The amazing and cool photo thread

[W3H5]

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50% of women in this photo are Sharleen Spiteri.

 

[Dolph Drago]

Beautiful shelf cloud. I'll be saving this one.

 

[gnomefromnome]

From Facebook-

US National Weather Service Fairbanks Alaska

Active weather again today across the Fairbanks area. In addition to the thunderstorms, one of our forecasters captured this impressive photo of a smokenado from the wildfire just south of town! #akwx

 

[Liquid]

 

[CodeRedR51]

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Comet NEOWISE C/2020 F3 From Big Pine, California by RS2Photography


Missed Rimshot... Comet NEOWISE Over a NRAO Radio Telescope by RS2Photography


NEOWISE on Skyline by Alan

 

[TexRex]

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I'll need to keep this in my back pocket in case someone asks me to describe communism with a single image.

 

[PeterJB]

Comet NEOWISE C/2020 F3 From Big Pine, California by RS2Photography


Missed Rimshot... Comet NEOWISE Over a NRAO Radio Telescope by RS2Photography


NEOWISE on Skyline by Alan

I really don't understand how people get shots like this with street lighting on the ground and what looks like daylight in the first image. You can barely see the comet with the naked eye even in the darkest skies.

 

[Barra333]

I really don't understand how people get shots like this with street lighting on the ground and what looks like daylight in the first image. You can barely see the comet with the naked eye even in the darkest skies.

Good camera and/or very long exposure

 

[MatskiMonk]

I really don't understand how people get shots like this with street lighting on the ground and what looks like daylight in the first image. You can barely see the comet with the naked eye even in the darkest skies.

Big aperture, long exposure, high ISO... maybe some filters, and possibly a bit of post.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

I really don't understand how people get shots like this with street lighting on the ground and what looks like daylight in the first image. You can barely see the comet with the naked eye even in the darkest skies.

Each link has information the each picture on flickr. The first one was taken in the early morning. 4:49 is the time on the EXIF data assuming that's right. First light was at 5:11 that day. It probably just looks a bit brighter than it actually was.

 

[Swagger897]

You can spot a long exposure image easily by looking at the stars. The second picture shows the effects of this by the stars leaving trails as if they were stretched. Not so much with the other two.

I typically like to do longer exposure over higher iso because removing noise from an image can deteriorate the overall quality. There are also programs out there that can reduce, elongate, and stitch together star trails in post while the camera processes an image before opening the shutter again for the next.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

For anyone interested in more comet shots, there's a group on Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/groups/14710247@N20

There are some great photos. Like the guy with the tennis racket:

Neowise Service by Evgeni Tcherkasski, on Flickr

And another one over a radar thingamabob, but in Sardinia

Neowise Comet in Sardinia by Ivan Pedretti, on Flickr

 

[ProjectWHaT]

I was able to get my own photos of the comet too, although they're definitely not as interesting as those ones

 

[TexRex]

There are some great photos. Like the guy with the tennis racket:

Neowise Service by Evgeni Tcherkasski, on Flickr

Missed opportunity. I'd have been standing "under" it in sweatpants, holding the waistband open in front.

 

[MatskiMonk]

It is interesting looking at the exif data for the 3 shots posted originally. One of things I noticed brings me to this...

Good camera

EF-S24 f2.8 STM lenses were used for these photos... first hit on eBay was £35. The Body was an EOS-80D, but something like a 60D would do as good a job, and they go from about £100 on eBay... a camera that gives you a decent number of settings is required, but it doesn't require big money to give it a go.

It's also interesting to see that the one shot has 5 times the exposure, 50% extra ISO, and only down one F-stop, yet it's the much darker photo. "Alan" is all the way up at ISO 12800, but he's up at 70mm, rather than 24mm.

 

[Barra333]

It is interesting looking at the exif data for the 3 shots posted originally. One of things I noticed brings me to this...



EF-S24 f2.8 STM lenses were used for these photos... first hit on eBay was £35. The Body was an EOS-80D, but something like a 60D would do as good a job, and they go from about £100 on eBay... a camera that gives you a decent number of settings is required, but it doesn't require big money to give it a go.

It's also interesting to see that the one shot has 5 times the exposure, 50% extra ISO, and only down one F-stop, yet it's the much darker photo. "Alan" is all the way up at ISO 12800, but he's up at 70mm, rather than 24mm.

As a non-photographer, my definition of good is pretty much anything more than a cell phone or a point-and-shoot. Having said that, I did not realise how cheaply a serviceable DSLR could be obtained these days.

 

[Swagger897]

It is interesting looking at the exif data for the 3 shots posted originally. One of things I noticed brings me to this...



EF-S24 f2.8 STM lenses were used for these photos... first hit on eBay was £35. The Body was an EOS-80D, but something like a 60D would do as good a job, and they go from about £100 on eBay... a camera that gives you a decent number of settings is required, but it doesn't require big money to give it a go.

It's also interesting to see that the one shot has 5 times the exposure, 50% extra ISO, and only down one F-stop, yet it's the much darker photo. "Alan" is all the way up at ISO 12800, but he's up at 70mm, rather than 24mm.

Look up exposure to the right. It’s a good method when in highly light polluted areas. I’ve tried it a few times and works good but gives it a bit of an unnatural look in the end.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Look up exposure to the right. It’s a good method when in highly light polluted areas. I’ve tried it a few times and works good but gives it a bit of an unnatural look in the end.

Interesting, hadn't heard of that, thanks.

 

[gnomefromnome]

From a Facebook post

"My husband's morning walk on the Potters Marsh boardwalk on July 23, 2020, and saw a sow and two cubs. The sow charged him but did not climb all the way up the pole."

 

[TRLWNC7396]

That takes some trust in your surroundings to not run!

 

[gnomefromnome]

Spoiler

not in Nome, but about 30 miles out of city limits

 

[polysmut]

Spoiler

That's a rubbish funny caption entry.

 

[Crash]

Spoiler

not in Nome, but about 30 miles out of city limits

So you're saying that it's actually Nomewhere to be found in the city?

 

[Touring Mars]

Thomas & Friends: The Wilderness Years

 

[DUBer]

 

[HaydenFan69]

Caught this real quick of a shadow.

 

[TheCracker]

View attachment 950463 Caught this real quick of a shadow.

Is that The Mekon?

 

[HaydenFan69]

Is that The Mekon?

No alien pics. The gummermint is supposed to give us those soon.

Just a shadow of a hummingbird on the little feeder. Though, they are getting pretty territorial right now and chasing each other off like a game of king of the hill.

 

[gnomefromnome]

Is that a cabin built on the side of the bluff and on a boulder and on a beach? Why, yes. Yes is it.
(Spotted 4 miles up Captain Cook - Nikiski, Alaska)