That's lovely!
Tripod, excellent idea. I need to invest in one of those.

Deep meditation in the middle of the street.


Enlightenment


Enlightenment part 2

They are normally clear, so clear that I can see the Andromeda Galaxy with the naked eye...




I been watching that comet, but no pictures..

CCD is the way to go for astrophotgraphy...

hey wolf thanks for the info on where to shoot animals, i prefer to use long lens' for animals as it gives the shot more of a wild feel and you get nicer blurred backgrounds with them too,

as for night photography high iso is great for catching the stars at a standstill, but ive always tried to get the trails of the stars as the earth moves, which can mean up to 4 hours of exposure time! which isnt practical with digital unless you like dead batterys and image noise from hell!!

ive never managed to get a shot like this ive been pleased with though, they either result in steamed up lens from dew, cameras battery running out about an hour into it and it locking up, broken cable releases, nasty city lights or clouds coming in and ruining the effect!! also i didnt have a tripod until a few months ago so i had to improvise with all kinds of stupid stuff!

so i gave up on that idea until im in a place with nice sky

Here's some stuff I took in downtown yesterday.

how do you add the thumbnail??

what I love about the digi-cam is the little movies I can take, then download them to photobucket and I can send my family the link and they can view it. I guess I'm old cause this makes me giddy. lol.

Star trails are only possible with film...It's hard to find a good day for it...

Your best bet is to center the camera on the star Polaris ( if you are in N. hemisphere). You will get the fastest and best star trails around that star.

In the UK its getting difficult to get any night shots longer than 15 minutes duration without sodium glow interfering. To record star-trails you'd need to invest in a suitable filter to get rid of the sodium glow effects.

They can get costly...Does anyone here have a solar telescope or filter?

heh yeh when i was doing star trails i didnt have a tripod (SMART!) lol so i had to improvise, meaning i have the crappest foreground like a bit of a tree, ill dig up some of the shots.

I have a scanner but its crappp and on another pc so ill just take photos of the photos hahaha.

Light Pollution!?

Trees n crap

Short Powercut

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High iso film

canada

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i wish i had a tripod when i was in canada, some great skies when we went camping.

Also saw some of the northern lights when i was there and TYPICAL Camera decided to run out of batteries

Found this random one too

Awww, too bad...Some of them are good though...like the ones with the trees...

Like I said, try around Polaris...that sucks to miss the northern lights...

yeh polaris is cool when it stays still.
ill have to fix my film cam and try it again.

do you have any of your pics to post frog?

This thread is beginning to go a little off topic. Would it be a good idea to start a new thread on astrophotography and let this thread get back to more general photography?

That's my fave!!!

Waspie, just my idea but since astrophotgraphy is photography, I think this could stay...If anyone wanted to revert back to general photography, they are welcome to...


Not with me right now, I'll get around to posting them...especially when I get my CCD camera to start working...again.

I'm quite happy to go with the flow and see what others think, although an astrophotography thread either here in the Hobbies and Interests subforum or in the Space & Astronomy forum might not be a bad idea and might encourage people with telescopes to share their pictures in the same way that this thread has with general photography.

[attachmentid=25707] Well I was swiming around and guess who I bumped into, Yes I found him Nemo and his dad.

That reminds me...Does anyone else take pictures while scuba diving? I would love to see those pictures. I only snorkel, and don't have an underwater casing..

Waspie, if you feel its better, feel free to add one.

thats cool harks!
nice result from an underwater cam, was it a good camera in a waterproof housing or a disposable underwater type..

my sister was on a long world trip and i saw some of her underwater pics from a disposable type camera, it was ok but quite unclear unlike yours.

i hear housings are pretty expensive but if you trust yourself enough you can make them :S!

I have a few more photos Froggy, and I will post them when I get home from work, as they are on my home computer.




Thanks jonb, it was taken form my digital camera using a water proof casing, they are a little expensive but it works. I have seen advertisment of a new type of water proof digital camera getting around now, but their prices are a bit high at the moment so hopefully in a few years they will be cheaper.

With this photo I am looking at a different perspective on life, from the fish point of few.
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I have also posted this in rouges gallery, but it is the best sunset I have photographed yet!
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And check out these big lips from a clam shell.
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The sunset reminds me of fishing charters...I posted a similar picture earlier in this thread...

The fish pics remind me of my Marine Aquarium...

