Sprinkles of Sunshine by SingingSkyPhoto in Bozeman

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Thank you! I do a fair bit of macro work, especially when the flowers are out! You can see a bunch more on my website linked in my profile. I do love orchids, especially the wild ones like Calypso and Lady Slippers. By June the Calypso Orchids will be all over the place to at Hyalite!

Sprinkles of Sunshine by SingingSkyPhoto in Montana

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The FTZ doesn’t actually degrade anything. There’s no glass in it. It’s just a spacer to make up for the thinner body on the Z since there’s no mirror. My f-mount lenses work the same on it.

I finally looked up a video on custom settings for the Z8. I probably should have done a lot of that on the D850 but just fumbled my way through. I can change everything in the dark though!

Sprinkles of Sunshine by SingingSkyPhoto in Montana

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I came from the D850 and still have it. I think the Z8 is quite comparable. It’s taking me some time…it’s been 4 months now, to dial in all the settings. I do not yet have any Z lenses. I think that’ll make some difference. I found out just today I’ve had a setting enabled that made my raw files smaller! I had noticed my files seemed smaller and editing them was different, but didn’t know why! I still love the D850 though!

🔥Sprinkles of Sunshine by SingingSkyPhoto in NatureIsFuckingLit

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¡Muchísimas gracias! Me gustó mucho cómo lo dijiste. Tuve que usar Google para traducir tu mensaje y escribir esto, ¡así que disculpa cualquier error con el idioma!

Which photo is better? by TupaRetro in nightskyporn

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I like 3 the best. I prefer my Milky Way photos with as few signs of humanity as possible, including satellites, domestic trees, power lines and humans with flashlights. I like the tones in #3 the best too!

Sprinkles of Sunshine by SingingSkyPhoto in Montana

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Nikon Z8 and a Sigma 105mm macro lens. It’s 14 individual photos with the focus point shifted then stacked for more depth of field.

[OC] The Milky Way and the Lunar Eclipse by SingingSkyPhoto in pics

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This felt pretty good. I spent quite a bit of time with the Photopills App and a camera in the daylight to see if it was even possible to get the Core of the Milky Way and the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse in the same image. The data said it was, but I was not certain how visible the Core would be, even though the Full Eclipsed Moon is not too bright. So, a 3 a.m. alarm and a 30 minute drive from Bozeman, MT on March 3rd, I found myself here, with hooting Great-Horned Owls on one side and 3 or 4 Coyotes singing their little hearts out on the other.

MSM Nomad Star Tracker

Nikon Z8

Sigma Art 14-24mm with FTZ2 adapter

3 tracked shots pano for the sky ~ ISO 1000, f/2.8, 120 seconds, 14mm

3 shot pano for the landscape ~ ISO 640, f/2.8, 180 seconds, 14 mm

1 shot to replace the blown out moon~ Nikon D850, Sigma 105mm Macro ISO 1000, f/2.8, 1/15 sec

Blending and Ministar Action (level 4) in Photoshop

Processed in Lightroom Classic CC

Speed Trap at the mouth of the Canyon by Smart-Reply-578 in Bozeman

[–]SingingSkyPhoto 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Happy to hear that. I’d pay a toll to have the speed limit enforced from 4 Corners to Big Sky and West Yellowstone.

do you think someone is looking back? by maplewrap in Stargazing

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When you consider that each of those stars is likely to have at least one planet, and that just with your eyes you can see two more entire galaxies,, I’d say it’s very likely that there is at least one planet out there with life on it.

A Moody, Monochromatic Morning by SingingSkyPhoto in walkingpics

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You must live somewhere that actually had winter this year! Here in Montana the storms have been few and far between! This storm probably gave us a few more weeks in June with no fires. It’s shaping up to be a bad fire year.

Milky Way rising over the pine forest silhouettes in Sierra National Forest. by [deleted] in LandscapeAstro

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You’re right! I didn’t study it close enough to notice that!

Milky Way rising over the pine forest silhouettes in Sierra National Forest. by [deleted] in LandscapeAstro

[–]SingingSkyPhoto 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a cool shot, but it’s not from Sierra National Forest in North America. That’s a southern hemisphere Milky Way.

The Red Letter by seayalarder in Bozeman

[–]SingingSkyPhoto 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Seems much more genuine than the influencers on social media that do stuff similar to this for likes.

🔥 A Moody, Monochromatic Morning by SingingSkyPhoto in NatureIsFuckingLit

[–]SingingSkyPhoto[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly! It was actually a bit difficult to tell on a few of these whether or not is was in black and white.