Just a short but meaningful thank you for all your birthday wishes I have received today. It is a wonderful gesture and thank you for making me smile.
Steve Read more...
I no longer have the Solar Telescope and have instead traded it for a pair of astronomical telescopes. First few uploads will be taken at Prime Focus (ie without an eyepiece involved).
It is good to play :-) Read more...
Woke up this morning and saw a few emails wishing me congratulations for becoming the member of the month for January 2011.
So I logged on to Woophy immediately to find out what had happened !
What a fabulous surprise and honour as there are so many [...] Read more...
Playing a little more with HDR (High Dynamic Range) a technique where you stack several photos of varying exposures (under and over) together to maximise detail and dynamic range. The objective being to replicate what the eye actually saw and not to overexpose. it is [...] Read more...
Recently got a special telescope for looking at the sun.
It is a Coronado SolarMax 60mm Double Stacked refractor with 2 tuned Hydrogen Alpha filters.
Also got a Baader Hyperion 8-24mm Zoom eyepiece to couple to my DSLR.
The workflow is quite complex so I will be learning [...] Read more...
I have treated myself to a Coronado 60mm Double Stacked Hydrogen Alpha Telescope !!!
Ok, in English that means I can look at the sun through a telescope in absolute perfect safety. I hope to be able to connect up the DSLR and perhaps show some [...] Read more...
Picked up a couple of lenses and initial impressions I am over the moon with them both.
The two lenses are the Canon 70-200mm F2.8 IS USM II and the Canon 100mm F2.8 IS macro lens.
I also picked up a Manfrotto 055XPROB with the 410 junior [...] Read more...
Went to the Focus on Imaging show and treated myself to a Canon 5D Mark II - early pictures suggest this really is a wonderful camera and moving up from the Canon 40D is not as big a step as I had previously worried about.
Managed [...] Read more...
Still love the traditional photography - if traditional and digital go together that is !
However, something I have always wanted to play around with is Colour Infrared photography. So I have recently purchased a Minolta Dimage 7 from that imfamous auction site together with a [...] Read more...
Gold camera, member has published more than 10 photos with very high ratingMember of the Month, January 1st, 2011
Homepage at http://stevebb.com
If anyone reading this would like to visit some of the settings in these photographs around North Yorkshire then please email me - steve@stevebb.com
