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My daughter's birthday is on Christmas day, so every year we've been going up to Tahoe for a little white Christmas. And every year, I would take the opportunity to take a few B&W landscapes, but my daughter never liked any of my B&W photos.
So this year, I wanted to do a photo she would like.
Lucky enough, there was a blizzard on Christmas night. So, after the birthday party I set out to make a photo. A few hours in a blizzard with a laser pointer and some color filters can do wonders.
If you can't beat the clouds, learn to love 'em. lol
The light was absolutely amazing yesterday. At one point, I was driving south around noon. The road was wet, the sun was reflecting off the road, but below the sun, the sky was completely black to the horizon. So all I could see was the blinding, silvery road, and black sky. Never seen anything like it.
This particular shot was taken a few minutes later, looking east.
We had the 2nd warmest November on record this year!
Sorry I've been MIA. Lost my internet connection for a couple of days. Had to wait for a techie to pay a visit.
M51.Whirlpool Galaxy. Canes Venatici. 7th May 2008.
Intes MN71 - 18cm Maksutov-Newtonian. Canon 350D DSLR camera.
EQ6 Pro SynScan with autoguider.
This spectacular galaxy is located just below the tail star of Ursa Major but is actually in Canes Venatici. M51 appears to sport a tail with a structure attached. Decades ago, it was not known with certainty whether the companion galaxy (NGC 5195) was a true companion, or another galaxy passing at a distance. The advent of radio astronomy and subsequent radio images of M51 unequivocally demonstrated the reality of the interaction.
Placed almost at zenith there was considerable neck bending and painful contortion involved in finding a guide star.
8 x 5 minute exposures, 3 x 2.5 minute exposures and the corresponding dark frames and flat frames were all shot on the same evening. Each sequence was then stacked and converted in DeepSky Stacker and saved as 16 bit tif files. Final image combining and processing was done with Photoshop.
This picture needed a little more specialised equipment and processing than is usual. Taking the exposures took about three hours and image procesing a further hour and a half. It is a composite of eight, five minute exposures and the same number of frames of 'black nothing', called dark frames. The dark frames are used to reduce the electronic noise inherent in this type of low light, long exposure image. The lens was '35mm equivalent' to a 1600mm f7 telephoto. All a bit techie but rather a nice picture!
Pueblo, Colorado
Ironlak-
Sirum Black Red
Panther
Keen
Dieci Does
Tues Afterburn
Bowen
Battleship
Eggplant
Phantom
Frazetta
Linz Iceberg
Placid
Aspen
Techie White
Also known as Caldwell 49 and NGC 2237.
The Rosette is an emission nebula in the constellation Monoceros some 5,000 light years away.
It's thought to be responsible for the birth of some 2,500 stars. A group of which can be seen near the centre, this is the open star cluster NGC 2244 estimated to be about 4,000,000 years old.
Boring Techie bit:
Telescope: Askar FRA400 with .7 reducer
Mount: EQ6r pro
Camera: ZWO 533mc pro
Filter: Optolong L'eNhance.
Guided and controlled by the ZWO asiair+
Best 90% of 40 light frames 180 seconds each.
Stacked with darks, flats, dark flats & bias with DSS.
Processed using Graxpert, PixInsight & Affinity Photo.
Known has the Silver Needle galaxy.
This edge-on loose spiral galaxy is about 13.5 million light years from us in the constellation Canes Venatici. It's estimated to be 65,000 light years from end to end.
Captured on the 6th of March 2024.
Bortle 6, poor seeing.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 100, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
120s exposures.
Best 70% of 90 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in Affinity Photo
Samsung Electronics said nowadays that it will partner with SK Telecom to construct a LoRaWAN network for the World-wide-web of Factors that will go over all of South Korea. The two businesses assert that this the world’s 1st nationwide IoT network.
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M97 the Owl Nebula, is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Ursa Major, The Great Bear.
Estimated to be about 8,000 years old it lies just over 2,000 light years away from us. It's given the monicker 'Owl Nebula' because of what looks to be a round face with two big eyes.
