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I was hoping to catch the comet near several of Bodie's iconic subjects as the comet stayed up into darkness, but the clouds had other ideas.
To reduce noise I stacked three exposures in the Sequator software: www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/2020/05/14/stacking-...
Green airglow and Milky Way over a mine on private (posted) property in Central Nevada (accessed with permission).
We lead workshops in this area May , June or July, sometimes in conjunction with a night photography visit to Bodie.
Single press of the shutter release, several adjacent images moderately post-processed (about a minute to capture and a couple of minutes to adjust). Done.
No compositing/time-shifting.
No tracking mount.
No noise images, no long exposure foreground images.
No special lighting, or added light.
No new camera or back-lit sensor.
No multiple focal lengths, no focus stacking.
No Photoshop, no layers, no sky or foreground substitution (just Lightroom and a shareware app or two).
Night photography doesn't have to be complicated or time-consuming, or involve special gear beyond camera, lens, tripod. Many cameras produced in the last 13 years and probably all in the last 4-8 years can capture shots like this. I've re-processed images and produced great results from my 2009 Canon 5D Mark II and crop sensor 70D. Join our workshops to find out how!
The milkyway as observed in Devon, England, during my stay at Astro Adventures. Condition were not perfect but good. MFT limititations can be annoying when shooting astro. Nevertheless, thanks to Sequator stacking software, at least an acceptable result can also be produced with a small sensor camera. 13 photos stacked, Samyang 12 mm, 2.0, 20 s, ISO 3600
Taking an image like this was something I had aspirations of. Meeting Royce Bair and getting his ebook made this possible. I will always be grateful for his friendship and mentoring. Purchasing Royce's ebook was one of the best decisions I ever made.
Last spring I spent a week with four good friends shooting the Milky Way in the Moab area. One of the spots we wanted to go to was Corona Arch. The night we chose for Corona turned out to be cloudy and stars were not to visible. It is a beautiful 1.5 mile hike to the arch with spectacular Moab scenery,
This picture is a "composite stack blend". The original picture of Corona Arch was taken during a cloudy night last spring. D7200, f-4.0, ISO1600, 11 mm, 30 sec, Tokina AT-X 166PRO DX 11-16mm F2.8 lens.
The Milky Way picture was taken in September when the core naturally aligns in this position. There are a total of 5 pictures of the Milky Way stacked in Sequator. The Milky Way pictures were taken With a D750, Tokina SD 16-28 F2.8 {IF} FXlens at f-2.8, 4000 ISO for 15 sec.
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Being able to catch the rising Milky Way in late May and early June makes some of my favorite compositions available in Bodie!
I'm looking forward to being back there in late May this year... only about 6-7 weeks from now.
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV © 2019 Klaus Ficker. Photos are copyrighted. All rights reserved. Pictures can not be used without explicit permission by the creator.
Another Milky Way taken from a field at the Price Lake picnic area just off the Boone Fork Trail. Not sure what the stone object is, but it was the only foreground object I could find. It was windy, so there was some movement in the trees, but not too bad. 20 frames with some light thrown on the stone object for interest. Stacked for the sky in Sequator. I took 2 of the frames and stacked in Photoshop for the light painting and to reduce the noise.
Camera: Nikon Z6
Lens: Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S
20 x (20mm @ f/2.5, 13 sec, ISO 5000)
Another shot of the comet, at its brightest in the dawn sky during the second week of July.
6 x 2.5-sec exposures at f/2.8 and ISO 3200; EOS 7D and Canon 100mm f/2.8 lens. Frames stacked in Sequator software; digital noise reduced using CyberLink PhotoDirector software.
Milky Way core over Phillips Lake, Dedham, Maine. Cropped-in a bit from the previous post.
48, 8-sec exposures (6.4 minute total exposure) stacked in Sequator, edited in Lightroom.
Star trails over Chirk Castle on the Wales / England border
I fancied another go at this shot, 50mm last time, trying out a new 110mm this time
It's a beautiful warm night. T-shirt weather. There's a lot of squeaking in the long grass behind me, field mouse drama I reckon
60x 30 second exposures, F4, ISO640, stacked with Sequator
20x25sec (composited in sequator - not Align Stars like previous one, but a Trails option), f1.8 ISO 400.
In photos like these with clear sky (feat. 41mpx sensor) you can easily notice the downsides of your lens.
