Schoodic Point Nov 5, 2011, a set on Flickr.
A series of images shot betwen 6 and 11 PM November 5, 2011.
These were to try out Kodak E100G for moonlit landscape work. Ektachrome E100G is the last professional transparency film available from Kodak and to shoot film in todays age is to continue the legacy of film.
Look at the images and remember that this will perhaps not be possible sometime soon. Digital better? I'll let you form your own opinion.
Some may wonder where the summer Milky Way has gone, or perhaps were in the sky the Sun is located around local noontime on the day of the Winter Solstice.
The Sun, plotted here in relative size and position to the starry sky. One imagines what a total solar eclipse would look like with the stunning Milky Way background.
Conversely, this is roughly where the Summer Solstice Full Moon is placed amongst the stars.
Background image was shot in 2008 from my dark sky in Sullivan, Maine
The Milky Way from Scutum to Cepheus. I had longed dreamed of puting together such a mosaic. It was one long night in September, and on a work night no less! The first exposure started at 9:17 PM and the last exposure ended at 1:28 AM, the next morning.
A mosaic of 4 panels, each a 60 minute exposure using a Pentax 67 with 105mm f/2.4 lens at f/4.8, Fujicolor Superia 100. Due to unmanageable color gradiants I decided to convert to b&w to make it publishable. It qualifies for the coveted Legacy category.
The original could make a poster as tall as an interior wall, say 2' x 8'.
It is the end of the road for the Great Rift. The rift ends at the "Northern Coal Sack" just south (right, in this photo)of Deneb. LeGentil 3 (left of center) is often mistaken for the NCS, but as you can see it is not as dark and opaque.
A mosaic of two frames, each a 60 minute exposure using a Pentax 67 with 105mm f/2.4 lens stopped down to f/4.8 and utilizing Fujicolor Superia 100 (CN) photographic film.
I was fortunate to get a night where I could compose two long exposure photographs of our Milky Way's Great Rift, utilizing an equatorial platform.
You will note that Comet Garradd is located just west of Brocchi's Cluster.
A mosaic of two frames, each employed the use of a Pentax 67 camera and 165 f/2.8 portrait lens stopped to f/4.8 and a 60 minute exposure on Fujicolor Superia 100 (CN) photographic film. The two frames were scanned on an Epson V600 and assembled in Adobe Photoshop.
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The Legacy Project is a planned sequence of photographs of the night sky. Over the last several years astrophotographers have switched to digital as the medium of choice. While there are many reasons to do this, film is still a great way to capture wide-field images of the Milky Way and the sky in general.
The project's mission is to continue film's "Legacy" as a medium for long exposure images of the night sky.
The sequence of photos started in October 2009 and will end at a point yet to be determined.
Great care has been given to compose, expose, and process each image. Only the best combination of film, lenses and exposure times are used.
Each image is shot under the dark skies of my home in Maine.
My goal is to produce the finest images obtainable with film emulsions.
Via Flickr:
Located within the "bend" in the Great Rift lies Vulpecula, the fox and Sagitta, the arrow.
This image features many of the prominent dark intricacies that compose the Great Rift as is meanders through the backbone of night.
At center, Collinder 399, Brocchi's cluster, often called the Coathangar, floats in the darkness of the rift on a summer's evening.
