David's Images of the Day Photoblog
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.
Spiders rule the night.
Fall Colors — Intense Red Japanese Maple leaves before they fall off the tree. Image taken with a Nikon D700 camera and 50 mm f/1.4 lens (ISO 200, 50 mm, f/5.6, 1/400 sec).
One of the few days since I returned from Portugal that the rain stopped. The Japanese Maple tree is bright red. One pink Cosmos flower remained, and the Zinnia flowers are on their last leg. I need to mow the remaining wildflowers, and plant for next spring.
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.