Now froggy lets get some photos happening as I believe talk is cheap.

Now this ais a Chinaman Fish a non eating fish I throw back, but it is big fish though.

Harks:

That is a gorgeous sunset!!

My what a big fish you have! *gasp*

Thanks coldethyl for the compliment, here are some more of my photos anyway. Please tell me if I am hogging the site or not, cause I have many more photos to show you guys.

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You're welcome! Post away!! They're beautiful!

[attachmentid=25875]Well george had to go so he is making tracks.

[attachmentid=25878] Well thank my lucky blue stars, a starfish.

[attachmentid=25879] Well this is Brain coral, but the thing I do not get is why in the middle of woop woop that someone has written their name on it.

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Anyone got a toilet plungger?

Orchids

Beautiful, SD!! I love orchids!! Did you get any lily pics while you were there?

Nope. No lillies, I love them too I will be back there in about a month, a breathtaking place, if you love orchids......... an Orchid greenhouse, huge, filled with so many kinds. I took about 150 photos of Orchids. LOL!

Some photos I took this morning while walking around Lake Flaten outside Stockholm.

Look, I got an orb! First time that happens to me, but then again I haven't had my digicam for very long.

And here's a tricky one for y'all. Can you tell what's weird about it?

Fisheye?

Nope, same as the rest of the pics. Try again.

Orchids are my second fave!

I don't know I give up...

I forgot about this thread in my forum absence. There's some incredible work posted here!!

Harks i adore that picture of the corroded structure in the water, that's really amazing. That sunset is also absolutely fabulous!

Shadow Dancer, those Orchids are breathtaking. Good work!




I have a few to post from camping, but here's a couple of the fire for now.

Ooooh, I like pictures of fire...The flames are tantalizing

Speaking of flames, I just got back from taking the local High School Fire Academy Cadets to a fire training center called "MERTS Training center" in Astoria Oregon. The training center has several rooms inside of it that we can start huge fires in order to be able to practice putting fires out.

The best part is that the kids have never been in a real fire environment before so it is amazing to see the look on their eyes when you have them crawl into a room that is 900 degrees F. at the ceiling and 400 F. two feet off of the floor... Their eyes get about as big as saucers; some get hooked, some get scared...it is amazing to witness.

I have always wanted to get good pictures of the burn rooms, but I only have a cheap digital...Film cameras do not do well in high heat, but I decided to try and give my digital a chance and see what happened. Most of the photos didn't do well as the heat and steam fogged up the lense after a few seconds, but I got a couple to come out. Keep in mind that the rooms are filled with smoke after a few minutes of fire, so some of the photos are hazy for a real reason.

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Rockin pictures Fluffs. Man that must be so exciting.

lol my Digicam melted slightly on the back after getting a little too close to a fire.

After working in chemical laboratories for 20 years that is about number 3 on my list of things people say that really scare me.

Number 2 is, "I like explosions," and number 1 is, "what happens when I mix these two together?"

Below are a few photos I've taken in my travels over the past few years. The South Lake Tahoe pictures were taken in May of 2004. Favorable weather, snow caps, and cheap accomodations due to slow tourism made it an ideal month to visit.

Truckee Marsh from South Lake Tahoe, CA (2004)
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Truckee Marsh from South Lake Tahoe, CA (2004)
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Stateline, NV and Lake Tahoe from Round Hill (2004)
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Snake Monument in Downtown San Jose, CA (2003)
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Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco, CA (2002)
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Botanical Gardens in Berkeley, CA (2001)
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Balboa Park in San Diego, CA (2005)
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Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge, LA (2003)
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Armstrong Park in New Orleans, LA (2003)
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Horse in outskirts of Mangere, New Zealand (2002)
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Ambury Park, New Zealand
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Santa Cruz, CA & Monterey Bay
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Space Needle, Seattle, WA
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Lake Tahoe from Edgewood Golf Course, NV
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Is it panoramic?

Great pictures everyone! This one from Jobot looks very professional with the lens flare and different layers of focus.

I love this thread.

Those are some beauts guys!

Whoa dude, I don't think you wanna be near me if I'm in a lab!


Nope, it has nothing to do with the camera or it's settings, which are the same as in all the other pics anyway. A clue: look at how the trees are growing.

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Sunset Isle of Skye

Nice pictures Frank...I like the second one the best.