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10.30.2012 2:26pm

Kal
yes

What the... What kind of equipment does he have?
I'd love to take shots like that

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10.30.2012 2:34pm

Crisium
N/A

His site says this:

Equipment:
ATIK 383L Camera
Televue NP127is Refractor
CGEM Mount

Stack of Ha, S2, and OIII - Multiple 20 and 40 min. exposures

Software:
Maxim DL
Photoshop CS5

I have no idea about what those things are though. I just know whenever it's a clear night he's taking pictures all night long (at the sacrifice of his sleep). And on days when it's not clear (most nights in Pittsburgh) he's spending hours perfecting the pics in software on his iMac. It's his only real hobby, and he takes it serious enough to have torn down all the tall trees in our yard and replaced them with shorter ones as as to not limit his field of vision. Next time I'm home I expect to see quite the different landscape.

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10.30.2012 2:54pm

Kal
yes

Wow well those are some really nice pictures. I had absolutely no idea one could take such pictures from their backyard without working, you know, at NASA or something. This is a revelation :O

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10.30.2012 6:12pm

Kellios
Yikes and away!

Those are some amazing pictures. Tell your dad you've got a following over here, Crisium. Some real stunning stuff.

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10.31.2012 5:58am

tharpy
Electric Duck

Kellios said:

Foiled by tharpy =(

But this was my dinner on Monday, so it's okay. Even better since my friend cooked it.

You win...this round D:

Those space pics are epic.

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11.17.2012 2:04am

Turhaya
The Batman

I love space! Beautiful shots!

It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

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12.19.2012 2:19am

Megz
Capital M before egz

I went walking in what I call my big backyard today armed with my new phone and took these:

All of these are taken within a 30min walk from my front door, I love New Zealand. Apologies on any border stretch.

Sugar. Short AND sweet.

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01.22.2013 5:09am

Zubis
Registered Member

Ooh nice pics Megz.

I took this in Blarney a few weeks ago, a bit overexposed but not bad for the middle of December. I have the RAW's I'm just too lazy to correct it.

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01.23.2013 6:19am

tharpy
Electric Duck

Zub wins just for easy acces to ancient castles.

*shakesfist* one day gadget!

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05.24.2013 2:07am

Mole
Somebody loves ya.

I took these last year but never bothered to upload them but the other day Yahoo! gave me a *Goddamn terabyte* worth of storage, so anyways here are some of the people you see walking around Manhattan:

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05.24.2013 2:14am

Mavilu
Yep, still gaming

Mole, the picture of the two people hugging in the middle is masterful.

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05.29.2013 8:20am

(Edited on 05.29.2013 at 8:26am)

Kellios
Yikes and away!

Those are great shots, Mole. God, I miss New York.

And, uh, here's a photo dump.

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05.30.2013 2:19am

Amer
pew pew pew

Love that one by the pier Kell.

I'm still learning. I got a Canon t4i after last Thanksgiving and mostly use it for shots of my daughter. Just quick snaps in JPEG usually, but then I try to shoot RAW when I'm going for something specific. I'd shoot L+RAW all the time, but it fills up the 16GB SD card pretty quick and I'm not always vigiliant about clearning it out. After screwing around in Program and Aperature modes a lot when I first got it, I'm now concentrating on Shutter Speed.

Still learning Lightroom.

Here's a couple snaps. The 2nd one I did for a contest where the subject was "glass".

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05.30.2013 7:02pm

Kellios
Yikes and away!

Thanks Amer! And absolutely love the one with your daughter. Good stuff man!

for what it's worth - I shoot RAW 98% of the time, and just pick and choose later. I could probably shoot jpg too, but I don't.

Also, Amer, what lens are you using? The kit one that came with the camera?

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05.30.2013 9:08pm

Amer
pew pew pew

The picture with my daughter is the nifty fifty - EF 50mm 1.8 Canon lens that is about $110 or so depending on where you go. We went out to a farm that day that is a public park and I decided I was only going to use the 50mm. Crop sensor factor is nuts though with the t4i. All day I had to stand probably 7 to 10 feet away from her to get relatively close up shots. It's a pain in a public place with tons of people when you're trying to get some tight shots. I like how it turned out after editing the RAW in lightroom, it has some more pop than the jpeg right out of the camera. It drives me nuts though b/c depending what monitor I'm veiwing it on it can look over exposed (at home) or the white balance looks off (at work). But it's a nice fast lens. That shot was taken inside a barn with no flash.

The 2nd picture was taken with the newish EF-S 18-135mm 3.5-5.6 STM stepping motor lens that was one of the kit lens options with the t4i. It's got a quiet focusing motor for use when you're doing video...which I've done all of once with the camera. The 2nd shot was actually taken through the glass of our china cabinet, so I don't know how much of a judge it should really be, but I was happy with it. It's a very versatile lens and I leave it on 98% of the time, only really using the 50mm if I'm going for a portrait or want that wide open aperature. I feel like I can get bokeh just as good with it as the 50. Standalone, the thing goes for like $550 or about, which I think is what you can get the whole t4i basic kit with the basic 18-55mm lens these days. I'm kind of sad that if I ever go full frame I'll have to leave this lens behind. But if I have that much money to burn I can afford a full frame zoom lens I guess.

The main reason I shoot JPEG is b/c my wife is usually the one who manages the pictures and takes them off the card and uploads them to our shutterfly account. I just don't want to put an extra step in there for her.

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