Nightscape Gallery
Semporna , Sabah | liewwk
a place we like to go but may not revisit …. but it is good to be there once 😀
*** Semporna just mainland but we need to get boat to outside Islands to capture the beautiful … every trip could range from 30min – 2hr ++ e.g. near Island Maiga, Sibuan .. etc
few words to describe this beautiful place blue, clear, hot, appreciate ….
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5 years passed and suddenly my best Photokaki remind of here ..
2017 Dec 1
to share … wonder how they build their house without any land
update 2012 Nov 23
update 2012 Aug 27
Singh-Ray RGND 2 stops
update 2012 Aug 7
how much you pay for your balcony ?
– Lee Filter GND .6s
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Lee Filter Big Stopper
Singh-ray RGND 2 stops
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More Sabah pictures
Special Semporna 2012 pictures
… star Trail | liewwk …
star trail need a lot of patient.. after hours capture the compo could be wrong , the weather could be change to cloudy …. etc but yet we still trying our best to capture to share
– Canon 5d + 14F2.8 @F2.8 + 30s x 123
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– the only north star I capture … 🙁
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– my 2011 Jul workshop capture
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– with reflection
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More Stars/Nightscape Captures
some related sharing
how I shoot Milky with smaller aperture len …
I always telling friends of mine to have bigger aperture to get clearer Milky way shot … and it really give impact with more light fall onto the sensor … but what if we do not have big aperture len .. e.g. we own F4 or F3.5 lenses ?
and I share this before .. How I shoot Milky Way/Star
theoritical , if we can increase the shutter time which allow more light abosrb on the sensor.. we should able to capture beautiful stars sky … but according to the rule 600
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I had aiming a polarie star tracker but too bad, i had been turn down by the cost and size …
recently, I managed to test the
Vixen Polarie… a square box size small and weight <1kg … and not really difficult to operate …
i may not able to share how do use this .. but it is really simple and let me share the simple test result
both shoot at F4 , exp 151s +- , ISO 400
1. without start tracker – Vixen Polarie
2. witho start tracker – Vixen Polarie
with minimu setup time and minimu knowledge of Astronomy , I am able to create a image without “start trail” effect
**** rule 600 simply basic rule to avoid “star trail” effect while we have too long exposure on our effective focal length.. e.g.
16mm on FULL frame, we should have max exposure of 600/16=37.5s
16mm on canon APS-c , we should have max exposure of 600/16*1.6=23.4
so if we have anything more than the exposure time the the rotation of earth will create “star trai;” effect create blur effect on to our frame.
Milky Way again…
this is not first time I shoot Milky, but this is my very first time see it clearly … it was just above us and we can use our eye to see it … am happy able to make this outing [my East Coast visit | April 20100] and thanks for my friends going with me (Shunfa, Jason, Siah, Seesy, Xiao Yi, Ismail, Norhana & Lio) . We had wonderful trip … and could be most memorable trip for me ….
My very 1st Milky was post before here
and here was picture capture few steps out from the homestay …
5dm2 + SIGMA24F1.8
# Exposure Time (1 / Shutter Speed) = 10/1 second ===> 10 second
# Lens F-Number / F-Stop = 18/10 ===> ƒ/1.8
# ISO Speed Ratings = 1600
how to capture this, simply same how I shoot stars which I share before here… except we need higher ISO to get it clearly ……….
Update later
some of my Nightscape/Stars collections
Me and my gang was crazy with nightscape with stars since last year but too bad year end is not a good season for stars photography due to weather … so we stop for months and now we are back with full actions where we are thinking, dreaming of stars every moment .. and we also try to plan as much as possible stars chasing outing 😀
some of my stars pictures
1. my very 1st “plan” star shooting
2. star trail from USA
– still time elapse for the stars movent
http://www.flickr.com/photos/liewwk/4598121297/
3. while waiting for the sunrise
4. waiting for sunrise also
5. my 1st Milky way
6. … the Dawn full with Stars …
More Nightscape and Stars pictures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/liewwk/sets/72157625783040852/
and have share how I shoot stars
My 1st Milky Way …
it is not a dream, we able to shoot the Milky way at not really too dark area … it was my dream to chase it 2010 but some how I failed to make it … but 2011 me and my few close friends (shunfa, Lio, Jason … SP …. Mingkai) have start our crazy chasing project where we travel ~400km (return) 3 times in a week …. even we try to make it coming weekend but due to the some security issue at the location so we decided to cancel our trip there ….
one of the failure Milky chase
My friend – Shunfa was so happy while he 1st got it with him 30mm F1.4 … and too bad what I have much obvious compare to what he has, not matter what setting I use (high ISO, long exposure, ISO NR, LE NR … ) but my F2.8 lenses still cannot get any clearer Milky as compare that 30mm F1.4 got … hmmmm so the conclusion is under not so dark place. it is always good to use bigger aperture lenses to have more stars, brighter stars (so thicker star trail) and more objects (Milky way) …
let’s me share my setting and some PP done on this
Canon 5dm2 + Canon 15mm F2.8 + tripod for sure
# Exposure Time (1 / Shutter Speed) = 43/1 second ===> 43 second
# Lens F-Number / F-Stop = 28/10 ===> ƒ/2.8
# ISO Speed Ratings = 500
– no Manipulation done ..
– crop both site to make square look (no crop on top and bottom)
– some dodge and burn on the sky
and previous share How I shoot Stars..