Your Top 5 from 2015

[RobDickinson]

Its that time of year again! Always love these threads, and it makes a nice little history of your photography


5 only mind!

(previous "Your Top 5 From..." threads: 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010)


Quite a quiet year overall for me but here is my top 5.

An Easter trip to catlins was my most productive break. Nugget point lighthouse now a postcard.
On a Knife Edge by Rob Dickinson, on Flickr

Aurora is always worth a look
Hidden Beauty by Rob Dickinson, on Flickr

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Crazy night at Nape Nape no sleep lots of stars.
Edge of Infinity by Rob Dickinson, on Flickr

Probably not the most popular of mine but I love the feel, it was proper heaving down shooting this.
Saturated by Rob Dickinson, on Flickr

And Wharariki at sunrise, just feels like the wildest most remote place in NZ
Wharariki by Rob Dickinson, on Flickr



Overall not much astro this year and not much at all , but a few keepers all the same..

[RobDickinson]

Pints said:

Great shots, Rob, although I'd hoped for a more diverse selection of subject matter.


I shan't bore you with mine. (There's only likely to be a cat, a blurred spider and an overexposed sunset.)

I shoot landscapes. Its what I enjoy most. Plenty of other contributors add other stuff.
Its well worth joining in as a good record of what you are shooting and how you are improving (or not..)

[RobDickinson]

DibblyDobbler said:

GetCarter said:

Just fab. Good work that man.

+1 That Robin is one of my top 5 of the year

Photography is a funny old thing isnt it. Its just a pic of a bird. Theres so many average or bad ones when someone nails it like that it really stands out, hits all my points that make a good photograph ( comp, light, timing, creativity).

[RobDickinson]

Nightmare said:

Rob....how much, er, cheating involved for those? Cheating probably isn't the word, but obvs you can't just snap those!!

By cheating you mean time effort skill gear and a bit of luck right?

[RobDickinson]

Nightmare said:

Absolutely yeah - but how on earth can you take a photograph that comes out like Hidden Beauty? Sorry is meant to be a real question - it's amazing and looks like an impossible photo to me! I mean this in a totally complimentary way sir.

The astro stuff is pushing technology a bit. NZ has fantastic dark and clear skies, and is far south enough to get some aurora which helps. That photo is about 40-50 frames stitched together into a panorama, individual exposures are around iso 6400, 15 seconds, f2.5 or so, takes about 25min to shoot them all. Then its a simple job of stitching and processing.

[RobDickinson]

Tony my astro stuff tends to be panoramics, multiple frames stitched, and there is no light source on the camera. Its all natural starlight

[RobDickinson]

Zombie said:

Some of mine, definitely not up to the general standard here though! (Not posting any of my attempts to get the galactic code / milky way!)

IMG_3949 by Chris 155, on Flickr

Now that is special!

Tony Starks said:

I meant which white balance/source? Auto, sun, cloudy etc

Cheers

Alex

I usually go with whatever white balance I find works for the image, technically it should be quite warm (our eyes dont see it tho) but it hardly ever looks good like that.