I could have cropped the corners but I'll leave it as it is, just to see how distorted it can get.
Behind the logo, bottom right, is some kind of red trail. I don't know what it is, maybe I caught some satellite dunno.
All in all, I'm thrilled with this result, that I've been taking while enjoying the beautiful seashore wind in Krapanj.
This is last second and last timelapse I did as I was really tired.
I captured this panorama while a quarter Moon was setting. The fading moonlight was still bright enough to lighten the landscape, but also dim enough for the Milky Way to start showing some detail: The Dark Horse is clearly visible, the pink Lagoon Nebula is obvious, not only in the sky but also in the reflection and even the Rho Ophiuchi region has a hint of color. The two heavenly gems trailing the Milky Way band are Jupiter and Saturn.
Thanks to my buddy benjaminbarakat for joining me on another crazy last minute hike into unexplored terrain.
EXIF
Canon EOS 6D, astro-modified
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L ll @ 24mm
5 panel panorama, each a stack of 9 x 10s @ ISO 6400, untracked
Stacked with Sequator
at Cachuma Lake, CA
157 star images , 30 sec @ f/4
1 camp image, 30 sec @ f/4
Canon 5DSr / EF 16-35mm
stacked with Sequator, composite with Photoshop
Milky Way over my house in the Ochil Hills Central Scotland. 10 images stacked in Sequator for noise reduction.
Using our latest exposure and post-processing techniques, even sensors from a few years back can produce excellent results. We'll be back out here with photographers in a few days!
Geminid meteors over Badwater Basin, Death Valley National Park, California.
We only had about 3 hours until the rising moon started to wash out the night sky, but we saw and captured several nice meteors as the shower's radiant point rose.
I think that it was about 40 degrees out, but I fell asleep in my chair testing out a nearby composition on the prior night.
Fortunately in 2023 we'll have ideal viewing and shooting conditions all nightlong on the peak night of the Geminid meteor shower. I'll be back in Death Valley shooting it with other photographers again, probably in a different location.
1929 Ford Model A sport coupe?
We're heading back out to Bodie in our next small group workshops in June and July 2023!
25x10sec (composited in sequator - Align Stars), f1.8 ISO 1600.
In photos like these with clear sky (feat. 41mpx sensor) you can easily notice the downsides of your lens.
I could have cropped the corners but I'll leave it as it is, just for the reference.
Things like blurry stars in corners you can't fix. They do get less light than the center of a sensor, so maybe that's the reason for them being blurry in corners.
All in all, I'm thrilled with this result, that I've been taking while enjoying the beautiful seashore wind in Krapanj.
Another shot from last year's trip to Montgomery Castle, Shropshire
This was a lovely warm Summer night and the rising Moon lit the Castle ruins beautifully
This image was made with the Sony 20F18G lens, 4 shots, 20 seconds each at F2, ISO1600, stacked in Sequator
Looking at the weather for the next two weeks, it looked like this night was the last clear night in the near future. I wanted to get out and photograph the Zodiacal Light, but Venus wanted nothing to do with it! This is what I ended up with. 25 sky frames stacked in Sequator blended with 7 light painted foreground frames in Photoshop.
Camera: Nikon Z6
Lens: Nikkor Z 20mm f/1.8 S
Sky:
25 x (20mm @ f/2.8, 13 sec, ISO 3200)
Foreground:
7 x (20mm @ f/3.5, 15 sec, ISO 800)
Oh, what a nigh! When I first envisioned this shot, I pictured taking it on a crystal clear night. Unfortunately, smoke from the fires burning in Northern California dulled the sky quite a bit. But deep in the middle of the night the skies cleared enough to see stars and meteors. I did not "light paint" the tufa formation, it was illuminated by car lights driving down the road to the lake. I took 280 shots using my Sony a9, Sony 14mm lens at f/2 and ISO 6400. I combined 18 of those shots in Sequator to reduce noise and then used 8 shots with meteors and combined them with my base image in Photoshop.
I recently returned from a starry skies photo workshop with Michael Frye - a true master. On our first night out our small group climbed up onto the granite slabs at Olmstead Point in Yosemite. We set up at a likely spot and waited for the stars to appear as the night sky darkened. There is nothing like standing under the vault of the night sky and gazing up at the heavens. So many stars!!! I can't help thinking about all the ancient peoples who looked up at those same skies and feeling connected to them. Time takes on a different dimension here. To create this image I stacked 9 shots in Sequator and made adjustments in Photoshop and Lightroom. Each shot was taken with a Sony 7r3, Laowa 15mm lens, 15 seconds, ISO 3200 at f/2.4. Michael set up constant low level lighting to illuminate the tree.
