Week 53: The final week
Wrapping up this 53 weeks photo challenge with another analog/film photo.
Week 51: Shooting film
There has been decades between these photographs and the last time I shot in 120 film.
Week 50: Quincy Street Dock
What remains of the oldest dock in Port Townsend, it served public and private ferry system for about 50 years, until 1982.
128 sec at f/4, ISO 400
Week 49: The North Cascades
Minutes into my flight the most rugged mountains in the North Cascades popped into the line of sight.
1/500 sec at f/9.5, ISO 800
Week 48: A submerged forest
Aquatic plants in a lake, and the lake surface reflecting the clouds in the sky: It was probably around 4:30 pm and past the golden hour (after end of DST on the Pacific Coast) when bright clouds were above me and a submerged forest beneath the pier - I was surprised I could get this shot without using a polarizer.
1/45 sec at f/4, ISO 800
Week 47: Seattle Big Wheel
In the night when the spokes glow red…
1/20 sec at f/4, ISO 800
Week 45: Washington Fall
A very late Fall
6 sec at f/22, ISO 100
1/80 sec at f/4.8, ISO 100
1/100 sec at f/8, ISO 200
1/100 sec at f/4, ISO 200
Week 43: Ducks in a creek
Ducks in a creek, smoke (from nearby forest fires) in the air.
1/125 sec at f/4, ISO 800
Week 41: Andromeda
I have always wanted to do this, especially after realizing the galaxy isn’t too small observed from the Earth, seeing it rise/move across the sky in timelapse videos I’ve filmed over the years. The only challenge was tracking its movement across the sky (or rather I should say compensate Earth’s rotational motion) in long exposures. Now that I have a tracker, had to take the obligatory first formal photograph of Andromeda along with M32 and M110 for my astrophotography collection.
The technical details:
29 tracked images (culled from 50), 30 seconds at f/6.7 ISO 4000 in about 40 minutes total shooting time
Sony Alpha 7 R3 w/ Tamron 150-500mm
Sky-Watcher Sky Adventurer 2i
30 sec at f/6.7, ISO 4000 (Stacked 29 exposures)
Week 39: End of Summer
Long afternoon shadows
1/320 sec at f/4, ISO 100
1/160 sec at f/8, ISO 200
Week 37: Eastern Washington
The clouds travel farther and over the Cascades in late Summer.
1/125 sec at f/8, ISO 100
Week 34: Synthetic Photography
Created using DALL-E**
photograph of a beautiful sunset behind a tall mountain with a lake in the front
**DALL·E 2 is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.