Orion

Need to view in order to see all of Orion:-) Thank you!!!

Nice shot Kathleen, seems your anonymous rater didnt even look past a black thumbnail. How long did you have the lens open for this?

I used noise reduction and a slow shutter as far as how slow I'd say about 3 seconds. I think the key to this shot was complete darkness in every direction so the lens wouldn't focus on anything but the stars. It took me about 3 days and 7 shots to get it right. Thank you so much for your interest.

I see the heaven :-) well done Kathleen !

This is very nicely done. It's strange to see Orion in a photo without some sort of overlay, either lines connecting the main stars or an artist rendition of what he looked like. I like this better. Thanks for sharing - Lex

Kathleen,

You inspired me to try and capture Orion with my new camera! I didn'r get the entire constellation as you have here. Most people don't know about the shield he is wielding on the right. You got everything, but check out my effort! http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6837447

Kath,

your version is a little further back than mine so you're getting the entire constellation of Orion. I had pulled mine in a bit closer. I was at f2.8 (I think) and left the shutter open 15 seconds. I may not have to do that so extreme, maybe on another clear night I'll try different options. Thanks for the critique.

Very nice for a single exposure Kathleen.One tip,if you would like to bring out more stars without any annoying star trails you could use the software Registax (freeware)to stack the images together. So say you take 20 exposures at 3 seconds each,you then get the same result as one exposure lasting 60 seconds with no trails.

 

 

Regards.

Thanks for the advise I will have to look into that and try again. Just last night I photographed the little dipper and Cassiopeia and I wasn't to thrilled with what I came up with now I can try something different thanks.