M108, also in Ursa Major, is much further away at approximately 46 million light years. This barred spiral galaxy gets the nickname 'Surfboard galaxy'. This edge on galaxy is thought to have a black hole at it's core 24 million times the mass of our Sun.
Both objects were first discovered by the French astronomer Pierre François André Méchain in 1781. Discovering M108 three days after M97.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 100, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures.
Best 70% of 32 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.
A while ago I was asked to take some promotional shots for a local inn, the historic MacCallum House Inn & Restaurant....in the town of Mendocino along the north coast of California.
( www.maccallumhouse.com ). This is one of the shots I liked the best.
The 'models' were all friends, and they had a good time posing. This was one of the more 'sedate' photos....before they had all the many tastes of different wines! :0)
TECHIE NOTE: Just experimenting a bit with processing portraits, and added a slight cross processed look. I adjusted the RGB options in Curves to create some different tones. What do you think?
An open star cluster also called the Foxhead cluster, though like most of these names, I don't see it. Quite a number of red giant stars hide in this cluster.
NGC 6819 lies 7,200 light years from us in the constellation of Cygnus the Swan.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair Starwave 50mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 101, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO filter drawer, ZWO asiair plus.
60s exposures.
Best 80% of 120 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools & Affinity Photo.
Warming up the atmosphere as well as the Profoto B1s for lake session. Asked them to pose while setting up the lighting. I like the result. Give it a like if you like them as well. They deserve it!
For the techie junkies - Canon 5D Mark IV, Canon 35mm f/1.4L II USM, Profoto B1, Profoto Deep Umbrella Silver XL. Follow me for more lovely stuff that is coming.
Macro Mondays ~ On the Inside
My old pedometer couldn't be revived, so before seeing the inside of the trash bin I pried it open and was quite amazed with the color, pattern and techie look to it. Photographing it with many different backgrounds it still looked flat with out any depth, so I turned over a collander, put a few colored tea lights underneath and it all came together.
HMM to all!
For once, I think hope’s still alive. With half of the team going off to Prague to find the missing sword. And you guessed it, I would be chased down by the others because of my fugitive status. We’ve been doing this for at least, 3 days and night now at least. I dunno, has it been that long? I hate keeping track.
I focus on the road while I’m on the bike. Might be floaty given current technology where everything flies, but it’s nevertheless a very hard drive considering the rain and wind, but I hope to make it through. Kieran absorbs the lamp energies and redirects it at the assassins behind, while Ty and Erin provide cover for me, Sam and Gary to handle. This one is called Diremorph. Lady with twin guns, cuz again, why not? But this time, it's me calling the shots by the adage talking and gunning.
Diremorph: “I also have my eyes on you, Dusksmoke. You’re valuable bounty here.”
Connor: “Let then go, Diremorph.”
Diremorph: “I’d ask my babies if they would like some fresh kills....hehe. It's very satisfying”
Connor: “The punishable dual guns....well, I'm sure there's more than just that..”
Diremorph: “I had the pleasure of infiltrating the Yakuza as the old man had told me to. Big reveal eh? I knew it always was. Now I have the head and his head on a clock. It’s ticking!”
Connor: “Don’t you dare. You know you can't. Very tempting, isn't it?"
Diremorph: “Oh please, spare me the talk. You know what I want—-and I will do what it takes to get it.”
Connor: “Just for the katana? Really? Never knew you valued money more than your tribe...your people would be disgusted by a invaluable bounty hunter.”
Diremorph: “Shut your trap, loudmouth. I do the terms. I'm in charge here. And you don’t get to talk about my f*cking culture.”
Connor: “If it bothers you so much, then why work for him in the first place?”
Diremorph: “Because I like it. Now, no more chitchat, or else I will kill him.”
Connor: “No worries. I’ll bring it. I’ll see you in an hour."
I take a heavy sigh before using my staff to trip the other bikes around me, knocking some drivers out of commission. I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of vehicles, but Jesse handles it too well. I couldn’t help but laugh through my mask—-tinkering with electronics was his greatest strength. Having a younger brother who’s a techie sure doesn’t disappoint the family.
