Astrophotography with the K-3
Posted 26/03/2017 - 02:13
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Excellent, very otherworldly!
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Posted 26/03/2017 - 08:16
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is anyone else "hearing" the Star Trek theme as they look at these?
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Posted 26/03/2017 - 09:10
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Excellent, well done for braving the cold! Were these taken in a dark sky area?
Posted 26/03/2017 - 09:17
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These look fantastic. 🖒
Posted 26/03/2017 - 09:55
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RobL wrote:
Excellent, well done for braving the cold! Were these taken in a dark sky area?
These were taken from home (inner city) so there was lots of light pollution.Excellent, well done for braving the cold! Were these taken in a dark sky area?
I haven't done anything recently even though I picked up the DA300. An attempted burglary at the turn of the year spooked me enough to have me avoid staying in the garden alone (in the dark) for extended periods of time. It's sad but true.
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Posted 26/03/2017 - 11:09
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Fantastic job. Particularly love the Andromeda one.
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Posted 26/03/2017 - 15:49
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Spellbinding set of images and as Daronl said very inspirational you make me want to try some night sky shots thanks for sharing
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Posted 26/03/2017 - 17:31
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Got back from star party myself I bet my images aren't as good as yours thanks for posting them
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Posted 26/03/2017 - 18:10
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Thank you very much for your encouraging words
Please guys, do take astrophotography up. We're blessed that Pentax makes it so accessible. The O-GPS1 unit is amazing and it comes as standard with the K3ii and K-1.
If anyone requires any help at all, feel free to message me. I'm awful at it compared to some of the guys around on the internet so it's always a learning curve.
Please guys, do take astrophotography up. We're blessed that Pentax makes it so accessible. The O-GPS1 unit is amazing and it comes as standard with the K3ii and K-1.
If anyone requires any help at all, feel free to message me. I'm awful at it compared to some of the guys around on the internet so it's always a learning curve.
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Posted 26/03/2017 - 18:44
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Great set of photos. I really like the Andromeda photo!
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Posted 27/03/2017 - 20:37
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I like the opening image! Can you PP it so the blacks have a stronger black point ?
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Posted 27/03/2017 - 20:43
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It was really hard to get the noise level down and still preserve the dust clouds from what I can remember. I had other versions that had more punchy blacks but I ultimately preferred this version.
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