Share your Photos........ - The Firearms Forum

time2shoot · 08-30-2012, 08:22 PM

The wife took these. All at night. can you find the shooting star?

jedwil · 08-30-2012, 08:39 PM

She did good, Dale. And I can't see a shooting star on my laptop.

ponycar17 · 08-30-2012, 08:46 PM

time2shoot, those are awesome! Your wife seems to like the long-exposure stuff like I do.

I've never gotten as good of lightning shots as she has however. I use an interval timer with 30 second exposures continuously during thunder storms to TRY and get shots like this but I never do.

I see a streak behind the wind turbine and one within its blades. Are you sure that's not an aircraft or satellite? The reason I ask is because I routinely get aircraft that look like streaks or even the occasional satellite under the right conditions. Depending on how long the shot was, it could be any of the above, including a shooting star. I'm not doubting you if you know that it's a shooting star though. I say this only because I attempted to get a shot of the meteor shower a couple of weeks ago and only got a few passing aircraft. Bummer...

Nice shooting!!!

gdmoody · 08-30-2012, 09:33 PM

I see a couple of million stars but nothing shooting! Some great pictures.

68c15 · 08-30-2012, 09:58 PM

Damn!!! she's good
our wives should get together sometime. then we could go hunting while they watch the children and talk cameras

time2shoot · 08-30-2012, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by ponycar17

time2shoot, those are awesome! Your wife seems to like the long-exposure stuff like I do.

I've never gotten as good of lightning shots as she has however. I use an interval timer with 30 second exposures continuously during thunder storms to TRY and get shots like this but I never do.

I see a streak behind the wind turbine and one within its blades. Are you sure that's not an aircraft or satellite? The reason I ask is because I routinely get aircraft that look like streaks or even the occasional satellite under the right conditions. Depending on how long the shot was, it could be any of the above, including a shooting star. I'm not doubting you if you know that it's a shooting star though. I say this only because I attempted to get a shot of the meteor shower a couple of weeks ago and only got a few passing aircraft. Bummer...

Nice shooting!!!

Yep thats the shooting star. She took it at the same time as the shower two weeks ago.

time2shoot · 08-30-2012, 10:12 PM

She also does some thing, where she takes three pics of the same thing with three difrent setings and then combines them.

This is one of them. the first one. the light on the bottom are headlights glowing.

time2shoot · 08-30-2012, 10:14 PM

Anyone feal free to post a pic or pics. PLEASE.
And the wife said thank you.

WHSmithIV · 08-30-2012, 11:02 PM

I found the shooting star - 2nd photo to the left of the lightning about in the middle of the lightning flash and at the edge of the cloud bank. It's either a shooting star or a new flash of lightning just beginning

08-31-2012, 05:10 AM

HDR is what you do with Photomatix. I love that program I paid the $100 to own it. VERY MUCH worth the price if you are going to do that kind of photography. Have her check out stuckincustoms.com and RC Conceptions http://www.aboutrc.com/blog/

Here are a couple of my HDR shots from this summer.

These were taking with my Nikon D5000 and the stock 18-55mm at F5.3

Sun Set in Avon NC (Outer Banks)

Another sun set from Avon NC.

These were taking with my Nikon D5000 and the Nikon 14-24mm Super wide angle lens. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...r_14_24mm.html

My dads old Trac tractor.

Burney Falls in Northern California.

time2shoot · 08-31-2012, 11:36 AM

Cpttango. Those are awesome I'll definitely let her know.
She uses a canon D60

gunguy25 · 08-31-2012, 02:23 PM

this was done with just a cheap Olympus 840, And Beautiful pics guys.

dbrodin · 08-31-2012, 03:36 PM

Two of the Madison WI skyline at sunset. Both have some color/contrast tweaks done.

Dale

Dennis C · 08-31-2012, 04:42 PM

you guys have talent!

