Gazing into eternity

Hmm, this is more difficult than I had imagined. To catch the trails you need a long long exposure. This one was 40 minutes. I tried f8 and 100 ISO. It is too light to my liking. I would have liked more trails and longer ones, but I myself am out of batteries at the moment and will hit my deck real soon:)
I'll try again and let you know. Hey first try, just wanted to share the wild wild eternety with you

comments (10)

Ludo Sak

Lion

Any hints here? Amazing isn't it that in just 30 minutes the earth rotation shows so clearly. I'll try again and leave the lens open for an hour or two. Gazing continues:) Posted 13 years ago, modified 13 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  Nice experiment, Ludo. Personally, I'd see its too dark, not too light. I wonder if you shouldn't raise that ISO by a lot. But then again, I've never tried this myself so I'm not sure. I can recommend this site though for difficult questions like this:
  
  http://photo.stackexchange.com/?as=1
  
  It's probably one of the best Q & A sites for photographers and maybe somebody has the same question there. If not, you can ask a new one and you sure will get high quality answers. Posted 13 years ago
2. 1. Ludo Sak
    
    Lion
    
    Thanks Ferdy, I will have a look! Tsja, I expected an intense black sky with crystalwhite trails in it, but with a lens and ISO wide open it sees so much more. I darkened it in LightRoom a lot, maybe I overdid it:) You'll definitely hear more on this one.
    I just bought a Hahnel Giga T Pro (v1) offered with a very interesting discount (v2 is out now). Interesting little bugger, so I'll be playing with time lapse and exposure a lot more:) Posted 13 years ago
  2. 1. Ferdy Christant
      
      Lion
      
      I had to look up that this concerns a remote :) Good luck with your new toy, and please do share your lessons. Posted 13 years ago
    2. 1. Ludo Sak
        
        Lion
        
        Oops, I forgot to mention that. It is one of the better equipped remotes on the market, for an excellent value for money ( considering the humongous amounts Canon remotes cost). It works on 2.4Ghz freq, so no infrared or antenna problems. I'll post my newly to be found knowledge in a few weeks. Posted 13 years ago, modified 13 years ago
3. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  This guy looks like a specialist:
  
  https://plus.google.com/107004843925454095805/posts
  
  It looks like you haven't picked the easiest niche: 2 hours of exposure, stacked photos, heavy post processing.... Posted 13 years ago

Ludo Sak

Lion

Thanks Ferdy! I already tried 2h exposures and that is a looonnnggg time indeed:) Stacking is needed I guess to improve the blackness in the picture, because after two hours I assure you it is almost like in daylight. And the images look like having a lot of high iso noise, but are invisible stars to the human eye, visible only by longer exposure. What a challenge indeed:) I'll look at the link right now. What have I gotten myself into:) Posted 13 years ago

DragonC

Musk Oxen

And this is why I like CHDK. It allows you to play with all these settings in a nice easy format. http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/UBASIC/Scripts:Long_Exposure_Intervalometer Posted 13 years ago

Ludo Sak

Lion

After another shot I noticed that last time without a flashlight (this picture) I focussed to all close by instead of all infinity. That does not work for the galaxy, that's why this one is soo fuzzy:) Posted 13 years ago

Ludo Sak

Lion

Thanks Ferdy, DragonC,
I'll look into it! There is a lot to learn before I trust the Dark Force! Posted 13 years ago, modified 13 years ago