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Participantooooooohhhhh……. very pretty… the full-size images are gorgeous!
ParticipantI’m a shaaaark! I’m a shaaaark! Su… oh.. was that out loud?
/hockey zombie
ParticipantYou guys are mean. I saw the walkway thru the bog, and after saw the comments here and the name Atrus. I have Myst’s soundtrack firmly stuck in my head now.
BTW, I liked the plant shots, the kid is cute (but I almost never photograph people, can’t do them justice, so in my mind they’re simply people…yes, I’m socially flawed, I think), and the wide shots showing the bog around the walkway just invoke a fantasy mindset to me… that’s a location with a lot of potential to play in.
ParticipantYou’re gonna make me piss off some TSA clown… I have relatives in Puako and really want to visit, but I HATE to fly. Airliners just make me completely irrational. No prob if I’m steering (I solo’d when I was 15), but I hate sitting in a seat on the bus, as it were. Can’t fly a Piper to Hawaii, tho.
I can see me saving some OT cash to make that happen. Dammit. I’m gonna have to break my trend, haven’t been on an airliner since 92.
Participantgood lord would I love just a tour of Subaru. Not like there’s a “look thru” option on the above-amateur level scopes.
But to discard the car analogy, research-grade scopes are long. Imagine a fast 4 meter at f4 (for the rest, Plama, you already know this)… that’s a 16000mm fl. Tiny FOV, still f4 tho…
ParticipantI’ll never tell!
Participanthahhaa… to put this in perspective… if telescopes were cars, I’d show up in an RX-8, while you’d be digging through the key bag full of Ferrari keys looking for that Lambo key you haven’t used in a while.
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ParticipantPlama, I really like the images you started this thread with… seriously, having that subject with that foreground…
It’s funny, most astrophotographers consider “wide field” to be 2-3 degrees. When referring to telescopes, that is a pretty wide field, but next to nothing compared to a camera lens. If it were only possible to get a stack with foreground and sky without resorting to photoshoppery…
Participant/making bookmarks…. I’m gonna need this someday….
Participantskillz should be paid for.
So much THIS. Anyone who makes a living doing things that most don’t know how to understands this.
And yeah, Farktographer, stretching levels will really enhance the noise floor. It’s a no-brainer over why digital astrophotographers stack images as a default method. Gotta say, tho, even with all the noise, reduction still leaves an impressive image. Gawd, thatsalottastars…
ParticipantHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH! I was gonna echo Rav‘s admiration (and actually I think I still will) but you made me bust up with the spoiler… I needed a laugh after the way this week is panning out.
Man, you got some beautiful shots… my inner landscape geek is telling me in no uncertain terms to get to Yosemite…
ParticipantI think I’ve posted several shots at various times incorporating the cell tower located in my complex.
That right there is part of the reason I wind up awake at odd hours… I’m the other end of whatever they happen to be trying to install. Pays the bills, but doesn’t leave much spare time. I wish they could do that during the day, but deep nights is the only time we can shut things down without the public seeing their service drop.
Farktographer, man, thatsalottastars! I can’t even tell which way you were pointed. I’ve never tried exposures beyond 5 minutes with a DSLR, things just get far too noisy. How long was that exposure and at what ISO? Looks to be pretty high, judging by the thermal noise in the full-size image…
ParticipantNice pics, BTW… I recognize that first shot… my first ever sky pic was the big dipper. Point some fast glass south towards Scorpio/Sagittarius and you can fairly easily catch some dust lanes between us and the center of the galaxy.
ParticipantWhatever you can! 😉
Was it a nice house? (I’m curious what those here with more experience selling images have to say…I was gonna start at double whatever the cost of printing was…)
ParticipantFair enough. And thanks.
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