It’s been said the difference between a professional and an amateur in most fields like photography is the professional doesn’t admit their mistakes. At this point in my career I’m not making the majority of my income from photography so let me be an amateur for a moment.
While this photo does not suck, it’s certainly not what I planned. I took three others that truly suck, most of which totally missed framing the subject in the frame at all. Rookie stuff.
I’m loved taking photos of the stars in the past and now my wife bought me a fancy star tracker, that lets me attach my camera and long lens to it and take super still images of stars and galaxies and planets far out there. Combine that with learning a new program called SIRIL to process these photos and I’m certainly an amateur at this new field.
And it’s fun to suck!
This image is of the Horsehead Nebula (left side) and the Flame Nebula (left side). I had planned to make them larger but I’m new at this. I’ll get it better in the future, hopefully next week.
I’m using my DSLR for the time being because it’s already expensive enough and with a brother that is more into the observing side of astronomy than I am, I know I don’t want to get a dedicated telescope and all the gizmos just yet. But the process of taking and making and editing is mostly the same.
Any of you out there slightly or ‘way too much’ into astrophotography? If you’re ever down here in California’s deserts, let’s meet up and be frustrated at the slight wind or way too many satellites together some time.
Canon R5 with 100-500mm L lens – 30 exposures at 30 seconds, 159mm, ISO 1000, f-7.1
