Nature Photography

[The Welch Chickens]

Had clear skies and no moon last night. I was finally able to shoot the flame and horsehead nebula again. This is a stack of 121 60 second exposures. Next time I am going to try and get 3 hours of exposure time to really bring out the finer details....


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Here is a couple I shot in Oct. This is the Pleiades star cluster (commonly called the seven sisters)....


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And this was another try at the Orion Nebulae....


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Fantastic photos. Your photography always amazes me; I love space!

 

[Yard Farmer]

A few from this afternoon....


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Md, how do you get such dark backgrounds?

 

[mdees88]

These are awesome pictures!

Fantastic photos. Your photography always amazes me; I love space!

Thank you both!

I find space fascinating too. Especially the vastness of space. Just go outside on a clear night and look at all the stars. Then think about long it would take you to get the closest one (besides our sun). If you could ride on the fastest man-made object in human history (a space probe going 400,000mph) it would take you around 7000 years to get to the CLOSEST star, which you can clearly see with your naked eye. How crazy is that?

Even the images we take are amazing to think about. Look at the bright star above the flame nebula.

That star is Alnitak. It is 1,260 light years from earth. This means the light emitted from that star spent the last 1,260 years traveling through the vastness of space before it reached the sensor of my camera. This means the image I just took is not what it looks like today, it is what it looked like 1260 years ago. Fascinating....

 

[mdees88]

Md, how do you get such dark backgrounds?

I did this by using a flash and a diffuser. A flash will add light to things close to the camera. The further away the background is, the darker it will be. The intensity of the flash matters too. The brighter the flash, the darker the background will be, typically. I also brighten and darken different areas in lightroom but the flash did most of the work in these.

 

[azurbanclucker]

I find space fascinating too.

Remind me to show you some finds from my box-o-space stuff. My Godfather collected all kinds of space artricles and memorabilia from Mercury up through the early parts of the shuttle program when he passed. I have a steamer trunk full of cool stuff.

 

[mdees88]

Remind me to show you some finds from my box-o-space stuff. My Godfather collected all kinds of space artricles and memorabilia from Mercury up through the early parts of the shuttle program when he passed. I have a steamer trunk full of cool stuff.

That's awesome . I wish I lived closer to Cape Canaveral or South Padre Island. I would LOVE to photograph some SpaceX launches....

 

[azurbanclucker]

That's awesome . I wish I lived closer to Cape Canaveral or South Padre Island. I would LOVE to photograph some SpaceX launches....

We occasionally get some atmospheric stuff from sunset shots at Vandenberg (~ 550 miles). This was a Falcon 9 on my cell phone.

 

[The Welch Chickens]

Thank you both!

I find space fascinating too. Especially the vastness of space. Just go outside on a clear night and look at all the stars. Then think about long it would take you to get the closest one (besides our sun). If you could ride on the fastest man-made object in human history (a space probe going 400,000mph) it would take you around 7000 years to get to the CLOSEST star, which you can clearly see with your naked eye. How crazy is that?

Even the images we take are amazing to think about. Look at the bright star above the flame nebula.

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That star is Alnitak. It is 1,260 light years from earth. This means the light emitted from that star spent the last 1,260 years traveling through the vastness of space before it reached the sensor of my camera. This means the image I just took is not what it looks like today, it is what it looked like 1260 years ago. Fascinating....

Space is incredible. It reflects on how incredible our God who created it is, too

Fantastic photos!

 

[The Welch Chickens]

We occasionally get some atmospheric stuff from sunset shots at Vandenberg (~ 550 miles). This was a Falcon 9 on my cell phone.

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Neat!

 

[azurbanclucker]

Wigeons are a lot more skittish than the normal mallards we have around here

But the green heron didn't seem to care that I took pics while he had breakfast. Fresh largemouth fry, anyone?