You’re right; that’s the town hall: there are clearly two clocks on the building in the drawing.
Here’s a couple of photos I did for the Devonian Gardens in Edmonton. HDR shot with a Canon 60D on a tripod, in -25 degree C weather. Good times.
HDR was all the rage then. It seems to have died out a bit.
Very painterly.
Yeah. In fact, I think that’s the name of the HDR type I used.
HDR in the ‘painterly’ style got old really fast. I still use HDR from time to time, but only to expand the dynamic range in the photo.
The horror movie version of The Grinch who stole Christmas, The Horror that came on Christmas.
xmas noir
Tibetan prayer wheels
Thumbs up eh
Here’s some of my astrophotography:
Jupiter and Europa:
Spiral galaxy M51:
Globular cluster M92:
The Lunar Appennine mountains:
A closeup of those mountains showing Hadley Rille, a collapsed lava tube. The arrow in the picture marks the exact spot where Apollo 15 landed.
That image was shot at 4000 mm,using an 8" Celestron telescope on a tracking mount with a 2X Barlow lens. It’s basically right at the diffraction limit of resolution for a scope that size.
Very nice.
How did you do the Jupiter photo? I assume it is many exposures, stacked.
Yep. It’s actually four videos taken with a monochrome camera with LRGB filters. The videos are then processed to extract all the frames (about 2,000 frames each), then stacked. Jupiter spins very fast and features will actually move enough to be blurry after a couple of minutes, so I also have to de-rotate each image using a free program called WinJuPos.
That gets you a final four images, one for each color plus luminance, which are then processed into a color image using Photoshop.
The telescope is a Celestron Edge 8 HD scope on a CGEM tracking mount. The camera is an ASI1600mm monochrome astro camera. I used a 2X Barlow for a focal length of 4000mm.
I also use a Canon 60d DSLR when I don’t want to go through the hassle of combining monochrome images, but the results aren’t as good.
It’s an endless learning experience, but lots of fun on a nice night. These pictures are all shot from my backyard in a big city with lots of light pollution and turbulent air, which makes it harder.
I took a little road trip from San Diego to Santa Barbara and took a bunch of pictures. A lot of surfers, because that’s what there was along the coast and surfing looks pretty cool.
The bottom pic is from my drone. In retrospect, I should’ve taken that pic from a lower altitude to make the surfers in the shot the clear subject, but it still looks pretty cool.
Saw this guy on Sunday (tufted titmouse):
The massive oak in my front yard from today’s ice storm.
Where you can get a damn fine cup of coffee.
I love that second shot because closer inspection reveals a totally different perspective from the one you initially see in the first split second.
View from Hickman Bridge Trail, Capitol Reef National Park
I don’t want to forget to say how incredibly good this picture is. Look at it, you guys!
Thanks, @Dung_Beetle. Here is another from the same morning:
