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.
Crazy that a tripod that expensive doesn’t have a hook built into that center pole. Usually they aren’t the beefiest hooks when built in but give us something! Come on pro master!
It does everything else I ever wanted in a tripod!
Also it’s insane that my tripod costs two-thirds of what my camera cost.
A good tripod is never cheap, and a cheap tripod is never good.
You made the right move investing in a good one. Especially if you’re going to be doing night landscape or city scapes. Gotta have a good setup for long exposures.
I want to get an L bracket for my camera, or a cage so I can get long exposures vertical orientation! Never ending GAS! lol