[Leica] IMG: Lone Cypress

[Robert Adler]

Hi Howard,
Some of my best friends are astronomers! ;-)
I was into astronomy in a very light way when my kids were young. Loved it
and attended quite a few open nights. We have some amazingly knowledgable
people here in the Bay Area. One of them took this same image of McWay
Falls that I did, only in the summer and at night:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140629.html

So lots of great resources here.
The image # 6 was a one shot image. There were adjustments made in both LR
and CC to increase the data captured by the camera as well as to tone down
the lighthouse and other bright parts of the image, but no magic other than
what was in the sky.

The summer in the Northern Hemisphere is the best for Milky Way shots, as
you know. Sagittarius is rising and with many more nebulae and star clouds.
As you say a very rich part of our galaxy. In the winter here the arm of
the Milky Way we see is pretty boring from far away. That said, the Horse
Head nebula in Orion is great close up with a telescope, but not much more.

The first astro-landscape image I ever took was the one, #6 in the image
index, you mention. It was taken with my Credo 50 attached to an old Mamiya
camera with the 45/2,8 exposed wide open for 9 seconds (the periodicity of
the light from the lighthouse. This is the equivalent of a 35mm field of
view and perspective on our full frame Leica's. The coast was amazingly
clear, but just as I opened the shutter a mist cloud blew by the lighthouse
highlighting the beams. Beginner's luck. My winter shots are not as
colorful because the view of the galaxy is not as colorful as the summer
view.

Thanks for looking and for the advice.
Best,
Bob

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

> My favorite is next to the ones you mentioned in your post, #6 in the
> thumbnails. Besides being esthetically a knockout, Bob, this is really a
> remarkable image, capturing the night sky fairly deeply without blasting
> out the highlights of the lighthouse. Any technical wizardry there, as in
> Photoshop?
>
> This image combines one of my favorite spots on Earth with one of my
> favorite spots in the sky, the southern Milky Way, showing the asterism
> called the Teapot (the brightest 8 or 9 stars in the left half) in the
> constellation Sagittarius, with a rich localized part of the Milky Way
> called the Scutum Star Cloud, here shown as a bluish cloud just above where
> the beam from the lighthouse seems to be pointing, rising like a puff of
> vapor from the spout on the right side of the Teapot, which is tipped over
> about 45 degrees.
>
> If you’re not an amateur astronomer, I recommend that you google for a
> local astronomy club (millions of ‘em in CA) and find out when they’re
> having public viewing sessions at a dark-sky location this summer. Find the
> club member with the biggest binoculars (really big, on a tripod) on the
> field and ask him to show you the sights of the southern Milky Way around
> Sagittarius and Scutum. Cup your hands around the eyepieces to keep out
> stray light and lose yourself in the stars while you linger a couple of
> minutes at each stop. It will be a memorable experience. There was a nice
> essay describing this in the Focal Point readers’ essay on the last page of
> the magazine in the “Sky and Telescope” issue of February 2015. I’ll email
> you a copy.
>
>
> —howard
>
>
> > On Feb 16, 2016, at 10:46 PM, Bob Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Nope. It was duked out in court with the PPA.
> >
> > Bob Adler
> > Robert Adler Photography
> > www.robertadlerphotography.com
> >
> >> On Feb 15, 2016, at 10:36 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Don't you have to pay licensing fee?! The Sunset is my favorite of the
> >> bunch. Thanks
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Probably a different view of the Pebble Beach, 17 Mile Drive landmark:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.robertadlerphotography.com/p463316036/h6d3a0b06#h6d3a0b06
> >>> M240 + M 21/f1,4+M 35/f1,4
> >>>
> >>> Two other images are after this one from last week in the Monterey,
> Carmel
> >>> and Big Sur:
> >>> Bench View - Pt. Lobos
> >>> http://www.robertadlerphotography.com/p463316036/h6c3a61a0#h6c3a61a0
> >>> Alpa+Credo 50+50mm Rodenstock
> >>>
> >>> Julia Pfeiffer Falls Sunset:
> >>> http://www.robertadlerphotography.com/p463316036/h6c3a61a0#h68c7f468
> >>> Leica M 240 + M 35mm/f1,4
> >>>
> >>> Hope you enjoy.
> >>> Best,
> >>> Bob
> >>>
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