2017 Photos

[SNEAKers]

Figured I would share a few photos from the last few months:

These were of the sunrise from the peak of Wittenberg on August 9th. Started from the Woodland Valley Campground at 1am and made it to the peak around 4:30am. It was still dark enough to catch a few meteors before the sun started coming up. Not me in the second pic!

https://flic.kr/p/ZwnFcd by S G, on Flickr

Wittenberg Sunrise by S G, on Flickr

This one was my first attempt at star trails. It was taken in Acra, NY during the new moon in October in a friend's yard. Still some tweaks to make, but think it came out pretty good.

Untitled by S G, on Flickr

[Jon]

WOOOw those are so cool! How do you do that with the stars?

[SNEAKers]

Thanks, Jon. I hope you viewed them on a computer so the images aren’t cut off like they are on my phone.

The star trails were taken by setting up the camera on a tripod and aiming at Polaris. Then I took 300 one minute exposures using a timer. After I downloaded all of the images, I dropped them in a program call Starstax, which lays each image over the next. You’ll have little gaps in the trails due to the time between each exposure, so the Stax program has a tool to fill in the gaps.

Glad you like them!

[mike]

Great Photos! this year I haven't had time to take some good pics.