Venus, Jupiter and The Moon

1. Dude
   September 14th, 2009 at 8:37 pm

   Photoshop, that's how.

2. Trianglehead
   September 14th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

   If I had to guess, I'd say that he did it in a single exposure by taking a long exposure then covered the lens with a black card/lens cap, waited a few minutes, uncovered it a few seconds for the single exposure of the heavenly bodies, and closed his shutter.

   At least, that's what I would do if I were trying to recreate this effect.

3. Jill
   September 14th, 2009 at 9:24 pm

   It is obviously at least partially fake, since a long exposure would at least have the light trails come up all the way to the edge of the objects. Please...

   Nice try though.

   Jill

4. arcan3
   September 14th, 2009 at 9:46 pm

   Trianglehead, thats a nice idea but prolly not the way he did it ... It would have added way to much noise if it was a Digi...

   Jill.. :facepalm:

   Dude.. Posible.. most likely .. not... its an easy shot if u practice with other stars...

   The way i figure he did it was a dual long exposures sandwiched ... Most DSLRs and SLRs have the option to combine several shots in the same frame...

   So basically he took one shot (prolly calculated times with other celestial bodies he had shot before) then took the 2nd shot for less (less is kinda an understatement here) time on top of the first...

   BTW. im in no way undermining the beauty of the shot... Photography needs not be complicated to achieve results as most ppl would make you think...

5. Luna
   September 14th, 2009 at 11:01 pm

   I don't agree with photo shop idea. Other people photographed the same phenomenom with different results. I'm going with time lapse, especially after reading the photographers capture of the satellite. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/081202-venus-jupiter-p hoto.html this is another "photo shop"?

6. attilla
   September 14th, 2009 at 11:08 pm

   First, short exposure (~2-10 seconds) with aperture fairly open to capture moon, Venus and Jupiter as well as remaining twilight and background. Wait about 15 minutes for twilight to fade then stop down to small aperture, open shutter until bodies set. This will capture the apparent movement (streaks) of the moon and planets over time. Note streaks on land where vehicle movement is captured also.

7. Johnny Cat
   September 14th, 2009 at 11:30 pm

   Nice find, Luna!

8. Johnny Cat
   September 14th, 2009 at 11:34 pm

   And thanks for this, Luna...more on the photog. http://www.smh.com.au/world/science/vincents-sydney-shutter-snaps-shut tle-in-space-20090324-988l.html

9. Christophe
   September 14th, 2009 at 11:51 pm

   Nice pic.
   For the technical side of it:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_exposure

10. Some Canadian Skeptic
    September 15th, 2009 at 3:53 am

    It's not photoshop. This contest was put on by the Greenwich Observatory, and they're not fools. Two of my photos were shortlisted for the very same contest.

    The way you do a shot like this is to set your camera to take non-stop exposures of about 10-25 seconds/piece. You then stack them on top of each other using a program called "Startrails".

    It's easy to do, but time-consuming. The weather also has to cooperate (My camera nearly broke because of the humidity one night).

    Not photoshop.

    So stop calling "fake" like this was ebaumsworld.

11. bud
    September 15th, 2009 at 9:10 am

    It is not simple time exposure because other star trails would become visible, not to mention a greater washout of the sky from light pollution, and there is obvious multiple exposure involved to separate the trails from the image of all three on their own.

    What is less certain is if there is a certain aperture iso perhaps focus as well, to allow the moon and planets of that magnitude to make that trail as a time exposure, without exposing other startrails in the process

12. j
    September 15th, 2009 at 9:21 am

    They're escaping! Somebody stop them!

13. FishBottleT
    September 15th, 2009 at 6:40 pm

    People who call this fake probably are just pissed because they can not take cool pics like these!!

14. Wes
    September 15th, 2009 at 10:40 pm

    People who can, do. People who can't cry "Photoshop."

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