ISS Over Loughor Estuary at Penclawdd 25-04-11

[Psychobilly]

Decided to try an get a better foreground for tonights pass so drove down to Penclawdd which is on the North Gower Coast

Unfortunately i missed the first part of the pass by eye so started late ... I know I should have gone by the watch...

Exposure was tricky especially for the horizon...

Canon 500D with Tamron 10-24 DiII at 10mm 25x4s @ f5 ISO 200 Processed in Startrails Post Processed in CS5...

Thanks for looking...

Peter...

[Mikea]

Beautiful picture!

[Psychobilly]

Just thought I would add this "Scene Setting" handheld 270 degree pano shot with the Nikon D200 and Sigma 10-20 @ 10mm with the camera in Portrait mode to give more Depth... 21 frames stitched in Microsoft ICE tweaked in CS5...

[mikeknowle]

Both v nice pics! (Wish I'd thought of stitching last week when i needed to. Damn, damn, damn....)

[kris h]

Excellent images Peter

[JonH]

Nice one Peter, that foreground was well worth the drive. Great pics.

[Psychobilly]

Thanks all,

Although not entirely "ethical" I used CS to compensate for my incompetence... and the late framing...

[Beulah]

Can we call you Peter, now you have your first shot of the sky?

Beautiful picture!

I did a handheld 180 degree pano for a project at work - I was surprised at how excellent CS5 Photomerge/Content Aware Fill is!

[leenewtoastro]

cool. it was uber bright last night

[Beyond_Vision]

A lovely scene Pete and well thought out image

Regards

Kevin

[Psychobilly]

Thanks all I had the perfect psoition for last nights pass the ISS shouls have "emerged" from the Wels side of the SSC and Arc's up across the bridge before disappearing out of frmae high above the toll booths...

I nervously kept checking the watch as the meeting I was in dragged on.. AOB was called at 21:30 and I was prayign that there want much and preferably any.. thankfully there wasnt and the site was less than a mile in the car from the Pub... made my excuses for not staying and left ...

To wall to wall cloud...

I still went to the site hoping the cloud would have been thin enough but no way and it started to rain as I crossed back into Wales...

Peter...

[beamish]

Nicely composed Peter and I lurve the sig

[saturn5]

Yep,a top notch compo,very well done sir.