The Photography Thread

izzikio_rage

izzikio_rage

Technomancer
nac said:
No, milky way isn't visible to naked eyes here in my place. Wish to see it at least once in my life time. Without Stellarium finding it would be one helluva job.

You don't see star trails? I guess you're viewing it from your mobile phone. It's there even in this small resolution.

Even though I felt capturing milky way could be possible with SX130, there was some amount of doubt. If SX130 can do it, I am sure NEX can do it much better. May be you don't need to push your camera as much as I did. I was desperate to get it, so I pushed too much. Probably with just one exposure you could have milkyway with NEX.
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Tried to stack my star trails images with deepskystacker and got a fully blown out image. I guess it moves the pics to prevent trails, apart from that seemed to get nothing out of it. Definitely no milky way
 
nac

nac

Aspiring Novelist
izzikio_rage said:
Tried to stack my star trails images with deepskystacker and got a fully blown out image. I guess it moves the pics to prevent trails, apart from that seemed to get nothing out of it. Definitely no milky way
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:D You can't expect milky way in your frame when it's not there in the sky. (Like I did in the past ;) )

I'll post how I did.
 
CyberKID

CyberKID

In search for Tech Gyan!
In places like Delhi, it's next to impossible to get clear night skies for photographing. It just doesn't come up, unless it has rained for the whole day, and the night turns out to be a cloudless clear one.
 
nac

nac

Aspiring Novelist
CyberKID said:
In places like Delhi, it's next to impossible to get clear night skies for photographing. It just doesn't come up, unless it has rained for the whole day, and the night turns out to be a cloudless clear one.
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Me too thought so, but if Amlan could capture that much stars in Delhi pollution, probably he could capture milkyway too. There is a technique called exposing to the right (ETTR), it could work. Those who have bigger sensor likely to get it. At least, give it a try...

I am trying one last time until next new moon day. Glad sky cleared up.

Even @ base ISO and 60sec exposure, it's visible. But I think it's better to stay @ ISO 400 or above. Stars seems brighter today, may be coz of moon is still up. Clouds is not covering... yet. I am done one burst @ ISO 6400 and now running ISO 400. Composition wise, it's pretty much the same. I am looking for better details. Gonna stack more no. of frames this time. Will see if I am getting any better than the last time.

Though I have already replied to Amlan's question. Do I see it with naked eye? Now my answer is...
May be. But I am not sure :) If I am seeing, it's too faint. I mean, too faint to recognize it as a milky way.
 
Faun

Faun

Wahahaha~!
Staff member
Guys, what's a good macro lens for Nikon D7000 ?

I'd be interested in shots like this:
*41.media.tumblr.com/c61212b7eb3a661f5626d7467cd27c5f/tumblr_nfyuw6dz3T1syptjoo10_1280.png
 
izzikio_rage

izzikio_rage

Technomancer
I did that star trails shot on a rainy day. The rain washed away all the pollution and then luckily there were no clouds at night. Will give a shot with ISO800 and 30 sec exposures.
 
nac

nac

Aspiring Novelist
Faun said:
Guys, what's a good macro lens for Nikon D7000 ?
I'd be interested in shots like this:
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First I saw the image and thought "the best eye shot in this forum, then I read your post :(

izzikio_rage said:
I did that star trails shot on a rainy day. The rain washed away all the pollution and then luckily there were no clouds at night. Will give a shot with ISO800 and 30 sec exposures.
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Looking forward to see yours...

This time to avoid star trail, used 18 sec exposure. Imported 38 frames (each set) and DSS stacked 30 frames each. I reused flat and bias frames for ISO 400 set from my previous attempt. Not much difference. Only big difference I see is, when more images are stacked I can push a lot when PPing.

ISO 6400

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SX130 | f/3.4 | 30 x 18 sec | ISO 6400 | F 28mm eq.

This is the same one but with some heavy editing

*i102.photobucket.com/albums/m108/tkphotos1/Autosave%2019%20aug%20iso6400-Edit-2_zpsfsulbqww.jpg

SX130 | f/3.4 | 30 x 18 sec | ISO 6400 | F 28mm eq.

ISO 400

*i102.photobucket.com/albums/m108/tkphotos1/Autosave%2019aug%20iso400-Edit-1_zpsmgai36nd.jpg

SX130 | f/3.4 | 30 x 18 sec | ISO 400 | F 28mm eq.

As soon as I start sliding NR, it's getting softer drastically. So I have to leave them grainy...

I will only try this again if I can compose something better rather than just pointing at the sky. This 3 day shooting occupied a lot of space in my hard disk. I think I can delete all those files now as I have the final stacked one.
 
$hadow

$hadow

Geek in making
kkn13 said:
Meh Pureview,Zeiss and Exmor sensors are always gonna be light years ahead
Samsung is overrated imho
I prefer even Nexus 5 camera over samsung

Redmi uses Exmor so its awesome
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To be frank I was actually blown away by the performance of redmi 2 when I compared it to my N5
 
sujoyp

sujoyp

Grand Master
Faun said:
Guys, what's a good macro lens for Nikon D7000 ?

I'd be interested in shots like this:
*41.media.tumblr.com/c61212b7eb3a661f5626d7467cd27c5f/tumblr_nfyuw6dz3T1syptjoo10_1280.png
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Faun its not just macro lens...you need to have a proper flash setup...maybe a ring flash or a nice flash bracket can light the eyes to this level..I have tried many times but due to lack of ring flash I am not able to get good eye shots
 
K

kkn13

Cyber Genius FTW
$hadow said:
To be frank I was actually blown away by the performance of redmi 2 when I compared it to my N5
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yeah Exmor sensors are awesome !!
Too bad Xperia phones with the exact same sensors somehow no longer perform like on other Exmor based phones
 
izzikio_rage

izzikio_rage

Technomancer
sujoyp said:
Faun its not just macro lens...you need to have a proper flash setup...maybe a ring flash or a nice flash bracket can light the eyes to this level..I have tried many times but due to lack of ring flash I am not able to get good eye shots
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You can make a DIY ring flash or use a diwali string of lights to illuminate the eye. With that you could do this shot with a nornal point and shoot or any macro lens, or a reversed lens or an extension tube
 
Faun

Faun

Wahahaha~!
Staff member
izzikio_rage said:
You can make a DIY ring flash or use a diwali string of lights to illuminate the eye. With that you could do this shot with a nornal point and shoot or any macro lens, or a reversed lens or an extension tube
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But the eyes will have ring light reflection. I don't want that. Light has to fall at an angle without much reflection.

*i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/12/article-2246888-1679CA4D000005DC-403_964x959.jpg

Can you guys post the best eye shots that you can get ? Lighter iris will have better details.

With light ring it looks cool but not what I am looking for
*il7.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/8346349/thumb/7.jpg
 
quan chi

quan chi

mortal kombat
*s1.postimg.org/9ytsivagf/Remastered.jpg

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If anybody can improve the photo more please let me know. I would happily give him the raw file.
 
G

Gen.Libeb

Padawan
nac said:
As soon as I start sliding NR, it's getting softer drastically. So I have to leave them grainy...

I will only try this again if I can compose something better rather than just pointing at the sky. This 3 day shooting occupied a lot of space in my hard disk. I think I can delete all those files now as I have the final stacked one.
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Milky Way photos are epic.

[MENTION=15209]quan chi[/MENTION] - HDR ! nice ... Is that Powai lake ?

Forgot to take my camera, Took these with mobile.

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*farm6.staticflickr.com/5773/20805888882_83dcdd9cf2_b.jpg
 
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