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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
11/12/2003 11:22:08 AM
Ronald,
Interesting subject. The sky is nice-has some detail, but doesn't overpower the light tower.
Taras
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| Photo By: Roland Le Gall
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
11/12/2003 11:17:07 AM
Roderik,
I like images with the "real" moon in them, and not composited in with the various techniques (double-exposure, darkroom/electronic compositing, etc.).
Median filtering or blurring can help with those noise artifacts, but you may need to experiment. Though I do not use a digital camera, you may want to save the image in raw mode and compress it for the web after editing it. This is a trade off on the number of images you can store and their quality.
Taras
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| Photo By: Roderik Koenders
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
11/12/2003 10:59:58 AM
All, Thanks for the comments.
Charlotte,
I used an 8 inch (diameter) Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, which consists of a lens and two mirrors, though any telescope or telephoto lens with a focal length over 500mm (but not too much higher than 2000mm for 135 format film) and a steady tripod should be able to get decent results. As a backup, I had a 350mm lens on my Hassy, and the results were pretty good.
Taras
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| Photo By: Taras R. Hnatyshyn
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
11/11/2003 3:43:18 PM
Charlie,
The big dots are caused by halation from the long exposure. As mentioned in the about, I have the camera attached piggyback on a polar aligned telescope which is tracking the sky. One can get similar results with wide-angle lenses by using a barn-door tracker. One can find instructions on the web how to build one.
Double images on the moon may have more to do with internal reflections than anything else. It is a good idea to pre-fire or lock the mirror when shooting such a high contrast object.
Thanks for your comments.
Taras
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| Photo By: Taras R. Hnatyshyn
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
11/11/2003 2:28:57 PM
Charlie,
A very original idea. There is a lot of felling of motion in this image. Interesting result.
Taras
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| Photo By: charlie f. kohn
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
11/11/2003 2:22:07 PM
Geo,
I like the colors, but I think a tighter crop on the sky would make the clouds more dramatic.
Taras
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| Photo By: Geo Sun
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
11/11/2003 2:14:33 PM
Roderik,
The colors and lighting in this image are great. I just feel that either it needs more or less depth of field. I personly would go for sharper clouds, as it would be difficult to get a narrower depth of field at your shutter speed without neutral density filters.
Taras
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| Photo By: Roderik Koenders
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
11/11/2003 1:31:00 PM
Kevin,
Setting up to the south of the tent and making a long exosure will give you lovely star trails.
Taras
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| Photo By: Bob Smith
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
11/11/2003 1:15:39 PM
Michele,
You can just make out Perseus and the top of Auriga, in addition to the Pleiades in Taurus. You may want to try a slightly longer exposure. This image http://homepage.mac.com/tarashnat/astrophoto/0002-06.html can show you what you can get from 60 sec at f/2.8 with 400 ASA film.
Taras
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| Photo By: Michele Lostia
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
11/11/2003 9:15:05 AM
Brad,
Nice capture. The exposure is just about right for this phase of the eclipse. Where were you shooting from?
Taras
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| Photo By: Brad Buskey
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
11/11/2003 9:11:02 AM
Rodger,
Your image of totality looks noticably smaller than the other images in the sequence. Does it belong in this set? This was a relatively shallow total eclipse and most other images from totality have a brightening on the southern part of the moon.
Taras
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| Photo By: rabka man
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
11/11/2003 9:06:18 AM
José,
Nice image of the moon. Try capturing some of the moon near quarter phase when the shadows allow for better detail and contrast.
Taras
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| Photo By: José Alberto Jr
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
11/11/2003 8:58:27 AM
Brad,
You could have used a longer exposure for totality to capture more of the red of the eclipse.
Taras
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| Photo By: Brad Buskey
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
8/14/2003 1:03:35 PM
Elaine,
Good depth of field on the subject. Nice macro work. I aquired a set of bellows for my Hassy, but haven't used them much, yet.
re. Mars: right now it is the bright orange/red dot to the right/west of the moon (looking south-left if you are deep in the southern hemisphere looking north). The moon is pulling away from Mars to the east. Mars'll be the brightest thing in the night sky after the moon.
Taras
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| Photo By: Elaine Collins
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
8/14/2003 9:55:18 AM
Joe,
Nice Leonid. I tried shooting the Perseids last summer, but the only visible meteor in the camera's field of view did not register on the film... Murphy's law: the bright meteors are in the area of the sky outside your field of view!!!
