Fridays Focus - Stars (But no Star Trails)

[JimFox]

So for this Friday, we will be Focusing on Stars! So please post your Landscape images that include stars or just stars by themselves. Please no Star Trails this week, hold on to them, there will be a future Fridays Focus that is on Star Trails.

Again, add your Star images to this Thread.

I will start with one, that the more I look at it, the more I am thinking I was going through a pretty intense blue/purple phase... But it is a cool location to shoot stars at.

I will also be using this image for our "Let's Play" feature where every other week we put an image in the Critique Forum and ask everyone to Play with it. So if you think my star photo has issues, be sure to join in on playing with it and seeing if you can come up with some better colors this weekend.

Okay, so here is mine, you will recognize it from the Temple of Sun and Moon in Utah.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Sounds great Jim. Here is one of mine. Taken at Zion from the bride, but looking north with a full moon lighting the cliff from my back.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Here is mine also posted in the best of 2017.

 

[Kyle Jones]

A little something from Olmsted Point in Yosemite.

 

[Guy Schmickle]

I don't do much night photography, but here's one of the few I could dig up of Bell Rock and Courthouse Butte in Sedona.

 

[Darcy Grizzle]

Beautiful shots ya'll

 

[Ryan10]

Chollas!!!

Cholla Cactus Garden Nightscape by Ryan Luna, on Flickr

 

[Jim Dockery]

One of the reasons I got a Sony A7rII was for stars and it sure beat my old NEX-7 for noise at higher ISOs. I started with a Rokinon 14mm 2.8, then graduated to a Zeiss Batis 18mm, mostly for size and weight.

Funny how I normally try for moonless nights to shoot the stars, but some of my favorites end up with the moon.

This is from my first overnighter with the A7rII. From the summit of Mt. Pugh, Glacier Pk. at sunrise with the moon, Venus, and Jupiter lined up nicely (I didn't know this was going to happen). This is one of many shots taken as part of a time-lapse.

Moonrise Capital Reef. I've sure got a lot of shots of this tree!

Moon Over Mesa Arch

 

[AlanLichty]

Star shooting is not one of my strong points but I do have a few. This one is from the Facerock area at Bandon. The illumination on the sea stacks is from the parking lot at one of the hotels along the cliffs.

 

[Dean]

Here is one from Yellowknife several years ago. Some Stars, Aurora and Moonlight
Happy Friday !

 

[JimFox]

Here is mine also posted in the best of 2017.

That is a sweet one Jameel! I like seeing it in here.

 

[JimFox]

I don't do much night photography, but here's one of the few I could dig up of Bell Rock and Courthouse Butte in Sedona.

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Hey Guy, this is certainly a very good Milky Way shot, it balances well with your ground elements.

 

[Jim Sanderson]

One from the Owens River and George’s tree.

 

[Bart Carrig]

What a beautiful series, every one of them. Jim, I'm a big fan of your blue/purple phase. Though many night star photos are realistic, they all reach out to our sense of other worlds and our imagination. So I think any interpretations of the earth and its place in the universe are welcome.

I don't have much in the category, so I'll stick with my daytime "night" image of just two stars:

The Sun (with corona) and Regulus) at the 2017 Solar eclipse.


Bart

 

[AlanLichty]

What a beautiful series, every one of them. Jim, I'm a big fan of your blue/purple phase. Though many night star photos are realistic, they all reach out to our sense of other worlds and our imagination. So I think any interpretations of the earth and its place in the universe are welcome.

I don't have much in the category, so I'll stick with my daytime "night" image of just two stars:

The Sun (with corona) and Regulus) at the 2017 Solar eclipse.


Bart

Hmm - "two stars"? I only see one star and my view of it is blocked......

 

[Tom Narwid]

So for this Friday, we will be Focusing on Stars! So please post your Landscape images that include stars or just stars by themselves. Please no Star Trails this week, hold on to them, there will be a future Fridays Focus that is on Star Trails.

Again, add your Star images to this Thread.

I will start with one, that the more I look at it, the more I am thinking I was going through a pretty intense blue/purple phase... But it is a cool location to shoot stars at.

I will also be using this image for our "Let's Play" feature where every other week we put an image in the Critique Forum and ask everyone to Play with it. So if you think my star photo has issues, be sure to join in on playing with it and seeing if you can come up with some better colors this weekend.

Okay, so here is mine, you will recognize it from the Temple of Sun and Moon in Utah.

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Here is the 2012 transit of Venus across our star. Sunspots are also visible.