Archive for the Wide Angle Category
Day of the Dead, tarantula season out west…
Posted in Gopro Hero5, Wide Angle on February 6, 2020 by budbranch
Abiquiu Lake After Sundown
Posted in Astrophotography, Composite, Sony A7III, Wide Angle on November 22, 2019 by budbranch
A composite of 50+ 25sec exposures stacked. 14mm lens distorts what is nearly circular motion around the Pole star.
The Aspen Are Turning In The Canyon
Posted in DJI Mavic 2 Pro, RC Quadcopter, Wide Angle on October 6, 2019 by budbranch
Dark Sky / Milky Way
Posted in 5DMII, Astrophotography, Long exposures, Wide Angle on September 22, 2019 by budbranch
A sweet, clear, dark night…
Here is a catch-up post since November!
Posted in Astrophotography, cats, Macro, Wide Angle on January 7, 2019 by budbranch
At the inaugural ball with Michelle Lujan Grisham
Chief cat Lilly
Snowed in
Comet 46P/Wirtanen and the Pleiades
Sweet music jam
Taos Mountain
Goodnight Moon
Taos Canyon frost
Pre-election rally with Michelle Lujan Grisham
July Update!
Posted in 5DMII, Available Light, Gopro Hero5, Long exposures, Wide Angle on July 15, 2018 by budbranchHere is what I have been up to for the last few weeks:
MOMentum is building…
Tattoo!
Hagerty Mandolins
Hagerty Mandolins
Hagerty Mandolins
Ground squirrel taunts us
This got published in Taos News
Eskes crowd watching the fireworks
Gun buy-back in Taos
Eskes Bluegrass Jam
Revisiting the Sunflowers
Posted in 5DMII, Available Light, Wide Angle on June 20, 2018 by budbranch
These photos are hanging in a show in Taos. An admirer asked me to write a little bit about my process:
The photos were taken during sunflower season in Taos. I was shooting out the passenger window of our car with a 17-40mm Canon 5DMII – we were going about 40MPH. The camera was set for manual focus and the drive mode set to continuous, so I could capture about 4 frames every second. These are the specific settings:
Top photo: 1/125 sec at F/10 ISO 100 20mm
Bottom photo: 1/80 sec at F/7.1 ISO 100 17mm
The reason for the portrait orientation is that I was one-handing the camera, letting it dangle out the window, not sighting through the viewfinder. The blur in the foreground is due to car motion blur, but the background is nominally in focus, due to the small aperture and wide angle lens – the shutter speed was high enough to kill the camera shake, but slow enough to blur those sunflowers zipping by, close to the camera. I did a lot of experimenting with shutter speed to get these nice exposures.
Nice prints of these and others available here!
May, 2018
Posted in Available Light, Gopro Hero5, Handheld, Wide Angle on June 3, 2018 by budbranchDear followers –
Here is a recap of May, all shot with the amazing GoPro Hero 5 Black…
And, regarding gun violence in America, consider coming off the sidelines
Roadrunner Jam
Roadrunner Jam
Family visit
Family visit
Family visit
Family visit
Family visit
Family visit
Paper artist Julie R.
The Spot…
Pot Creek
Fiddler Ed…
Great keyboardist
Party w/Denise
Nature bath with Julie
Julie w/Randy
Supporting the good one!
Got published in Taos News!!
Droning for Gun Violence Awareness
The Lyrid Meteor Shower
Posted in 5DMII, Astrophotography, Long exposures, Wide Angle on April 22, 2018 by budbranch
This meteor flashed through around 2AM this morning. While it appears to be “in” the Milky Way, it is well to remember that the meteor is very close to Earth, actually burning up IN our atmosphere, while the Milky Way is (almost) unimaginably distant.
For extra credit: why do we see more meteors AFTER midnight, than before?
Bud Branch 