The most complicated shoot I performed on my recent trip to Europe was this image. At a glance, it is a typical photo of the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, Norway, however if you click through, you’ll find a LOT more detail than you normally see in a photo.
This is a composite of over 800 photos, totaling over 3.9 gigapixels in resolution.
I’ll discuss the site more on the Geek Field Guide blog, and write up a how-to to make something like this yourself on this blog later.
In the meantime, take a look, and let me know what you think.
Decided to try out my new telephoto setup last night on the planets. I was in a hurry, so I shot without tripod just to see what would happen. I saw in the camera preview that Venus was a semicircle, so I declared the test a success.
Once I loaded it into Lightroom, however, I realized that the Jovian moons were visible. I’ll give it another shot tonight with a tripod and better settings.
Venus, Jupiter, and Jovian moons. 7D Mk II, 1.4x Extender III, 100-400 IS II. 896mm, 1/60 sec, f/8.0, ISO 16000.
One of my most popular photographs is the one you see above. (High resolution at the end of the article)
Back in August of 2013, I got a text message from a friend:
“Go look at the sky.”
I laughed, and walked out my front door. Absolutely clear skies.
“Um, what am I supposed to be seeing?”
“Look north.”
I took two steps off the front sidewalk and looked to my left.
There, spread across the sky in the distance was a rolling thunderstorm. I could not hear it, but lightning was flashing through the clouds every few seconds.
Getting up at the crack of dawn (or before) to do a shoot is always an interesting experience.
This morning, for example, while shooting the lunar eclipse, I heard a distant meowing. Like some sort of feline sonar, it got more insistent and increased in volume until it was right behind me.
I turn to find a cat (with collar, and apparently well-cared for), sitting there, meowing at me.
