Some nice stuff there, I particularly liked number four.

A few shots from Sunday of the festival, very wet in the morning but drying out and clearing up in the afternoon

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Any comments welcome, obviously with any panning practice there's loads more than this and in all honesty not a great deal to choose between them.

No, that was near the Academy, down near the university on Oxford Road. Many years since I've been near the Apollo (unless it's near there as well).

While hanging around in Manchester waiting for a gig a few Saturdays ago, I wandered around taking some general photos and soon found myself with a 'new against old' theme I hadn't bargained for.

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Away from that, there were some interesting geometric shapes going on

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Any comments gratefully received. I hadn't got my tripod with me, otherwise I'd have waited until after dark to see what else goes on, though I must admit I was a bit apprehensive about wandering around some parts in daylight, never mind later.

That's a good idea. Those images are just using StarStax to do its thing. I was thinking about whether Deep Sky Stacker might deal with it, but that's probably overkill.

Having merged some images of the ISS the other night, it seems that getting a decent number of shots to build up the length of the pass is great...




but it really needs some foreground object to bring some perspective.




So I need to combine both of them for next time, and try to match the longer pass with the foreground. But of course the issue is that while I have multiple 5s exposures built together to form the ISS trail, the stars are now turning into trails which isn't helping the image.

Though really these weren't the kind of thing I was talking about.

Thanks for that. I'll be having a play later, there's an ISS pass tonight at around 20:51 so if the sky is clear I'll have a go. I did some the other night that I haven't looked at yet, just for a change I used my manual Mirage 28mm f2.8 lens to see if the extra aperture helped. I have seen a used 50mm f1.7 lens locally, but it's on the front of a film camera and to my mind a bit pricey. If it's gone next time I visit, looks like someone else disagreed.

I keep trying to get involved in one of these, if it's OK I'll keep an eye on the date and see how it fits in.

Ah, OK - my eyes were so taken in with the pretty colours that I didn't get past the headline prices.

Might another option be to seek out an old manual focus lens and use 'catch in focus'? I got some decent shots of approaching racing cars (well, I thought they were decent enough) using a manual Tamron 500mm mirror lens and that feature on my Kx. Obviously that's quite a small aperture, but something like a manual 28mm f2.8 wide angle might do.

I noticed on my old Mirage 28mm that the focus pointer is surrounded by notations to indicate the depth of field on various apertures, and that none of my more modern AF lenses have that information. Is that because they're all zooms, or because it's just not felt that it might be useful any more?