IntrepidXJ
NAXJA Member #647
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- Grand Junction, CO
Minnie Gulch
Scenic Wheeling Picture Thread
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IntrepidXJ
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- Grand Junction, CO
Maggie Gulch
IntrepidXJ
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- Grand Junction, CO
Yankee Boy Basin
IntrepidXJ
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- Grand Junction, CO
Yankee Boy Basin
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- Grand Junction, CO
Needle Mountains
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Silverton
Handlebars
NAXJA Member #135
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM
Orion rising over Valley of the Gods, Utah
:thumbup: - getting that new camera sorted out I see. nice starfield!
IntrepidXJ
NAXJA Member #647
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- Grand Junction, CO
Orion rising over Valley of the Gods, Utah
you stripped out the EXIF data...what settings did you use?
very cool photo
Handlebars
NAXJA Member #135
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM
Thanks guys!
All of the photos I post come from RAW files that I run through Adobe Camera Raw 4.5 and Photoshop Elements 6.0. PS must strip the EXIF data in the process. I would love to know how I can do this without losing the data.
That shot was done at ISO 1600, f/4 @ 30 seconds with the 24-120 lens set to 24mm, white balance set to auto. Focus mode was set to manual on the camera and the lens. I had a very hard time focusing on the stars through the viewfinder so I ended up just centering the infinity mark on the index line and checking the resulting images for focus by zooming in the display LCD. One cool feature I really like about this camera is the artificial horizon. It tells me which way to tilt the camera to level it. Previously, my night photos were always out of whack. With the camera on a tripod I ran around with my LED flashlight to illuminate the foreground.
Since shooting a RAW image does only half the job towards producing a photo I'll share the steps I took in Photoshop to finish it.
In Adobe Camera Raw I changed the white balance to "fluorescent" because that looked more natural to my eye, as shot the WB was 4050k. I changed the exposure to +25, fill light to 87, blacks to 8, contrast to +64, saturation to -19. In the "detail" tab I set luminance noise reduction to 70 and color NR to 50 to reduce the noise from the long exposure and high ISO.
Here's another one of the Milky Way:
Out of 3 weeks of camping I have done this year this was the first trip where I had an unobstructed view of a moonless night sky. I slept in the hammock and enjoyed the show in one of the darkest parts of the country.
All of the photos I post come from RAW files that I run through Adobe Camera Raw 4.5 and Photoshop Elements 6.0. PS must strip the EXIF data in the process. I would love to know how I can do this without losing the data.
That shot was done at ISO 1600, f/4 @ 30 seconds with the 24-120 lens set to 24mm, white balance set to auto. Focus mode was set to manual on the camera and the lens. I had a very hard time focusing on the stars through the viewfinder so I ended up just centering the infinity mark on the index line and checking the resulting images for focus by zooming in the display LCD. One cool feature I really like about this camera is the artificial horizon. It tells me which way to tilt the camera to level it. Previously, my night photos were always out of whack. With the camera on a tripod I ran around with my LED flashlight to illuminate the foreground.
Since shooting a RAW image does only half the job towards producing a photo I'll share the steps I took in Photoshop to finish it.
In Adobe Camera Raw I changed the white balance to "fluorescent" because that looked more natural to my eye, as shot the WB was 4050k. I changed the exposure to +25, fill light to 87, blacks to 8, contrast to +64, saturation to -19. In the "detail" tab I set luminance noise reduction to 70 and color NR to 50 to reduce the noise from the long exposure and high ISO.
Here's another one of the Milky Way:
Out of 3 weeks of camping I have done this year this was the first trip where I had an unobstructed view of a moonless night sky. I slept in the hammock and enjoyed the show in one of the darkest parts of the country.
Handlebars
NAXJA Member #135
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM
A brief pause while hauling a$$ out of Valley of the Gods to a 10am meeting at Hite:
Handlebars
NAXJA Member #135
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM
It's about time Jared! Those were worth the wait. :thumbup:
Where is the White Sands Road?
Where is the White Sands Road?
DrMoab
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- The Utah Backwater
New Mexico of course.
:wierd:
Thanks Alex, far from finished yet. :shiver:
The White Sands Rd is NW of Bigwater, Utah. Start up Cottonwood Wash Rd, then make a right to go to Brigham Plains Rd, go straight (where a loop starts on the right) till you cross a wash, make a right, cross another wash, go straight where a road goes North, Go straight again (where the loop ends on the right), then before you get to Wahweap Wash make another Right IIRC :yap:- white sands road goes S. by S.E. along the benches from there to Bigwater above the white cliffs
Or from Big Water take the road that criss crosses up Wahweap Wash to Nipple Wash, instead of going up Nipple Wash you go down it back to and across Wahweap wash and through Three Gates in quick proximity and up a loose shelf road. It was such a confusing hassle I took a photo of it.
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Cnickgo
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- Monterey, CA
Some fall colors over here on the east side of things:
