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After so many fairly dark captures and a lot of sun here this days its time to share this capture from my Col di Lana hike from last years June trip. Only a few monthes before next trip. Have a good remaining week! Thanks , Udo.
Quiet contrasts carry into the evening as a lamp resists the darkness. Captured at an AirB&B we stayed in near Lake Rosseau
A storm was going through the city and the rain had just stopped when I captured this moment.
This specific moment was not easy to obtain because a number of elements typically need to coincide in advance. For this image, which occurred at the time of sunset (if you can believe it), the rapidly moving, overcast clouds provided plenty of drama and dominated the sky while the city lights became brighter and brighter because the sky was actually getting darker and darker.
Capturing all these elements simultaneously is not often easy to compile, but when they do present themselves comprehensively, the result can be magnificent and magical.
A bonus detail was capturing the Hyatt Regency's goodwill towards everyone dealing with the pandemic by showcasing the lights on the east side of its building which create the shape of a heart. ❤️ It has been on display since Seattle began its mandated quarantine back in March.
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A dark capture late evening as the sun was throwing a line across the lake and I caught a duck as it just crossed the threshold of golden light to enter the darker waters.
An dark capture on the edge of the loch near Ardtur with the layers of three mountain ridges in the horizon and some wonderful trees on the shoreline. Fences run all across the bay towards the sandy parts of the Loch Linnhe shore.
Thor's Helmet NGC 2359
This is another one of my first images taken with my new astro camera. The object, in the constellation Canis Major, is a hydrogen emission nebula named after the Norse God due to it's resemblance to his Helmet. It lies around 15,000 light years from Earth and at it's centre is a highly luminous Wolf Rayet class star.
Technical card:
iOptron CEM70 guided and dithered with PHD2
ASI533MC-Pro at -15°C, gain 101, offset 10
Canon EF 600mm f4 L IS II lens
Optolong L-eXtreme filter
1 hour 55 mins (300s subs) lights
No darks, flats or flat darks
Captured with APT
Processed with DSS and Photoshop + Topaz Denoise
Monkey Head Nebula NGC 2174/2175
This is my first image with my new dedicated cooled Astro camera, a ZWO ASI533MC-Pro.
The Monkey Head Nebula, NGC 2174, is a Hydrogen Alpha emission nebula in the constellation Orion and contains the open star cluster NGC 2175 near it's centre. It is approximately 6400 light years from Earth.
Acquisition and processing details:
iOptron CEM70 guided and dithered with PHD2
ASI533MC-Pro at -10°C, gain 101, offset 20
Canon EF 600mm f4 L IS II lens
Optolong L-eXtreme filter
5 hours 25 mins (300s subs) lights
No darks, flats or flat darks
Captured with APT
Processed with DSS and Photoshop + Topaz Denoise
I have set myself a lockdown challenge too only take photos in my garden or from my garden. It is going to be interesting to see what effect this has on my photographic skills. With no travelling involved I will be able to take advantage of the change in the light conditions, and hopefully this will help me improve my eye for a composition.
Stay safe Stay Home.
The Tadpoles
A dusty emission nebula in Auriga, approximately 12,000 light years from Earth.
Technical card:
Captured 6 March 2021
Bortle 4
iOptron CEM70 guided and dithered with PHD2
ASI533MC-Pro at -15°C, gain 101, offset 15
Canon EF 600mm f4 L IS II lens
Optolong L-eXtreme filter
3 hours 10 mins, 19x600" lights
No darks, flats and flat darks
Captured with APT
Stacked and processed with DSS and Photoshop
Documentary shots alone because it was pouring with rain and very dark. Captured at Forest Farm , Cardiff
Aux Techniques Réunies (Fusain/Pastel sec )
Sur papier
Issu du book "Out of the Dark , a scenario occurred"
Thank you so much for choosing my photo for the cover of this group! :o)
It's an awesome Christmas Gift for me !! Merry Christmas at all !
Die Farbe des Himmels, die beginnende Dunkelheit nimmt die Stadt Braunschweig (Niedersachsen) gefangen.
The color of the sky, the beginning of darkness captures the city of Braunschweig (Lower Saxony).
