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I got a new toy in the mail the day before yesterday, not exactly a lens but still a chunk of glass that forms an image; an 80mm lens ball. I braved below freezing temperatures and an even colder wind chill this morning to get this image of a sunrise with the D850 and 24mm f/2 AIS Nikkor. I went...

I take it you are referring to reversing a lens with a reversing ring. I have done this quite often and it works very well, especially with slightly wide angle (35mm) lenses. There are some drawbacks to this approach, however, though all can be overcome. This approach works best with a manual...

Well done! I am going to shoot the Flame and Horse Head nebulae tonight, cloud cover permitting. Perhaps you could have used the lasso tool with a fairly wide feather and selected around the Horse Head and Bright Orion Nebulae and then inverted the selection and blackened the skies so you...

Something else that has helped me tremendously, not having a go-to mount yet, is this little sight I built out in the shop. It is made from some 1" Sch 80 PVC pipe and two pieces of clear 0.1" acrylic sheet. I made a "reticle" in PS and used it as a template to mark around the rear piece of...

I went out and re-shot the Bright Orion and Running Man nebulae last night with the D-500 and 400mm f/2.8 ED IF AIS Nikkor. I am quite happy with this one, though cutting my exposure to 0.5 second should, by the MFN calculation, which said 0.4 sec) eliminate star trailing but I still got just a...

I stacked 240 frames of M42 in DeepSkyStacker with the D850 and 300mm f/2.8 ED IF AIS Nikkor. 1 sec @f/2.8 ISO 800

I have ordered a Celestron Nexstar 8SE but unfortunately it is backordered until March sometime! It has a focal length of just over 2000mm and a aperture of 8" which works out to f/10. It comes very highly reviewed so I am super psyched to get it!

I went out last night and started playing around doing some test shots of the Orion Nebula (M42). I set up the D850 on a tripod and mounted my 200mm f/2 ED IF AIS Nikkor. I set the ISO to 3200 and pointed the camera at the northern skies at Orion or more specifically, Orion's "belt". I stopped...

My go-to bird lens is usually the 600mm f/4 ED-IF AIS Nikkor on the D850, but undeniably it is a beast of a lens at over 14 pounds, one that cannot be hand held unless you are a body builder, something at 5'9' and 160 lbs (not to mention almost 63) I will never be. It is, however very useable...

Shot with a D850, 85mm f/1.4 AIS Nikkor and a single strobe in a gridded strip light softbox. I like the color but prefer the B&W more since presents a more graphical and abstract approach.

Up to day 6 but raining tonight so there will be a "hole" in my sequence. Oh well, not like I can do anything about it.

Gurkha Knife. Unlike so many Gurkha knives you see online claiming to be authentic, most are fakes. I got this knife from a real-life member of the Gurkha Army while in Iraq in 2003. I actually traded it for a pair of my unworn Desert Boots. Apparently their boots were real crap. This knife is...

That is a great idea. I took the moon at 70% last night (actually this morning around 1:30. I now have it at 100%, 90%, 80% and 70% +/-

The project so far. I may change the arrangement, not sure

D850, 85mm f/1.4 AIS Nikkor. Pretty standard 4 light set up. I do much better on the taking side of the image, Catherine, on the other hand is a natural!

Here is installment 1. Cold and clear mild (52º) tonight, but rain is on the way so it may not be until Sunday before I get another shot at it, when 80% of the moon will be visible. Taken using my standard "moon" setup; D500, 600mm f/4 ED-IF AIS Nikkor and TC-300 2x.

Since the moon will be full tonight. I thought I would photograph it and then every couple of days re-photograph it as it goes through its lunar cycle and composite them all into one image. The weather tonight should be cold and clear, ideal, but we are supposed to get rain for the next few days...

Photographing the Conjunction the other night re-kindled my interest in Astrophotography. I was, however, not pleased with the results I got with the rig with which I have had great success shooting the moon. I ordered a Celestron 8 SE with all the trimmin's the other day but it is back ordered...

I have been shooting the moon for years with lots of success but after photographing (or rather trying in my opinion at least) to photograph the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction the other night and not being at all happy with the results, I decided to get a telescope. The Celestron Nexstar 8 SE was...

Taken the night after the "Conjunction"