Last night I made it as far as the backyard. I was aiming to take pictures of the Quadrantids Meteor Shower and set up my camera, aimed it at what I thought was the right direction at the right time, and set the timer to shoot continuously for about an hour after which I processed my 190 images in CC2019. (Thank heavens for batch processing.) After going through the images, I think I MAY have gotten ONE small meteor (just to the left of the Pole Star) and a TON of what I think are satellite trails with maybe an airplane or two thrown in. Well.... applying the lemonade philosophy, I stacked everything for star trails and then ruthlessly over-processed it in Aurora HDR. This isn't what I want to do every day, but I kind of like the straight lines with the circles.
In case anyone is curious, that web shaped thing in the lower right isn't a set-up for communicating with outer space, it's my clothes line. The shadows on the neighbor's house are from a yucca tree in the front yard.
well, that's astounding - really - I like this one better than a lot of "cleaner" astrophotographs I've seen - it demonstrates the true riot that is the night sky, everything flying around at sixes and sevens
Wow! This is awesome, Germaine. I love the combination of the urban domestic and the majestic infinite and the in-between diagonals. Love the colours and the shadows too.
loved your story Germaine .. and talk about getting off your rear end .. you totally did that .. altho the processing might have put you back a bit .. anyway .. i'm really loving the high contrast and crazy bright and eye popping colours .. it literally jumps right off my screen this image .. :)
I love that you described the process of taking this picture although I don't have a clue on how to do this or process or stack images or.... Or Aurora HDR. So I enjoy even more the image!
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