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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/29/2005 7:24:53 PM
Mr. Mr.,
Nice contrast and detail. Good work.
Taras
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| Photo By: Mister mister
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/29/2005 4:49:15 PM
Jin,
Nice detail and contrast. Good work.
Taras
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| Photo By: Jin Kang
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/29/2005 1:57:15 PM
Carter,
I am not sure, but you may be at the limits here with what you could capture with your lens.
Taras
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| Photo By: Carter Driggs
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/10/2005 4:48:58 PM
Pierre,
One night I was testing a few lenses with a roll of Superia 800 on my roof in NYC, and when I got prints back, the results were too green for my liking, so I discounted using Superia as an astro film. Later, after doing some checking, it turns out that there was auroral activity that night, visible deep into the South, and I actually caught that on film. I now mostly shoot medium format on slide film (Kodak E200 & Fuji Provia 400), though I may try to get back to some prime focus work soon.
Taras
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| Photo By: Pierre Martin
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 11:39:59 PM
Pierre,
Nice composition.
Taras
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| Photo By: Pierre Martin
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 11:11:24 PM
Naomi,
A dreamy composition.
Taras
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| Photo By: Naomi Weidner
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 11:10:12 PM
Pat,
For dark backgrounds one needs to stay away from the Milky Way. All that interstellar dust and the unresolved stars differentiate it from the background sky.
Taras
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| Photo By: Taras R. Hnatyshyn
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 9:43:01 PM
Luiz,
They have a great view from up there.
Nice composition.
Taras
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| Photo By: Luiz de Araujo
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 9:13:06 PM
Howard,
The sign says "Orthodox Cathederal of the Sts. Cyril and Methodius"
Taras
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| Photo By: Sam
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 9:07:22 PM
Felix,
Nice composition.
Taras
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| Photo By: Felix Diaz
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 9:06:04 PM
Steve,
Nice image. Is that one of the Magellanic Clouds to the left?
Taras
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| Photo By: Steve Hennerley
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 8:59:16 PM
Grzgorz,
A nice moody capture. If you want to get some detail on the moon, treat it as a daylight object and use the "sunny-16" rule, but compensate for the darkness of the lunar surface by increasing the exposure by 1/2 or 1 stop, or openning the lens by 1/2 or 1 stop.
Taras
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| Photo By: G Kraskowski
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 8:54:19 PM
Barry,
Last weekend, I expect the dark part of the night was from about 10:30 pm to 3:15 am EDT. It's all a function of latitude. I do most of my shooting 75 miles northwest of the city, which is still much further south than all of England. At least the Milky Way is still visible from that location, though not as well as, say, thirty years ago. I think there are at minimum 5-6 hours of true darkness near the solstice.
Taras
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| Photo By: Taras R. Hnatyshyn
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 8:41:53 PM
Pierre,
Nice composition. If I recall correctly, that night the film in my SRT101 did not wind, and I lost a whole nights work of guided astrophotos. I do remember seeing the curtains to the northwest. I wasn't too upset, as I was using an ST4 autoguider that night, and enjoying the display.
Taras
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| Photo By: Pierre Martin
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 8:35:54 PM
Pierre,
It must be a joy shooting at f/2. With my medium format lenses, I'm usually shooting at f/5.6, so my exposures are much longer. Have you tried shooting astrophotos on E200? I like its red response.
Taras
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| Photo By: Pierre Martin
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 8:30:03 PM
Pierre,
Another nice meteor image. That other galaxy must be the Pinwheel in Triangulum. In addition to the Perseids, you seem to have captured a sporadic meteor as well going against the grain.
Don't totally give up on film for astro, as not all the detectors go as deep in the red to get the Hydrogen alpha of emission nebulae.
Taras
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| Photo By: Pierre Martin
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 8:25:38 PM
Pierre,
I think I have captured more meteors on film when I am not trying to intentially image them during a shower. Nice work.
Taras
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| Photo By: Pierre Martin
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 8:23:09 PM
Pat,
That looks so unnatural. Most astrophotographers try to go for a neutral dark gray, or sometimes dark blue sky. Your edit of the original image obliterates the subtle details in this region of the milky way. A detector without an infra-red filter, or a red sensitive film would have even brought out the nebulae in this region.
Taras
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| Photo By: Pierre Martin
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 8:19:03 PM
Pierre,
I missed this display, and the one a week later due to weather.
This multi-layered aurora is gorgeous.
Taras
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| Photo By: Pierre Martin
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 8:17:22 PM
Pierre,
Nice colors.
Taras
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| Photo By: Pierre Martin
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 8:16:43 PM
Pierre,
Nice silhouette in this aurora picture.
Taras
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| Photo By: Pierre Martin
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 8:15:35 PM
Pierre,
Luck was with you that night to capture such a bright meteor. I was guiding an astrophoto last summer and I noticed the ground brighten. I thought I was caught in a car's headlamps, but when I turned around, I saw the ionization trail of a particularly bright meteor still glowing in the sky. Too bad my camera was pointed 90 degrees away from this event...
Taras
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| Photo By: Pierre Martin
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 8:10:14 PM
Pierre,
Interesting composite. Nice work.
Taras
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| Photo By: Pierre Martin
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 8:08:29 PM
Pierre,
It looks like you lost a little sharpness in downsampling the image for display here. I usually run my images through a Sharpen filter before posting here.
Nice exposure.
Taras
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| Photo By: Pierre Martin
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 7:34:38 PM
Morgan,
The camera was mounted piggyback on a polar-aligned telescope which was used for tracking the sky, and a reticle eyepiece was used to confirm the tracking, and to correct for errors in tracking.
Taras
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| Photo By: Taras R. Hnatyshyn
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
6/9/2005 5:55:01 PM
To help identify some of the deep sky objects in the photo.
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| Photo By: Taras R. Hnatyshyn
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
5/5/2005 10:25:16 PM
Dino,
Great timing.
Taras
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| Photo By: Dino Lupani
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
5/5/2005 10:17:42 PM
Pierre,
The geomagnetic storm gives the clouds an eery green glow, almost looks like ripples on a pond. I like the evergreen front and center here.
Taras
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| Photo By: Pierre Martin
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
5/5/2005 10:13:32 PM
Pierre,
I like the composition here with the Big Dipper at the top and the trees at the bottom.
Taras
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| Photo By: Pierre Martin
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Critique By:
Taras R. Hnatyshyn (K:4055)
5/5/2005 10:11:34 PM
Pierre,
I find that when I try to shoot to capture meteors, they are always shooting past just outside the lens's field of view. But planes are a different story...
You have captured quite a bit of definition in the Milky Way in this region. The North America nebula came out well.
Taras
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