Cool Photography

[george7378]

There are some fantastic photography methods here - my personal 'cool' favourites are time-lapse films or long-exposure shots (satellite passes, star trails, car lights on roads, etc...). I am not a creative photographer (yet), but I have got some photos of some weird things, such as the recent noctilucent clouds.

Here is a site I like with some fantastic space time-lapses:

http://www.spacelapse.net/

http://www.spacelapse.net/en/Milkyw...lescopes_Roque_de_los_Muchachos_La_Palma.html

 

[Andy44]

That's awesome, George! I especially like the airplane trails in the Germany video:
http://www.spacelapse.net/en/Milkyway_Timelapse_Videos/Welzheim_Observatory.html

I have seen some amazing photographs taken in the American Southwest from inside caves showing the walls of the cave as well as the Milky Way outside in the sky. I wish I knew how to do that!

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BTW, here's an idea to build the world's biggest pinhole camera in space to take actaul photographs of extrasolar planets:

http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/1226/pinhole-camera-to-image-new-worlds

It would involve a shade with a 10m pinhole aperature and a second, trailing space vehicle many miles away which would carry the light sensor and act as a synthetic focal plane.

This was 2004; I wonder if this idea still lurks somewhere. I'm tempted to post it in the addon request forum.

 

[tblaxland]

This was 2004; I wonder if this idea still lurks somewhere. I'm tempted to post it in the addon request forum.

Awesome idea, but unfortunately NIAC was killed off about three years ago to pay for the Vision for Space Exploration (http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=24698) cutting of a significant funding option. Good luck to them though if the team is still kicking around somewhere.

I saw an exhibition on the weekend at the National Maritime Museum: Portraits of a Shipping Company by David Moore. There are no good images online unfortunately but the exhibition contained some great images. The contrast of the big red container ships to the deep ocean blue was beautiful.

 

[Unstung]

There are some fantastic photography methods here - my personal 'cool' favourites are time-lapse films or long-exposure shots (satellite passes, star trails, car lights on roads, etc...). I am not a creative photographer (yet), but I have got some photos of some weird things, such as the recent noctilucent clouds.

Here is a site I like with some fantastic space time-lapses:

http://www.spacelapse.net/

http://www.spacelapse.net/en/Milkyw...lescopes_Roque_de_los_Muchachos_La_Palma.html

Someone say time lapse?
http://tinyurl.com/2amjolw
http://tinyurl.com/28t4hx6
http://tinyurl.com/2fu44zp
(All are YouTube videos, I made these months ago.)
There's not enough visible stars at night here to do a time-lapse during night, which I wanted to do back then. I can't really do much more than that since I'd rather my camera not get stolen being left off the property.
From my first attempt with a "studio" set-up 6 days ago:
http://unstung.deviantart.com/art/The-Weight-170241768
Gonna do more with that, but I need a prop or two for the mannequin.

 

[bwog]

If my camera had a setting for exposure time more then 1 second, I would of tried taking some pictures of the lightning last night.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Here's a cool gallery of photos taken aboard the Shuttle & ISS using Nikon cameras!

 

[Andy44]

You know Nikon's lovin' that. Time for Hasselblad to get back in the game! Hasselblad makes a ridiculously expensive digital back for their already-steep medium format cameras.

 

[Unstung]

You know Nikon's lovin' that. Time for Hasselblad to get back in the game! Hasselblad makes a ridiculously expensive digital back for their already-steep medium format cameras.

What happened to Hasselblad anyways? Their cameras are very expensive, I know.
According to their website, the last time they mentioned their cameras being used by NASA was in 2001.

 

[Andy44]

What happened to Hasselblad anyways? Their cameras are very expensive, I know.
According to their website, the last time they mentioned their cameras being used by NASA was in 2001.

Oh they're still going strong. The basic model used by the Apollo crews is still in production, and there's a digital back for it that is even more expensive than the already-expensive camera body. Just look them up. http://www.hasselbladusa.com/products/v-system.aspx

I think NASA uses digital SLRs because they are portable, light, and simple to use. It's not like they wouldn't spring for a Hasselblad if they thought they needed it.

 

[Unstung]

Oh they're still going strong. The basic model used by the Apollo crews is still in production, and there's a digital back for it that is even more expensive than the already-expensive camera body. Just look them up. http://www.hasselbladusa.com/products/v-system.aspx

I think NASA uses digital SLRs because they are portable, light, and simple to use. It's not like they wouldn't spring for a Hasselblad if they thought they needed it.

Does the V System shoot film or digital (then wouldn't it be a DSLR)?

 

[tblaxland]

Does the V System shoot film or digital (then wouldn't it be a DSLR)?

It can be used with either film or digital, depending on the back you put on it. They also have a Polaroid back.

 

[Alexw95]

wow those are some nice pics :thumbup:

 

[Andy44]

Here's a guy from New Jersey who makes platinum/palladium prints (as opposed to silver, which is what most black and white photos use). His photos are of NY City and the Jersey Shore. He does some sort of wierd burning and dodging thing which makes his photos look eerie. It must take him hours to do one of these, and who knows how much paper he has to toss before he gets it right!

http://www.afterimage.com/massaia.htm

 

[SiberianTiger]

Found these eerie B&W photos taken with high exposure in Moscow subway:

 

[Andy44]

Very cool, Sib Tig! I think I may have seen those before somewhere, maybe in a magazine. Some of those appear to be taken from shoulder height; surely he's not hand-holding his camera for those long shots?

 

[SiberianTiger]

Very cool, Sib Tig! I think I may have seen those before somewhere, maybe in a magazine. Some of those appear to be taken from shoulder height; surely he's not hand-holding his camera for those long shots?

NP. The last pic had a comment "taken with a camera fixed to the car's wall". Others, I don't know.

 

[george7378]

This was a pretty interesting scene, with the Moon illuminating the fast-moving clouds from behind in this 15-second exposure:

 

[Andy44]

Great photos from the dawn of color photgraphy ca. 1907 or so:

http://citynoise.org/article/10598

Some of those look like they could've been shot yesterday. The quality of the color and sharpness is amazing, too.

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BTW, does anyone else find it amazing that there are people alive today who were born before the first commercially available color photographic process was marketed? Amazing to imagine so much progress in one 105-year-old's lifetime.

 

[tblaxland]

These are pretty cool IMHO:

From APOD:

What that CME looked like when it got here:

A live webcam from Casey Station where the above pic was taken: http://www.aad.gov.au/asset/webcams/casey/default.asp

 

[FordPrefect]

Alright now.

Check this out. That's veeeryyy cool (and sometimes almost eerie):

http://sergey-larenkov.livejournal.com/

:thumbup: