The Making of a Mind-Blowing Space Photo | Wired Science One late night in 2007, Rogelio Bernal Andreo and his wife were driving down Highway 1 along California’s Lost Coast, when his wife opened the moon roof. What spread out above them looked nothing like the mauve sky near their Sunnyvale home. “It was like the Milky Way was in front of us,” said Andreo, a former early eBay employee, who runs a Spanish-language internet company. “It looked like it was gonna fall on us.” He pulled out his digital SLR camera and spent two hours trying to capture the vast galaxy. “I started to look on the internet and see all these pictures, really gorgeous pictures,” Andreo said. Two years of intensive study, rigorous practice, and perhaps $10,000 of equipment later, he knows. Thanks to cheaper high-quality digital cameras and editing equipment, creating beautiful images of galaxies, nebulae and star clusters is now within the reach of anyone with a few thousand dollars to spend. But that doesn’t mean the photos aren’t “real.” His equipment list is long.
Double Exposure Photography: 50+ Examples and Tutorials Double Exposure, or Multiple Exposure, is a photographic technique that combines 2 different images into a single image. The technique has been practiced for several years, and it became particularly famous recently, due to the fact that graphic editor like Photoshop can help to create the identical effect. (Image Source: Elena iPhoneography) With double exposure technique, you can create certain effect like ghost image, mirror image, or simply merging a bright moon into the dark, lonely sky. The reason of using this technique varies, but they are surely created for same purposes – beauty and uniqueness. Sounds theoretical? Aisles In The Sky. Barrier Of Clouds. Between Heaven And Earth. Brad Jeff Fight. Construction. English x Name. Factory In The Sky. Feelin Dizzy. Ferndale Cemetery. Gather My Strength. Gueishan. Hideaway Hands. I Love You. In Her Course. Mirrored Downtown. Oh Sheet!. Old Man Texted. Pandora. Pathway // Ladders. Piano Peace. Power Mix. Power Station In The Sky. Ratz.
Astronomy Deep Sky Stacking Software - Roger's Website Last Updated: 23rd October 2015 A common approach to astrophotography has become the use of Digital SLR cameras (DSLR). These are relatively cheap, can be used for astronomy and ordinary terrestrial photography, and produce surprisingly good astronomy images so have become quite popular. There’s a few basic steps required for getting started in DSLR astrophotography. The question often arises from the above of what piece of software to use for stacking and processing the resulting images that you take using your camera. If you know of programs which are suitable for DSLR astrophotography image processing that are not on this list please let me know, also let me know if information here needs updating. Software suitable for stacking and/or processing astrophotography DSLR images: 1. This is a fantastic piece of software for aligning and combining individual astrophotographs from digital SLR cameras. Find RegiStar here: 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
StereoMan » Hubble photos M64 “Black Eye” Galaxy click the picture 17 million light-years from Earth lies Messier 64, otherwise known as the Black Eye Galaxy, or Sleeping Beauty. But recent observations, including those of the Hubble telescope, have revealed something truly extraordinary about M64. Astronomers believe that perhaps a billion or so years ago, a smaller galaxy was sucked into M64. Ant Nebula This Hubble photo of the dying star Menzel 3, popularly known as the “Ant Nebula” because of its shape, gives us a dramatic new insight into how our own sun is likely to expire: not with a whimper, but a bang. The star at the center of the Ant Nebula has become vast in size and is ejecting gas into space in weird but symmetrical patterns, forming the body of the “ant”. There are many other sunlike stars that have been observed in their death dance, but none is quite like the Ant Nebula. Kepler’s Supernova Star Foundry, Small Magellanic Cloud The Arches Cluster Keyhole Nebula, Finger of God N132D supernova remnant
18 Photography Apps Each Smartphone Photographer Should Consider If you stop to think about it, that little eye on the world on the back of your smart phone is a technological wonder– particularly if you grew up in an era when leaving the house or office meant nobody could reach you until you surfaced somewhere with a land line. Even when compared to point-and-shoot digital cameras of just a few years ago, these cameras which are constantly with us keep advancing at an incredible rate, creating images often indistinguishable from those taken with our DSLRs. But it’s not perfect– and never can be–.since perfection means drastically different things to different people, Thanks to ambitious app creators, though, we can trick out our smart phone cameras with a seemingly endless supply of options. From filtering and sharing, to editing and correcting, if there’s something you want your smart phone camera to do, chances are there’s an app for that. Instagram I guess this one goes pretty much without saying (yet I’m saying it anyway). Camera + Foto Meter Pro
Astronomy Software - picture identification - plate-solving - astrophotography - integrated telescope-camera control The application is written in C++/wxWidgets (cross platform GUI library), OpenGL, OpenCV, Boost and other portable libraries so that it can be compiled/released on other platforms such as Linux/MacOSX/etc. Current pre-alpha release is only for windows, to follow with a Linux and MacOSx release as soon as I pass the beta test. The project is to be released as a pre-alpha (concept proof) state and in order to test the the main functionality. Anyone interested in helping me to test and optimize it please contact me. Also, I am working to add translation in twenty different languages to start with, so if you are willing to help on this please let me know. I am looking for sponsorship to support this free software.
