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I am currently in lockdown and photographic subjects are limited. The trusty kookaburra however still comes to visit me.
Adapted Helios 44-7 58mm f2 (wide open)
After several abortive and unsuccessful attempts at trying to capture Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, which twinkles many colours, I tried something else.
I put the Intervalometer on to take an image every second, so as to capture it moving across the frame. This sort of worked but the lines of images looked really boring, so I repeated the process, but this time jumped up and down on the deck to cause camera shake. This resulted in loads of just blurry and unusable shots, but also many usable ones, and it did make the star jump around the frame. Bolted together several passes of the star, eliminated the blurred camera shake shots and this is the result.
To me, the resultant image looks quite organic, like a molecule or DNA, or maybe I have been hitting the lockdown wine bottle a little too heavily.
So continuing my adventures into astrophotography and specifically "deep sky" with this view of the Andromeda Galaxy M31. This is a massive step up from my first attempt to capture our close neighbour (its only 2.537 million light years away!). Also in view are M32 and M110 dwarf galaxies.
Not ideal conditions with a first quarter moon and moderate light polution. Looking forward to a new moon next time maybe. So grateful for all those youtube videos on set up and editing. They are invaluable to a newbie like me.
If you have read down to here thank you. I'll reward you with the image specifics! Tracking is with a modified Sky Watcher Star Adventurer. Imaged with the William Optics RedCat 51 and an unmodified Canon 5D MKIII. 1 hour 36 minutes total exposure time with 64 light frames and 45 dark frames @ 90 seconds, f4.9 and is800. Stacked in Starry Sky Stacker and edited with Photoshop and Lightroom.
This is what lockdown means for children. It is pretty sad to see this. I can only imagine how the kids must feel when they are told that they are no longer allowed to play in the playground. Overall I tried to convey this image to make it look pretty bleak and match how I feel about it. I reduced the vibrancy and saturation. I increased the contrast and applied some light sepia toning. The darkness in the clouds certainly helps set the mood.
My neighbours in lockdown.
The slum, on the adjascent road to my house, in today's rain.
Some of these families got some aid through Brac, but none from the government yet.
Hillview H/S
During the full lockdown we were only allowed our for the 1 hour while taking excercise, hence it was important to get out from time to time. On this night I took the dog out heading into sunset with camera and tripod. Wow, was it worth it!.
Horsham in full lockdown was as pretty as I have ever seen it at dusk, but... most importantly No Vehicles to clone out. No noise.
Moments that I will not forget in a long time, for all the reasons.
How we want this nightmare to end...
Another picture from the #SAFE! series.
"Lockdown" (2021)
This picture shows the #Schlichtehof in #Steinhagen.
From 10:00 p.m. the courtyard is deserted.
I closed it off by #Lightpainting with a virtual "curtain".😉
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La musica è un piacere che ascolto molto, lirica, rock, pop ecc.
In questo momento di blocco, la canzone che mi torna sempre in mente
"Nel blu dipinto di blu (Volare)"
Scritta nel 1958 da Franco Migliacci & Domenico Modugno
A warm hug to everyone