08-30-2012, 08:22 PM	#1
time2shoot Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Brandon SD Contributor Posts: 2,612	Share your Photos........ The wife took these. All at night. can you find the shooting star? Attached Images __________________ I AM A VETERAN MY OATH OF ENLISTMENT HAS NO EXPIRATION DATE! -->

08-30-2012, 08:39 PM	#2
jedwil Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Texas Hill Country Contributor Posts: 1,974	Re: Share your Photos........ She did good, Dale. And I can't see a shooting star on my laptop. __________________ "Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." -- John F. Kennedy

08-30-2012, 08:46 PM	#3
ponycar17 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: South Carolina Contributor Posts: 4,884	Re: Share your Photos........ time2shoot, those are awesome! Your wife seems to like the long-exposure stuff like I do. I've never gotten as good of lightning shots as she has however. I use an interval timer with 30 second exposures continuously during thunder storms to TRY and get shots like this but I never do. I see a streak behind the wind turbine and one within its blades. Are you sure that's not an aircraft or satellite? The reason I ask is because I routinely get aircraft that look like streaks or even the occasional satellite under the right conditions. Depending on how long the shot was, it could be any of the above, including a shooting star. I'm not doubting you if you know that it's a shooting star though. I say this only because I attempted to get a shot of the meteor shower a couple of weeks ago and only got a few passing aircraft. Bummer... Nice shooting!!! __________________ Arm yourself with intellectual Ammunition! Gunfacts 5.1 Myth-Busting Facts JustFacts.com on Gun Control Stopping Power, the Downloadable Book

08-30-2012, 09:33 PM	#4
gdmoody Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northeast Georgia Contributor Posts: 6,403	Re: Share your Photos........ I see a couple of million stars but nothing shooting! Some great pictures. __________________ NRA Endowment Member GeorgiaCarry.Org Member Retired US Army Postal Worker Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass whoopin'.....author unknown (but obviously brilliant)

08-30-2012, 09:58 PM	#5
68c15 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 2,151	Re: Share your Photos........ Damn!!! she's good our wives should get together sometime. then we could go hunting while they watch the children and talk cameras __________________ I'll go defenseless when our leaders do the same

08-30-2012, 10:12 PM	#7
time2shoot Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Brandon SD Contributor Posts: 2,612	Re: Share your Photos........ She also does some thing, where she takes three pics of the same thing with three difrent setings and then combines them. This is one of them. the first one. the light on the bottom are headlights glowing. Attached Images __________________ I AM A VETERAN MY OATH OF ENLISTMENT HAS NO EXPIRATION DATE!

08-30-2012, 10:14 PM	#8
time2shoot Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Brandon SD Contributor Posts: 2,612	Re: Share your Photos........ Anyone feal free to post a pic or pics. PLEASE. And the wife said thank you. __________________ I AM A VETERAN MY OATH OF ENLISTMENT HAS NO EXPIRATION DATE!

08-30-2012, 11:02 PM	#9
WHSmithIV Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: Moore, Idaho contributor Posts: 2,795	Re: Share your Photos........ I found the shooting star - 2nd photo to the left of the lightning about in the middle of the lightning flash and at the edge of the cloud bank. It's either a shooting star or a new flash of lightning just beginning

08-31-2012, 05:10 AM	#10
cpttango30 Adnanced Senior Member Posts: n/a	Re: Share your Photos........ HDR is what you do with Photomatix. I love that program I paid the $100 to own it. VERY MUCH worth the price if you are going to do that kind of photography. Have her check out stuckincustoms.com and RC Conceptions http://www.aboutrc.com/blog/ Here are a couple of my HDR shots from this summer. These were taking with my Nikon D5000 and the stock 18-55mm at F5.3 Sun Set in Avon NC (Outer Banks) Another sun set from Avon NC. These were taking with my Nikon D5000 and the Nikon 14-24mm Super wide angle lens. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...r_14_24mm.html My dads old Trac tractor. Burney Falls in Northern California. Last edited by cpttango30; 08-31-2012 at 05:14 AM..

08-31-2012, 11:36 AM	#11
time2shoot Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Brandon SD Contributor Posts: 2,612	Re: Share your Photos........ Cpttango. Those are awesome I'll definitely let her know. She uses a canon D60 __________________ I AM A VETERAN MY OATH OF ENLISTMENT HAS NO EXPIRATION DATE!

08-31-2012, 02:23 PM	#12
gunguy25 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: TN Contributor Posts: 883	Re: Share your Photos........ this was done with just a cheap Olympus 840, And Beautiful pics guys. Attached Images

08-31-2012, 03:36 PM	#13
dbrodin V.I.P. Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Duluth MN Posts: 427	Re: Share your Photos........ Two of the Madison WI skyline at sunset. Both have some color/contrast tweaks done. Dale Attached Images

08-31-2012, 04:42 PM	#14
Dennis C Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: South Dakota Posts: 789	Re: Share your Photos........ you guys have talent! __________________ "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." - Thomas Jefferson