Taken with a TMB92L, Hutech-modified Canon T3i DSLR, Orion SSAG autoguider and 50mm guidescope, and Celestron AVX mount. Consists of 24 300-second light frames, all at ISO 800, as well as 30 flat and 100 bias frames. No darks. Captured with BackyardEOS, stacked in DeepSkyStacker, and processed in Photoshop.
Schiit Valhalla 2 Tube Headphone Amplifier in the dark.
Captured using Samsung Galaxy S9+ and edited with Gallery App.
Documentary shots alone because it was pouring with rain and very dark. Captured at Forest Farm , Cardiff
Appalachian Brown Butterfly (Satyrodes appalachia)
New York
This was taken along a forest trail cut through some wetland habitat, quite closed in and dark... Captured with the flash as the main light source!
in the hidden corners of the city, where light meets shadow, a lone figure strides with purpose. the bright red of a bandana punctuates the deep contrast of concrete and darkness, a bold statement against a canvas of muted grays and blacks. from above, the perspective shifts — a solitary silhouette caught in a moment of transition, moving from the shadows into the light, or perhaps the other way around. the ground beneath, textured and weathered, tells stories of countless steps, of journeys untold. the sharp geometry of shadows cuts through the scene, creating a sense of tension and mystery. it’s a fleeting glimpse of urban solitude, a dance between movement and stillness, light and dark, captured in a moment that invites contemplation.
So you know me...totally enthralled with fog, mist, trees, dark captures...very moody photography...However, a Flickr friend mentioned that I need to explore color...I totally agree... here is my first experiment. Am I comfortable? Not really. Will I keep experimenting? you bet!
One photo out of focus is a mistake, ten photo out of focus are an experimentation, one hundred photo out of focus are a style.
~Author Unknown
Die Farbe des Himmels, die beginnende Dunkelheit nimmt die Stadt Braunschweig (Niedersachsen) gefangen.
The color of the sky, the beginning of darkness captures the city of Braunschweig (Lower Saxony).
This is a 8 shot image stack of sparks flying through the air after dark.
Captured with
Canon 5d Mark III
ISO 50
Exposure of 25 seconds
F 4.0
One of two baby Great Horned Owls nesting in a tree stump surrounded by 50 yards or so of flooded wetlands in Eagle Marsh. The sun was setting on a stormy Spring night, and I think the darkness captures the moment correctly.
The Elephant's Trunk Nebula (top left of image) is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth.
William Optics ZS81, ZWO 183mm Pro, Baader NB filters, EQ6-R Pro, Pegasus UPB V2
42x300sec Ha
74x300sec OIII
48x300sec SII
20x300 sec Darks
Captured with SGPro, Processed in Pixinsight, PS & LR
The King, Olobor (the calm one) together with his brother Oloshipa and other siblings, were the undisputed ruers of the very famous Black Rock Pride. The pride had spread their wings all the way from Sand River upto Talek area of the Maasai Mara Game Reserve ruthlessly.
The written law of nature takes it course and he has not been seen since mid-January. Reports indicate that he and his brother had killed 6-8 cubs of the Kisinja Pride a couple of days earlier. Having been alone when he ran into two of the pride males of the Kisinja Pride he couldn't fight both at the same time.
Having had an amazing sighting of him early in the morning when was still busy feeding on the Wildebeest he had brought down under the cover of darkness. Captured during a photography safari on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
Playing with Strobes.
Strobist: SB-28 in the 52 inch umbrella, SB-28 in front of me for rim, and SB-800 on boom above to break the umbrella from the darkness. Captured with a Nikon D700 and 24-70mm f2.8 AF-S lens.
In the dark: Capture Oakville 2017 - Canada 150 Edition Photography Exhibition (Oakville, Ontario, Canada) December 2017) : Honourable Mention (Black and White)
In the dark: "Monochrome" The Glasgow Gallery of Photography (Glasgow, Scotland) October 15-26, 2019.
Die Farbe des Himmels, die beginnende Dunkelheit nimmt die Stadt Braunschweig (Niedersachsen) gefangen.
The color of the sky, the beginning of darkness captures the city of Braunschweig (Lower Saxony).
On a hike in a nice forest with beautiful tall trees #Woods #hiking #travel #forest #nature #Attractive #Colorful #Majestic #dark #Capture
Cologne after dark, captured by Bohus - our man on the street - with the KONICA 40mm f1.8 vintage lens.
