Milky Way

[KeithBreazeal]

Hi Kieth.
Very nicely done, nice balance of the light.
When you say light painting, I'm guessing from the description of one inside the skull etc you are doing it with flashes and not a flashlight shone here and there during the exposure?

Cheers, Graham.

Cyclops Skull Arch at Alabama Hills, California
5D Mark IV, Sigma 14mm f1.8 Art 13 sec., f1.8, ISO 4000
This was the most challenging subject I have light painted so far.
One light inside the "skull", one to the left of frame, and one at the cameras position.

Graham- It was lit with two LED headlamps in fixed positions. The third light was at the camera position for fill and balance on the side.

 

[Don Haines]

FINALLY!!!!! I got a clear night. Shot this last night in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada....

BTW, what software do people use to image-stack pictures like this? I tried registax but I was only able to make the image worse.....

 

[KeithBreazeal]

Bodie ghost town- at the morgue. Back in the day, the morgue was a busy establishment.

Bodie Milky Way over the Morgue 6690ab 2017 Web © Keith Breazeal by Keith Breazeal, on Flickr

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Kieth.
Thanks for the clarification, I like the morgue shot too, some foreground detail makes the milky way shots far more interesting.

Cheers, Graham.

Hi Kieth.
Very nicely done, nice balance of the light.
When you say light painting, I'm guessing from the description of one inside the skull etc you are doing it with flashes and not a flashlight shone here and there during the exposure?

Cheers, Graham.

Cyclops Skull Arch at Alabama Hills, California
5D Mark IV, Sigma 14mm f1.8 Art 13 sec., f1.8, ISO 4000
This was the most challenging subject I have light painted so far.
One light inside the "skull", one to the left of frame, and one at the cameras position.

Graham- It was lit with two LED headlamps in fixed positions. The third light was at the camera position for fill and balance on the side.

 

[rnl]

Volcano caldera and Milky Way

 

[rnl]

full Milky Way ...pardon me if this is repost

taken next to the keck observatory ...big island, Hawaii

 

[Click]

Beautiful. Well done, Richard.

 

[KeithBreazeal]

full Milky Way ...pardon me if this is repost

taken next to the keck observatory ...big island, Hawaii

WOW! Very nice. Love your backdrop. Well done.

 

[rnl]

...here's the view from that backdrop towards Subaru and Keck 1 and 2

 

[rfdesigner]

FINALLY!!!!! I got a clear night. Shot this last night in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada....

BTW, what software do people use to image-stack pictures like this? I tried registax but I was only able to make the image worse.....

nice shot

I use IRIS, it's old and it's last update was I think 3 or 4 years ago, but it's free. Registax would be my usual advice.

IRIS is like wading through treacle to drive it but it's so powerful you can do almost anything with it..

With wide field images it's very easy to make things much worse (sky gradients, forground confusing things, clipped stars etc, so many stars it can't align images and so on)

I assume you are stacking raw or TIFF images and not jpegs.

 

[KeithBreazeal]

Red Rock Canyon, California.

Red Rock Canyon & Milky Way 4675a © Keith Breazeal by Keith Breazeal, on Flickr

 

[Click]

Red Rock Canyon, California.

Beautiful. Great shot, Keith.

 

[scyrene]

full Milky Way ...pardon me if this is repost

taken next to the keck observatory ...big island, Hawaii

Amazing vista, but if I may, I'd love to see it with a less blue white balance.

 

[scyrene]

Red Rock Canyon, California.

Red Rock Canyon & Milky Way 4675a © Keith Breazeal by Keith Breazeal, on Flickr

Superb colour!

 

[KeithBreazeal]

Red Rock Canyon, California.

Beautiful. Great shot, Keith.

Thank you Click. I am really liking the Sigma 14mm Art. It is the easiest lens to manual focus on a star. The Rokinon 14mm is good at focusing, but the Sigma seems to be at least twice as fast to snap a star into critical focus manually.

 

[chrysoberyl]

What wonderful contrast!

Volcano caldera and Milky Way

 

[KeithBreazeal]

Red Rock Canyon, California.

Red Rock Canyon & Milky Way 4675a © Keith Breazeal by Keith Breazeal, on Flickr

Superb colour!

Thanks scyrene This was actually an early test shot before I did some light painting. The warmer tones are much better for the natural colors of the landscape there.

 

[scyrene]

Superb colour!

Thanks scyrene This was actually an early test shot before I did some light painting. The warmer tones are much better for the natural colors of the landscape there.

I am very envious - what an amazing place to be! Except maybe the scorpions

 

[KeithBreazeal]

The "Cyclops Skull" arch at Alambama Hills just outside of Lone Pine, California.

Cyclops Skull Alabama Hills 2017 4694a © Keith Breazeal by Keith Breazeal, on Flickr

 

[Click]

Very nice shot, Keith. 8)