This was taken around 2 AM in the morning but that was a new moon evening. Tonight the moon doesn't set until 1:37 AM so you've only a few days before the window is closed. Do you have and use "The Photographer's Ephemeris"? I think the TPE and google street view are the two best programs for photographers ever made. I live by these two.
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This was taken around 2 AM in the morning but that was a new moon evening. Tonight the moon doesn't set until 1:37 AM so you've only a few days before the window is closed. Do you have and use "The Photographer's Ephemeris"? I think the TPE and google street view are the two best programs for photographers ever made. I live by these two.
RockyNH_RIP
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Looks good Dave.. can you show a single image so we can compare?? What did you use (sw) to stack?
Pat in NH
RockyNH_RIP
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I think this is a double WOW... Images are excelent, sky and clouds.. and the amount of images combined to get teh job done~~ worked out well.
Pat in NH
derekthetree
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Awesome shots, especially the first one
Yeah, the idea was that stacking would increase the definition and resolution but I'm not 100% convinced that it did. And I do believe you can do it using GIMP but I may be wrong. Photoshop is the program I used. One thing I encountered that surprised me was PS inability to align was seemed to be just a photo of the moon. The only way I could get PS to do it was to completely crop the moon away from all the black background and then use PS to rebuild it. I guess there was something in the background that PS saw but I couldn't that kept it from finding a proper alignment.
BackdoorArts
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Funny, I've shot bananas on pavement, and oil slicks, but never had the two together. That's what I was missing!! LOL
Thanks Marcel! And that's a very good question, I just check and much to my surprise they're just a little over 200 mb's. Surprisingly a single HDR (7 exposure) is around 260 mb's. I wonder if the fact I flatten my panoramas in PS before I save them has something to do with its smaller size?
Phillydog1958
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Nice capture of the tree's texture. Is it still alive? I wasn't sure if it is. Can't tell.
Yes, it's very much alive. Nearly all the Bristlecone pines trees look like that. One side will be woodend like that while the other side will have a few branches with needles on it. It's a really amazing organism with life spans as long at 5,000 yrs. I spent a few days photographing these trees at Grand Basin Nat Park and got into so much that I then drove to White Mountain to photograph the other half of this grove, a good 400 miles away.
It's an awesome thing to sit down and visit what may well be the oldest living organism on this planet. And what made the trip even nicer was that very few people were at either place, especially the White Mountains and I had a lot of solitude while visiting these old folks.
Phillydog1958
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How about the big Sequoia redwoods? Have you visited the forests where those are, in California?
Absolutely, the sequoias are great. CA has some amazing parks, from these sequoias to big sur to the temperate rain forests up near the Oregon border. Lots of great photo opts around here.