polvo~
it looks like your NS shot is rotated about 15-20 degrees from the NC shot of ron's
but it's probably just a different camera angle or time of evening.
one of the (many) odd things about spending winters living in the cabin in the desert in az, was how different the night sky looked. Orion was in a very different place, and the crescent moon often looked like bull’s horns - an angle we don’t seem to see up here. it actually felt a bit disorienting.
yours is sharper. but compared to you, ron and i are rank amateurs at night sky/moon shooting... and you mentioned that you had a very clear sky.
i cheated a bit. bumped the sharpness up a bit when i was resizing the photo to post here. still, yes, i have quite a lot of hours of experience working with this camera and most photos turn out as hoped. my rule with new cameras is to work with them a lot each day. not for long enough that i get mad and frustrated - as soon as istart to get that feeling, i quickly put the camera down. we must remain friends as we I’ll eventually be extensions of each other. i have had that working relationship with all of my cameras. that said, those first few days are always kind of awkward. i almost never RTFM and prefer to wing it as i learn how a new camera works. what i learn by myself with stay with me and form our knowledge base. photographing birds and insects requires a different relationship with a camera as you can’t really be thinking about settings, etc.... there isn’t enough time, so everything must be intuitive.... instinctive... i know you will know how that feels from flying and working with camera gear.
do you have a camera that will shoot time lapses? (like of the night sky or a work project?)
what do you use... or what WOULD you use if you were to get one in the amateur price range? haha. that’s something i have thought about trying, but have not really done much over the years. i believe this P900 can do some of this, but have not given it a shot. i see that people on some forums have tried it for various purposes. leave this with me for a day and i may have an answer. :)
i had a nightmare about jupiter appearing in the night sky about ten times larger than the
full moon when i was about 5 years old... does that count? <g> that could be pretty damned scary. i had something like that happen in my late teenage years, but that’s a story for some other place. :o)
any progress on getting a drone for your forest group? not yet. got sort of bogged down by life. then the covid came along and i have barely left my place in 3 months. in retrospect, i should hav gone ahead and gotten something and practiced flying it over my own property. been distracted though. van problems which i am trying to get solved this week. nothing like living a few miles from your town with only one limping vehicle during a pandemic where everyone is told to isolate and not drive around together. it’s been interesting. anyhow, all that to say that the drone kind of fluttered down to the bottom of the to do list. i did get an AudioMoth - a tiny sound-activated recorder that can be placed in a forest for weeks to record bird song so that you know who is nesting in the vicinity. i need to get some experience working with that. always too much to do, but that’s okay. management by crisis. i am the architect of my personal form of chaos. <g/ng>
~croco |
