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I am particularly prou do fthis one. Its actually 20 20 second shots stacked using the Starry Landscape app and finished off in Photoshop. There are four additional dark frames to counter some of the noise. The arch is illuminated with a LumeCube.
I had this shot stuck in my head for months.
taken hanging in front of string lights and red tissue paper. lit with 2 lume cubes, one on the side with a 50% diffuser bulb and one up and right of camera with barn doors
The Milky Way galactic core passes over the old lighthouse on Llanddwyn Island, Anglesey Wales. Capture settings: 2x exposures tracked/non tracked & merged. Nikon 50mm at f1.8 for 60 seconds at ISO 1600. Lighthouse illuminated via Lumecube.
The Agas are opening. I couldn't resist the bokeh highlights with this one - bright patches through the forest just as the sun had disappeared. Some fill lighting from a Lume Cube.
Pterostylis (greenhood orchids) is a genus of about 300 species of plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. They are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and New Caledonia. The flowers are mostly green and are distinguished from other orchids by their unusual flower structures and pollination mechanism. Pterostylis banksii (greenhood or tutukiwi) is a species endemic to New Zealand. Flowering plants have leaves on the flowering stem, some of which reach above the single relatively large, green flower with translucent white stripes. It is the most common, widespread and largest New Zealand greenhood and is found on both of the main islands.
My first association seeing this unfolding fern frond in the forest was one of musical notes. When I got home and identified the fern I was amazed to find that its Maori name is also associated with music. Raukatauri is the Maori spirit of music. The fern's Maori name translates to the "the hair of Raukatauri". The fully unfolded fronds look more like hair, but I thought locks would be a more fitting description for my image. Asplenium flaccidum is a species of fern with the common English name 'drooping spleenwort'. I used a Lumecube LED light to highlight the fern in the dark forest.
lizard man miniature made by Heekin Pewter.
taken with:
Fuji XT-3
Laowa 100 2x macro
Fotodiox TltRkr adapter
lit with 2 Lumecubes and a piece of red tissue paper
Thelymitra (sun orchids) close their flowers at night, in cloudy or cool weather, giving rise to their common name. There are about 100 species of sun orchids distributed in higher rainfall areas of Australia, 15 occur in New Zealand. Thelymitra pulchella (striped sun orchid) pictured here is endemic to New Zealand. It has blue flowers with darker stripes on the petals. The sunlight was fading when I saw these flowers and they were in the process of closing. Because there was not enough ambient light I lit the flower with an LED light with the idea of simulating the effect of an off camera flash.
I know I took this photo in January but there really are spring flowers coming up! Also still a bit dark outside.
Used a lumecube panel pro on the side, because it was really dark under the tree 🌲
Lakewold Gardens, Lakewood/Tacoma, Washington State, USA
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Entoloma hochstetteri is a species of mushroom found in New Zealand. It grows in woodlands of western parts of both the North and South Islands of New Zealand. The bright blue colour of Entoloma hochstetteri resembles the blue wattle of the kōkako bird which according to legend rubbed its wattles on it, hence the Māori name for this fungus, werewere-kōkako (kokako wattles). You can see a kōkako picture here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%c5%8dkako#/media/File:Kokako.jpg
Parahebe lyallii is a creeping sub-shrub endemic to New Zealand. It forms small carpets on damp rock and streamsides up to 1400m. The flowers are quite small, about 1cm (0.4 inch) in diameter. There are differing classifications for the genus and some botanists now include Hebe, Parahebe and others in the larger genus Veronica. I used a Lumecube LED light on the flowers to darken the background.
A little star trail I took out at Cana Island before I left for Alaska. One of my favorite places to shoot and for good reason. I will admit...it took me longer than it should have to get my Lume Panel to light this nice and evenly like this but it worked out pretty well in the end.
335 images.
Canon 6D Mark II
Irix 15mm
ISO-8000
15 sec
f/2.4
with a Shadowhouse Creations texture (Grunge-Box.jpg).
Illuminated by a LumeCube in a medium soft box.
Craig Murphy's Lumecube in the cabin of an old truck. Lit by Richard Tatti. Processed in Lightroom, Sigma lens.
This was a tedious shoot, and it taught me how to be very patient and zen 😁. The water droplets were carefully placed on a piece of thread and it was photo-stacked to make sure all the droplets were as sharp as possible. Over all it was a fun experiment! The setup shot is in the description below.
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Melanophyllum haematospermum is a small grey-brown species with a ragged edge to the cap from veil remnants. The cap surface is powdery, the cap diameter is up to 30 cm/1.2 inch The gills are pinkish when young, changing to vinaceous brown with age. They act as decomposers, feeding on dead and decaying wood, leaves, litter, and other organic matter. I was attracted to the ragged veil remnants on the cap edge.
I'm working with the Mississippi Valley Conservancy to try and record and showcase the dark skies around the Wildcat Mountain region in Wisconsin. They are trying to be recognized as a national dark sky region. If successful it would be only the second one in Wisconsin. They have worked pretty extensively in the area to identify areas with light pollution then tried to address it by changing lights out or finding ways to make it better. From the sounds of it they still want to do a few more things but as you can see it's already incredibly dark. I stacked 6 consecutive images to create this image.
