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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
08-21-2017, 12:51 PM
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I am in Salem, Oregon today.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
08-21-2017, 11:34 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
03-01-2017, 05:19 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
12-15-2016, 07:06 PM
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Just to see how it would look, I put my Rokinon 8mm fisheye on the K-1 and took it out to the front yard. The lens was pointed straight up and there were a couple of strong light sources in the frame including the full moon and the street light across the street that is my nemesis when it comes to night time sky photography. In the first frame of the first bracket there were some odd and unexplained light streaks. I have no idea what caused them or why they would be in only the first image of the 6 total frames I shot. I did nothing deliberate to cause them and I had no source of light when I released the shutter by IR Remote.
 K_1P4803.jpg by David Kight, on Flickr
K-1, Rokinon 8mm f3.5 Fisheye
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
12-14-2016, 05:14 AM
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I too did a moon shot; it's a little different...
 K_1P4795.jpg by David Kight, on Flickr
K-1, HD Pentax-D FA 28-105mm f3.5-5.6 ED DC WR
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
10-25-2016, 06:16 PM
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I took my cousin's husband out to the Superstition Wilderness this past weekend. This is one of my shots of the sunrise.
 K_1P3878.jpg by David Kight, on Flickr
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
10-03-2016, 11:22 AM
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This one from a few days ago with the late afternoon light on the mountain and reflection in the river.
 K_1P3176.jpg by David Kight, on Flickr
This is a water sculpture on a street corner in Old Town Gilbert. The granite sphere is suspended by the force of the water coming up out of the base. Periodically water comes out of the overhead spout and falls onto the rotating sphere.
 K_1P3291.jpg by David Kight, on Flickr
Rainstorms in the Sunset
 K_1P3144.jpg by David Kight, on Flickr
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
08-26-2016, 05:44 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
08-14-2016, 07:02 AM
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I used it once attempting to shoot the Milky Way and the stars came out sharp enough but there were a few clouds about and they took on an odd rippled look. It's certainly a useful feature, but it's not a magic bullet. It does better with stars at high angles and not so well as you get closer to the horizon. With wide angle shots you'll often get sharp stars in the upper frame while you get trails near the horizon.
It's more work and I haven't mastered it yet, but I've seen the best results with multiple short exposures and stacking software. Deep Sky Stacker is very popular but it's not easy to use. StarStax gets spectacular results but it won't accept raw files so you have to either use jpegs out of the camera or export to tiff. There are others but I'm not serious enough about it to pay for them.
The absolute best tool for wide angle night sky photography is an inky black dark sky. The place I usually go is about 25 miles out and it still suffers some from the urban light of Phoenix. I probably need to go another 25 miles to get truly dark skies.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
08-13-2016, 06:35 PM
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Nice work. At 14mm you could have used a 30 second exposure with little or no deformation of the stars. Astrotracer is very helpful but while it would hold the stars steady it would smear out the meteor streaks. They may be fast enough that it wouldn't matter but I didn't want to risk it, but 30 seconds is well within the rule of 500 ( Maximum Exposure = 500/(focal length x crop factor)).
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
08-12-2016, 02:18 PM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
08-10-2016, 08:29 AM
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Thanks fs, I'm glad you like it. I'm also glad I took another look at it. I think I'm going to print it at about 16x20 and put it on my wall. :)
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
08-09-2016, 05:33 PM
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I was up in Oregon a few weeks ago. I took this shot on a gray, dreary day in Astoria, Oregon. The Astoria-Megler Bridge spans the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington. It was originally shot in Color and I didn't care a lot for it; in Black and White it's a much better image I think.
 IMGP0213.jpg by David Kight, on Flickr
K-1, HD Pentax-D FA 28-105mm f3.5-5.6 ED DC WR
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
08-06-2016, 11:07 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-29-2016, 06:44 AM
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St. Johns Bridge, Portland Oregon. Also posted in the Single in June Thread
 IMGP0254.jpg by David Kight, on Flickr
K-1, HD Pentax-D FA 28-105mm f3.5 5.6 ED DC WR
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-19-2016, 11:49 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-18-2016, 06:10 PM
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The air was unusually still this morning so I decided to try pixel shift on one of my roses...
 IMGP0077.jpg by David Kight, on Flickr
K-1, HD Pentax-D FA 28-105mm f3.5-5.6 ED DC WR
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-25-2016, 04:01 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
05-20-2016, 12:58 PM
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