Went over to my Mother-in-Law's to visit and have Roast dinner. After dinner I got a drone flight in before dark. Captured some images and a bunch of video clips.
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Over my Mother-in-Law's
Roane County, Tennessee
Monday, September 2nd, 2024
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I know, I know...another shot of the sunset behind the pier from Hermosa Beach haha. What can I say, I enjoyed my evening here. I only have a few more from this night that I intend to post soon and then I will move on to another set of shots. I've spent a few days since Hermosa at or around Hollywood Bowl Overlook since it's really close and I've been a bit lazy lately with my choice of location.
One benefit of setting up in one place for a shoot is that I don't waste any time or light and can keep my focus on the changing sunset from start to finish. Even moving to the left of the pier to try a different angle would've cost me a few minutes and without knowing how the light would look, it just felt unnecessary. My first trip anywhere is generally just for the sunset and then subsequent visits will be for exploring, time permitting. When I arrived, I was the first photographer there and had my choice of location. I picked this particular one because it would let me follow the sun from right above the end of the pier as it set. I was hopeful for some clean shots of the sun squeezing through the end of the pier like I managed to get when I was at Manhattan Beach Pier back in January but a lot of the light at that moment was harsh. It was a struggle to get long exposures clean and quicker exposures lit properly.
This shot is one of the darker captures I took, with the pier almost fully in shadows at this exposure time. I wanted the water blur and reflections but didn't want to spend too much of the little light remaining on just long exposures. It also seemed like most of my other images were brighter so I thought i'd at least see how these would turn out. I love following the light as it fades even if it can be a chore to get the exposure correct. The waves were big enough and wind wasn't very strong even next to the ocean so I'm always concerned that the water won't look right if too bright. It requires a much longer exposure to blur the ocean than the rivers and streams I got so used to back in the Maryland countryside and I still struggle at times with medium length exposure times. My visits to Point Mugu were a bit different than standing on the shoreline at a regular beach because my higher vantage allowed me to ignore the choppy inconsistent surf by the beach and focus just on the smoother sea and horizon. When I set up low on the beach here or elsewhere, I often must go super long with the time or keep it short to avoid too much noise and distraction.
When I first left to shoot Monday afternoon, I was actually pretty disappointed driving around and none of the locations I was used to felt all that appealing. I keep intending to head to Laguna Beach for a long afternoon and evening of shooting, but something always interferes with that. It's a long trip without traffic, but with traffic it's awful and the nearly 2 hour drive would've left me with only a very small window to shoot and considering I've never been there, it just didn't seem worth it. I have some trouble making really long trips as well since I don't love being gone without the dog for 6 or 7 hours either. Traffic out here is terrible just like it was around DC and both locations are routinely in the top 5 worst traffic cities in the US. The main difference is traffic in the DC area is predictable--you know when it's going to be bad and even though there aren't a ton of ways to avoid it, you can plan a bit around it. Here in LA, traffic can be clear in one area and stopped near by or flowing at a certain time one day and awful at the same time another. Not a lot of rhyme or reason to the traffic in the city. It took me 45 minutes to go about 2 miles and I was still on Sunset Blvd heading towards the highway so I turned around and set the GPS on Santa Monica which would give me a choice of Venice, Santa Monica or Malibu. About 15 minutes from Santa Monica, I changed my mind again and decided on Manhattan or Hermosa Beach. A lot of indecision for no great reason.
At some point, I will get a good start when I head out, find lighter than normal traffic and get the weather I'm after but it rarely happens now. I've seen so many photos of Laguna on flickr and Instagram and it seems to offer all of the aspects I look for, including the rocky areas along the shore. But until that happens, I'll always be pretty happy with any unobstructed view of the sea, a pier and a beautiful sunset.
WHEN & WHERE
Hermosa Beach Pier
Hermosa Beach, California
October 24th, 2016
SETTINGS
Canon T4i
EF-S 18-135mm IS STM
@22mm
ISO 100
f/14
23 seconds
ND1000
CPL
Orion Nebula with the Running Man nebula just about visible above and slightly left.
Nikon D750
Nikkor 200-500mm at 500mm f5.6
Skywatcher Star Adventurer 2i
Approx 45, 40 Sec images
Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
Processed in Lightroom and PS
Camera Batteries gave in half way through session so no darks captured.
Another go required at next opportunity