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Originally Posted by midnight
Lovelly work Greg. Makes me want to get in the van and head east into some darker skies and camp for a day or three.
Darrin...
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Thanks Darrin. It certainly is a realxing way to spend an evening.
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Originally Posted by naskies
I think this is a very good point! There's not much setting up needed with the DSLR before you can just sit back, look up, and enjoy the view.
As a bonus, you get to see a lot of transient events like meteors. I was out shooting last night and saw a bright meteor streak over about 100 degrees of the sky, with dust/smoke trailing for about 3 degrees behind. Would have completely missed it if I were staring into my laptop screen!
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Yes that's right. I find meteors are quite common in a really dark site.
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Hmmm nice colours Greg, but I believe the composition is wrong. I think it would be better to place the rocks either to the far right or far left and wait for the Milkway to be tilted over further. The composition as it stands looks awkard to me and too contrived.
Looks to be a great site there but using the rule of threes in composition will help quite a lot.
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Yes its a little awkward. I was really setting up for a time lapse and the intended target was to have the SCP above the rock so it was a better composition for that. In the time lapse it worked really well. But I see your point and I was aware of that too. But in the end I felt it worked well enough to warrant its own still image.
I have 2 time lapses of this area. One worked really well using the Polarie as a panning tool. It panned at the same rate as the Milky Way was rising so that is a great effect. I think I need to turn off long exposure noise reduction though as the time lapse is bit shorter than I would like.
The time lapse is also somewhat informative as you can see easily where the SCP is making polar alignments a bit easier and quicker to do.
Next time I shoot that I will.
Greg.
