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davew

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  1. Hi Paul,

    I prefer colour astrolandscapes in most cases and these fall into that category. I do quite like mono deep sky but that's about it. For me, colour gives a greater sense of presence in the landscape and also helps bring out different parts of the image that blend into one with mono.

    Of the two colour images I prefer the less saturated one as the stone looks more like I imagine it to be.

    Did you have to tone down the light from the farm to prevent it overpowering the barn ?

    Lovely stuff as usual,

    Dave.

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  2. Hi Paul,

    Excellent images yet again.

    I like the ground as well as the sky in the second image as it has just the right amount of light to highlight the building.

    One thing I was surprised about was the building on the hill in the middle distance. I've seen loads of images in this area and can't remember seeing it before. That must demonstrate the power of the long exposure foreground.

    Dave. 

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  3. Hi Martin and all admins and mods.

    Thanks very much for the votes and I'm pleased you liked the image. It just goes to show the power of the Photopills app to get you into the correct position at the right time.

    I really enjoyed the submissions here and loved so many of the shots through the clouds and trees. I don't like it when I do it however and I find that rather strange !

    A special mention from me for Agnes ( Ags ) and her irreverent comments about her own photos. Had me laughing a few times and she obviously enjoyed the challenge  :)

    Cheers,

    Dave.

     

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  4. 5 hours ago, clarkpm4242 said:

    Hoping the R8 will!  Great choice of subject(s).  Enough happening to keep the timelapse intresting.  Nice one.  Paul

    Cheers Paul, Urban nightscapes are pretty busy all round.

    I've had a look round and can't find anything specific about the R8 but I'm assuming it will be able to do most things the R6 can. I believe the R can do similar stuff as well but you'd have to use a remote. I've watched a Canon video by Mathew Starling from a year ago which seems quite good and the main differences between our cameras is the menu list and the name printed on the front !

    The only fly in the ointment I can think of with the R 8 is the battery life but Timelapses are quite frugal with all the non used stuff switched off.

    Looking forward to a day to night over the Dales :)

    Dave.

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  5. 5 hours ago, John_D said:

    Very nice transition from day to night. In the past I've tried a sunset time lapse with a manual camera which eventually worked ok but involved an awful lot of lot of faffing about in post-processing. Getting the camera to do it seems a much better idea 😁

    I've had a play with LRTimelapse in the past but these new firmware additions within some cameras are outstanding. I think the latest Sony's and Canon's do the same things but I don't know enough about them to comment. Well, I know the Canon R5 and R6 will.

    Cheers,

    Dave.

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  6. 7 hours ago, FenlandPaul said:

    Very nice indeed, Dave (though I’m not sure I believe you that anything in the north west hasn’t been rained on!!).  I particularly love the cranes, boats and traffic adding some really nice dynamics too the foreground.  Day to nights are not easy!

    If you’re getting into timelapses, two YT accounts potentially worth following are @MatthewVandeputte and @EmericTimelapse - two very good timelapsers who have some good tutorials and sequences (interspersed with the usual gear reviews etc).

    I was quite surprised how many boats went passed while I was there. There were the usual observation boats and one wide beam party barge ( Read floating pub ! ) that you could hear well before it appeared !

    I'll have a look at those websites but I'll avoid the gear reviews :)

    Dave.

     

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  7. I thought I'd have a go at a Day to Night Moonrise timelapse over our brand new city centre super shiny high rise buildings 😎 So new they haven't even been rained on yet ☂️ Normally a Day to Night is a complicated manual nightmare but with the modern mirrorless cameras it's become much easier. Once you know what effect you want to achieve and the settings to get there then it's all done in camera and a video appears at the end of it all.

    I set my Nikon Z6ii up in Aperture Priority at f8 to keep the buildings fairly sharp and, so as to keep Moon trailing to a minimum, I set the maximum exposure time to 3 seconds for a 70mm lens. During the exposing stages the settings went from F8, ISO 100 and 1/100 seconds all the way to F8, ISO 1100 at 3 seconds. All I then had to do was trim the beginning of the video as I'd started a bit too early.

