In fact, for most of my photography life, cameras weren’t even capable of capturing dark skies well enough to do them justice. That changed with the advent of digital capture, and the evolution of digital sensors that continues to this day. My love for astronomy was powerful enough that I...
But success isnotsimply a matter of showing up at Tunnel View the night of the full moon. Each winter the solar/lunar choreography is different, which is why the moon is all over the place in my many Tunnel View moonrise images in the gallery below: left of Half Dome, right of Half ...
The Pelican Nebula frankly isn’t a very attractive object as a whole, but if you crop it down to its heart, there’s a lot of interesting stuff going on. Look for little puffs in the image, or areas with spikes coming out of them. Those are Herbig-Haro objects – stars that are ...
It will be very interesting to watch his response to the measles outbreak. I hope we are not talking down the line about the number of deaths that could be avoided. Another added danger to our daily lives, we didn’t need. Random Thoughts of the Morning The last week of February makes...
Common in Nikon DSLRs and also in the Z6 II's LCD and finder is that there is banding in blue-skies during full frame or zoomed-out playback. It's fine zoomed-in or while shooting. This isn't a finder problem; it's an artifact of the thumbnail images used inside Nikon's file ...
I was really after the Comet 62P in Leo, and this runt comet was interesting, but I wanted to do more testing of the tilt plate thingy. I was going to come back to it, but clouds invaded and stayed until 11:00 PM or so. By that time, I still had about 2 hours for the comet...
Presenting images of interesting astronomical subjects obtained with modest, commercially available telescopes and CCD cameras that are optimized for taking long exposures of low light-level subjects. Many separate exposures through optical filters are digitally combined and stretched to create full color pi...
I thought once I had managed an interesting head shot framed in the leaves but as I was ready to shoot he turned back into the dense foliage. This birding thing is harder than I gave it credit for. But about the dove and his lady, what could possibly have gone wrong? This is ...
And in my experience,allof these are important parts of mountain photography! Juxtaposed color tones combine in interesting ways. Mountain scenes, particularly from places like the Rockies, Cascades, or Alaska, tend to be dominated by cool tones: blue skies, green tundra and forest, glacial strea...
what if I told you the same can happen without a master dark with certain sensors? It’s very interesting question I asked in the post below. https://www.cloudyni...ine/?p=13820597 Ignore everyone in this thread who are confused, ...