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Great photos but not convinced about including the signpost!
Any idea what the curved dotted trail in the 2nd pic is? Plane? Meteor?
Thanks Chris, these shots are only me trying to get a handle on the D800, 16mm fisheye and the MC-36 combo. I try to include a land based structure or feature like a tree, church or maybe a viaduct in my night sky images. To me plain pictures of the starry sky lack a subject, they make a nice background. Unless of course you can get close in to nebula or other spectacular night sky features but that really requires a telescope, which ramps up the cost, astronomically...
Once I get a good feel for the combo and have refined my technique a bit, I plan to take some starry background photos of some of my favourite locations, Coniston Water - East side, the Ribblehead Viaduct, an old rail bridge near Sedburgh, various churches, etc. As I drive around I am constantly looking for suitable subjects, sometimes they have snags, like security lights which only manifest themselves on the night... Which was the case when I made a planned shoot at Ravenglass railway station, permissions obtained, all set up perfectly, once it was properly dark and I started taking the photos, security lights started coming on in one of the building every few minutes, totally ruined my picture. I did eventually get there, I grafted in a sky from one I had taken at nearby Wastwater the week before, same sky, different day!
After (more than) a bit of work with photoshop...
This is Ribblehead Viaduct with a little added extra from Eric. Viaduct and star-trails were mine, Eric added the train!
Might not be a wonderful example from my trip to Scotland in May, but it's different...
Another...
The Skye Bridge.
The reason I included the signpost was to give me some idea of how the ambient light works with the starry sky background.
Dotted line = plane. Curved track is due the curvature of field caused by fisheye lens. To be honest I hadn't noticed it! LOL My current glasses are rubbish, mind you, what can you expect @ 98 pence for TWO pairs of glasses! Now that is specsavers! One day when I can afford it I plan to get another two pairs of a different spec, that might be better, I don't think these are powerful enough.
Sorry to go on and on... Just getting carried away!
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Robert.