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Images => Themes, Portfolio Series, PaW, or PaM => Topic started by: armando_m on December 11, 2015, 20:28:34

Title: [Theme] Light stars anyone?
Post by: armando_m on December 11, 2015, 20:28:34
f/16

(https://armando-m.smugmug.com/Travel/Guadalajara-centro/i-NFP2VF3/0/X2/_DSC7294-Edit-X2.jpg)

Care to share any of your light star shots ?
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Post by: Chip Chipowski on December 11, 2015, 20:51:55
I like this thread idea, and I need to get out and capture more of these :)

Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 Type K
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Post by: Akira on December 11, 2015, 21:09:12
Such as this?  :)
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Post by: Jan Anne on December 12, 2015, 01:05:05
Great idea Armando!!!

Shot some sparklies while chilling and sipping Mojitos at the beach
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5508/9277334221_1ab5879cba_o.jpg)
D800E & a 35 year old Nikkor 50/1.8 Ai-S Japanese Pancake, Catalunya 2013
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Post by: Anirban Halder on December 12, 2015, 05:03:25
Great idea Armando!!!

Shot some sparklies while chilling and sipping Mojitos at the beach
Beautiful; beyond words. Lighting gives very mystic, trance feeling.
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Post by: armando_m on December 12, 2015, 14:56:11
Nice starts Jan , Akira and Chip
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Post by: armando_m on December 12, 2015, 14:57:06
I like this thread idea, and I need to get out and capture more of these :)

Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 Type K
Interesting rocket like buildings, where is this ?
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Post by: Chip Chipowski on December 12, 2015, 17:22:43
Armando - that building is the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR.  At first I did not really like the shape, but it has really grown on me over time.  I should start a thread on that building, it is a recurring subject for me :)
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Post by: Thomas G on December 13, 2015, 22:34:40
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Shot some sparklies while chilling and sipping Mojitos at the beach
Matching the colors with Water Melon Mojitos?   8)
I like the non-symmetry balancing. And the color schema.

already posted in a different place. Nice lights stars on board were as good as food and drinks  :D
Balancing the ship against the northern Atlantic ocean:
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7490/15914503382_312bdc026c_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qfiZpm)
onboard #5 - Northern Atlantic (https://flic.kr/p/qfiZpm) by lumofisk (https://www.flickr.com/photos/114702672@N04/), on Flickr
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Post by: Jan Anne on December 13, 2015, 22:42:47
Beautiful; beyond words. Lighting gives very mystic, trance feeling.
Thanks Anirban, personally I think it would be better with a little more room at the sides but the Mojitos thought differently at the time ;D
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Post by: Akira on December 13, 2015, 23:24:34
Shot some sparklies while chilling and sipping Mojitos at the beach
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5508/9277334221_1ab5879cba_o.jpg)
D800E & a 35 year old Nikkor 50/1.8 Ai-S Japanese Pancake, Catalunya 2013

Jan, this looks nicely stoned.  :D  I'm curious about the location.  Is this just a decoration on a sea shore, or does it have a serious Buddhistic meaning?

Nice starts Jan , Akira and Chip

Thanks, Armando.
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Post by: Jan Anne on December 13, 2015, 23:42:51
Jan, this looks nicely stoned.  :D  I'm curious about the location.  Is this just a decoration on a sea shore, or does it have a serious Buddhistic meaning?
Purely decorative at a beach club 30 clicks above Barcelona, a friend of mine lives there whom I visit usually a few times a year (though not this year somehow).

Btw, on the left side of the image you can see a fishing rod stuck in the sand, the light on top alerts the lazy fisherman something is taking off with the bait.
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Post by: Akira on December 14, 2015, 00:23:33
Ja, thanks for the details.  I like the taste of the decoration as well as that of your image.
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Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on December 14, 2015, 00:33:03
Light stars occur more frequently than one might imagine.

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Post by: Akira on December 14, 2015, 00:42:58
A light star can even become one of main motives...
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Post by: Tristin on December 14, 2015, 05:21:17
These are all gorgeous but, oh my . . . Akira and Bjorn!  I wish I had prints of those images!

Jan, love the scene.  Now I wish I had a monito! :P
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Post by: Akira on December 14, 2015, 12:25:08
These are all gorgeous but, oh my . . . Akira and Bjorn!  I wish I had prints of those images!

Thanks, Tristin.  Glad you like it!
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Post by: Merco_61 on December 24, 2015, 06:13:25
Bärbyleden north of Uppsala at night.
D700, 105/2.5 Ai, f/22, 13 seconds, ISO 100 (Lo 1).
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Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on December 24, 2015, 10:03:09
Same lens and f/22 setting. The endearing beauty of a Nordic summer and being able to enter the water without clothes.
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Post by: Mongo on December 24, 2015, 10:45:33
Mongo had missed these. Some really wonderful effects and results
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Post by: zuglufttier on December 24, 2015, 12:49:15
The 300/4.5 ED-IF makes some nice stars! The Walimex 85/1.4 not so much...
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Post by: rosko on December 24, 2015, 13:20:43
The Walimex 85/1.4 not so much...

I like how the smoke renders.  :)

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Post by: rosko on December 24, 2015, 13:28:28
Boomtown 2015, near Winchester, UK.

Df + 55mm f/1.2 AI

# @f/16;

# 400 ISO

# 5 sec.

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Post by: armando_m on December 24, 2015, 16:45:58
Very nice additions

Happy holidays to everyone
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Post by: Jakov Minić on December 24, 2015, 16:58:03
Francis, Boomtown is a true boom  8)
The wheel makes it special!
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Post by: Bruno Schroder on December 30, 2015, 10:23:43
This is absolutely no match for the artistic quality of the previous contributions but the ask is for light stars only :)
Cat's eyes under flash, found on a backup of a previous phone. I don't think smartphones have diaphragm blades so I guess the diffraction is caused by the slit iris, which would explain the 4 rays.
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Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on December 30, 2015, 12:10:46
For once, an interesting cat photo !!
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Post by: Bruno Schroder on December 30, 2015, 12:40:20
For once, an interesting cat photo !!
Looking at the position of the center of the pattern and thinking about it, it is probably possible to have 2 patterns per eye, at the high and low end of the iris, which would make it even more interesting :)
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Post by: Thomas G on December 31, 2015, 13:38:14
Laser eyes getting you in focus. Take cover!

This is one interesting cat photo so different from all the others.
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Post by: Chip Chipowski on December 31, 2015, 16:57:24
D300 w/ 70-300VR
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Post by: Bruno Schroder on January 02, 2016, 09:24:58
Thank you, Thomas
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Post by: Asle F on January 06, 2016, 19:16:42
After some days with cold, this little star came to view in the ice rose in the window.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1488/23918644430_9fdf94a946_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/CrBiFd)
Isroser (https://flic.kr/p/CrBiFd) by Asle Feten (https://www.flickr.com/photos/afoton/), on Flickr
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Post by: Jim Covello on March 11, 2017, 06:28:17
1. Sun star through teddy bear cholla. Tucson, Arizona. D800, AF-S 20/1.8G, 1/125s, f/16, ISO 100
2. (Not a sun star, but related!) If you are going to stick your camera into a cholla, these sorts of things happen.

Love the 20/1.8G. It excels at many things, including sun stars and up close. (The 28/1.8G is good for sun stars, too.)
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Post by: Jack Dahlgren on March 11, 2017, 06:44:49
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2555/3998538544_400c633355_b_d.jpg)
Stars and ghosts at NASA Ames