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« on: July 07, 2008, 05:57:05 AM » |
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Tien Shan Mountains http://www.lightartforum.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=429I shot this one summer night at an old Soviet observatory. I opened the shutter and promptly fell asleep for about 20 minutes. It was around midnight. The color is the result of defective processing (both expired chemicals and lack of attention to quality control - Kazakhstani quality control in processing was one of the factors that led to my purchase of a digital camera).
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Analog6
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« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2008, 02:35:24 PM » |
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It's got something though, the weird colurs grab you.
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« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2008, 05:27:55 PM » |
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Actually Brian, I really, really like this. I opened the thread and my first words were, "Oh WOW!!!" The colour with the star trails grabs your attention immediately and then one gets to explore the rest of the image. Defective processing maybe, but in this instance it works.  |
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« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2008, 07:03:10 PM » |
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Its a really cool photo defective processing or not !
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Time is like a freeway of infinite lanes, all leading from the past to the future. A driver in lane A may crash, while a driver in lane B survives, it follows that by changing lanes one may be able to predict the future.
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« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2008, 01:57:52 AM » |
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Yeah...when I first saw it I asked the lab what the hell they did to my film. The frame after this one, shot immediately following, was brown. They said it had probably been irradiated...the Soviets liked to do experiments with radiation that make America's work in the 50's almost benign by comparison...like dusting cities with radioactive dust just to see what would happen. After we got back to the States, I discovered another roll of film that had been shot the same weekend, and it was perfect...rich Velvia greens and blacks.
Anyhoo, I love this picture. The crazy coloring makes. I've corrected the color and found the photo has a lot less impact.
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OZZI-BLOKE
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« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2008, 02:59:24 AM » |
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I like this image, the colour of the sky over the mountains with snow looks good.
I will have to try this star trail thing to.
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« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2008, 04:24:48 AM » |
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Doing the star trails bit takes a lot of patience. They're kinda hard to previsualize. I've seen one guy who does light painting with 8-hour exposures. Basically he stays up all night in the desert, pointing his flashlight at trees to get a nicely exposed foreground for the star trails.
For a DSLR, you need to have a cable release. I shot a series of 4 - 30 sec. exposures of Scorpio recently, and I haven't had the time or patience to figure out how to put them together to make a multiple exposure image. I really need to get a release for the D200 so I can do bulb pictures.
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« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2008, 04:40:37 AM » |
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On a clear night where I live the sky is just full of stars, and there is plenty of places to go away from town lights. I just need to head up 1 of the mountains and will be able to get some great views.
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Ross and Cher
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« Reply #9 on: July 09, 2008, 02:33:29 AM » |
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Hmm so Ozzi - do you have clear nights???  Apart from which heading outside at night at this time of year would be frostbite time I suspect!!!! |
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« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2008, 04:18:15 AM » |
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The clear nights are normally the coldest, wind makes them even worse.
They reckon we may have snow down to about 6-700 metres so it
is gunna get even colder over the next few nights.
We have had over 2 inches of rain in the last week, its all good.
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« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2008, 01:43:12 PM » |
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2" rain is good for yor area - we've had about the same (58mm). There is another nice star line up tonight - here's a link to Ice in Space article, which I onyl saw thismorning so I missed it last night. http://www.iceinspace.com.au/index.php?id=70,495,0,0,1,0 |
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