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Bodie Night Photgraphy in Motion

I decided to put a few images from this star trails shot at Bodie into an album to see if Auto Awesome would animate them.  It did!  It doesn't know whether the stars or the ground are moving though, so it decided to move them both a little bit.  Technically it's more accurate to show the earth moving because it is the rotation of the earth which makes the stars seem to move, although we don't think of it that way from our point of reference.

I've added June 29 (one day) and August 24 (weekend) workshops to my Bodie night access offerings for 2013:
Bodie Night Photography Workshops 2013:
http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/bodie-night-photography-workshops/

The PayPal registration/payment buttons don't work within my blog posts and separate pages though, so you have to access them via the buttons on the front page of the blog, www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com/blog.

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51 thoughts on “Bodie Night Photgraphy in Motion”

  4. George Lowrimore
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    I love church is. this would be one of my favorites from you. such a beautiful and mage. I've been following you for a long time. you never reply back but that's okay. I really enjoy your post. this one I really like.

  5. Jeff Sullivan
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    I do read all comments and try to respond to specific questions and statements directed at me +George Lowrimore, and I appreciate all of the comments kind complements on my photography.  

    I'm in the final stages of finishing a 300-400 page book I've been working on for 3 years.  I do need to focus my attention on that for the next few weeks; it could change my life.  So I am on G+ slightly less for a short time, but I still make time to read everything, and respond in detail when appropriate.  

    Thanks for letting me know you like this; I'll definitely try more of these as time permits.

  8. George Lowrimore
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    thank you Jeff. that was very nice what you just said. yes I've been following year and I know you have been working hard. my best wishes your dreams come true. I have learned a lot from you. your tutorials, sometimes I understand some of them, sometimes I try to learn. just want you to know your work is appreciated. have a wonderful day.

  42. Jeff Sullivan
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    What's reflecting off the moon is the same light from the sun which scatters in the sky and makes the sky look blue to us during the day +Keya S..  Shadows during the day have a lot of blue light, but you don't usually notice it.  If you look for it, especially on a white surface such as snow, suddenly it's obviously blue.  Otherwise our brains completely tune it out, and you can live you whole life seeing blue in the shadows but never noticing it.  It's so dependent on the viewing conditions you're in, you can take a picture of a snowy scene and the blue shadows don't look right.  

    Our eyes and cameras don't "see" a scene in the same way, and our brains severely affect how we perceive and interpret the scene.  It's fascinating that there are some boundary cases where our eyes clearly see the color and our brains cause us to completely ignore it, but if we pay attention and look, and only if we specifically look for it, there it is, we can clearly see the color.

    Similarly at night, people rarely have occasion to sit out at night for 30 minutes or more, and even fewer have no light pollution (find a place 100 miles ore more from a major city).  But if you do that, and pay attention to the sky color, you can see clearly that the night sky lit by the moon is clearly blue, just like during the day.  

    Our ability to notice it is so limited that even when out shooting at night, for the first few years I assumed that the color must only be visible to the camera.  But one night I was out shooting a "moonbow", a lunar rainbow cased by the light of the moon shining in the mist of a waterfall.  Normally our eyes are not sensitive enough to see the color at night and we can only see the contrast between the colors and see it in black and white, but on this "super moon" night, when the uneven mist was thick enough, the rainbow color would suddenly be there.  Soon after that I noticed the blue night sky color as well, and I started wondering at what degree of moon fullness and brightness our eyes are able to discern the blue scattering off the rest of the sky.  So far the least moon I've seen create a clear blue that I could notice was a 25% full crescent moon.  But since it's difficult to perceive, the existence of blue sky color at night is probably much more common than most astrophotographers (even perhaps astronomers) have noticed.

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