Outdoor Photos and Landscapes

Crown Of Thorns

 

Sea Of Cortez



Where the Desert meets the Sea.

 

Obviously that's the flag of the Netherlands



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Took this picture flying today. Hope you like it!



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Cool, details.

 

Incredible!

 

When will it be finished?

 

Beautiful!

 

Clingmans Dome in Tennessee...


Brasstown Bald in Georgia...

 

Front range, Colorado Rocky Mountains, from a 737-300

 

I was in southern Alberta all weekend for a cub scout camp. While there I took advantage of the zero light pollution, and was able to get hundreds of great shots of the Milky Way! Here's one of them.

 

Amazing! Bravo!

 

Thanks!

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Magnificent!

 

A time lapse of the Milky Way.

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That is crazy awesome! Great work! Can you tell us about how you did it?

 

Thanks and of course! The gear I used was my Nikon D5100, Nikkor 35mm 1.8 lens, cheap tripod, and a cheap external intervaltimer.

I had my settings at ISO 5000, 15 second shutter, f1.8, and intervaltimer set for 5 seconds (between frames). The ISO makes the picture grainy, but due to the magnification, the grains look like more stars and gives the video a twinkling effect. Also, at 15 seconds the stars are slightly streaked, giving the sky more of a sweeping look, instead of stagnant. After twilight I took a few shots to make sure things looked alright, then set the intervaltimer to take infinite photographs...and i went to bed (I was tenting about 30 feet away).

I took about 520 shots before the battery died, (it was about 2/3 power) and uploaded them to Adobe Lightroom. I tweaked the last photo, correcting the white balance, adjusting the contrast, removing any air haze, and reducing the purple so the stars didn't look blown out. I applied the settings to the rest of the photos, then uploaded them to Google Picasa 3, where I made the time lapse movie.

The location was in a perfect dark sky, with no clouds (luckily). I took a risk assuming my settings would be alright , set it in auto drive and went to bed hoping the shots would be slightly decent. And that's how it was done

Honestly if you have any questions let me know. The photo editing for the movie and the last pic I posted took all of 2-5 minutes total. The best part is anyone can take photos like this! And it's WAY easier than you could imagine.

Edit:. I took the photos with the intention of making the movie, and NOT for individual photo development...that was just a bonus.

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I have done night sky photos a couple of times, but my location in suburban Seattle made the results unsatisfactory. Even though the sky looked dark to the eye, it looked dark brown in the image from yellowish city lights. No amount of tweaking could clean it up. And I had no idea how busy the night sky near a city could be with airliners! The streaks from the airplane lights were actually very interesting.