Welcome to the Grey Street Images Blog. I prefer to use this as an area to showcase my workflow and thoughts as well as a few random photos here and there. I will post current projects that I am working on and samples from shoots here regularly. I hope that everyone enjoys it.
On a trip to Door County over Memorial Day weekend I decided to head out to find some dark skies. The weather was perfect with the moon setting at 130am and clear skies forecasted. I woke at 145am and set out to Anderson dock in Ephraim for a few time exposures. That location has a great view of the Southern sky. I set up my tripod and a red lantern to preserve my night vision and started shooting. Here are a few results....
6 shot panorama stitched together using Lightroom.
During my recent trip up to the Door I was lucky enough to have a clear night to practice my astrophotography. These were between 0315 and 0400 on April 28th, 2015. This first one is my favorite. Focus is my crux at this point but its getting better. I blame the operator for most of it but my equipment may also be to blame. Rome wasn't built in a day...
30" f2.8 iso 1250 35mm
30" f2.8 iso 1250 35mm
30" f3.5 iso 1250 18mm
Y focus is off but its hard in near total darkness...
These turned out much better than my first attempt last week. The clouds looked really excellent. All were about 20-30 second exposures with a kit 18-200mm f3.5-5.6 Nikkor. With so much light pollution I'm surprised at how bright the milky way was. I can't wait to try some out with better glass on a D800E.