Right now I was wishing we had a jet so we could reduce the amount of time, but there's only much you can do with hands on stuff. Then Diremorph called in again, saying she had planted bombs through the city. My instinct would tell me to divert my brother’s team to disassemble it, then meeting up again.
Khattar: “Dusksmoke, is it? I’m not sure if you can hear me, but after we got under attack, now we got bomb threats.”
Connor: “I know. How is my friend doing.”
Khattar: “Critical condition. She’s stable...but in a coma. I hope with the tech in Japan, they might be able to speed up her healing process.”
Kurt: “Dusksmoke, listen to me. I’m here trying to deduce the other locations, but you have to save the Yakuza leader. Do not dissuade him and his folks getting baited into another battle. I’ll join you in a bit. Dr Edens will keep monitoring the situation then.”
Connor: “Alright.”
We cut to the chase as Kurt does makes his word, gunning down a couple of ninjas with his jetpack. He seems to be astounded by the fact that we’re on rush hour as well, but it is what it is; the Yakuza leader. An important witness who has a major involvement.
Connor: “We have to stop Diremorph. She’s teleporting in and out too much.
Kurt: “Gotcha. Uncle Kurt’s got this covered.. If you need a boost, just use my atomic bombs. The speed ones I mean. And this tech I worked on, it makes illusions. Not sure if you had this in Tokyo like or the guild would use, but you need to make her believe what she has. I’ll take your brother and your future brother in las for a spin if he needs it.”
Connor: “What? He's dating and he didn't tell me?!”
Kurt: “Oh no, I’m kidding. There’s no engagement yet, haha. But yes, this is a bomb that's fast and slow. Please take care of the harness well, because you don't get to appreciate how well it comes once in a blue moon...”
**Yakuza headquarters, 1:34 A.M:**
We manage to get there in time according to Diremorph’s demands. She stands there with her guns over the beaten leader, and multiple dead bodies.
Connor: “I’m here, but you can just give it up already.”
Diremorph: “The sword, now.”
Connor: “Will you promise to let him go first?”
Diremorph: “No means no. I’m doing it my way.”
Connor: “Fine then.”
I decide to throw the sword at her which she moves out of the way. Her attempts to shoot the leader fails, thankfully due to Erin’s shadow powers, who extracts the leader to safety. Ty beams up with his energy while Kieran uses his light to shoot through the portals. After missing initially, it lands on a 6th one, which nearly knocks Diremorph out temporarily rendering her powers useless, but her guns are kinda strong for us. I take a closer look at Diremorph’s back, and she seems to have a chip attached to her.
Connor: “Guys, she’s under influence. The corruption is taking over.”
Erin: “Is this something I should hack?
Connor: “No, I don’t think so.”
Kieran: “Let’s ask the leader.”
Yakuza leader: “Me? I do not know you guys anyhow....she killed my men....I was too dumb to realize she infiltrated my gang. And your guild....tried to put the blame on me.”
Connor: “So this involved none of you? Even what I did back a year ago?”
Yakuza leader: “No, it isn’t....your guild was always misdirecting us, and we were blamed for it. They tricked us into starting a war, which I didn’t know we would lose...”
Connor: "Should have known better then. I'm gonna start keeping a closer eye on things."
I tilt my head, mentally thinking revelation another revelation. Which means....I’ve been lied to this entire time? But I guess my former does have his own secret cabal that follows him loyally. And Diremorph is one of them. I hate secrets, but this is the way of how it happens in societies. Humans can't ever live without secrets.
Ty: “You can’t be one of them, are you?” (He points his gun at Diremorph)
Diremorph: “It doesn’t matter. Whatever pleases the leader, I will follow his bidding.”
Erin: “What’s his plan, all along? What about the bombs?”
Diremorph: “You wouldn’t think I wanted to wipe out our enemies so my kingdom could rule as one, right? Maybe, except the emperor, but one day, he’ll follow us too.”
Kieran: “You’re out of your mind. Give it up.”
Diremorph: “Me? Never. Try this then.”
(Explosion sounds happen through everyone’s comms.)
Connor: “What did you just blow up?!”
