Finally got back Up North (bw)

[RAMd®d]

Thanx for looking.

No, thank you! Those are some incredible and beautiful shots. They will do rotation in my Desktop Pictures folder.


Will post more pix soon.

I certainly hope so!


Too much damn light pollution in our country.

PFFFFFT!

Very easy to travel a not significant distance and get away from "light pollution".

Maybe it's too much civilization. We could wall off big metropolitan areas,-- say New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and with dispensation, Seattle, Miami, and some others to be named later. Cut municipal niceties like power, water, and police services, and let the cities level themselves. Plant foliage, contract observation posts for celestial activities, and Bob's your uncle.

Less civilization, less light (and dino-) pollution.

[hal]

What camera and settings for the star shots?

[DP]

Thank you all again for your comments...

hal wrote:
What camera and settings for the star shots?

20 seconds at 3200 ISO f/4 Canon 5D Mk II 17-40mm L lens set at 17mm.
Normally I do about 5-7 exposures with the camera tipped to vertical but there were too many trees so I shot 3 horizontal images with a lot of overlap (moving left to right). I processed the images in Camera Raw to bring out more detail then built the pano using the Auto-Align Layers and Auto-Blend Layers method finishing with using the Adaptive Wide Angle filter to straighten out the curvature.
Here is the technique I used from Russell Brown's tutorial:

http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/GalacticPano_SM.mp4

[DP]

freeradical wrote:
Gas hypered film? :-)

I hope to do some deeper astrophotography but I still have a few bits and pieces to buy and some practicing to do. It is one of the few times I anticipate Winter as the constellations and other night sky phenomenon then are spectacular.

[hal]

Thanks - I wanna try this one day...

DP wrote:
Thank you all again for your comments...

[quote=hal]
What camera and settings for the star shots?

20 seconds at 3200 ISO f/4 Canon 5D Mk II 17-40mm L lens set at 17mm.
Normally I do about 5-7 exposures with the camera tipped to vertical but there were too many trees so I shot 3 horizontal images with a lot of overlap (moving left to right). I processed the images in Camera Raw to bring out more detail then built the pano using the Auto-Align Layers and Auto-Blend Layers method finishing with using the Adaptive Wide Angle filter to straighten out the curvature.
Here is the technique I used from Russell Brown's tutorial:

http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/GalacticPano_SM.mp4

[Grumpyguy]

awesome panos of the starscape.

[wowzer]

Thank you for sharing. I really like the astrophotos. I wish I had the time to do photography again...these days, all I get to do is take photos of the kids and family.


How far north did you go? Alaska?