Sunset Reflections
by sjhuls

Comment:
Hey, there ya go, nice finish! And for a non-in-your-face reflection, too :-)

Dressed for the Ball
by jomari

Comment:
Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaa! What a luminous transfiguration!

Grit & Determination
by spiritualspatula

Comment:
Congrats on top 10. I'm surprised it didn't do better.

Winter is coming...
by sjhuls

Comment:
Whoa! Another one for your front page! Congrats!

Blue Dreams
by tanguera

Comment:
Whoo hoo! Almost a personal best! Congrats!

Anticipation
by k9logic

Comment:
Wonderful :-) I suppose you're getting hammered, but I gave it a 9 because it's so quirky and it makes me smile. I'm deaf, but I can hear THIS dog. Owoooooooooo!

Grit & Determination
by spiritualspatula

Comment:
Fabulous image, 9 from me, expect to see it ribboning.

The stranger
by timmi

Comment:
This is my 10. Bumping, and good luck to you, stranger :-)

IMG_3580 venus composite
by sfalice

Comment:
This is what you get when you cross a Great White with a Flytrap?

P1000629
by spiritualspatula

Comment:
Regarding star trails, look at it this way: the stars "move" 15 degrees per hour, as the earth rotates, right? 360 degrees divided by 24 hours. That works out to .25 degrees per minute. Your exposure was a minute, so that's how "far" the stars "moved" during the exposure.

Now, assume your lens covers a field of 90 degrees, it looks fairly wide. That means the stars "moved" 1/360 of the distance across your lens during the exposure. So the star trails would barely be discernible, "star smudge" is what you're gonna have, and not much of that.

Now make the same shot with a telephoto that has a field of view of, say, 5 degrees, and the stars will move 1/20 of the way across that FOV in one minute, producing a noticeable streak.

Here's my 66-second exposure from a couple weeks ago, at 17mm on FF sensor, about 100 degrees of coverage:



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