Diremorph: “Oh, another compound. Don’t be too worried, I’ve still got more games even when you knock—“
Erin decides to use her powers, as her eyes turn into a really dark colour. Shadow tendrils start to latch on Diremorph, who doesn’t look surprised. She looks like she’s about execute her enemy with her dual axes. But she stops, as Diremorph stares into Erin's powers. After a while, she eventually gives up for interrogation, possibly from the shadow break. But even with her loyalty for Igarashi is undying, despite Ty removing the control chip from her.
Moments later Kieran takes the Yakuza leader into police custody, as our fight took place near the precinct. Agent Khattar keeps briefing us on what happens next. He already has his Interpol team and the police force surrounding the fortified guild base. It sounds like trouble when we’re going to return....and Oddcrow calls me...? He's s going headfirst into the fort himself, deciding to face my mentor alone.
I don’t know if it’s too late anymore. Is it, for literally everything?
**Prague, night. Time unknown:**
Sam: “How long is this going to take? I kinda regret going on this mission now.”
Lyra: “Yeah. Enemies behind. But I know we are medical examiners who can make quite the team. Time to lock and load those launch blasters, Riley!”
Riley: "You're speaking my language gal Here goes nothing!'
Harry: “Now would be a good time!”
Edens: “I’m going to keep you guys autopilot, since ours is destroyed. I can still remotely control it.”
Riley: “Good ole idea lads. Let’s destroy em!”
Wow. I, for once, am surprised that this mission is taking its ups and downs. When we actually just landed on a safe spot in Prague, then ran into the city trying to masquerade as doctors (both me and Lyra), while having the others acting like patients. did work—-just for once. Then shit when down as Riley tried to grab the sword, which culminated in us being chased by the suspicious locals who alerted the cops nearby. Thankfully we had a fake ambulance nearby to drive somewhere else. I'm not sure why we and how the sword was quite easy to find, but I guess it was Igarashi planting it there. The mystery deepens...somehow.
Wait. Keyword: plant. When I tried to call Avalon, it was up to my suspicions. Igarashi was trying to frame Connor....for everything? To take control of Tokyo?
I’m not sure if I’m going to say if it’s a half arsed plan, but once we’re going back....it’s literally a big battle.
Model shoot on the south coast with Sinopa Rin.
Initial tweaks using LightRoom 6, then processed in NIK Collection - Colour EFEX Pro.
Light was fading rapidly as sunset got nearer except the sunset turned just cloudy....
Techie info - Off camera flash triggers by Yongnuo, single strobe bare head flash 70 degrees on righthand side approx 8 feet away , Lencarta Safari 600 unit on 1/5th power, f/6.3, ISO 200, shutter 1/160, lens Sigma 85mm f/ 1.4 with polariser.
The girls stop their play to strike a pose. Brought back the memories of playing with tyres running in the streets. Something which the current techie generation doesn't get to experience.
Model shoot on the south coast with Sinopa Rin.
Techie stuff - Lencarta Safari 600 single bare head strobe, trigger by Yongnuo triggers, off camera flash, Sigma 85mm f/1.4, at f/ 5.6, ISO 200, shutter 1/200 with polariser on lens. Flash head to left 9 feet away , 75 degrees or so.
Pleased that the flash light has lifted the eyes particularly her left eye.
Let me put it this way . . . making a photo ain't easy , making a snapshot is , not a photo
You have to calculate a lot of shit , Exposition , Aperture , ISO , and the rest of the Techie shit we all know and Love (or sometimes hate) then after all that shit , throw in a couple of lights , look for the right setting , recalculate ISO , Aperture , all of what you already did , and a lot of more stuff (no I am not Techie in anyway) and then go back to taking that photo , yeap that is Strobist Photography
Yeah that is how a Strobist does it , it ain't easy but boy is it sweet to read all of the comments and looking @ your creation and knowing that you did that , you actually made that happen , yeap that is something that I would not trade for anything , and Yes I carry all my shit in my Salma
So to twist this shit up , I ended up not using a single flash , yeap this is all natural light , it has been so long since I shot with natural light , hope you guys Like it , cheers
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More commonly known as The Dumbell Nebula. Sometimes as the Apple core or egg timer as well.
