The Spirit of Thailand

Michael J.

Michael J.

Senior Member
Re: Where do I live

Today Banbueng was like under a Fire-sky

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Camera Model: NIKON D5100
Lens: 16.0-85.0 mm f/3.5-5.6
Image Date: 2013-09-05
Focal Length: 32mm (35mm equivalent: 48mm)
Focus Distance: 5.01m
Aperture: f/4.5
Exposure Time: 0.025 s (1/40)
ISO equiv: 100

Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: program (Auto)
White Balance: Auto
Flash Fired: No
Creator: Michael
Copyright: YPE - Education Center & SenseMath Banbueng
Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.6 (Windows)
 
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grandpaw

Senior Member
Re: The Other Day

siamthai1 said:
It was not the moon - I was walking my dog and saw only one star in the sky. Back into my house grabbed my D5100 and the 55-300 and a tripod. I know I am not a pro but this was my first ever star capture


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Camera Model: NIKON D5100
Lens: 55.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6
Image Date: 2013-09-04
Focal Length: 300mm (35mm equivalent: 450mm)
Focus Distance: Infinite
Aperture: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1.000 s
ISO equiv: 3600

Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: Manual
Exposure Mode: Manual
White Balance: Auto
Flash Fired: No

Creator: Michael
Copyright: YPE - Education Center & SenseMath Banbueng
Comment: (c)Michael - YPE&SenseMath Banbueng
Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.6 (Windows)

Next time I will not forget to set the ISO manual too.
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I have never seen a picture of a star before that looked like this. It is so detailed and perfectly round. It's hard to get a picture of the moon this size much less a tiny star. Are you sure that is what this is?
 
Michael J.

Michael J.

Senior Member
Re: The Other Day

grandpaw, I am absolutely positive - It was a star , just one only very bright. I grabbed y 55-300 and the tripod - all other the camera did after setting manual
 
BackdoorArts

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
Re: The Other Day

siamthai1 said:
It was not the moon - I was walking my dog and saw only one star in the sky. Back into my house grabbed my D5100 and the 55-300 and a tripod. I know I am not a pro but this was my first ever star capture


View attachment 50913


Camera Model: NIKON D5100
Lens: 55.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6
Image Date: 2013-09-04
Focal Length: 300mm (35mm equivalent: 450mm)
Focus Distance: Infinite
Aperture: f/5.6
Exposure Time: 1.000 s
ISO equiv: 3600

Metering Mode: Matrix
Exposure: Manual
Exposure Mode: Manual
White Balance: Auto
Flash Fired: No

Creator: Michael
Copyright: YPE - Education Center & SenseMath Banbueng
Comment: (c)Michael - YPE&SenseMath Banbueng
Software: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.6 (Windows)

Next time I will not forget to set the ISO manual too.
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I'm very intrigued by this, if only because I've shot the moon with a 500mm on my D7000 and know how much there is to crop out, so I can only imagine just how little of the frame the star must have taken up with just a 300mm. I can't help but thing that there are a lot of artifacts here that have nothing to do with the star itself, but it still makes for an interesting photo!!
 
Michael J.

Michael J.

Senior Member
Re: The Other Day

Here is the RAW File http://www.thailand.chainat.ch/testbilder/star.nef

what did I do - I opend it with CNX2 used lens correction the Edge Noise Reducation and Astro Noise Reduction as well as sharpening saved as tif and opend in LR3.6 used Luminance and the adjustment brush for light up the star, decrease saturation, sharpened again and cropped it. These are these were the steps I remember.
 
Michael J.

Michael J.

Senior Member
Re: The Other Day

It was sleeping and as I walked nearly and start to bend my knees yo get a great capture he jumped up. I don't know who was more frightened the dog or I. So is just a snap as millions in the net. I like it cos it shows that the VR on the 16-85mm did a great job as I jumped back and pressed the release button at the same time.

doggy.jpg
 
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mikew_RIP

Senior Member
Re: The Other Day

Michael,sorry but every knows stars are this shape :D

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Seriously though i would never have expected the result you got,great job.

mike
 
Michael J.

Michael J.

Senior Member
Re: Where do I live

This Budhha is sitting behind

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The Dharma Wheel

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The Buddha's teachings are known as the 'dharma'. Early Buddhists visualized their master's teachings as a wheel that would roll through a person's life inspiring radical spiritual change. The Wheel would also roll from one end of the known world to the other, spreading the dharma teaching as it went. And in truth, it did, starting in India and moving into Central Asia, then South East Asia, and Japan - and it hasn't stopped yet
 
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