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The Florida Keys are a wonderful string of islands that beg to be explored. There are not a lot of beaches but there are lots of marinas, boats, and beautiful water. The skies there are ever changing which is a photographers dream. This is a pano from Hawk’s Cay Resort on Duck Key. I shot 3 horizontal images in HDR mode (3 images @ 2EV spacing) with the Sony NEX-7. I processed the HDR in Photomatix and stitched the tonemapped images in Autopano Pro.
Photographers move around their world observing and looking for things that catch their interest. When I can’t find one thing that catches my interest I’m willing to admit, I call it a dud morning. Sometimes I pause, concentrate and look around me very deliberately. One morning I didn’t have to think about. I found this cloud to be very odd along the Chesapeake Bay. It was a lone cloud line, almost like a cylinder extending as far as I could see. Nature can still amaze even the skeptics.
Thankful for another day. .jpg) Women pray at the beach. I walked the beach at night and tried a few shots along the way. It was very dark looking into Atlantic waters but there was a bit of light that allowed the surf and beach area to get some exposure. The white hazy line is the crashing surf during a 30 second exposure. A low tidal pool flowed back to the ocean and it picked up a few reflections of the stars. Stars looking eastward over the Atlantic Ocean. Some light pollution allows some exposure of the beach and surf. South of Myrtle Beach South Carolina is a National Historic Landmark called Brookgreen Gardens. Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington founded it in the 1930’s. Archer and Anna would be on my list of the 10 most interesting people to have dinner with. They would leave Connecticut each winter and travel to South Carolina with a trailer-home full of pets that consisted of monkey’s, exotic birds and dogs. Once they arrived at their hispanic-style home, Atalaya, along the coast, the locally hired “help” would have the house ready for them. Archer, in his philanthropic ways would hang out on the breakfast porch, surrounded by his favorite dogs, writing poetry and thinking of new places to found a museum. Anna who was a world renowned sculpture would create life-sized sculptures from clay while glancing away periodically to chuckle at her monkeys. There is no doubt in my mind they would be a fun couple to hang out with. The Huntington’s never had children. They called March 10th their 3-in-1 day, it was the date of their mutual birthdays and wedding day. This pic was taken in Brookgreen Gardens and consists of 5 images at 1EV spacing. Processed in Photomatix – if you’re interested try beforethecoffee for the discount. Brookgreen Gardens live oak trees line the old carriage lane.
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Io non sono convinto che la foto sia stata scattata così come è stato descritto.
Osservando i puntini bianchi, che dovrebbero essere delle stelle, si notano delle piccole scie luminose incoerenti con quanto si ottiene con lunghe esposizioni notturne.
Le scie, di solo poche stelle, appaiono a raggera (e troppo corte per 30′ di esposizione) invece di risultare, per tutte le stelle inquadrate, ad archi di cerchio concentrici.
C’è qualche incoerenza che non convince.
Hi Francesco, I translated your comment through Google Translate to understand:
I’m not convinced that the photo was taken as it was described.
Looking at the white dots, which should be the stars, you notice small light trails inconsistent with what you get with long exposures at night.
The wakes, of only a few stars, appear to sunburst (and too short for 30 ‘exposure) instead of be, for all the stars framed, to concentric circular arcs.
There is some inconsistency that is not convincing.
The cameras metadata shows 25sec.exposure @ F/ 2.8 ISO4000, 15mm focal length. Nikon D3 used. Keep in mind when a wide angle like 15mm is used the star trails are very short and almost undetectable unless zooming 100% or more in the original file.
I think what Francesco is seeing and mistaking for star trails is the distortion caused by the lens, i.e. stars in the corners are stretched outward while stars in the center don’t.