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Canon R6
Irix 21mm
f/1.4
ISO 4000
36 sec
One from Saturday's lp meet up at Magpie mine. I was supposed to be there to take pictures with like minded individuals but I just stood about and chatted. Inspiration in this field is thin on the ground at the moment but when Tei got his drone out I thought I'd fire off a few frames whilst he did his thing.
I really like back lighting but I think the quality of light when it is coming from above is pure magic. I'm also very fond of how it can highlight one particular part of the scene.
Great to catch up with everyone and cheers to Tei for letting me steal his light :)
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Trying out a new lighting setup to go along with my new exposure process and new post-processing workflows. This is a quick field edit; I should be able to eke out more detail in the airglow variations when I have time to process this in a different way.
Gliophorus graminicolor is a species of agaric fungus in the family Hygrophoraceae. It is found in Australia and New Zealand. Gliophorus species belong to a group known as waxcaps in English, sometimes also waxy caps in North America or waxgills in New Zealand which has an unusually large number of native Gliophorus species.
Clear night skies after a heavy downpour in Bodie that cleared much of the wildfire smoke that was in the air. This year for our workshops we've modified our recommended shooting technique, post-processing workflow, and on this night I was introducing new lighting setups.
While added light does reduce noise where the light strikes (there is a higher signal to noise ratio), it produces a "light polluted" look; the lighting itself risks starting to distract from the subject and composition.
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About 28 kilometres (17.4 miles) north of the town of Young–the Cherry Capital of Australia–is a sizeable heritage-listed homestead called Iandra (that's a capital "i' at the start of the name, not an "L"). Constructed between 1880 & 1910, the building on the estate is known to locals as "Iandra Castle." Just 535 metres south of the castle proper is the estate's chapel, built of sandstone with a prominent flèche (spire) that makes it easily visible from the nearby Iandra Road.
After scouting the location in daylight, I drove back to my hotel in Young for a few hours of sleep. With this evening being the third and final night of my stay in the town, I made sure not to sleep through the multiple alarms I'd set. After my snooze, I returned to the church site to shoot several different compositions that included the chapel and the setting Milky Way core, as well as some stacked photos of the Andromeda Galaxy that I've posted previously. The strong breeze that had cleared the sky of clouds upon my arrival persisted, giving some movement to the churchyard's trees, which show in my photo as blurry shapes contrasted with the clean lines of the chapel's walls and roof. Above and to the right of the flèche, you can see the crimson hues of the Lagoon Nebula, aka M8.
I shot this single-frame photo with my Canon EOS 6D camera through a Sigma 35mm f/1.4 Art lens @ f/1.4, using an exposure time of 15 seconds @ ISO 3200. For foreground lighting, I used two Lumecube LED lamps.
In May, I met with Peter Ensrud and Abe Blair at Lake Tahoe for a night of astrophotography.
After shooting the panorama I published a while ago, we raced to this spot, which we reached with just enough time to capture the scene before dawn washed out the contrasts in the sky.
Abe used his drone to provide some low-level lighting from above. While I liked the increased foreground detail and the colors in the transparent water, the lighting was a tad bright for my taste, and it made the reflection of the stars and the faint Milky Way completely disappear.
That's why I also shot the foreground conventionally, without any lighting.
During post processing, I played around with both versions and finally decided I liked a blended version best. The sky was captured separately with my usual tracked narrowband filter technique.
PS: I like the result a lot, and I think it shows the potential of low-level lighting with drones. For those who do not know me very well: that's a big compliment coming from someone who does not like drones at all.
EXIF
Canon EOS-R, astro-modified
Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8 @ 15mm
IDAS NBZ filter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Low Level Lighting with a Lumecube attached to a drone.
Foreground:
Blend of 2 exposures of 60s @ ISO3200 with and without drone lighting.
Sky:
Stack of 6x 60s @ ISO1600, unfiltered & 3x 150s @ ISO6400, filtered
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We've tested a lot of lights and color temperatures over the years. This is a new light we tested in Bodie in 2021. We have to go with workflow that is proven for us over time, from capture through post-processing. But technologies do evolve, so it's good to do a reality check from time to time and adjust the workflow if warranted. In 2021 we did start to use some new shooting processes, new lighting. and new post-processing techniques to see if we could improve results.
Here there was light pollution from a light left on in the Miners Union Hall next door, so I provided balancing lighting to fill in the shadows on the front of the buildings.
While added lighting can reduce noise where the light strikes (there is a higher signal to noise ratio), it can produce a "light polluted" look; in those cases the lighting itself risks starting to distract from the subject and composition.
On my "to do" list for the future, I'd like to reduce the light on the right side of this building to make the adjacent light pollution less intrusive... the side of the building is not the subject!
Update April 2025: knocked down the stray light on the right. Tried the new(ish) Denoise feature in Lightroom, and that improves some aspects of the image, but I still need to try a more involved workflow to get the best possible result. Good thing we captured the exposures needed four years ago.
We ordered an oyster mushroom growing kit during lockdown. It is great fun to watch them grow and practise macrophotography and focus stacking at the same time. Technical notes: handheld, lit with a Lumecube Panelmini 1, eight focus bracketed shots. I tried focus stacking in Photoshop and was disappointed with the results. Then I tried Helicon Focus which worked well.