Your photography thread, 2020

[weltweit]

I think stitching several images helps. This calculator is also useful for getting the exposure right:

I found unexpected issues with my tripod which wouldn't adjust to let the camera shoot straight up. I had to move the camera around on its mounting plate to be able to shoot high..

 

[neonwilderness]

I found unexpected issues with my tripod which wouldn't adjust to let the camera shoot straight up. I had to move the camera around on its mounting plate to be able to shoot high..

On my tripod using the mounting the plate backwards helps with this. This set of shots was over roughly 90 degrees from facing forward to straight up.

 

[weltweit]

On my tripod using the mounting the plate backwards helps with this. This set of shots was over roughly 90 degrees from facing forward to straight up.

I am looking forward for summer to have another go

It looks like there was some ambient light at the bottom over the hills in your image? I really like the pylon and cables as ground interest.

 

[neonwilderness]

I am looking forward for summer to have another go

It looks like there was some ambient light at the bottom over the hills in your image? I really like the pylon and cables as ground interest.

It was probably the light pollution from the next town about 7/8 miles away. Hard to avoid unless you’re miles from anywhere though!

I think the pylon helped add a bit of scale to the shot.

 

[weltweit]

It was probably the light pollution from the next town about 7/8 miles away. Hard to avoid unless you’re miles from anywhere though!

I went to mid Wales once, light from a town that must have been 20-30m away still showed.

Now I think I have a plan, Rhossily beach in the Gower, when you look south there is nothing until France. Close up there is a rocky promentary with a Hotel on it that I hope might make foreground interest. Tried it once in 2019 but it didn't work out, I hope to try again in 2021.

You did write that you shot at ISO 10000, I am not dreaming that?

I think the pylon helped add a bit of scale to the shot.

Yes I think it works well for that.

 

[neonwilderness]

You did write that you shot at ISO 10000, I am not dreaming that?

I did

It is a bit noisy when you zoom right in, but again I think stitching several images together helps as you end up with a bigger image to crop down.

 

[weltweit]

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It is a bit noisy when you zoom right in, but again I think stitching several images together helps as you end up with a bigger image to crop down.

What did you use to stitch the images together?

I usually use Microsoft ICE, but I don't know if it would cope with the MW, and apart from anything the MW moves across the sky, so stitching will have to be good.

 

[neonwilderness]

What did you use to stitch the images together?

The raw convertor built into Photoshop. It usually works fairly well but having quite a bit of overlap on the images seems to help.

 

[platinumsage]

Just a casual hand-held happy snap of the Andromeda galaxy using my phone:

 

[Saunders]

Just a casual hand-held happy snap of the Andromeda galaxy using my phone:

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Was that truly just with your phone? I have never managed to capture a beautiful night sky.

 

[platinumsage]

Was that truly just with your phone? I have never managed to capture a beautiful night sky.

Yes, iPhone 12. It feels a bit weird to me too, my last phone was crap.

 

[izz]

Some sneaky street shots with the Ricoh GR

Nice photos - but the red cranes pattern bag - I have a kimono in that exact pattern :-D

 

[izz]

 

[editor]

Oxford Street last night





More here - Tinseltown in the rain: Oxford Street Christmas lights in a late night downpour, Dec 2020

 

[Nikkormat]

I've taken hardly any photos for four or five months, so I am trying a 30 day challenge, with a different theme each day. Yesterday's was "rule of thirds":



On the same outing, I also took this:



Both photos digital, processed in Darktable.

 

[Nikkormat]

The Berounka at Hlásná Třebaň, just outside Prague, today.

 

[editor]

Incense seller, Brixton

 

[mhendo]

Did a bit of shopping in Mystic yesterday afternoon and snapped a few pictures, testing out the camera on my new phone (Samsung Galaxy A71 5g).

 

[weltweit]

mhendo nice photos, looks like you chose your phone well

 

[mhendo]

mhendo nice photos, looks like you chose your phone well

The funny thing is that, when I'm shopping for a new phone, the camera is usually about the least important part of the equation. If I'm taking serious pictures, I like to have my DSLR with me, so the phone camera is generally just used for snapshots. I bought the phone because it was reduced from $600 to $249. When it comes to phones, I'm all about cheap!

 

[editor]

Christmas Day in Brockwell park

In photos: Brockwell park on a sunny but freezing Christmas Day 2020

Christmas Day dawned bright and sunny yesterday, and we took a walk around the park to make the most of the weather – although it was chuffing freezing! Here’s some photos:

www.brixtonbuzz.com

 

[mhendo]

Snapped this while the missus and I were on our morning walk.

Poquonnock River, Bluff Point State Park - Groton, CT

 

[metalguru]

A bit of Lambeth photo reportage from Sunday afternoon- the air ambulance arriving in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park (Imperial War Museum grounds):

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[weltweit]

Lovely black and whites neonwilderness and they do look cold as I expect it was !!

 

[editor]

In photos: Battersea Power Station redevelopment – luxury flats, trendy shops and security guards -

Once a vital London power station fuelled by Welsh coal, Battersea Power Station is now undergoing the full luxury redevelopment treatment, offering unaffordable apartments and "world-class bars and restaurants, interspersed with the finest British and global retail brands." We passed the site...

www.urban75.org

 

[Ponyutd]

Loving these

 

[Nikkormat]

A couple from a wander around Prague today.