Nature Photography

[azurbanclucker]

 

[casportpony]

Beautiful! Is it still storming?

 

[casportpony]

I can't believe I haven't shared any photos here before.

This is from today. One of our cats caught this Western Kingbird chick; I rescued it before it was harmed. I took a few photos before bringing it back to its parents.

Glad you were able to save it.

 

[casportpony]

A nice lush mound of Bazzania Trilobata, a species of liverwort, with a nice array of mushrooms. Unsure on species

Young Hygrocybe Coccinea, scarlet waxcaps.

Xylaria Polymorpha, Dead man's fingers.

This unfortunate caterpillar, still alive, clinging to moss as Cordyceps takes over and erupts from it.

More scarlet waxcaps.

One more. I'm not into mycology, I just like pictures of interesting things....

Nice photos!

 

[azurbanclucker]

Beautiful! Is it still storming?

We didn't get anything here but wind until overnight. It's been a light drizzle for a few hours, but that's it.

 

[casportpony]

We didn't get anything here but wind until overnight. It's been a light drizzle for a few hours, but that's it.

We got clouds, heat, & humidty.

 

[mdees88]

Took this a couple hours ago. Still new to astrophotography. Many growing pains, but working through them, lol.

 

[casportpony]

Took this a couple hours ago. Still new to astrophotography. Many growing pains, but working through them, lol.

Beautiful!

 

[mdees88]

Been playing around with some astrophotography lately. I don't have a telescope, so I have just been shooting with my camera lenses. I don't have a star tracker either so I'm just taking short exposures off my tripod.

Not much to look at, but everyone has to start somewhere right? LOL. This was my first ever image of the orion nebula from back in 2017...

This was a very slightly improved image from 2018...

These were just single images and I have since learned that you need to take multiple images and stack then together to get the best results.

I just did my first image stack last night of the andromeda galaxy. I only stacked 15 frames but it turned out way better than a single image. I'm going to try and stack a couple hundred tonight if the skies are clear.

I just ordered a star tracker which will allow me to take long exposures of these objects. My results should improve tremendously in another couple weeks....

 

[azurbanclucker]

Been playing around with some astrophotography lately. I don't have a telescope, so I have just been shooting with my camera lenses. I don't have a star tracker either so I'm just taking short exposures off my tripod.

Not much to look at, but everyone has to start somewhere right? LOL. This was my first ever image of the orion nebula from back in 2017...

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This was a very slightly improved image from 2018...

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These were just single images and I have since learned that you need to take multiple images and stack then together to get the best results.

I just did my first image stack last night of the andromeda galaxy. I only stacked 15 frames but it turned out way better than a single image. I'm going to try and stack a couple hundred tonight if the skies are clear.

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I just ordered a star tracker which will allow me to take long exposures of these objects. My results should improve tremendously in another couple weeks....

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.