2009/1/8 Joseph McAllister <[email protected]>: > > On Jan 7, 2009, at 17:15 , David Savage wrote: >> <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Images/D700/Pin%20Pricks%20in%20Space.jpg> > > Great shot, Dave.
Thanks Joseph > So tell me, is that great structure for star gazers? I would love to have it > near me. Nah, it's an observation platform for looking at the town & islands off the coast. The beauty of Esperance though is there is so little light pollution you could almost use it for that. Mind you, drive for an hour or so & you'd be away from the worst of what light pollution. > Is 16 secs what you calculated would give you minimum streaking, and you set > the ISO to give that to you, or was it automatically set to 6400 ISO when > you gave it the time and aperture selection? I set the camera to ISO 6400 to give as short an exposure time as possible. I guesstimated the exposure time at 15 seconds for my first frame & I was bang on (FIG JAM :-). I also shot some 20-30 min. star trails exposures & for those I dialled the ISO down to 200. > And finally, is that your flash off to the left lighting the underside of > the structure? Not my flash, but a friends LED torch. She was using it to help focus, I liked the shadows, and quickly took this shot. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
