vacation shots

[siodre]

some from last fall's vacation around the US rockies. canon 5d mk ii, edited in lightroom and cs5, no hdr.

[Hoogle]

I love doing that slow shutter down and give camera a slight twist see here is 1 of my favo0urite pics but this 1 held camera above my head under a tree looking straight up and spun in circles
Good work

[Burned Ice]

first image shows us that the polar star is actually right above the earth
i am a member of a astronomy club btw

[Hoogle]

middle 2 would like to see them in HDR

[siodre]

hoogle, i don't hdr. nothing against it, i love looking at some great hdr shots, just not my personal style. the first shot is actually startrails, it's done by leaving the camera on a tripod, setting a long exposure (or taking a quick succession of photos and stacking them later which is what i did) and letting the stars spin in the night sky as the earth rotates, not by spinning the camera. burned ice is right, the stars spin around the north star, polaris (not actually shown above), which is found at the end of the handle of the little dipper.

[Hoogle]

lol I did not notice the big house that actually explains how you did it i saw a spiral and got excited I dont know I prefer natutral photography as well but some images can really benefit fom some slight hdr tweaking

[RedneckR0nin]

some from last fall's vacation around the US rockies. canon 5d mk ii, edited in lightroom and cs5, no hdr.

Nice shots

[Burned Ice]

burned ice is right

ahh nice, we'll quote that once more (sorry i just wanted to be egoistic today)

burned ice is right

the stars spin around the north star, polaris (not actually shown above), which is found at the end of the handle of the little dipper.

you can find the polaris easy (he is on the sky for all nights ) by doing this:
follow the outer 2 stars of the great bear (grote beer in dutch, dunno what the english name is) to above and then you shall see the similar looking small bear (kleine beer in dutch, again, i don't know what the english name is), I searched the internets for an easy pic showing how:


if you can't see the big bear, then search for another 5 minutes its quite big, if you can't find 'm afterwards, the clouds could be in front of it or you need glasses.


EDIT: the big bear isn't the right cognotation, its actually the big dipper =>
Versus:

you can recognize bears at each pic

[Hoogle]

OMg another senior member is about to be born

[Burned Ice]

OMg another senior member is about to be born

let's celebrate this, 100th post!!!!

'hello world'