Backyard Autumn Nighttime Sky Over New Jersey.
The sky was clear, so I set up two cameras to record the night sky (and hope to see some meteors).
Individual images in the slideshow can be viewed here.
Saturday (10-November-2018) — New Jersey
Category: Skyscape
Views of the sky. Sunrise, sunset, clouds, and weather
Friday (09-November-2018) — New Jersey
Backyard Autumn Nature in New Jersey.
I noticed some yellow color out my window just before sunrise. I ran out with my Leica CL camera to catch some of the color before it faded. The prediction is more rain today and tonight. The county already sent out local flooding warnings until Saturday morning.
Saturday (03-November-2018) — New Jersey
Backyard Nighttime Sky Over New Jersey.
The sky looked relatively clear again, so I put two cameras out to record the night sky. This time I remembered to set the ISO on the D850 camera correctly. I managed to see a couple of small meteor trails (Taurids?).
Individual images from the slideshow can be viewed here.
Tuesday (30-October-2018) — New Jersey
Autumn Night Sky Over New Jersey.
This was the night with a clear sky for a long time. I set up two cameras to record the nighttime sky for composite Star Trail images. The first a Nikon D810a camera with 19 mm f/4 PC-E lens looking west. I like this camera for nighttime sky photography because it can be set to take images longer than 30 seconds (up to 900 seconds). The second a Nikon D850 camera with a 8-15 mm fisheye lens looking up from my patio. I forgot to reset the ISO for the Nikon D850 camera from 100 to 800. When I looked at the images, they were all black — but since the raw for this camera have an amazing dynamic range, I was able to increase the brightness by 4 stops during post-processing and get decent images…
Individual images from the slideshow can be viewed here.
Sunday (28-October-2018) — New Jersey
Backyard Autumn Nature in New Jersey.
It rained on Saturday, total accumulation just under an inch (23 mm). When I woke up Sunday, the clouds were beginning to clear, so I put the Garmin VIRB-360 camera out to see if I could catch some dawn cloud colors. I ended up leaving the camera out for 12 hours, connected to an external USB battery. I’m starting to play around with Adobe Premiere Pro for processing videos. The eight-bit range of colors and light recorded in the jpg images does limit the amount of processing going from the dark predawn to some sunlight. In the end, I compressed 12 hours to 1 minute time-lapsed video displayed both as a 360 degree panorama, and side by side little-planet and tunnel views. Bottom line, I can do better with the dawn cloud colors with raw images, but don’t have the time to individually process nearly 9000 images. A lot more to learn with Premiere Pro (and maybe After Effects).