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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
6 Days Ago
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I was out of the path of totality on the Connecticut shoreline, and clouds covered the sun during the moon's maximum coverage of 91.5%, so I put together this composite featuring images taken every five minutes, along with a screen grab from NASA TV to assuage my missing out of the real celestial show. The moon is in every image but the first. Maybe I'll do better in 2044.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-18-2024, 02:07 PM
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The other night, the moon was supposed to be near the Pleiades once again--but the moon was so bright, I couldn't even see the star cluster. Your photograph solves this problem by juxtaposing a dim moon alongside the Pleiades. Nicely done (or should I say Ładnie wykonane?).
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-22-2023, 11:18 AM
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I couldn't resist a picture of the Super Blue Moon (supposedly the last until 2037) on August 30. Since low-lying clouds made it a Super Blue Smudge when it rose earlier that evening--thus thwarting any attempts to juxtapose the lunar disc alongside any local landmarks on the horizon--I decided to add an earlier picture of the sun to give a sense of how the moon appeared somewhat larger than usual.
The difference is subtle, but if you look closely, you can see that the moon had a definite size advantage tonight (most other times, the sun and the moon are closer in apparent size--and sometimes the moon appears smaller than the sun, which is most dramatically apparent during annular solar eclipses).
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
05-27-2023, 01:22 PM
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The Pentax K-5 and the Nikon D5100 share closely-related sensors manufactured by Sony, and I know through personal experience that the K-5 can produce sharp pictures (at least as sharp as 16.3 megapixels with an anti-aliasing filter will allow). Let's see your pictures to try to diagnose the problem.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-21-2023, 10:32 AM
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Good juxtaposition of the crescent moon and the water.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
12-26-2022, 02:24 PM
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For the first time in 10 years, our formal living room--which also serves as my home office--has been cleared of dozens of storage bins containing inventory for my wife's arts and crafts supply business. I decided to go overboard with the holiday decorating, partly to be in the running for my company's home office decorating contest, but mostly to fill this space with as much seasonal festiveness as possible. There are 800 LED bulbs alone in the largest tree on the right!
I assembled this panorama by photographing eight overlapping images while panning my camera on a tripod, then merging the images in Adobe Photoshop CS4 and making minor tweaks to the exposure of the overall image.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-12-2022, 07:46 AM
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My record of the total lunar eclipse on November 8, 2022. The moon set while it was still in totality.
Taken with a Pentax K-5 and a HD Pentax-DA 55-300mm F4-5.8 ED WR lens at 300 mm.
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Forum: Winners' Showcase
10-08-2022, 01:38 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
10-08-2022, 01:38 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
10-08-2022, 01:37 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
10-08-2022, 01:35 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-09-2022, 07:03 PM
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Now I know what we were waiting for the last three months.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
12-24-2021, 06:34 PM
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My submission for Contest #184: the town green in Branford, CT. Please see attachment at this URL:  |
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-12-2021, 10:28 AM
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The dot above the tree is the planet Jupiter, in case anyone's wondering.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-11-2021, 12:57 PM
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
12-11-2021, 12:53 PM
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I hope you enjoy my picture of the town green in Branford, Connecticut.
I have been using a Pentax K-5 for over nine years, and have obtained a fair number of good images out of it. However, as I push my photography further, I am finding myself bumping into the limitations of what a camera released in 2010 can do. A Pentax K-70 would allow me to do the following:
- The K-70's increased sensor resolution would give me more flexibility with cropping, as when photographing the moon and other distant subjects.
- The K-70's enhanced high ISO performance would reduce the noise that hampers my attempts at astrophotography.
- The K-70's tilting LCD screen would make using the camera easier when photographing subjects near ground level, which I do fairly often in landscape photography.
- The K-70's pixel shift feature would allow for more detailed photographs of static objects, which would be useful when I am called upon to take large group photographs.
- The K-70's removal of an anti-aliasing filter would allow for sharper photographs of almost all subjects, which would also be useful when I am called upon to take large group photographs.
- The K-70's video functionality seems like less of an afterthought than that in the K-5; I might actually use it in this camera instead of having to reach for my smartphone.
- The K-70's built-in Astrotracer would relieve me of having to worry about a separate accessory.
I look forward to working with a camera that was designed in the second decade of the 21st century, instead of the first.
Thank you for your consideration.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
10-08-2021, 12:00 PM
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The second link provided me with an explanation of what we thought were hot pixels earlier in this discussion. I captured a bunch of these in a curved line across the frame, and used PhotoShop's healing spot tool to edit them out. However, zooming in revealed that these points were several pixels across, with bright centers and dimmer borders--not exactly what one would expect from a hot pixel. The actual explanation: they're geosynchronous satellites, which are always centered over the same spot on the Earth's surface. As a result, they stay put no matter how long the exposure!
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
10-07-2021, 07:34 PM
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Airplanes usually have the blinking lights, but you might have captured a satellite.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
10-06-2021, 08:16 PM
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Giving it a quick try from my front yard with my Pentax K-5 on a tripod. 1150 seconds, f3.5, ISO 200. A little manipulation in PhotoShop to darken everything somewhat to bring out the stars more; the JPEG generated by the camera looks like a daylight scene. I also captured at least two airplanes flying by.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
10-04-2021, 10:17 AM
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The Orion Nebula is one of the nebulas that is a massive region of star formation; in fact, it's the closest big one to Earth. Of course, "close" is roughly 1,300 light years away, where a light year is 6 trillion miles.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
10-03-2021, 12:20 PM
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Actually, the bright spot is the planet Jupiter, which is considerably brighter than the Orion Nebula. You can tell that this isn't Orion because there's no sign of Betelgeuse and Rigel, which are two of the brighter stars in the sky. Jupiter is in Capricorn these days, along with Saturn at the opposite end of the constellation.
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Forum: Troubleshooting and Beginner Help
09-05-2021, 11:54 AM
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I also started out with an ME Super, and then switched to a Super Program to get the TTL flash metering and shutter priority automation. They served me well for many years.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
09-05-2021, 11:49 AM
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Now I'm realizing that I'm falling behind with only five Pentax bodies: K-5, K-x (actually my wife's camera, but I'm the only one who uses it these days), MZ-S, Super Program, and ME Super. Time to start planning my next camera purchase!
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Forum: Sold Items
09-01-2021, 08:08 AM
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I'm trying to identify the tartan. It certainly isn't Clan Campbell, but which clan is it?
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Forum: Pentax Forums Giveaways
05-10-2021, 09:37 AM
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My second entry, which doubles my chances!
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