Motif: Cabbage tree and the South Pole

Posted by Neil Fitzgerald on Tue May 25, 2004 2:44 am

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This was my third attempt at this and I hope to have a few more goes at it yet. It is a rather slow process, but that is part of the challenge.
Things to try next times;
-lens warmer to prevent that condensation on the lens.
-shoot closer to dusk/dawn to get some colour in the sky.
-moon/flash light on the FG veg.
-short exp to get stars, not trails.
-try to get the axis of rotation behind the head of the tree (moving the camera a few inches makes a huge difference).
That should keep me busy for a while.
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by gigo on Tue May 25, 2004 2:57 am

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wow ! that's impressive !

one of those shots that only location will give you

lucky you !

how long was this exposure for ?

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by Neil Fitzgerald on Tue May 25, 2004 3:29 am

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gigo wrote: how long was this exposure for ?

120 minutes, give or take a few. A lot less would probably still have achieved the desired effect, saved some battery and allowed for more sleep.

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by almac on Tue May 25, 2004 9:20 am

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Bloody hill (<--accent).....great shot !!

What on earth did you do for 2 hours ??

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by christoforos on Tue May 25, 2004 9:59 am

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Wow! Beautiful!

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by robert hasty on Tue May 25, 2004 6:36 pm

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Ive been wanting to try something similar forever, this is awesome! Congrats on a really superb, winner of an image!!

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by RichardMittleman/Gon2Foto on Tue May 25, 2004 6:46 pm

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This is great as is.

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by Robert Ludwick on Tue May 25, 2004 8:39 pm

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Neil,

This is super cool. I really like your placement of the rotation axis. I think it is better where you have it than behind the tree. I would be happy to have shot this.

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by Attila on Tue May 25, 2004 9:37 pm

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This is well composed and you should follow up with the techniques you set forth for other images. One of them might not work, I think if you have a moon out, the sky will wash out in such a long exposure (but you definitely can valk around and flash the scene a few times). Very good.

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by Ken Cravillion on Tue May 25, 2004 10:17 pm

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Hmmmm... I was going to post a star trail image... Maybe not...

Nice shot Neil.

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by Dan Creighton on Wed May 26, 2004 7:49 am

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Absolutely stunning. Great subject matter for the technique.

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by E.J. Peiker on Wed May 26, 2004 10:24 am

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This is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

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by DC on Thu May 27, 2004 11:05 am

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This is freakin' awesome dude

I tried something similar in Africa last year but as I was shooting film, didn't realise it hadn't worked well 'til we got back. This year we're digital though

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by jsandfort on Fri May 28, 2004 3:59 am

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Cool star trails. Love the shot.

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by Alexandre Vaz on Fri May 28, 2004 4:26 am

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Good work Neil.
Don't you have an old manual SLR that you can use for this type of work?
You wouldn't have battery problems that way.

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by Neil Fitzgerald on Fri May 28, 2004 4:09 pm

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Alexandre Vaz wrote:Good work Neil.
Don't you have an old manual SLR that you can use for this type of work?
You wouldn't have battery problems that way.

I do have an old Pentax with 50mm lens growing fungus. I guess I could get an old clean 24mm for it but I'd rather use it as en excuse to get something like a 1V which i believe uses little or no power to hold the shutter open.
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by Jeremy on Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:04 am

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Wow, someone else uses an old Canon EOS 100, besides me! Never taken anything this good with it though; fabulous shot!

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