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Der Himmel Über London.
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Very cool exercise. Note your last frame in particular: (1) you can clearly see the different colors of the stars, corresponding to their differing temperatures, (2) you captured a meteor, about 1/3 in from the right and down from the top.
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Hi Rich,
Fascinating! Having your expertise at ‘hand’, so to speak, is incredible. so it wasn’t just satellites then? I thought it’d be impossible for stars to be visible due to the light pollution (plus I thought that the Earth wouldn’t be revolving that fast for them to sort of draw a line). Which ones of the ‘lines’ are stars, and how do we recognise the different kind of stars based on their colours?
And last question, is the meteorite the purple-blue-ish trail 1/3 from the right?
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Success! And the title was one already. Have you heard of Mr. Bruno Ganz’ recent passing, one of the original angels in Berlin? It touched me. I’ve always loved this film so much.
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Yes, I read it not long ago and, in facts, it was that news that gave me the idea for the title. Anyhow, to me he’ll always be the actor of Downfall. A great film, a great performance.
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I’m speechless. What a sight
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Thanks 🙂
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Really amazing photos!
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Thank you Anna!
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Very cool, Fabrizio.
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Thanks Julie!
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Wow, these make for extremely interesting photographs. What a busy sky.
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Thanks Jolandi! 🙂 Indeed a busy sky. I wonder how it’d be if one was to do the same in Dubai!
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Me too! Perhaps another reason for you to visit the UAE . . . 😉
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Interesting exercise. Strangely enough I’ve never tried the really long exposures you have here. I’ve never seen as good a visual of jet’s holding pattern.
It doesn’t take long to get a star trail. Have you heard of the rule of 500? Divide 500 by your focal length to get the max time you can shoot before the stars start leaving a trail. So, if you were shooting with a 35mm lens, you can’t shoot for longer than 14 seconds (500/35=14, roughly). If you have a crop sensor camera you need to adjust that ratio. For example my camera is an APS-C crop sensor, which means I’d need to multiply the 35 by 1.5 (=52) before doing the division. So, with a 35mm on my camera I can only shoot for roughly10 seconds before the stars show movement. (These are considerations for shooting milky way pictures, which I suspect you’ll be trying soon if you get away from city lights.)
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Hi Dave!
I hadn’t heard about the 500 rule, thanks for it. I’ve added it to my little book of photo ideas, we’re going to Chile later in the year and hopefully I’ll be able to use it for night-time photography…
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It’s amazing to think that this is all made possible by agreements among nations about flight paths and satellite paths so whatever there are flying in the sky won’t collide into one another. Certainly a concept that has only recently been developed throughout the history of mankind.
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Indeed! Agreements, best practices and a lot of talking. And it works! Planes of all kinds, from everywhere, doing it. Sometimes I think we should let the geeks run the world.
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Great pictures, glad to see you’re getting into super long exposures! London was a fitting choice, I think Heathrow alone shuffled more than 80 million passengers last year.
Hope it wasn’t too cold? I had my share of colds from waiting with chattering teeth next to a tripod.
– Verne
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Hi Verne, it wasn’t cold at all! 🙂 Thanks for reading or, rather, watching!
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