Comet, Hale Bopp

Dan, Its Michael again? Opps, i forgot to rate your picture. With all the excitement of viewing it now for the 100th time and writing my first comment you get a perfect score. Bravo!!!!!!!Michael Joseph Hoard

I was wondering how a 20 sec exposure still left the blades of the wind mill clearly visible. I sould have expected a circular blur in place of blades.

 

Excellent photo though, almost unreal

The blades were not moving, just out of focus.

Yeah, my photographic self-esteem just rose a LOT. I'll second the "best portfolio I've seen" comment.

Hi there,

 

I just noticed that you have dubbed my image of Hale-bopp a composite. When this image was selected by the Associated press in 1997 for a top award, they too, thought that it might be a composite. Well, it won the award and after they looked at the physical negative....it's no composite,

It's just simply a culmination of years of prep, the right conditions and God's voice echoing. If you think this is a good image, wait till you see what I do with the first human recorded total solar eclipse in Antartica in 2111. National Geographic is helping me plan for this one.

 

Cheers,

 

Dan

I too got Hale Bopp, but i was in a light polluted area, your luck in having none of this brings this photo out in true colours, great shot, marc

What a classic photo of a comet. However, I have never seen a comet captured this well on film! I never realized, before seeing your photo, that a comet's ion tail could have such an intense blue!

 

Nice portfolio as well!

Holy shit, Awesome.

Great image! Beautiful "astronomical landscape". Thanks.

Your work is excellent!!!

Just wondering how you didn't get more motion blur on the stars? you said you've been doing this a while (astrological photography). Just wondering if you came up with a formula.

I have shot stary nights with a 20-35 2.8 and I will get a good motion blur at anything slower than 2 seconds.

If you know the "secret" please share.

Nice job on capturing the night sky in all its glory. It looks like you found a truly "dark sky" location. The lights from your truck illuminating the windmill is good use of "available" light. Howq were you able to angle it upward to light it, or is it indeirect spill-off from the lights? Great image.

Very good shot, I have it as a wallpaper on my pc and the more I look it the more I like it

By the way, do you have it bigger for me?

All I can say is wow. I LOVE this, and every other photo in your portfolio. At times when I'm about to take a shot, I find one of your pictures appearing in my head and causing me to rethink how I might approach the subject. Thank you for sharing these with us.

Well...I'm in shock.Absolute mastery.

Reminds me of something off of Superman... The infamous metor storm of Smallville... I love it. Good work... Sorry I'm a little late with my post, just found photo.net last week.

Another job well done!!

obviously this photo is awesome and it makes me want a camera with the ability to have an aperture value as low as this and a shutter speed longer than fifteen seconds because all of those stars are just awesome. niiiice shot!

I love it! Perfect.

Well done Daniel! It's a superb shot!

Nostradamic! 7/7

Thanks for leaving this up Dan - still a good read 10 yrs later ... (-;