I need to tell you about the absolute brutal shit I went to get through to get this picture.

Four exposures, stacked and bracketed at -2, -1, 0, and +1. Doing an exposure at 2 would have made me bring out the bulb and since I don’t have a remote shutter, I gotta do it with my phone, and I wouldn’t wish CanonConnect on Stephen Miller. So that said, I stood there at Kerry Park in Seattle, amongst seventy or a hundred other people, and they were all trying to capture this with their terrible little phone sensors, and I had my actual real shit, I was the only one with an actual camera.

So I took my exposures and some extra ones on the side, came back home to Portland, and set to work. My +1 was slightly off, just a little windblown. Darktable doesn’t give a shit, it’s not aligning nothing. I had Hugin stack up my control points and try to align it, told me it was a success, but every last point of light looked like AI circa '22, so that was a no-go.

In the end, I just edited the 0 exposure and just went with that. Dammit.

Thanks for seeing my frustrating work.

Oh also @nothingcorporate@lemmy.today, eat your heart out, here’s a space needle.

  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.worldOP
    2·
    19 days ago

    It also didn’t help that the interior of the space needle was slowly rotating.

    I think my problem was that I pushed the shutter button and that nudged the whole camera each time.

    • WesternInfidels@feddit.onlineEnglish
      4·
      19 days ago

      Many cameras have a two-second self-timer mode to help out in this situation. Which doesn’t stop the Space Needle from rotating, of course.

      • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        19 days ago

        Yeah, but then I’m stilll applying force to the camera body by virtue of pressing the shutter button.

        I think I need to endure CanonConnect or get a remote timer.

        • WesternInfidels@feddit.onlineEnglish
          3·
          19 days ago

          I have a camera that supports Canon Connect, but after reading about it on the web a little bit, I decided I’d try it out … some other day. That day hasn’t come yet.

          I also have a cheap ($10 or less) simple wired remote shutter release. That always works. Worth the $10.

        • autriyo@feddit.org
          2·
          19 days ago

          My Canon has an option for using the touch screen as a shutter, while using live view mode.

          That works better than the 2s timer IMO.

          And canon connect does suck ass… I remember some third party apps, but those also didn’t work super well.

    • mursejoy@lemmy.zip
      2·
      17 days ago

      Oh also they make camera remotes that plug in with a little wire, they are like two bucks online. I’ve had the same cheapo one for like 10 years