Taras
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| Photo By: Joe McCary
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
8/14/2003 9:50:37 AM
Thanks for all your comments.
For now, the planets and moon are mostly impervious to light pollution. The biggest problem is seeing, the steadiness of the atmosphere. I may be able to get closer to the theoretical resolution of the optics from a better sight, but one shouldn't give up, just because the neighbors don't turn off their lights when they go to sleep...
Taras
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| Photo By: Taras R. Hnatyshyn
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
8/14/2003 2:22:22 AM
Gregory,
This one is a tad overexposed, as Tycho and rays has "whited out". Either that, or the image processing, if any, was not executed properly.
Taras
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Photo By: Gregory McLemore
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
8/14/2003 2:18:35 AM
Gregory,
Nice capture. Good focus, exposure and contrast. Well done.
Taras
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| Photo By: Gregory McLemore
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
8/14/2003 2:15:43 AM
Uwe,
Matthais has a great star trail photo there. It's good to see the southern sky every now and again...
Taras
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| Photo By: Uwe Bachmann
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
8/14/2003 2:10:11 AM
Luisa,
A beautiful composition. I am assuming that this is a scan from a print, hence the "noise" in the sky background. A bit daring taking a comet shot into the full moon. A longer exposure would have exposed more of the comet's tail, butthen you have the trade off of the stars beginning to trail if you are not tracking the sky with the camera.
Taras
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| Photo By: luisa vassallo
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
8/14/2003 2:01:48 AM
Dodo,
Very nicely composed. Nice detail on the full moon. I like the diagnol suggested in the composition
Taras
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| Photo By: dodo simko
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
8/1/2003 8:22:37 AM
Uwe,
Nice eclipse shot. I think the composition would have been better served if the moon and the foreground weren't both centered. Technically, a good job, but room for improvement artisticly.
I got clouded out during this last eclipse, so I'm a little jealous. Keep looking up despite the light pollution. I've been able to photograph the Orion Nebula from downtown Manhattan in New York City-you never know until you try.
Taras
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| Photo By: Uwe Bachmann
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
7/31/2003 10:08:29 PM
Andriyu,
This image is a little overexposed if your goal is to capture the craters and maria in the crescent moon. But to capture the simple beauty of the moon's waxing crescent, it works.
Taras
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| Photo By: Andriy Yatsenko
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
7/31/2003 10:01:26 PM
Ronald,
Thanks. This was the end of an all night observing/photographing session. I was just going to get ready to start breaking down my telescope when I noticed the earthshine of the waning crescent moon. Since I had the SAC-IV still attached to the telescope from imaging Mars, I decided to tackle the crescent moon.
Taras
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| Photo By: Taras R. Hnatyshyn
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
7/31/2003 2:04:52 PM
Thanks for your comments. The lunar crescent is a difficult target as it is low in the sky where atmospheric turbulence blurs the image quite a bit. Seeing an individual frame of the source videos, one would be amazed that this much detail could be teased from them as it is.
Taras
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| Photo By: Taras R. Hnatyshyn
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
7/8/2003 2:27:52 PM
Laura... The depth of field this image is attempting to capture is about 1/4 of a million miles. One can expect that even at a small focal ratio (aperture) that there will be some softness in the image. Many people try this type of shot as a composite.
Taras
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| Photo By: Tim Meyer
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
7/7/2003 3:13:41 PM
Adam,
As an abstract this is a very nice composition. A shorter exposure would have given you some detail on the moon.
Taras
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| Photo By: adam zborowski
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/25/2003 12:43:33 PM
Bob,
You should have also tried a shorter exposure to get the lunar detail to come out, as the moon is overexposed. The composition is nice, but I think the image would be stronger with a darker sky. Another option would have been moving the horizon to the upper third of the frame (thus removing the moon) and taking a longer exposure for the reflections in the water.
Taras
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| Photo By: Bob Whorton
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/25/2003 12:24:15 PM
Snehendu,
Excellent composition, though the moon is overexposed. With your lens, you should be able to get individual craters resolved. But in this image it seems to work. Nice job. Try shooting the moon from a tripod with this lens in a variety of phases. The contrast of a quarter moon makes a wonderful target.
Taras
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| Photo By: Snehendu Kar
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/19/2003 4:11:20 PM
Ann,
This may fit well for the project "Blue" .
Taras
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