Nature Photography

[mdees88]

Nice. What are you stacking with? I've played with deep sky stacker and sequator. I find for my shots I prefer sequator, because DSS struggles a bit with landscape stacking. DSS is better for full sky and planeteary imaging though.

DSS. I'm primarily going to be stacking deep sky objects without any landscapes but I'll keep that in mind about sequator if I want to stack some milky way shots.

I guess I'm finally going to learn my way around photoshop. Most all the astro youtubers are editing the stacked images in PS with many curves and levels adjustments.

I'm mainly wanting to photograph nebulae and some galaxies. I think my current lenses will be decent enough for this.

I have taken a few images of some planets but I really need 3x the focal length to get decent shots of them.

This is what I have of Saturn and Jupiter with its moons....

I tried taking a video of saturn, running it through PIPP (planetary imaging pre processing) and autostakkert. PIPP worked but autostakkert couldn't detect enough detail to stack my images. I think it's just too small. I'm at an effective 1100mm focal length. I tried running images of saturn through DSS but it didn't work either.

 

[mdees88]

Here is a 240-image stack and PS edit by someone that doesn't have a clue what he is doing, lol....

 

[azurbanclucker]

Here is a 240 image stack and PS edit from someone that doesn't have a clue what he is doing, lol....

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What were you using to capture this (equipment) and what was the exposure time on your frames?

 

[mdees88]

What were you using to capture this (equipment) and what was the exposure time on your frames?

This was my R7 crop body and an RF 100mm F2.8 lens. Exposure was 2 seconds at f2.8 ISO 6400. I took 300 shots of andromeda (light frames), then took 50 darks, 50 flats, 50 biases and plugged them all into DSS. I let DSS pick the best 80% to stack.

The final image is super dark but a few levels adjustments in PS brings it back. I edited that in about 20 minutes. Got to watch a bunch of PS editing videos now to get better at it.

I saw people on YT getting very good results with kit lenses too shooting at f5.6.

 

[Yard Farmer]

 

[casportpony]

Very pretty! Where is that?

 

[Yard Farmer]

Very pretty! Where is that?

A little south from me, actually.
(In Utah.)

 

[casportpony]

A little south from me, actually.
(In Utah.)

It's really pretty. It reminds me of an area in North East California that we drove through years ago.

 

[Yard Farmer]

It's really pretty. It reminds me of an area in North East California that we drove through year ago.

Thank you!
Ooo, very cool. California is a pretty state, I've only been there once.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

Sunflowers this morning.