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.

  • mursejoy@lemmy.zip
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    17 days ago

    If wind is moving your tripod, you can tie a weight to the center point and have it hang under the camera to steady it. They make all sorts of different sized ones for different wind speeds.

    If you already knew this than nbd just trying to help!