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11/20/2013 02:55:55 PM · #26 |
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11/20/2013 03:58:39 PM · #27 |
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11/20/2013 06:09:04 PM · #28 |
Less serious photographers are usually to cheap to spring for it... but if you can pick up a little spacecraft at your local camera store I recommend doing so.
For example, I snatched up the Solar Dynamics Observatory for a song and have been trying it out for photography without a camera stuff!
It has been a good little addition to my equipment list, too.
Just a couple weeks ago there was a cool X3 solar flare... I was quick enough to reposition the spacecraft to catch the action:
X3 Solar Flare (AIA) at 304 angstroms - 11/6/2013
With everyone excited about Comet ISON coming, here is a rather unusual view of a comet and many giant solar flares that I took:
Largest Solar Flare Ever/Comet Transit of the Sun - 11/5/2003
Ya gotta admit... you don't see that view of a comet very often, huh?
Here are a couple other little spur-of-the-moment thingies I managed to capture...
The Great Flare of August 31, 2012
Great Flare of 6/7/2011 showing Earth Scale
Two X-Flare Day on Sun - 10/25/2013
Any photographer worth their salt has their own spacecraft to photograph space weather.
I own the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the old SOHO spacecraft.
What do you other folks use?
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11/20/2013 07:44:22 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by Artifacts:
Any photographer worth their salt has their own spacecraft to photograph space weather.
I own the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the old SOHO spacecraft.
What do you other folks use? |
I have my own Imperial Star Destroyerâ€Â¦I got it for a song after the second Death Star debacle. The Empire was liqudating assets left and right to cover the expenses on that one. Came complete with crew, battalion of stormtroopers and a squadron of TIE fighters.
Aside from interstellar travel, it also comes in handy when pesky rent-a-cops try to tell me I can't take pictures of this or thatâ€Â¦
Isn't she a beauty?
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11/20/2013 10:14:27 PM · #30 |
Well, as I note in this thread, you can download and process all kinds of space-acquired data at the Earth Explorer site ...
Screen-shot of work in progress  100% crop sans sharpening 
Message edited by author 2013-11-20 22:15:30. |
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11/20/2013 10:56:58 PM · #31 |
| Every time I see one of these links I have to guess that everyone missed that day in high school art class when photo-realism was discussed... (and for me that was the 80's) |
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11/20/2013 11:14:09 PM · #32 |
| High school art class? Surely you jest ... :-( |
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11/20/2013 11:21:07 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
High school art class? Surely you jest ... :-( |
the very fact that I had one must date me. sigh |
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11/20/2013 11:32:25 PM · #34 |
incredible incredible talent all of them , just because the camera was invented doesn't mean you shouldn't appreciate this style of art, the history of technological advances has laid waste to many things but this kind of talent is not among them
recorded music didn't kill live performances, nor did movies kill plays, texting replace talking oh wait yeah it did
or call of duty put an end to war |
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