Thanks, Larry. The advice from your experience will no doubt help a lot.
The Southern Cross will be a good starting point. Just need to get rid
of the bright moon.
Alan C
On 02-Aug-20 08:22 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
On Aug 2, 2020, at 11:06 AM, Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote:
Larry, that's an excellent suggestion. Only problem is that the Kruger Park is
off limits at night unless you are a Rhino Poacher or a member of an armed
response team. I'll look around for a similar anthill outside the park.
If you do it with astrotracer, one advantage of light painting (with a strobe?) is that most of the
terrestrial image will be "frozen" and just "motion blurred" at the edges. You
can see that if you look carefully at the edges of the building in this photo I did with the
astrotracer and K-5.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/11770425926/
In the meantime I've ordered a cable shutter release for the K5 so I can use
the Astrotracer without standing there with my finger on the button!
Did you order one of the dumb ones, or one with a built in intervelometer? If
you are using the intervelometer, you need to set the interval to 1 second,
unless you want to add somethign like 5 seconds to the photo time with
astrotracer.
Also, there's the question of doing the darkfield noise settings. The best
results are probably to do some manual darkfield frames and do the processing
in post.
BTW, you shouldn't need to hold the shutter in astrotracer, you set the period
in multilples of 10 seconds, press the shutter with a 2 second delay, and it
does A/T for the set period.
Perhaps you have suggestion for dealing with the harsh light besides waiting
for a rainy day? Maybe some kind of filter?
In processing I'd bring up the shadow slider and bring down the highlights.
I'd try to do my most important landscape images at golden/blue hour time
periods. If I was shooting something small, close and stationary I'd try a bit
of fill, either a reflector or as big of a flash as I could get (don't know if
the flash would have enough to soften shadows beyond a couple feet).
Alternatively, rather than fighting it, I might try and use the harsh lighting
to set the mood. It really does make the area look like desert.
Alan C
On 02-Aug-20 07:11 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
your photos really reflect the harsh lighing there.
If your nights are clear, I think that the anthill would be an awesome subject
at night, put the milky way behind it, and if moonlight isn't enough to
illuminate it, maybe do a little bit of light painting. However, I suspect
that for a variety of reasons that'd be a no-go in Kruger.
On Aug 1, 2020, at 9:09 AM, Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote:
PESO x 2: Sand & Sand
Trying it like this. The e-mail won't go throgh.
A large anthill with a built in timber supply & a typical sand river. All the
tributaries around here look like this in the dry season. The sand beds can be several
metres deep on top of the bedrock. The rivers still flow below the surface through the
sand. Elephants dig wells & extract the exposed water with their trunks. The pool
in this shot is occupied by a solitary hippo.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/50176786881/in/datetaken-public/>
Scroll L for the other.
K5 & HD 55-300
Alan C
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