A Monster is Lurking

Ryan10

Ryan10

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Some of you may have seen this on another forum...but I found out that green light is "airglow". I never knew anything about it until i saw this in my image.


This image has grown on me. I really like it. Yeah, no Milky Way, but it has a couple of elements I am really liking.

  1. This was more of a test shot to see what ISO 6400, F/1.4, and 20 seconds look like on my 6D when I point to the darkest part of the sky. This lake is about 60 minutes east of Fresno, CA, and I was pointing south east I believe. To my surprise, I captured the "monster"...Andromeda Galaxy, M31.
  2. The airglow. I knew nothing about it previously.
  3. The faint light of campfires exposed nicely at these extreme settings. I could barely see them with my naked eye from across the lake channel.

I gotta say, the 6D is a beast of a low light camera. Images are clean at 6400 ISO.


 
AlanLichty

AlanLichty

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Interesting - I don't think I have ever even tried pushing the ISO up that high on my 6D. Pretty cool to be able to see that galaxy.
 
JimFox

JimFox

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Hey Ryan,

That's pretty nice looking for ISO 6400.

And it's a really cool image overall. It almost seems like we have gotten so hooked on Milky Way shots, that we are now apologizing when a shot just has stars in it. I think this winter I am purposely going to shoot as many plain star photos as possible! :)

As to the Airglow. I remember the first time I really recognized capturing it some years ago in Yellowstone. I honestly thought there was something wrong with my sensor. You know how some camera sensors, especially some years ago, if you took too long of an exposure the sensor would heat up and cause the image to get sever purple in blotches in your shot. So I thought this was a form of that when I saw the green in the sky in my star shots in Yellowstone one night. I recall spending a few days of editing and trying to correct that green and get the sky actually to have an even coloring.... sigh.... then I find out about Airglow.... Sure wish I had heard about before that trip to Yellowstone, it could have been something I was happy about when I got it instead of thinking my camera was ready for the junk yard.... :eek:

Jim
 
Martín el Escocés

Martín el Escocés

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I really like this image, Ryan. For me, all the better without the MW. I love the delicacy of the stars with the varied coloured light, flowing upwards from the horizon, through and reflecting on the water. Great to catch the galaxy like that!
 
Kyle Jones

Kyle Jones

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The sky is wonderful - the galaxy is really cool and the airglow adds. I thought there was something wrong with my camera the first time I got some too. I'm not sure I love the lights on the lakeshore, but sometimes that's just what we get.

I routinely shoot at ISO6400 on my 6D and have gotten really nice files as high as ISO8000 (AAA magazine published one of those last year). The 6D remains my go-to night camera for that reason.
 
Ryan10

Ryan10

Founding Member
AlanLichty said:
Interesting - I don't think I have ever even tried pushing the ISO up that high on my 6D. Pretty cool to be able to see that galaxy.
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JimFox said:
Hey Ryan,

That's pretty nice looking for ISO 6400.

And it's a really cool image overall. It almost seems like we have gotten so hooked on Milky Way shots, that we are now apologizing when a shot just has stars in it. I think this winter I am purposely going to shoot as many plain star photos as possible! :)

As to the Airglow. I remember the first time I really recognized capturing it some years ago in Yellowstone. I honestly thought there was something wrong with my sensor. You know how some camera sensors, especially some years ago, if you took too long of an exposure the sensor would heat up and cause the image to get sever purple in blotches in your shot. So I thought this was a form of that when I saw the green in the sky in my star shots in Yellowstone one night. I recall spending a few days of editing and trying to correct that green and get the sky actually to have an even coloring.... sigh.... then I find out about Airglow.... Sure wish I had heard about before that trip to Yellowstone, it could have been something I was happy about when I got it instead of thinking my camera was ready for the junk yard.... :eek:

Jim
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Martín el Escocés said:
I really like this image, Ryan. For me, all the better without the MW. I love the delicacy of the stars with the varied coloured light, flowing upwards from the horizon, through and reflecting on the water. Great to catch the galaxy like that!
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Ben Egbert said:
I like this a lot for all the reasons stated above.
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Kyle Jones said:
The sky is wonderful - the galaxy is really cool and the airglow adds. I thought there was something wrong with my camera the first time I got some too. I'm not sure I love the lights on the lakeshore, but sometimes that's just what we get.

I routinely shoot at ISO6400 on my 6D and have gotten really nice files as high as ISO8000 (AAA magazine published one of those last year). The 6D remains my go-to night camera for that reason.
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Thank you all. I think I will be taking a few more pics at event 12,800 to post on Instagram since the resolutions are so small there. You won't be able to see any grain issues.
 
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