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Official Post Your DSLR Still Photography Thread

Tom said:
Emanuel, you're not one of these "gang" members are you? :yikes:
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ehehehehe someone will love it.. do not dare to meet the female members of the gang or say goodbye to your deserts.. :drool5:
 
Malick will disown you for that. :)

Have you tried out a little artificial lighting of your own? Looks like a little light goes a very long way with your settings.
 
Roberto Lequeux said:
Malick will disown you for that. :)

Have you tried out a little artificial lighting of your own? Looks like a little light goes a very long way with your settings.
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Well typically, with a scene like this, the moon would be front-lighting the rocks in the foreground. Because of the time of month, the sun did not go down until the moon was almost completely backlighting the rocks. Typically the moon is perfect for balancing the lighting on a shot like this. Had I stayed at Valley of Fire for another week, the moon would have been perfect.

Also, this frame was part of a 6-hour timelapse dolly shot, so providing light for the whole area would be really difficult and possibly inconsistent.

And like you said, Malick would probably fire me as head of his fan club. :hand:
 
Maybe 1x1 Lite Pannels and a small Honda quiet generator would do it? It really seems you need so little light. Of course it would be a big investment though with those lite panels costing so much still. Not that you would want to do it to begin with, but it is some interesting stuff working with such low light levels.

Hope your project is close to being finished.
 
some of my best work.....

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Maybe I will give it a try one of these days. Thanks for the suggestion, Roberto. It would have to be for a small rock arch or something like that. I have a 120-amp-hour battery that could probably power some LEDs or some very simple lights all night against completely dark skies and the milky way, or provide at least some fill on moonlit foreground objects.

That guy I mentioned, Wally Pacholka, he uses fill lights on a lot of his astro landscape shots. But of course those are just single shots.

Speaking of Wally, when I met him he had a huge, gigantic print of this Hawaii panoramic of the Milky Way (below) with him, and my jaw hit the floor when I saw it up close:

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(((Photo by Wally Pacholka)))
 
Tom said:
And like you said, Malick would probably fire me as head of his fan club. :hand:
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lol head of what fanboys club?.. :couch:
 
Yea I looked at his stuff once you posted the link. Some gorgeous stuff with the observatories. Today I was messing around over at Zuma beach and noticed the house that has it's own dome... I hate that guy. :)

How on earth does he get such milky way shots? High sensitivity I suppose... but how? What is the technique to get SO much?!
 
I believe that this particular shot from Hawaii was a stack and a pano. With stacks, I think the photog takes a series of 5-sec shots and stacks them. i don't know how to do it myself. it's mainly a still technique. i'm not sure if it could be used for a video.

i'm going to have lunch with wally soon so i will ask him about that possibility! can you imagine seeing a picture like that, but moving!?! :yikes:
 
Tom said:
i'm going to have lunch with wally soon so i will ask him about that possibility! can you imagine seeing a picture like that, but moving!?!
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on a 4k projector... :head_explode: :head_explode: :head_explode: :head_explode: the 4 smiley limit makes it impossible for me to express my sentiment without spending a lot of time writing something worthy

So stacking is taking the same picture over and over to get rid of noise right? But how do you do that without running into the same problems as long exposures with the motion of the Earth? That is what I mean, it seems you are limited by sensitivity on one side and exposure times on the other when you have stuff in the foreground. Unless you are making a composite, but Malick would not approve.
 
Yes, stacking essentially requires comping, I think.

And yes, even Malick did use some sky comping in The Thin Red Line! It comes during a scene where Nolte is talking about reading Homer at West Point, and the "rosy fingered dawn." Malick comped in a rosy colored sunrise.

In terms of stacking though, I don't think it's needed. The 5D2 is so fast at ISO 3200 that you can forget about stacking, I think. Shooting, for example, on the Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 L would probably produce similar Milky Way results to what Wally shot above there.
 
Tom said:
In terms of stacking though, I don't think it's needed. The 5D2 is so fast at ISO 3200 that you can forget about stacking, I think. Shooting, for example, on the Canon EF 50mm f/1.2 L would probably produce similar Milky Way results to what Wally shot above there.
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Can't be man! That is too cool. What's holding you back then? Dolly the crap out of that man! I can see a dolly move with a fast telephoto that keeps something like a tall cactus with a flower in the foreground. First night on a wide angle, then tighter the night after... man... you are having some fun out there.

I love night stuff... just love it... that and snow. I guess I love things that look real yet make you feel like you are in a whole new planet.
 
I would cheat and take a long exposure of just the sky with a computer drive tracking the stars so there is no movement. Then shoot the land scape at the correct night exposure. Lay the second image over the top. There is no way in my mind to get that kind of detail in the background with out doing a long exposure. In his shots there is no star movement. Beyound that his pictures are out of this world. Thanks for the link. Also Tom I been checking out your stuff. I really like the kind of work you are doing. Great job!!!

Best Wishes

PS I am moving out of Alaska into the Northwest. Hope to run into a few of you sometime
 
Impagliazzo said:
I have the black man close up saved here on my PC as reference for quite some time now.

(Found them on Coollights.biz)

It's great how the skin details are enhanced...

Was the wide aspect because of cropping or did you shot with a RED One or something?

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Cropping was done for billboard layout.... project was for a hospital.

I shot these with a hassy and phaseone h20 back which I've since sold and now shoot stills with a couple of 5d mark 2 cameras.... the 5d mark 2 really does some nice images for the money.
 
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