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harrietsfriend — 4 thousand, 1 hundred 12, What? oops...one, two,*

Published: 2015-07-18 17:26:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 2868; Favourites: 258; Downloads: 31
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Description The other night, when our power was out, I took advantage of the dark and moonless night to capture a photo of the heavens, facing south.  The lens, a 24mm F3.5, and the exposure was 30 seconds, ISO 100. ("When life gives you lemons" July 15th, 2015.)

The next night, I got serious to improve the image.  I changed to my ultra wide 17mm F2.8 lens, upped the ISO to 6400, shortened the time to 15 seconds, to reduce star trailing, and selected this image, facing south/east.  With the increased speed and larger aperture I was able to capture more stars and a bit more of the milky way.  The sky was over illuminated greatly, so much that I deepened the tones, added contrast and selected a naturally pleasing color.

Feel free to download, just give me photo credit.

eugene spiegel

*Note...If you were to count the individual stars, don't get distracted half way through.
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Comments: 21

13-septembre [2015-07-27 06:22:22 +0000 UTC]

*Note...If you were to count the individual stars, don't get distracted half way through.

Half way is a looooong long way

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mazdaspeed3 [2015-07-19 18:04:42 +0000 UTC]

Hilarious playful title!!
 and a fantastical picture.
 Humbling and encouraging at the same time

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TrueCanad1an [2015-07-19 17:03:03 +0000 UTC]

! reason why I like going camping the amount of light pollution is very low and you get to see a great sky  

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ShaozChampion [2015-07-19 15:13:23 +0000 UTC]

wow...Beautiful capture! ^^

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kuzy62 [2015-07-19 12:28:41 +0000 UTC]

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grisador [2015-07-19 12:16:38 +0000 UTC]

 10.005 exact number !   

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Reyichu [2015-07-19 10:09:22 +0000 UTC]

noa if those could be wishes ~ that would be perfect<3 i love the thought of this ! 10/10   

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kohlsen [2015-07-19 05:28:11 +0000 UTC]

.............................................................. ,,,,, , -`-, ..,,,..'`, , . ,, . .,,,.` .,.., ,----- ---- --

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CaptainElsa [2015-07-19 03:01:27 +0000 UTC]

I love how blue that sky is

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Looking4Work [2015-07-19 00:44:15 +0000 UTC]

Wow. Just beautiful.

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slowdog294 [2015-07-18 23:22:30 +0000 UTC]

Nice.

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SinsValentine [2015-07-18 22:42:02 +0000 UTC]

this is beautiful and inspiring, now I want to paint stars

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LightningMcQueen [2015-07-18 22:12:30 +0000 UTC]

stunning

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Kirasel [2015-07-18 21:29:15 +0000 UTC]

Oh, wow, that's beautiful...

*You speaking from experience there?

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harrietsfriend In reply to Kirasel [2015-07-18 21:41:52 +0000 UTC]

let's just say, I not going to try counting anymore.

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Kirasel In reply to harrietsfriend [2015-07-21 06:10:14 +0000 UTC]

Haha, yeah, that's probably for the best.

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musicintrees [2015-07-18 21:22:27 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow, what a beautiful photograph. I enjoy this picture and am really glad to have crossed it ^~^

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Manlarr [2015-07-18 19:44:31 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful

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BubblegumW [2015-07-18 19:40:06 +0000 UTC]

Simply gorgeous! I am amazed on how you managed to capture as many stars as possible! This is a truly breath-taking image.

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professorwagstaff [2015-07-18 19:01:18 +0000 UTC]

This is gorgeous. What a view. I can't believe you can see the Milky Way. The color is so blue. That was one great glass of lemonade.

Thanks for submitting to  ..

Have a wonderful day.

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hpmarocsvp [2015-07-18 18:44:32 +0000 UTC]

This is beautiful!

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