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Spirit in the SkyPosted by Craig (Vacaville, California, United States) on 13 September 2007 in Plant & Nature and Portfolio. I was taking 30 second time exposures of the night sky when I noticed these gorgeous clouds heading my way. I timed the exposure to capture the clouds.
Comments (21)
purelysnow from Chengdu, ChinaBeautiful night sky! You can almost see a smilie face in one of the groups of clouds. 13 Sep 2007 5:52am Lorraine from Gatineau, CanadaWell your timing is just fantastic...I've never seen a night blue like this, I love it :) 13 Sep 2007 10:42am Aidan Hammond from Seoul, South KoreaNice capture. I love the blur of the clouds 13 Sep 2007 10:56am Viewfinder from Bradenton, United StatesI think I see recognizeable parts of familiar constellations. This is sublime and beautiful and I want to know how you managed to get such clarity... 13 Sep 2007 11:10am @Viewfinder: Shooting far from city lights on a new moon works wonders! Titto from Indiadoesn't your pic looks like one from nasa's... :) 13 Sep 2007 11:28am Elspeth from Trinidad and TobagoGreat shot ... and the title reminds me of a song I love (the Doctor and the Medics version of 'Spirit in the Sky') 13 Sep 2007 1:06pm Amy from Rocky Mountain House, CanadaVERY nicely done Craig!! And I first did think it was the Northern Lights but then thought nope not in California!! It has such a great feeling of wonder for me!! 13 Sep 2007 1:58pm Nick Passantino from Bronx, United Statesawesome long exposure. great night shot 13 Sep 2007 3:12pm Anne from White Rock, CanadaWonderful capture of the night sky! Damon is right - very impressive Craig :-) 13 Sep 2007 4:45pm Michel [Une photo,vite et reviens tard] from Cergy (near Paris), FranceSky is alive!!! Wonderful! 13 Sep 2007 7:10pm Ken McCoy from Orlando-Daytona Beach, FL, United StatesAh! This brings back memories of when I used to stargaze. I'm guessing you used a moving telecope engine to keep the motion of the earth from making lines of your stars? 30 seconds is a long time for the sky to hold still :) Nice shot, and a good idea to include the clouds! 13 Sep 2007 8:14pm @Ken McCoy: Actually no telescope engine was used. Just a tripod. :0) Dawn Sutherland from Phoenix, United StatesI have tried this and I never get results like this, what a great shot!!! Can you send me some hints??? Pretty please???? :) 13 Sep 2007 8:25pm @Dawn Sutherland: I was camping up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains far from any city lights on a new moon (no moon) night. I set the exposure to 30 seconds because that is as long as my little Sony H5 will do and the aperture to 2.8 because that is as wide as my little Sony H5 goes. The tripod is of course essential! The rest was just luck! Hope that helps! :0) Richard_Irwin from Belper, United KingdomCool job, that was quite a difficult exposure I would imagine, and it looks great 13 Sep 2007 11:38pm |
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