Photography

[Captain Mainwaring]

I know its another MTB photo but I quite like it, despite a bit of motion blur on the forks, bars and legs. I have told my mate that to get the best image he should go slow, but he seems to think that he is going to look better if he is at warp speed. Doh

 

[LhHutch]

Taken from London but waiting for van to take us to darker skies for more astrophotography…

 

[Captain Mainwaring]

Taken from London but waiting for van to take us to darker skies for more astrophotography…View attachment 127674

Wow. What is it and what kind of camera/lens combo do you have to take something like that?

 

[Skyliner33]

I know its another MTB photo but I quite like it, despite a bit of motion blur on the forks, bars and legs. I have told my mate that to get the best image he should go slow, but he seems to think that he is going to look better if he is at warp speed. Doh

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I think your friend is right. The bit of fork blur emphasised movement.

 

[Skyliner33]

Taken from London but waiting for van to take us to darker skies for more astrophotography…View attachment 127674

Nice pic. What kit are you using. I’ve not really done any night sky photography since I finished my Astronomy degree.

 

[LhHutch]

Wow. What is it and what kind of camera/lens combo do you have to take something like that?

Thanks! Its the Rosette nebula or C49 and is about 5,200 light years from us. It’s a canon EOS 800D that’s been astro modded (removed IR cut filter) and a 72mm diameter 420mm focal length wide field telescope. It’s about 1.5hrs of 3minute exposures stacked on top of each other all through a narrowband filter.
I find it fascinating that the light captured (and what we see in the photo) left that huge bit of space 5,200 light years ago!

 

[LhHutch]

Nice pic. What kit are you using. I’ve not really done any night sky photography since I finished my Astronomy degree.

See above - crikey, astronomy degree!!

 

[Skyliner33]

Thanks! Its the Rosette nebula or C49 and is about 5,200 light years from us. It’s a canon EOS 800D that’s been astro modded (removed IR cut filter) and a 72mm diameter 420mm focal length wide field telescope. It’s about 1.5hrs of 3minute exposures stacked on top of each other all through a narrowband filter.
I find it fascinating that the light captured (and what we see in the photo) left that huge bit of space 5,200 light years ago!

Good information. However a light year is a distance not a time. 1 light year is the distance that light will travel in a year. So if the nebula is 5200 light years away then the light will take 5200 years to reach us.
Degree was strictly astronomy and physics.

 

[RedUn]

Taken from London but waiting for van to take us to darker skies for more astrophotography…View attachment 127674

Post more!!

 

[Proberts]

Haven't posted anything for quite a while but have been browsing lately. Full house gut and renovation during lockdown as couldn't work so van was used as a builders van
Anyway, looking through forum and came across this thread. Cheating a bit as I am a professional wildlife and landscape photographer but here's a sample. Went to Yellowstone 5 weeks before first lockdown so very lucky.

 

[T6ARF]

Haven't posted anything for quite a while but have been browsing lately. Full house gut and renovation during lockdown as couldn't work so van was used as a builders van
Anyway, looking through forum and came across this thread. Cheating a bit as I am a professional wildlife and landscape photographer but here's a sample. Went to Yellowstone 5 weeks before first lockdown so very lucky.

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Absolutely stunning!

 

[Proberts]

Absolutely stunning!

Thank you Matt. If you ever get chance to go there, do it. Go in winter though as not many tourists there.

 

[RedUn]

One from a quick trip over the Pennines to Yorkshire, ignore dirty wheels!

 

[T6ARF]

Thank you Matt. If you ever get chance to go there, do it. Go in winter though as not many tourists there.

Looks and sounds amazing…. not many tourists would be perfect! If that’s your job/profession mate, you’re a lucky man…. hats off to you!

 

[Proberts]

It's sounds great Matt, but most of the time I make solid oak frames for my photos and sell them in the brecon beacons. It's glamorous when I get a chance to go abroad photographing wildlife though.

 

[HappyHammer]

Newquay last weekend for the boardmasters

 

[Stay Frosty]

Barmouth last week for two bored bastids.

 

[Nige_g]

There's a bit of a VW Camper thing going on in my locality this weekend I think. Not that I care about that, when I spent sometime driving this today instead!

McLaren GT by Nigel G, on Flickr

 

[Morris67]

Ooohhh that is a thing of pure beauty
I love the way the orange half complements with the white top
absolutely stunning

 

[Ali-G]

There’s always someone who comes along and blocks your view just as you press the shutter isn’t there.