[Ed Hurst]

Mona Vale headland, shot from Warriewood Beach

645Z with 150mm FA lens

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[Ed Hurst]

Moonrise at Turimetta beach (it was during this shoot, back in May, that the shutter died on my camera)

645Z with 55mm DFA lens.

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[RICHARD L.]

[texandrews]

Moonrise at Turimetta beach (it was during this shoot, back in May, that the shutter died on my camera)

645Z with 55mm DFA lens.

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#2 especially: these less dramatic scenes from you are lovely. I bet they look particularly good printed well.

[Ed Hurst]

Pumping waves in Sydney today. View towards Long Reef from Dee Why.

645Z with 6x7 300mm f4EDIF lens.

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[barondla]

Pentax 645Z with Pentax 645 A 120 macro.
Thanks for looking,
barondla

[ivanvernon]

645Z and Pentax 67 75mm f 2.8.

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[sculptormic]

Mers-les-Bains
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[RICHARD L.]

48 mm FL, 1/25 sec @ f/32

[w2ck]

Hi,

I was off in another thread discussing the difference between the FA200 prime and the FA80-160 zoom. Since I have both lenses, I set the old tripod up on my back deck here on the Gourd Farm and took a few shots of the Gourd Arch in the backyard next to the chicken pen.

In the other thread, I cropped out the centers but here are the full shots. Just to be different when it comes to subjects. I need to document the growing on the arch anyway for a gourd website. I might as well shoot MF and post them here as well.


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Stan

[rdenney]

Pumping waves in Sydney today. View towards Long Reef from Dee Why.

645Z with 6x7 300mm f4EDIF lens.

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Damn, Ed. I'll take that over the Milky Way any day

Rick "you seen one galaxy from the inside out, ya seen them all" Denney

p.s. What software do you use to stack star images? I just took a boatload of pictures of the comet--probably enough to stack them to even out my ISO 6400 noise. Shutter speeds about 1.5-2 seconds, but star images were several pixels wide--poor seeing.

R "who had to find it in a hazy sky with binoculars" D

[Ed Hurst]

What software do you use to stack star images? I just took a boatload of pictures of the comet--probably enough to stack them to even out my ISO 6400 noise. Shutter speeds about 1.5-2 seconds, but star images were several pixels wide--poor seeing.

R "who had to find it in a hazy sky with binoculars" D

Hi RD,

With my star trail images, I simply layer them in Photoshop and adjust the layer blending mode to Lighten.

However, for Milky Way shots (which I guess is more relevant to what you want with the comet, because you want to stack to remove noise but leave the main subject apparently well aligned) I have recently started using Sequator. I have found the results to be very good, and it's free software. The interface isn't the most intuitive, so I recommend viewing a couple of the "how-to" videos on YouTube. Those got me started pretty well. You can stack images and it will align them; you can also tell the software to mask off static areas (foreground details) that you don't want to end up blurred. Works very well.

Hope this helps - please show us your results!

Ed

[rdenney]

Cool, thanks. Don’t know what I have yet beyond “yup, that’s a comet”, and the show isn’t over yet—a better night may yet happen. But at least I’m not empty-handed.

Rick “glad it has switched to the evening sky” Denney

[Ed Hurst]

This time, Mona Vale ocean pool.

645Z with 120mmA lens:
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And now with 55mm DFA lens

[mikeSF]

This time, Mona Vale ocean pool.

645Z with 120mmA lens:
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And now with 55mm DFA lens

Love these beautiful dramatic skies, Ed. keep them coming.