[Theme] Night sky shots

[armando_m]

Night shots, just not as long as the star trails

Last night  the sky was -  finally -  clear,  a friend an I drove a few kms away from the city

[ColinM]

Lovely scenes Armando.

What equipment & settings did you use?

[Jakov Minić]

Yes Armando, I want to hear everything to the tiniest detail.
What, where, when, why, how...

[armando_m]

This were taken near the town of Amatitan, 50km north of Guadalajara Mexico , 10km south of Tequila

The mountain to the west is called volcan de tequila

25seconds f2.8 iso3200 D800 Sigma15mm fisheye
you can see it has lots of coma

pp in lr and ps, while the milky way was visible high in the sky, near the horizon it needed lots of contrast, clarity and curves adjustment

thanks for commenting

[Akira]

Armando, I just envy you being able to see such a beautiful starry sky in such a vicinity of the city you live!

[armando_m]

Armando, I just envy you being able to see such a beautiful starry sky in such a vicinity of the city you live!

Akira,

Thanks for commenting

I sent you a message on flickr about a photographer in Japan that does a lot of night shooting, obviously not done in big cities, but shows it is possible and he often includes location info on his shots.

Cheers

[Akira]

Armando, thanks for the message and info.  I'm following him now.  But, as you say, he seems to have to drive away from the cities.

Actually, the "live composite" function in my new Olympus E-M5 may enable me to shoot at least the star trails here in Tokyo without blowing out the sky.  I will try when the clouds go away.

[Bernard Delley]

a 50% jpg drawn from D800 NEF at 15mm f/2.8 30s  ISO 2000 +0.8corr, no BF subtracted, minor PP.

[Jakov Minić]

Bernard, I really like the orange glow in the trees!

[armando_m]

a 50% jpg drawn from D800 NEF at 15mm f/2.8 30s  ISO 2000 +0.8corr, no BF subtracted, minor PP.

Very nice Bernard, a fairly dark location ?

[Bernard Delley]

Thanks for the kudos!
Scuol is only 5km off Switzerlands darkest sky location, but is three notches up, about a factor of three in sky background. The trees are illuminated by the town lights of Scuol. I took 'shelter' in a dark bend of the old valley road. The AFS 14-24 f/2.8  tends to produce flares when an uncovered street light hits the glass even when 100 m away when going for night sky.

[Peter Connan]

Thunderstorm in the distance

[Bjørn Rørslett]

Night Sky. SA version with Fisheye-Nikkor 8 mm f/2.8.

[armando_m]

very nice, there is plenty to see in your shot Peter

[armando_m]

Bjørn ,

what is the red dancing phantom?