Painting With Fire

Earlier this week, I had some of my team in a little early for some team meetings, so we decided to head out and do a little painting.  We had some great conditions to get good reflections off of the water.  As always, it was a lot of fun and we came home with some great images.

Canon PowerShot G16 - 6.1-30.5 mm

60 Sec - f/8 - ISO 80 - 6.1 mm

Canon EOS 70D - EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

112 Sec - f/8 - ISO 160 - 10 mm

Canon EOS 70D - EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

99 Sec - f/11 - ISO 250 - 10 mm

Canon EOS 70D - EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

71.00 Sec - f/11 - ISO 250 - 10 mm

Canon EOS 70D - EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

58 Sec - f/11 - ISO 250 - 10 mm

Canon EOS 70D - EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

230.00 Sec - f/11 - ISO 250 - 10 mm

Canon EOS 70D - EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

147.00 Sec - f/8 - ISO 160 - 10 mm

Stars with a point and shoot camera

This week, I spent some time Las Vegas this week for work, and had the opportunity to spend a bit of time out in Valley Of Fire State Park.  While there, I set up the Canon PowerShot S120 to capture some stars.  The first night we were out there was 1 night after the new moon, so it was good and dark.

Most of these images were shot using the star trails scene mode in the PowerShot S120.  This mode lets you set the camera to run from 10 to 90 minutes.  You can also stop it at any time during the capture.  These first 4 were done using various lengths of captures.

30 Sec - f/1.8 - ISO 400 - 5.2 mm

A little light painting.

30 Sec - f/1.8 - ISO 400 - 5.2 mm

Must have been a rabbit that jumped in front of that plane to make him swerve like that.

30 Sec - f/1.8 - ISO 400 - 5.2 mm

30 Sec - f/1.8 - ISO 400 - 5.2 mm

This was the view when I woke up.  That's Venus, the bright one.

This one was captured using the Night Scene mode.

30 Sec - f/4 - ISO 160 - 5.2 mm

This is a 90 minute stack, processed in camera with the PowerShot S120.

30 Sec - f/1.8 - ISO 400 - 5.2 mm

This last image was captured with the PowerShot G16.  It is a 2 hour stack of images, done in camera.

30 Sec - f/1.8 - ISO 800 - 6.1 mm

Locomotive Springs

The other day, my friend Doug and I made a quick, last minute trip out to Locomotive Springs.  The intent was to hang out around the old buildings and catch the sunset.  Well, we got there and main gate was closed, so we had to walk the rest of the way in.  Out of a bit of laziness, I decided to leave my bag of gear in the car and grabbed my G16, S120, a tripod, and a Fat Gecko.  The wind was blowing pretty hard and the clouds were cruising by, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to play around with the Star Time Laps and Star Trail modes on these cameras.  Turns out it was a good choice.  I found a spot to set up the S120 on the Fat Gecko and started a time lapse and then used the G16 in Star Trail mode to capture the movement of the clouds.  It was a lot of fun, and I think the results are pretty cool.  Especially considering these came from a point and shoot camera.

1/1600 Sec - f/8 - ISO 80 - 6.1 mm

1/1600 Sec - f/8 - ISO 80 - 6.1 mm

1/800 Sec - f/8 - ISO 80 - 6.1 mm

1/320 Sec - f/8 - ISO 80 - 6.1 mm

1/200 Sec - f/8 - ISO 80 - 6.1 mm

1/200 Sec - f/8 - ISO 80 - 6.1 mm

1/100 Sec - f/8 - ISO 80 - 6.1 mm

1/100 Sec - f/8 - ISO 80 - 6.1 mm

1/400 Sec - f/8 - ISO 80 - 6.1 mm

This is the only image of the group that wasn't captured using the Star Trail mode.

1/60 Sec - f/8 - ISO 250 - 6.1 mm