night photography
 

My walk home from the studio is about 600' of trail / road, without any traffic ever, and fairly minimal light pollution. When the moon isn't up, I use a headlamp -- when the moon is up, I tend to see a lot more shooting stars.

Took a little while to sit in the road and take photos tonight. ISO100, f2.0, 50 and 60s exposure.

http://www.georgevidas.com/artpark/night1sm.jpg

http://www.georgevidas.com/artpark/night2sm.jpg

http://www.georgevidas.com/artpark/night3sm.jpg

awesome. thanks!

do moar!

What LJ said. The mood is very intriguing

How did you compensate for motions of stars and the moon ?

Thanks, guys.

I didn't compensate at all. Just a point and shoot camera sitting on the ground, propped up on the lens cap.

I think that there's less-visible star motion in some parts of the photos because I was taking them mostly to the north west, north, and northeast. From what I remember of astronomy, the perceivable rotation of the earth is less when you're looking at something along the axis, i.e. the north star.

I'm impressed... for 50 or 60 sec exposures, you are very steady !

Beautiful!
What are those sideways hammock looking thingies?

Beautiful. Nice job.

Lovely. I miss the same kind of walks home from the studio. I used a head lamp book light usually. I do miss the solitary walks and all the stars! Thank you for posting this.

I'm wondering, too, what those tripod-ish thing-a-ma-bobs are.


ETA: Nice pics. (I wish I could do more than eight-second exposures w/my camera.)

Nice clear views of Ursa Major and Cassiopeia!

Very cool. What studio? What do you do in the studio?

excellent pictures!

A sculpture:

http://www.georgevidas.com/artpark/bh_pana.jpg

see also: http://www.thethirditeration.info/ http://lamppoles.blogspot.com/

That's a tricky question. On my end, I'm trying to figure out how best to live with myself. Lately the result has been a handful of painted doodles (doodling with paint: pushing paint for its own sake.)

That's a nice walk home from a studio.

I love this gvidas. I used to have a brief walk from our studio at night. I miss the stars and the intoxication of raw creativity, privacy, and directly confronting the night sky on the brief
walk home. Thank you for posting a similar experience.

Enjoyed the link. I'm partial to helices
Can't help wondering how multiple artists come to agreement on a project !

I'm pretty into the whole idea of collaborations, because you're sort of passing up your own ego for the sake of finding something new. There's a fine balance there, and it's closely related to the broader issue of originality vs. sincerity.

But that's a pet topic.

http://www.georgevidas.com/artpark/panas/nighttime1.jpg

The reddish-pink lights on the left are navigation lights on an inactive wind farm.

http://www.georgevidas.com/artpark/night_lodge1.jpg

http://www.georgevidas.com/artpark/night_lodge2.jpg

g, is there a red-balloon boogeyman stalking around your night?

what's going on with the front end of that truck?

It's parked behind the pot plants.

no, that's another sculpture. This is definitely an odd landscape to walk around in, in terms of boogeymanish shapes and shadows.

And yeah, thar be plants.

looks like an Otterness

from Astronomy Picture of the Day

The recent solar eclipse, from El Calafate, Patagonia, Argentina:

I know, it's cheating.

Neat Photo !

Gorgeous pictures, Gvidas! :thumb:

I know it's cheating but it's still a great photograph!

Looks like, left to right, Norfolk, Richmond, DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York.

Yup - the East Coast.

I've been there.

220 miles above the Earth?

~ i can see my house from here! ~

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.i really love night images and night printing posters.and i use ow some colors in night images. i really like it.

Dara seems to be a bot, or has a very similar life to Arthur Dent (I think) in Elspodes' signature.

Happy Monkey, Robot Detector.

Just took this picture of moonrise from my front porch. The previous exposures have the utility lines crossing the face of the moon. This was the first one to rise above them from my point of view.

edited exif:

35mm equiv 149 mm focal length

1/20 sec exposure

f/4.5

ISO 80

Attachment 39961

I would have thought a longer exposure than 1/20th of a sec.

Kool pic.

Remember, it's a beautiful bright sunny day on the moon. The night is dark, but the moon is bright.

Good point.