Orionid Meteor Shower Last Saturday Morning (HD Timelapse Video) The Orionid Meteor Shower this year was a bit of a dud. I was shooting up at 11,000 feet in the White Mountains and ran my camera for about 4 hours, from 10:40pm Friday until 2:50am, well after the moon came up. To see how a much more active meteor shower looks, here's one of my Perseid Meteor Shower videos from the same location, displayed on the Discover Magazine blog, best viewed full screen: Perseids, Writ Large http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/08/25/perseids-writ-large/ I have a number of posts on my blog www.MyPhotoGuides.com * related to night shooting and timelapse videos. Here's one of the more recent ones building on those pasts posts: Create a Timelapse Video of a Meteor Shower http://activesole.blogspot.com/2011/08/create-timelapse-video-of-meteor-shower.html I'm curious to see how an HD 720P video gets displayed on G+. I have a ton of timelapse footage that I haven't foun...
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ReplyDeleteThanks everyone!Johan Klovsjö, The full intensity of the sun reflecting off of white frost is far brighter than the sky! Like standing on sunlit snow, it's not much less bright than looking directly into the sun itself, so in absolute terms, the frost on the grass is actually far too dark (the image simply doesn't have anything brighter than white to represent that eye-burning intensity). Sure, I could artificially edit the sky brighter, perhaps a bit warmer, but that would take viewer focus off the subject of the image, and reduce the viewer's perception of just how bright that foreground really is.
ReplyDeleteJohan, I apologize for not explaining it further up front... that sort of detail tends to come out in several paragraphs I might write to describe a photo on Flickr, but in the few words for a caption here a lot can get lost. I think once I catch up and start to add photos to Google+ one at a time (rather than sets of 500), the detail will be added with the new post.
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