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Ooohh…. looky!

/updates every 20 mins

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wow. hard to get any slower at the ISO and fstop. A trigger would be cheaper and better for lightning than a quality ND filter…

/me heads on over to caradoc‘s gallery

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BTW… I’ve never heard arborization applied to lightning (hell, can’t even put the 2 together and get decent google hits) before now, so I vote this my new term for the day. [cheers] It fits the “To have or produce branching formations” definition perfectly.

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arborization

arborization…)

I never knew there was a word for that.

lokisbong, a trigger’s been on my mind lately as well. Would give me a great chance to get out. Not so sure I want to be on the rim of the canyon with local planetary electrical discharge happening tho. 😆

So what ISO/shutter speed/etc? Without a trigger, I’m stuck at a few seconds until it starts getting darker.

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Screw zombies, we got us a time-traveling Doppelg?nger up in here! 😆

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I like the parallelism (is that even a word?) in the second… the first one really messed up my sense of perspective, which just made me look at it even more.

That and you’re the spitting image of a friend of mine 20 years ago.

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That last waterfall shot looks like something out of a fantasy… me likey.

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Nice shots…
/me pushes imaginary vote button on a bunch of landscapes…

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I definitely like the moving shots…low light is good for the motion blur.

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Very cool macguyver. Looks like it worked very well!

And yup… permissions on your source image, maybe? set to private?

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5DII @1600, which is the same ISO I used for the Orion shots earlier this year. That’s what made me think temperature. After some comments on another forum tho, I’m thinking it’s my process. I’m using UFRAW, and someone pointed out to me that it “develops” using it’s own internal profile and they need to be a straight linear conversion. Stretching levels on my finals seems to support this, as I get less but higher contrast noise after the subtraction. I’m going to re-write my script to use DCRAW (UFRAW is a CLI/GUI front-end for DCRAW) optioned for linear conversion and see if it helps. I’ve been using UFRAW because it has a command-line batch utility, while DCRAW only works on a single file per command. Now that I know enough to be as dangerous as a 5 yr old I can script it and drop the front-end.

Prolly not tonight tho, I’m feeling more like a hot bowl of popcorn and some EVE Online…

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I shot 20+ subs of it the other night, but it was well up into the upper 80’s and thermal noise made it very ugly and dirty, even with darks. 🙁

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well, at least now you know where to point… 300mm on an APS-C damn near fills the frame on that target, it’s simply huge… about 4-5x the size of the moon when you capture the fainter outer areas.

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Rav, you also got the Andromeda Galaxy in that frame… nice!

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HFSMFrs…bring it!

/had to…

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