M27 is a planetary nebula over 1,200 light years away in the constellation of Vulpecula. Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764 it's thought to be the first planetary nebula discovered.
They were given the title planetary nebulae by William Herschel, who thought that these kind of objects looked small and round like a planet.
Boring techie bit:
Celestron Nexstar 8SE telescope, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, RVO 32mm mini guide scope, ZWO asi120mm mini guide camera, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -10c gain 0, ZWO asiair plus.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in Affinity Photo.
Photo credit myself & Stuart Keane.
Data captured at www.astronomycentre.org.uk
One of very few pics I took at the end of the outing. Only if the prop the model is holding is a gun and not a camera :D. Thanks BC for lending me your camera to make this shot.
I am very honored to have
my pic featured on Lighting Essentials site by Don. Thanks, Don.
D700 - 85f1.4 @ 1.4 - 1/250s - ISO 200
Lighting info:
> 1 SB800 with double CTO through a 3'x3' DIY PVC light panel to the camera left, in front of model
> 1 SB800 with CTB to the camera right, behind model
Shooting film again in getting this image of the Union Meetinghouse-Universalist Church in the town center of Kensington, NH. Built in 1839-40, it's a good example of a mid-19th century Greek Revival rural church, although badly in need of some maintenance.
Techie stuff:
Camera: Graflex Century Graphic
Film: Kodak Professional Gold 200, medium format 120 film.
Exposure: f/11, 1/200 second.
Date & time: 9/24/2022, 12:30 p.m.
Negatives digitized using Canon 8800f flatbed scanner
Post processing editing software: Skylar Luminar AI; Corel Paint Shop Pro, AKVIS Retoucher.
Shot this at the end of a fashion session on the beach of a lake in Sofia. As you know, some of the best shots happen at the end of a shooting day, when you and your model(s) decide to experiment and got some shots "for you". Hope you like it. Follow me for more fashion and beauty portraits.
For the techie junkies - Canon 5D Mark IV + Canon 35mm f/1.4L II (Love this lens). Lit by 1xProfoto B1 with Profoto deep umbrella silver w/out diffuser.
PP in Capture One Pro and PS.
From the parking lot of the 11,000 foot high Patriarch Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, White Mountains east of Bishop, CA.The light pollution at the horizon simply amazes me: to the west (right) is Bishop which actually isn't that far away. But the two pockets to the east (left) I can only guess. There's nothing near in that direction - Beatty NV is about maybe 70 miles away, and Las Vegas at least 150 miles! Or Tonopah would be more northeast, perhaps 70 miles away, which makes sense.
Techie stuff: Canon 5D Mark III with 16-35 F2.8L at 24mm, F2.8, ISO 3200, 25 seconds, 8 vertical images auto-stitched in Photoshop. Around 12:45 a.m.
Known as the Cocoon galaxy.
The smaller companion galaxy is NGC 4485. Referred to collectively as ARP 269.
The galaxies passed close to or through one another sometime in the past and, it's almost certain gravity will bring them back together several billion years in the future.
The red/pink areas are prime star forming regions where dense clouds of ionised hydrogen are irradiated by ultraviolet light from the hot, young stars within.
ARP 269 can be found in Canes Venatici some 24 million light years away. The two galaxies having now passed by one another are now approximately 24,000 light years apart.
Boring techie bit:
Skywatcher Quattro 8" Newtonian Reflector steel tube with the f4 aplanatic coma corrector, Skywatcher EQ6 R pro mount, Altair 60mm guide scope, ZWO asi120mm guide camera mini, ZWO asi533mc pro cooled to -20c gain 100, Optolong L'enhance 2" filter, ZWO asiair plus.
180s exposures.
Best 70% of 60 light frames.
Darks, Flats & Bias.
Stacked with DeepSkyStacker and processed in StarTools.
Experimental photo I shot for Techie Geekiness Apparel. Follow me on Instagram for updates @lhoycelmarie and my website www.lhoycelmariephotography.com