North Fork of the Tuolumne River, Sierra Nevada foothills.
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Post Some Cool Pics You Shot
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edmidlifecrisis
Registered mediocre bass player
Bullock’s Oriole. A pair of these birds made a very brief as in 10 seconds or less, appearance in my son‘s backyard in Golden Colorado during a freak May snowstorm a couple of weeks ago.
... i took this picture of a tree at White Sands National Park .
early in the morning , silent and beautiful .
the sky was the darkest blue i've ever seen ...
early in the morning , silent and beautiful .
the sky was the darkest blue i've ever seen ...
... evening view from our back yard .
edmidlifecrisis
Registered mediocre bass player
From the great rookery at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm in NE Florida. Taken a couple of weeks ago. These are tricolored herons. One of many really cool photos I took over two days there.
There has been a pair of Canadas nesting up on that hill in the background every year since I've been up here. This spring there are three pair on the pond, Their nests are spread out around it, but it is not unusual to see them all in single file on the edge of the road across the dam, located just out of frame to the right. They have their own private water entrance in the middle of that big bush and if you don't know it's there you'd have to be lucky enough to catch them coming out to know it's there. There's an otter den just above the head of the pond and another one behind the dam. they occasionally come out from behind the dam and go fishing, and I assume the other group is doing the same at the head. Anywho, when I catch these birds when they are out, they don't mind me being in sight, but don't try to close on them or they will book to the pond.
I wonder if anyone else here is into astrophotography? I've gotten into it over the past couple years. It seems like a bassist's type of hobby. Or maybe not, since we're theoretically supposed to be out playing gigs at night. Anyway here's a few of my favorites that I've taken.
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Awesome! this is the best Moon shot I've ever taken and it is with a bridge camera. Yours is so much crisper.. I love it.
That's a great shot! Does that happen to be from a Nikon P1000? I've heard they have a crazy optical zoom on those.
Mine is actually a two panel mosaic, taken through a 5" Maksutov telescope with a dedicated astro camera and an infrared-pass filter. It's kind of funny how much of audio science is similar to photography... Wavelengths, low pass, high pass, narrow bandwidth vs broad.
It was the Panasonic LUMIX FZ-600 25-600mm. A great camera but really crippled by only having a 1/2.3″ CMOS sensor. I had some great shots with it, but it had its limitations with tracking, instant focus the small sensor.
I had no doubt you were using superior tech. It shows. It's the fine line between my type photos and those that deserve real praise, like yours.
Peace, John
Edit. Oh, by the way, the other pictures are phenomenal as well.
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K9 Thunder Bunker.
Current threat level: one faint rumble approximately 12 miles away.
Current threat level: one faint rumble approximately 12 miles away.
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Blurry rooftop shot, west end, downtown Dallas, Shot on break at a wedding gig a while back.
edmidlifecrisis
Registered mediocre bass player
I've never done it but know a few people that are into it. Those are great BTW!! I wouldn't know where to start, my photo projects are more down-to-earth!!! I am a Canon guy mostly.
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edmidlifecrisis
Registered mediocre bass player
Near my neighborhood following a mini rookery of yellow crowned night herons. This year's batch (there are three nests) are almost ready to head out on their own.
edmidlifecrisis
Registered mediocre bass player
That's cool. I was just in NY over the weekend in Westchester County just outside NYC, it's where I grew up. Doing my morning walks around my former high school which has two lakes, there is a year-round population of Canada geese there. I saw multiple families with various aged goslings. These geese are so used to people you can walk between them at will (watching out for guano!) without them reacting. Most other places they'd chase you away and even attack. Not here.
What the hell? This is the right camera and lens and magnification, basically? Are these manipulated in any way?
Yeah they are definitely manipulated to increase sharpness, decrease noise, and accentuate color in the case of the nebula photos. They are also made of many exposures "stacked" to increase the signal to noise ratio. If I recall the East Veil (the first one) is about 8 hours of exposure, and the Elephant's Trunk is maybe 14.
The color of the East Veil is basically true. Hydrogen emits light that can be captured as red, and oxygen as blue. I live in an area with a lot of light pollution, so I use a filter that only lets through those two bandwidths. Kind of like turning all the channels down on a graphic eq except two.
On the Elephant's trunk I also captured sulfur's bandwidth which is another shade of red, so in order to differentiate those colors I messed around in post and ended up with the gold/orange/purple. That one leans more to the artistic than scientific. The standard practice is to render Hydrogen as green when you shoot that way, which is what they do with a lot of the Hubble photos. This is how that image looks processed that way. A different flavor of false color.
I had no idea this was possible for regular people. I thought this is the the kind of thing only a space telescope or observatory could do. That's amazing.
Yeah you can do amazing things from your back yard these days. I am very much a novice at this and my gear is entry level. The rig used to take those photos was roughly MIA P Bass money. Many people in the hobby are into late-model-used-car territory.
