Shooting Stars

Shooting stars is not something I have attempted much in the past but this time of year in our southern skies is a great time to capture the milky way and southern cross very high across our skies.

Well I've been waiting for a time when I can get out into the country away from city lights to try it out but the weather hasn't been very cooperative. The other night I noticed we had a perfectly clear sky so urban lights and all I decided to give it a go. I was amazed at how many stars I could capture even with street lights so close.

Here is the sky taken from my yard a few nights ago. Not brilliant I know but I can't wait now to go further out away from the city lights.

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Canon 7D, 10mm, f3.5, 30", iso 800.

I have really been inspired by Phil Hart's book "Shooting Stars" which is an excellent resource in which Phil shares his knowledge on how, when and where to capture our skies. 

See link to Phil's ebook on sidebar.


Thanks for visiting,

Kathy

Super Moon Timelapse

Timelapse photography has always amazed me and I have wanted to try it myself for a long time. Finally I have bought myself a timer/intervalometer (Canon TC-80N3) and have been learning the basics.

Last night I decided to try it out on the Super Moon. I set up the camera and tripod on my verandah to capture the moon as it rose in the east and as a bonus there was cloud moving across the moon in the opposite direction.

Details:

529 still frames
captured at 2 sec intervals

Canon 7D manually set to f4, 1/250s, ISO 100, 235mm, manual focus, manual WB (cloud)

Processed in Lightroom and created into video at 24fps (preset downloaded from  http://lrtimelapse.com/download/ )

17 mins of capture becomes 21 sec of video.

Viewed full screen it's not as smooth as I thought it would be for 2sec intervals, I might try another one at 1sec intervals and see how that goes.

Can't wait to try it out at some interesting locations.

Thanks for visiting,

Feedback more than welcome.

Kathy

Landscape Photography Magazine

A few months back I was asked to write an article for a relatively new online international Landscape Photography Magazine.

Issue 6 (August) has just been published with my article on Lake Albert Down Under in the “On the Map” section.
The pano above is on the Contents page and the article on pages 14-19.

I have thoroughly enjoyed the photos and articles in the first five issues so I can recommend it as a magazine and I’m so thrilled to be able to show off a little bit of South Australia to the world.

Here is the link to the online  Landscape Photography Magazine
Cheers
Kathy

Edit, May 2012, - Unfortunately this issue is no longer able to be viewed without a subscription. Individual issue subscriptions are available on the LPM site.

RedBubble Homepage Feature

Wine Glasses in Mono

WooHoo, my wine glasses pic was featured on the RedBubble Homepage

Liquid Light Lines

Unfortunately I was at work (night duty) when it was on the Homepage so I didn't see it.

Thanks to  Mieke Boynton for  suggesting this page. You can see her wonderful photography from the Kimberley region and elsewhere  HERE


It's really made my day AND I'm on holidays as from today!  :o)



Out of Bounds

I've seen others do 'out of bounds' images but this is the first time I've tried it.


So here is Josh going ...out of bounds.



Thanks to  Gavin Hoey for his  tutorial - he makes it all so simple!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbUgltl9DgM

Self Portrait...of a self portrait.

This is the first (and probably the last) time I have done a self portrait.
Was challenged to do one for a competition and here's the result.

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Some of you are probably saying "double trouble"!

We had to show our "very self", so here I am either with a camera in hand or relaxing with photography mag, cuppa and box of chocolates!


For the photographers:

Set up: 2 images taken with self timer and combined using mask layers in PS.

Lighting: Snooted 580Ex flash (using my trusty 'Pringle' snoot), fired off camera and a few reflectors. The light source for each photo is masked by the other photo so not seen in the final combo.
Canon 7D, 1/200s, f/8.0 at 17.0mm, iso100



Very difficult model to work with and the photographer wasn't much better either :o)



Cheers
Kathy

Pouring Wine

A sequence of still photos made into a short video. Taken at high speed continuous on my Canon 7D.

Lighting - continuous lamp with 23W spot light (old equiv 120W)
Set up - lamp behind subject shooting through diffusion panel.
Camera settings - f8, 1/1000sec, iso 800.

Well I did say it was short :o)

Kathy