Artistic Abilities

[Reverie]

Are you good at art in any sense? Drawing, Photography, digital art, etc...

What art medium do you enjoy the most, do you have any examples you can share?

 

[guyyanthony]

Photography and graphic design for me

i'll have to dig some photography up, as i haven't had a chance to do any lately... haha

 

[Tracy]

Enjoy working with in the astrophotography. It's a blending of photography and using computerized equipment to capture the data. Most images you see have some artistic license taken with them. I'm still in the process of learning my chosen processing software, which is generally acknowledged to be one of the best, but also one of the hardest to use because it has so many features and you can do similar processing multiple ways in it.

These two are of the same target, just two different scopes and cameras (left one a one a cooled shot color and the right a mono cooled with filters, they require different processing).

These are a few of my more recent processed captures (I've deleted the data and started over with fresh since I found issues in the original captures).

This one is the very first image I ever captured with one of my telescopes when I was first learning how to use the NexStar 8se and a planetary camera. I quickly realized there was more to it than just hooking a camera up to a telescope. You have to actually worry about appropriate backspace in your image train (why it's slightly blurry)... who would have thought it!

 

[Reverie]

Enjoy working with in the astrophotography. It's a blending of photography and using computerized equipment to capture the data. Most images you see have some artistic license taken with them. I'm still in the process of learning my chosen processing software, which is generally acknowledged to be one of the best, but also one of the hardest to use because it has so many features and you can do similar processing multiple ways in it.

These two are of the same target, just two different scopes and cameras (left one a one a cooled shot color and the right a mono cooled with filters, they require different processing).

These are a few of my more recent processed captures (I've deleted the data and started over with fresh since I found issues in the original captures).

This one is the very first image I ever captured with one of my telescopes when I was first learning how to use the NexStar 8se and a planetary camera. I quickly realized there was more to it than just hooking a camera up to a telescope. You have to actually worry about appropriate backspace in your image train (why it's slightly blurry)... who would have thought it!

These are simply incredible! Thanks for sharing! I could look at these all day! It is also cool that you can take a picture of the same thing but with different settings/lenses and it looks so different. Space is fascinating!

 

[Tracy]

These are simply incredible! Thanks for sharing! I could look at these all day! It is also cool that you can take a picture of the same thing but with different settings/lenses and it looks so different. Space is fascinating!

Thanks... my processing is still at the very beginner level. I really like to accumulate the data... and once I get about 20-30 hours of captured data process it now.
I've been interested in astronomy and the weather (funny how the two can go hand in hand) since I was about 11-12 years old. It's only recently that I've actually been able to afford to pursue the level of astronomy that I could only dream of back then.
My site is primarily a site that I can post my images and thoughts, but also actually allow others to participate. I'm in the process of setting up a local astronomy club, with special groups for the local schools also. It's a slow process since I'm currently getting all the equipment myself.

 

[Cory]

Not at all, my sister is the artistic one of the family.

 

[Jason]

I'm decent at computer generated art. That would be art using Poser or Daz3D. However, I've never gotten into painting or drawing. Also, I haven't done that with some application using a computer, where you draw/paint on a pad.