    The shooting spot is on the Manchester Ship Canal at Pomona Dock No. 3.

    Video best viewed in 1080p

    Cheers,

    Dave.

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  8. 4 hours ago, clarkpm4242 said:

    What we need is the opportunities to play out!!

    Never a truer word spoken. I often get in the situation where the forecasts say no and when it's too late to get out, the sky says yes !

    I'll play around a bit more with the LLL and see where I get. I'll also try and match up lighting with timelapsing. It's still possible to process video of course but should be better if you get it reasonably right in camera which is not my greatest forte. I normally underexpose as modern sensors will take the abuse after stacking.

    Cheers,

    Dave.

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  9. 4 hours ago, AstroNebulee said:

    I do enjoy light painting singular foreground objects to isolate them from the main foreground. 

    You know Lee, I often like the chase of light painting and am all over the place with my torch. I bought a remote ( Up to 100m range ) just so I can indulge :) 

    5 hours ago, AstroNebulee said:

    They are all great images, your Orion one is lovely. Im hoping to get some Orion Widefield in this winter and seeing yours gives me a lot of inspiration. 

    Thanks very much mate. Orion has to be the finest sky target there is so good luck this winter.

    Dave.

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  10. 7 hours ago, FenlandPaul said:

    I’ve published some stuff that looked exactly as I intended on one laptop, only to view it later on another device and thought “crikey that’s gaudy”!

    I've had a look at my 14mm LLL image side by side with it as it appears on my PC and the difference is mainly the colour balance. Rather Gaudy is a good description :) It actually looks brighter on here but isn't ! It's the colour of the reeds that throws the eye so very interesting.

    If I see a valley or hill I'll still do the long exposures but don't really blend day and night photos as Lee does.

    Just as an aside, quite a few National Parks in the USA have now banned all photographic lighting, much to the anger of many imagers, even though you can drive through them with car headlights ablaze. I do understand though.

    Dave

     

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  11. Thanks Paul,

    I seem to change what is acceptable lighting for me based on what is in the foreground as natural light with a long exposure often does the job better than I can !

    23 hours ago, clarkpm4242 said:

    It gives greater interest, depth and context to the image.

    You are quite right.

    There's an old abandoned quarry ( North of me and south of you ) I'll try and get to and give it another go.

    Dave.

  12. Now then ... Timelapses. I hadn't thought too deeply about that but it's a good shout. I think it would take more effort to balance the colour temperature and light output than I've done here. I'll have to experiment, unless someone with colour balance experience can advise us ? 

    Ha Ha. I ate all the dark chocolate mint KitKats already :) I still have a chunky left over but as it doesn't travel well I'll have to eat that too !

    Dave.

  13. In the past I've almost always lit my night scenes with targeted torch waving. It's been a reasonably successful method and the more I practice the more I'm happy with it. There is a situation where it doesn't really work and that's over a large and open area. 

    Last year I took a snap of the fishing pond and Orion at Kelling with no wide area lighting and this Autumn I tried low level lighting for the reeds and trees to see if it looked ok or not. Here's a side by side photo of the pond and you can see it's completely different. The image is a tad boring but it's just an experiment  🤨

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    I think it's very personal as to whether or not you like it and I have to say it looks too bright posted here but that too is personal. It looks a bit darker and subdued on my laptop. These images were taken with a 20mm lens but the one I've settled on below was taken with a 14mm lens and takes in a much wider area. As you can see from the trees and reeds it was slightly breezy !

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    I think in the main I like it and will be giving it a go more often. What I tend to do now is long exposure foregrounds and normal exposure skies blended together.

    The method I used was setting up another tripod with a light attached on top way over to the left and leaving it switched on the entire time I was exposing. This won't be very popular with other imagers in the area however so it's a good job I tend to go out on my own  😎

    I set the light rather " Warm " and some of my shots look like the reeds are on fire ! I'll try daylight settings next time.

    Dave.

     

     

     

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