BalintL
The astrophotographer
When I was driving home in october, I saw the Pleiades rising just above the hill near to my home village Magyaregres in Hungary. I had an idea to take a picture with the Pleiades and myself on top of the hill, so I started a timelapse with one of my camera, and walk to the top of the hill with the other, and with the tripod. I waited a few minutes there and hoped that everything is in frame that I wanted (me and the Pleiades), and there are a few pictures where I stand still without any motion blur.
When a I went back and checked, I find a few nice pictures, so I went home, set up the gear and the tracker in the garden and make more light frames for the original picture. After a half-hour clouds come, so I had to stop. In the next weeks and months there wasn't any really clear sky here, so I didn't have any chance to collect light but I tried, of course without any success. In the middle of december there were a few clear nights so I collected totally more than 6 hours for the integration, did the the post processing after Christmas and this is the result. I don't really satisfied with the post processing but generally I think it's not bad. It shows everything that I wanted to show: a tiny human with his gear, and the huge universe above, that looks dark and almost empty, but his camera can show that, It isn't dark, nor empty.
EXIF: Fujifilm X-A5 astro mod, Fujifilm 90mm F2, Skywatcher Star Adventurer
Sky: ISO400, F/2, 2 min (20.620 sec of integration totally)
Foreground: ISO3200, F2, 5 sec
Softwares: Sequator, Starnet++, Lightroom, Photoshop
The astrophotographer
When I was driving home in october, I saw the Pleiades rising just above the hill near to my home village Magyaregres in Hungary. I had an idea to take a picture with the Pleiades and myself on top of the hill, so I started a timelapse with one of my camera, and walk to the top of the hill with the other, and with the tripod. I waited a few minutes there and hoped that everything is in frame that I wanted (me and the Pleiades), and there are a few pictures where I stand still without any motion blur.
When a I went back and checked, I find a few nice pictures, so I went home, set up the gear and the tracker in the garden and make more light frames for the original picture. After a half-hour clouds come, so I had to stop. In the next weeks and months there wasn't any really clear sky here, so I didn't have any chance to collect light but I tried, of course without any success. In the middle of december there were a few clear nights so I collected totally more than 6 hours for the integration, did the the post processing after Christmas and this is the result. I don't really satisfied with the post processing but generally I think it's not bad. It shows everything that I wanted to show: a tiny human with his gear, and the huge universe above, that looks dark and almost empty, but his camera can show that, It isn't dark, nor empty.
EXIF: Fujifilm X-A5 astro mod, Fujifilm 90mm F2, Skywatcher Star Adventurer
Sky: ISO400, F/2, 2 min (20.620 sec of integration totally)
Foreground: ISO3200, F2, 5 sec
Softwares: Sequator, Starnet++, Lightroom, Photoshop