Solar System Scope Damir Sagolj Opis aplikacji Castrator i AutoStakkert Castrator Castrator to aplikacja do wstępnej obróbki planetarnych klipów AVI. Aplikacja ta potrafi: Przycinać i centrować planetę w kadrzeSzybka obróbka, w tym obsługa wielu plikówObsługa kolorowych i monochromatycznych obrazów Y8 Aplikację możemy pobrać ze strony autora. Otwieramy pliki AVI (Open AVI files) i po chwili powinniśmy zobaczyć przykładowy podgląd: Do ustawienia będą wymiary przyciętego i wyrównanego klipu wideo. Drugi parametr - Planet Detection Treshold też może wymagać zmiany dla niektórych nagrań ze słabo widoczną planetą. Gdy wszystko jest ustawione klikamy Process AVI(s) i rozpocznie się proces generowania nowych przyciętych AVI. Autostakkert Autostakkert to druga aplikacja Emila i pobrać można ją z jego strony. Zaczynamy od wybrania klipów (obrobionych przez Castratora) - Open AVI files. Można też zmienić ustawienia stackowania. Po zakończeniu stackowania w podkatalogu dostaniemy gotowe stacki oraz wersje wyostrzone do podglądu (i oceny jakości) z "conv" w nazwie.
The Rosette Nebula A Beginner's Guide to DSLR Astrophotography This book on CD-ROM for beginning astrophotographers explains how to take beautiful images with your digital single lens reflex (DSLR) camera using simple step-by-step techniques that anyone can learn. You will see how easy it is to take great pictures with very modest equipment and basic methods that are within everyone's ability. With this book you will learn how to take amazing images of the night sky with your DSLR camera. Get Started in DSLR Astrophotography Today! Click here to learn more about the book or to order it now!
10 Things Street Photographers Can Learn From Magnum Contact Sheets One of the most valuable books I currently have in my library is Magnum Contact Sheets. It is a book that was put out by Thames and Hudson in the last year or so, and contains over 139 contact sheets from 69 Magnum Photographers. For those of you who are not familiar with contact sheets, they are a direct print made from a roll or sequence of images of film. Before the days of digital, they were an invaluable tool to photographers to quickly look through and edit their work (choosing their best images). The book is a hefty behemoth full of knowledge, insights, and philosophies of the Magnum photographers within. What is a contact sheet? Henri Cartier-Bresson looking at contacts at the New York Magnum Office. 1959. © Rene Burri / Magnum Photos To clarify, a contact sheet is a direct print of a roll or sequence of images shot by a photographer on film. As Lubben explains, the contact sheet is a tool used by photographers in the days of film to look quickly at what they captured. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Astronomia Amatorska: AutoStakkert! 2 - składanie zdjęć Księżyca UPDATE : Aby zestacowac pliki FITS lub inne trzeba katalog lub zbiór plików przeciągnąć na środek okna programu. Aplikacja służy do efektywnego i masowego stackowania klipów AVI zawierających zdjęcia planet, Księżyca, czy Słońca. Oprócz usprawnionych algorytmów w stosunku do wersji pierwszej zyskała obsługę klipów z kolorowych kamer (zdebayeryzowanych lub nie) oraz zdolność stackowania powierzchni - dla fotografii Księżyca i Słońca. Program można pobrać ze strony aplikacja jest darmowa. 1 Wybieramy Open 2 Zaznaczamy plik avi 3 Naciskamy Otwórz Widzimy nasz wgrany plik avi Księżyca 4 Zaznaczamy Surface kiedy składamy avi Księżyca a Planet kiedy składamy materiał z planetami 5 Tu opcje mogą pozostać bez zmian Zazwyczaj Gradient działa dobrze. Widok podczas analizy Widok po zastosowaniu pk.11 12 Wciskamy Stack i czekamy aż program poskłada zdjęcia. Widok podczas składania. 13 Widok po złożeniu zdjęć Księżyca
Current position of the ISS Photo Expert Stephen Mayes on the Changing Future of Photography © Woongjae Shin In a fascinating interview with Image Source Art Director Stephanie Cabrera, Photography expert Stephen Mayes explores the work of photo-journalist Tim Hetherington, the wider impact of stock imagery and the rapidly changing future of Photography There’s one name that connects many of the major players in photography over the last 25 years. Stephen Mayes is: a former Creative Director at Image Source; was part of the founding management team at Getty Images; was Creative Director at Eyestorm, the company that aimed to introduce Fine Artists such as Damien Hirst, Ed Ruscha, Richard Misrach to commercial and private clients; as Director of the Image Archive with Art + Commerce, he represented the archives of Robert Mapplethorpe, Steven Meisel, David LaChapelle and others; in the world of photojournalism he was Director of Network Photographers in London and CEO of VII in New York. Sleeping Soldiers, Tim Hetherington Tim Hetherington Dan Pangbourne / Image Source RF