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Join Date: Sep 2007
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Castle,Star,City, Rainbow and star trail scapes
A few mixed shots from Kintyre, Dumfries, Stranraer and Glasgow taken over the past few weeks.
1)Dunskey castle
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4)Castle Sween
5)Orchardton tower starscape (tower lit with my led torch during exposure)
6)Orchardton tower star trails (661 second exposure, tower unlit)
7)Rainbow
8)Clyde arc
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1)Dunskey castle
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4)Castle Sween
5)Orchardton tower starscape (tower lit with my led torch during exposure)
6)Orchardton tower star trails (661 second exposure, tower unlit)
7)Rainbow
8)Clyde arc
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These are all pretty amazing DJ - love the castle and tower shots 
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Grant the tower shots realy stand out for me stunning. 
Well done.
Well done.
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Love number 6 DJ
Great technique, and great positioning. It really helps that you know your night sky
I've actually been planning something similar for some time, but haven't really found the right subject.
You've just given me some fresh inspiration!
MD
Great technique, and great positioning. It really helps that you know your night sky
I've actually been planning something similar for some time, but haven't really found the right subject.
You've just given me some fresh inspiration!
MD
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Superb DJ
Love the rainbow shot.
Love the rainbow shot.
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Brilliant photos, I love the rainbow one to.
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Originally Posted by Mandé Daguerre
Love number 6 DJ
Great technique, and great positioning. It really helps that you know your night sky
I've actually been planning something similar for some time, but haven't really found the right subject.
You've just given me some fresh inspiration!
MD
Great technique, and great positioning. It really helps that you know your night sky
I've actually been planning something similar for some time, but haven't really found the right subject.
You've just given me some fresh inspiration!
MD
Thanks MD. I had been thinking about doing star scapes and trails for a while and like yourself I wanted something in the foreground too rather than just the stars. It was not untill recently that I had the idea of having some old castle or ruin in the foreground after visiting several around Kintyre and Dumfries and Galloway, also, there is no light polution down that way either so there are many locations to choose from. I could have done things a little bit different with my exposures as I have the Canon TC-80N3 remote switch which allows me to program any ammount of timed exposures, e'g I could have programmed in multiple 40 second exposures with a 1 second delay between each and then stacked the exposures in astrostack astronomy software or something like that. That way I could have had the long star trails and kept the dark sky as well, unlike i did with my single 600 sec exposure. Just something to consider when you do your own.
Grant
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I really like 5, 6 and 8. How long roughly is 661 seconds?! Must've been quite a wait to see if the shot turned out well!
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Originally Posted by BlackGrace
I really like 5, 6 and 8. How long roughly is 661 seconds?! Must've been quite a wait to see if the shot turned out well!
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Lovely shots, especially the lit up tower and the rainbow 