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nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:45:31 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:58:07 -0800

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nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 02:03:13 -0800

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nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 07:40:56 -0800

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The birthplace of Venus

nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:28:48 -0800

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nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:33:25 -0800

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nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:00:22 -0800

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nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:49:59 -0800

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nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:47:51 -0800

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nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:27:19 -0800

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9x30sec exposures stacked, 4.5min equivalent

nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 05:18:43 -0700

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nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 03:11:00 -0700

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Hammersmith bridge at evening

nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 07:29:43 -0800

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nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:01:10 -0800

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The moment I saw the clouds moving directly overhead and parallel to the bridge, I knew a very long exposure would create very nice symmetric trails.

15x13sec shots with a Hoya 9-stop ND stacked to an equivalent of a 3min exposure.

nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:11:18 -0800

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Westminster Bridge

nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:34:19 -0800

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...with Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament on the back.

3 vertical shots at 12mm stitched.

nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 06:59:28 -0800

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I've been a little unconventional creating this one;

It's actually a 2x3 stitched image, but I combined 2 different projections during stitching.

The upper half was made using an equirectangular projection (preserving distance) and the bottom half using a conformal projection (preserving angles).
I think the distortions introduced in the lower half balance the natural curves of the top nicely, and the equidistant projection gives more depth by allowing the lit part to take up more space in the frame.

What do you guys think?

nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 05:45:20 -0800

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Another view to 100 billion stars in our Galaxy , this time against man made objects.
It looks intimidating to say the least, our home planet is nothing but a grain of sand in the Universe...
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The foreground consists of 5 shots through the 12-24mm at 12mm, 1 stop apart, starting at 2sec f/11 ISO200, plus one at f/22 to create the diffraction spikes on those lamps.
There was another white street lamp behind me, plus ambient light from other lamps behind the house, so the contrast was extreme.

The Galaxy is a panorama made with the 50mm f/1.8 shot wide open, 8 sets of 5 photos at ISO3200, 8sec each, stacked for noise reduction and then stitched. At the exposures required for capturing the Milky Way, the foreground was obviously over exposed.

There was another additional series of 4 bracketed shots at 18mm, to get a seamless stitch of the moving stars against the stationary objects on the ground.

Consider this an extreme HDR, made of shots 11-stops apart...
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As for the falling star, after about 50 shots needed for this one, capturing one in a frame was inevitable...

nobody@flickr.com (CostaDinos) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:11:34 -0800

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St. Paul's cathedral.
3-shot single column mosaic with the camera in landscape orientation...