Night photography course

Hello everyone! Once again I've been extremely busy, but I got a little something for you. Here are some photos from another photography course. Thanks for everyone who participated especially our teacher, this has been really interesting course.

Milky waaaaayyyyy!

Here is an another photo from previous star hunting. This one is processed with more time and effort given. And as I personally like more of vertical astrophotos this one looks lots of better than the previous one to me even though this one is without shooting star. 

Day after this photo we went to photograph nearby, and I managed to capture something beautiful as well, but I will post them later. Next photos will be something different than astrophotos I PROMISE :D My nemesis (clouds) have returned to the sky, and next clear night won't come soon if you believe the forecast.

EXIF:
exposure time -  30 sec
aperture - f/3.5
iso - 640
focal length - 8mm 

Milky way, nothern lights and shooting stars

As I said yesterday, fuck the portraits, it’s time for another astrophoto! It was freezing cold outside, but what wouldn’t an astrophoto addict do for a proper shoot. There are better photos as well but I decided to post this one as it has the shooting star in as well.

In this photo, I managed to capture many exciting things. My main goal was to take a picture of the Milky Way but just because I am so pro, I managed to capture the northern lights as well. And if you watch carefully enough, you might also the shooting star I mentioned. At first I corrected the barrel distortion caused by the lens but after all decided to let it be. What do you guys think, should’ve I corrected it after all or not? While I was taking these photos, I actually managed to lose one of my lenses. The 30mm lens was lost for an hour but I luckily found it. It lying between the rocks just 10cm away from the freezing cold water.

EXIF:
exposure time -  30 sec
aperture - f/3.5
iso - 1000
focal length - 8mm

Astro photo pt.2

Here is an another photo from my astro photography adventures. This one is taken with fisheye, that explains the massive barrel distortion. 

EXIF: 
exposure time - 30 sec
aperture - f/3.5
iso - 400
focal length - 8mm

Some call this tradegy

Last night I was photographing my friend's band. Here is a few shots from the gig. Feel free to visit their facebook page. I'm too tired to write more than this, so lets skip the fore play, here comes the photos.

Long exposure motion

I guess it's time for a little experiment. This is very easy one to do. All you need is a camera and a tripod. The idea is to capture head- and brakelights as one lightbeam. This would be much easier to do if you don't live in a ghost town like I do. There were like two cars driving past my spot in minute, so I had to do a little stitching in photoshop. Just put all your photos (taken from same spot) in one file in separate layers and change blending mode to lighten in every layer except the original one. I had five or six layers in this one. Photos were take with around 8 seconds timing, f8 and iso 200. If you have taken photos like this, post them for me :)

I'm still alive

I'm sorry for not posting for a while. I'm still struggling with my lens issue. Secondly I bought myself an apartment, which requires "a little" retouching. I'm still tied there for at least the next two weeks, but here is a little something for you. I have good news too. Six photos of mine have been chosen to be a part of photo exhibition at the Kouvolatalo on next friday. Four of them you have already seen in this blog, and here is the fifth. I'm soooooo excited :)