Milky Way! I haven't spent as much time with the DSLR as I used to. Probably time to break it out again.

I posted these on the eclipse thread - but I did take a chance to capture some shots of the sun on Monday. I was happy with a homemade filter holder to capture enough detail to actually get some sun spots - you can see 5 of them in the first photo and 3 in the third photo.