A foggy night at Passo Giau
Arrived at Passo Giau at sunset.

The colours were stunning, but fog was already rolling in that in that moment was pretty epic.

The bad thing didn’t expected it would stay until 11 pm.

When it finally began to sink into the valley the humidity was still so high that I had to keep cleaning the lens filter while shooting the panorama but happy i managed to take the shot i wanted .

Canon R + Canon 6D (astro-mod)

Astronomik filter

Sky: 7 panels · 3×120 s · ISO 800 · f/2.8

Ha: 10×180 s · ISO 3200 · f/2.8

Foreground: 5 panels · 30 s · ISO 3200 · f/2.8

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Shot on Fujifilm XT-5 with Viltrox 13mm F1.4 at ISO 1600, F1.4. Total exposure time ~4hours. Edited in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom

Shot on Oneplus 12R

Format - RAW

ISO - 2000

f - 1.8

Shutter - 30 second

Focus - 1

WB - 4400

I got this shot outside of Amsterdam, NY, USA back in June. I submitted it to the photo contest at the National Model Railroad Association North East Regional Convention this past weekend and took home first place in the Prototype Color category. Honestly I was kind of surprised to win, given the number of excellent photos submitted this year.

Camera: Nikon Z fc
Lens: Nikkor Z DX 16-50
Shutter: 1/15 sec
Aperture: f/13
ISO: 400

Human vs. Timer set up inside a subway tunnel taken in 2016

Barnard’s Loop over Monte Elefante
On the night of September 12, from the slopes of Monte Elefante on Terminillo (central Apennines, Italy), the constellation of Orion rose above a sea of inversion fog filling the valley below.
The bright red arc dominating the sky is Barnard’s Loop (Sh 2-276), a vast emission nebula surrounding the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, captured in hydrogen-alpha light.
Technical details:
• Sky: two-panel mosaic, 7 × 120 s, ISO 800, f/2 (Canon EOS R)
• Hα layer: 7 × 180 s, ISO 3200, f/2.2 through Astronomik 6 nm filter (Canon 6D astromodified)
• Foreground: single 120 s exposure, ISO 1600, f/2.8
The moving inversion layer made framing and focusing particularly challenging that night, yet it added a dramatic, almost surreal separation between the terrestrial landscape and the deep-sky objects above.

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While hiking, I found these cool rocks with Cygnus on top. At 50mm this is a target with so many details, but I've taken it so many times over the years that this time I wanted to do something different and capture the dust nearby. I took 4 panels with 4 hours of integration each. It surprised me how faint the dust in this area is. The Hydrogen Alpha is another story, there's so much and some OIII, specially in the North America Nebula. 

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NO generative AI involved.

GEAR:

Sony a7IV astromodified x2, twin setup

Sony 50mm GM f/1.4

ZWO AM3N

A picture I took in the middle of the night from a scenic lookout not far from where I live. I used my Moto Edge 2021, 32 second exposure, ISO-3200, f/1.9. A tripod and bluetooth mouse gives me a decent little mobile setup.

One of my favorite things about long exposure is turning something ordinary into something that almost looks painted.

Made with LSC 2.0 on iPhone 11.

The last train passed without stopping. An empty platform, a streak of motion, and that strange, surreal feeling of being outside of time.

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We usually talk about the summer or winter arch, but this is the one we tend to forget. This arch consists of the Cygnus constellation on the left of the image, with Andromeda on top, up to Orion on the right. It actually has much more detail hidden, like galactic dust, but for this one I didn't get enough integration time, and a wide lens doesn't help either. This place has trenches, part of the story of Spain almost one hundred years ago. The Milky Way core is an easy photo compared to this region of the sky, as the signal is much stronger.

The photo was taken  in 2024, NO GENERATIVE AI INVOLVED.

EXIF:

Sony a7 IV (foreground)

Sony a7 III Astro mod (sky)

Sony 20mm f1.8 G (foreground and sky)

iOptron Skyguider Pro

RGB: 1 row panorama, 6 panels x12 60s, ISO 640, f/1.8

Ha: 1 row panorama, 4 panels x20-30 120S, ISO 2.500, f/1.8

Foreground: 1 row panorama, 6 panels x60s, ISO 2.500 f/3.2

Canon R7 with 70-200mm lens F2.8 ISO 100 ss 2sec for background. Moon captures every 135s at 1/125 ss F2.8 ISO 100. Automated shutter used to capture perfectly time intervals. Location Bolte Bridge Melbourne Australia.