Thirty seconds of the ISS

I'm a catch-as-catch-can kind of photographer. After supper this evening, I was hoping to catch the moon as it rose over the local hill it was hidden behind for an hour after its *actual* rising. But that part of the sky clouded in.

I turned to the NW where the international Space Station was due to show a few minutes later. I jammed the camera to the bathroom window casing and took a thirty-second exposure, holding it tight with my hand.

As psychedelic as the picture appears, with streetlight-lit trees, almost daylight clouds, and reflections from inside the house, I did get the ISS and lots of stars too.

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raingirl ^club

I love this and that you describe how you held the camera in order to take the photo.

Do you ever process your photos? I'm wondering how this would look if you darkened the tree branches just a bit. But even as is I think it's very cool looking.

3 years ago.

Justfolk ^club

Thanks, Raingirl.

To answer your question, yes I do. In fact -- being an old film user and darkroom printer -- I treat every file from the digital camera as just a "negative"; I use whatever processing skills I have to draw the final picture out of that. The "original" picture here was very flat and bright; most of the details had to be coaxed out of the highlights! :)

3 years ago.

Justfolk ^club

I just made a couple of b&w versions of it, by filtering it through different colours. One of them does produce what you suggested, with darkend branches. But not nearly psychedelic! :)

3 years ago.

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