Re: PESO: Star trails

2009-12-17 Thread John Sessoms
From: Boris Liberman I outlate you, Frank ;-) . Great shot, Charles. Made me think of Pink Floyd album cover photographs... Boris H? Didn't see that the first time. But now that you mention it ... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.

Re: PESO: Star trails

2009-12-17 Thread Boris Liberman
I outlate you, Frank ;-). Great shot, Charles. Made me think of Pink Floyd album cover photographs... Boris On 12/11/2009 6:08 AM, frank theriault wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2009/IMGP6866-2.jpg It's not much.. if

Re: PESO: Star trails

2009-12-11 Thread Charles Robinson
On Dec 10, 2009, at 22:08, frank theriault wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: > > >> http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2009/IMGP6866-2.jpg >> >> It's not much.. if I'd had more time to experiment I'm sure I could have >> done better. > > Really late commen

Re: PESO: Star trails

2009-12-10 Thread frank theriault
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Charles Robinson wrote: > http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/2009/IMGP6866-2.jpg > > It's not much.. if I'd had more time to experiment I'm sure I could have done > better. Really late commenting on this one, but that's a pretty cool photo just as it is, Ch

Re: PESO: Star trails

2009-12-01 Thread Charles Robinson
On Dec 1, 2009, at 17:12, David J Brooks wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: >> On Dec 1, 2009, at 15:10, Brian Walters wrote: > >> I just revamped the image here with the brightness slider on the "blue" >> ramped down a bit... seems to help to make the stars stand

Re: PESO: Star trails

2009-12-01 Thread Brian Walters
On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:12 -0500, "David J Brooks" wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Charles Robinson > wrote: > > On Dec 1, 2009, at 15:10, Brian Walters wrote: > > > I just revamped the image here with the brightness slider on the "blue" > > ramped down a bit... seems to help to make th

Re: PESO: Star trails

2009-12-01 Thread David J Brooks
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: > On Dec 1, 2009, at 15:10, Brian Walters wrote: > I just revamped the image here with the brightness slider on the "blue" > ramped down a bit... seems to help to make the stars stand out more: > > http://charles.robinsontwins.org/photos/20

Re: PESO: Star trails

2009-12-01 Thread Charles Robinson
On Dec 1, 2009, at 15:10, Brian Walters wrote: > Thanks for posting that. I've been toying with the idea of trying some > star trails and every little bit of info helps. > > Have you considered using image stacking to produce longer trails? > Hell, I'd just try leaving the camera open longer f

Re: PESO: Star trails

2009-12-01 Thread Brian Walters
Thanks for posting that. I've been toying with the idea of trying some star trails and every little bit of info helps. Have you considered using image stacking to produce longer trails? Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westn

PESO: Star trails

2009-12-01 Thread Charles Robinson
I've never really done a lot of nighttime long-exposure work with digital because I thought it wasn't possible (too much noise, battery life, etc). However, when I was trying to shoot the Leonid meteor shower a few weeks ago I did some experimenting and found that it works pretty well. Shootin