Pitch black, alone with just the forest noises. I've learned to operate my camera by touch, it really helps in these situations. I have two jackets on. It's chilly. I lasted 45 minutes with the intervalometer doing the hard work. 90 (30 second) exposures.
Blended with Sequator.
Another night under the stars on the South Plains of West Texas.... I love photographing these abandoned farm houses and old homesteads, especially at night. I spent a couple hours at this location moving my cameras around and adjusting the lighting try to get everything "just right". This is one of my favorite shots from the night.
Exif: Shot with my Fuji X-T2 and Samyang 12mm f/2.0; (5) 15 second shots + (1) dark frame @ f/2.0, ISO 3200, 3800K WB. Single LED panel used for LLL. Stacked in Sequator; final edits in Photoshop using a few plugins and actions.
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17-02-2024
Nikon D5300
Sigma 10-20mm (10mm)
EXIF: f/4 ISO160
110x25s (45.8min)
10xdarks
Stacked/Apilado: Sequator
Edited/Editado: Lightroom
Pantà de Sau, Barcelona, España
I've been anticipating this shot in my mind for a number of years, but needed to navigate access challenges, weather, Milky Way position, and so on to arrive at just the right time.
This result is a sequence of 20 images stacked in Sequator, to test the program on a Milky Way shot with light pollution.
This is a stack of seven 20 second shots; stacked using Sequator, final editing in Photoshop with Topaz Plugins.
The Spring Milky Way rising over Mitchell's Fold stone circle, near the villages of White Grit and Black Marsh in the Shropshire hills
It's estimated the stones were placed here during the Bronze age around 3500 years ago. I like to imagine people stood on this exact spot so long ago and gazed at the same stars
16x 13 second exposures at F2.2, ISO3200, stacked with Sequator
In 218 20-second images I captured fewer meteors than the following night, but I was covering less of the sky (half of a 20mm frame instead of most of a 14mm one) and the images only covered a little over an hour before the lens fogged then frosted over.
Although I produced the sequences to make a composite image, I'll be able to produce time-lapse videos from each night.
From our night photography workshops in Bodie State Historic Park, 2020. We'll be back out there this year, twice in June, then in July and October.
The blue ion tail of Comet NEOWISE seems to go on forever, as a constellation of Starlink satellites passes through the main white coma of the Comet.
Tablate, Granada.
Nikon D810
Samyang 35 f-1.4 AS UMC
Sky: 5x5 shots, whit Skywatcher Star Adventurer Mini (SAM)
50s. , f-4, iso-3200
Earth: 5 shots, 90 s. f-4, iso-2000
Software:
Sequator 1.60 to Stack shots.
PTgui 10.7 to sew pictures sky and earht.
Photoshop 2020 to blending final picture.
Le luci cittadine nascondono tutte le stelle eccetto le più brillanti. Fotografare nebulose ad emissione fra la nebbia, l'umidità, i lampioni è una impresa alle volte disperata...
ma qualcosa viene fuori ogni tanto.
80 minuti di esposizione equivalente a 600mm con Canon 800D e filtro Astronomik CLS su montatura i-Optron Pro, elaborazione in Sequator e Photoshop.
#horsehead #bortle #sky #cielo #sky #orion #nebulae #alnitak #belt #stars #stelle #padova #lightpollution #luci #lampioni #astronomy
Gesamtaufnahmedauer 27 sec
Nachführung: nano.tracker
Lumix G81 mit Sigma 400mm f5.6
Sequator, Lightroom, Bortle:Class5
Unfortunately Southern Scotland doesn’t afford the best views of the Milky Way.
Images stacked in Sequator.
Comet NEOWISE captured over Waukesha, WI on Jul 19, 2020. This image is a stack of 37 images taken with a Nikon D850 and Sigma 70-200mm lens. Each image was captured at 200mm with aperture f/2.8 for 8 seconds with ISO of 320. The 37 images were then stacked (processed) in Sequator and then processing was finished in Adobe Lightroom.
Samyang 12mm f2.
10 sec, ISO 640 for the sky, 10 shots stacked in Sequator
20 sec, ISO 1000 for the foreground