[Farktographer]

Some bees – (if anybody has strong feelings that one of these is better than one of the three I posted I’d like to hear about it. Not saying I’ll change but…)

Lake Tahoe last week – http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Tahoe_6897.jpg
Tiny farm land cemetery – http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Cemetery_5179a.jpg
Tattered flag with Holga-on-dSLR – http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Tattered_9990.jpg
40 minutes – http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/StarTrails_0346-square-aa.jpg

This is from the flag barn evening. It was the first picture after taking my camera from a cold air-conditioned van out into 90ish degree humid air.
Instant fog. I sort of like the feel though – http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Barn_4607.jpg
Same barn, similar to a prior post – http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Barn_4641.jpg

Random question from a newer photographer – what are Bees? Farktography terminology?

[Farktographer]

Does the black have to be the object of the photo? I have some pics that are 3/4 black, but then have a colored object.

I believe it just has to have a lot of black in it. The pictures I’m planning on using have some color in them, but the majority of the photograph is black/dark.

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Darn, wasn’t expecting stacked images to be allowed. Hopefully this rain clears up and I get a nice clear night to take shots before the deadline.

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I get pretty good str trail pictures with no stacking as long as there is no moisture in the air. I think you have a bit of humidity going on with way to much light pollution.

1-10-2011 by lokisbong, on Flickr
this is 6 and a half minutes no stacking

Thanks for the tip. I was able to get some tails on 10-minute exposures when I gave it a shot tonight. I went a bit further from light pollution and made sure to aim for places with no cloud cover whatsoever. Could be better, but I’m not going to be getting out of the city before this week’s submissions – this will be useful in the future though.

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Got myself an ML-L3 yesterday so I could finally do bulb shots. I was hoping to get some streaking if I telescoped in a bit, since we can’t stack for the upcoming contest. I set up my tripod and left the exposure open for 30 minutes with f/13. What I got was the horrible mess below:

Any thoughts? I’m thinking that my aperture was too large, but even then, there’s not a discernible star in the sky. Too much light pollution? I’m thinking of making another attempt near the beach where there’s not so much city interference. I don’t even know if people can get streaking goodness without stacking images – just going out on a limb here, hoping I can.

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