The Photography Thread

nomad47

Cyborg Agent
Yeah, it's the best time for startrail. It would be perfect to try on full moon night...:rolleyes::razz:

Is it hard to get the Polaris in the frame? Can we just put the camera facing North and get it?
I thought with the help of a compass, I can find the exact line of North and software like Stellarium would help me to find at what degree the north star is located in the sky.

Do not go star trailing on a full moon night. Rather go on the darkest night. It will give you the best shot

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I did not have my tripod with me and visibility was poor. Managed to click these in the seconds when it cleared. Thoughts?

*i.imgur.com/MUvVnCJ.jpg

*i.imgur.com/qMFUORe.jpg
 

nac

Aspiring Novelist
I did not have my tripod with me and visibility was poor. Managed to click these in the seconds when it cleared. Thoughts?
Wonderful location. Where is this place?
Sat down with my camera one fine day for bird watching... basically the pigeons with all their wings spread. Since it wss my rooftop, didn't have the liberty to take in all, and have unavoidable interferences like clothes lines. Pictures have turned grainy a bit because I was shooting in sports mode and it was cloudy.
Nice attempt. Did you try with your kit lens?

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10 photo HDR
*i102.photobucket.com/albums/m108/tkphotos1/IMG_6831_zpszywz5vqa.jpg

B/w version I love this version
*i102.photobucket.com/albums/m108/tkphotos1/IMG_6831%20bw_zps6kdqzyej.jpg
 

nac

Aspiring Novelist
It's developed from RAW. Didn't like the softness after applying NR, so left most of the noise untouched to keep the sharpness in the image. I guess one reason for this noise is, it's too contrasty and other is heavily cropped. It's like 1300mm eq. (approx)...

*i102.photobucket.com/albums/m108/tkphotos1/CRW_6868_zps2jfnphir.jpg

This one really sucks in b/w. So no b/w, in fact the IQ was drastically falling as I start reducing saturation.
The first one is great. Don't really think B/W does much for sunrise/sunsets.
Thank you... I don't know, for some reasons I like black and white. Not always, but most of the times. Solely for that reason, I looked for a tool to see everything in my monitor b/w and found one too.
This is Lonavla. Lion's point
I was expecting somewhere north east...
 

Cyanide

Broken In
[MENTION=125321]nac[/MENTION] : first one is nice!

Location : Rhine River @ Leverkusen, Germany

*i.imgur.com/vOSWMHd.jpg
P.S : I've n't post processed this pic yet.
 

izzikio_rage

Technomancer
Planning to give my phone cam a try after seeing the stuff you've all gotten from your phone cams. Suggest a good cam app for android. Camera fv5 is what i have now
 

nac

Aspiring Novelist
Planning to give my phone cam a try after seeing the stuff you've all gotten from your phone cams. Suggest a good cam app for android. Camera fv5 is what i have now
I don't about camera app, but with FV5 you get all manual controls. Why look other place, when you have what you need?
BTW bought myself a 35mm f/1.8 from amazon :crazy:
Congrats...
Lonavala shot from DSLR?
 

izzikio_rage

Technomancer
I don't about camera app, but with FV5 you get all manual controls. Why look other place, when you have what you need?

Congrats...
Lonavala shot from DSLR?
It does not have an HDR option. Best you can do is shoot bracketed shots and combine them. Would love to have an app that does all that in the phone
 

nac

Aspiring Novelist
Yes. Looks bad ain't it?
:) Just it doesn't have DSLR punch.
It does not have an HDR option. Best you can do is shoot bracketed shots and combine them. Would love to have an app that does all that in the phone
I thought HDR like things are readily available with your stock OS/app. I vaguely remember seeing it in HTC or in Moto.

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I kinda believe it's possible to get milkyway with compact because there were some attempts by hobbyist/photographer with compacts and they did get it. Though not as good as FF or other bigger format.

I have tried to capture milkyway few times before with my compact, but never succeeded in that. In fact, once I thought I did get a glimpse of it but now I am not sure. I have been thinking of trying milkyway photo shoot since March. But due to cloudy sky I couldn't get a chance to try. After months, I see somewhat clear sky and I am gonna try today. Will see if I can get it...

This is the most serious attempt till date. Hoping to get it... Wish me luck :smile:
Wrapped up the milky way photo shoot. Now the super long processing... Wish if there is any quicker processing available. I will see if I can finish it by tonight, if not I will post the final image tomorrow.
Though it's too faint, I see it. I think it's new feat me getting it with my compact.
 

CyberKID

In search for Tech Gyan!
Wonderful location. Where is this place?

Nice attempt. Did you try with your kit lens?.

Thanks, Yes, with the 18-55 kit lens

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10 photo HDR


B/w version I love this version
I too liked the first one. I am not really a fan of B/W pictures :p

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Planning to give my phone cam a try after seeing the stuff you've all gotten from your phone cams. Suggest a good cam app for android. Camera fv5 is what i have now
Give it a try. Who knows you might like your phone came pics.
I never really liked the android cameras on any of 3 android phones, I've got to lay hands on, including a sony one. For that matter, my Nokia still gives me great pictures.
 

$hadow

Geek in making
Android cameras are just bad. If top flagships like s6 or G4 are left alone there are hardly any great camera when it comes to android.
 

izzikio_rage

Technomancer
Android cameras are just bad. If top flagships like s6 or G4 are left alone there are hardly any great camera when it comes to android.
That was the thought. When the S3 came out it had the best cam around. People have a ton of pics on flickr from the S3. Wanted to see if i could shoot like that
 

nac

Aspiring Novelist
I too liked the first one. I am not really a fan of B/W pictures :p
Thank you...

It seems like the processing couldn't make it any better than the single frame milky way photograph. I don't know, probably for deepskystacker (DSS) the image my cam produced are not good enough. It just took only 3 out of 30 frames to process and the final image is no good than the single frame. When I pushed it to use more frames, all I got was plain white image. Tried to get some information, there is nothing there. Not even a single star just a plain grainy image. So here is the single frame PPed.

Now I know for sure it's possible with pinhead sensor and now I can try with some confidence.

*i102.photobucket.com/albums/m108/tkphotos1/IMG_7157_zps2rd46f4q.jpg

Actually, it's 1 min exposure. Coz of CHDK it's not showing the right info in exif.
 
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