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Venus in Transit Transit of Venus Sunnyvale, CA A couple days ago Willie informed that another awesome astronomical event would be occurring: the Transit of Venus in which Venus travels in between the sun and Earth and can be seen as a teeny tiny little dot in the sun. I already had solar glasses and a solar filter that I purchased for the recent Annular Solar Eclipse so I was all set for the Tuesday, June 5, 2012 Transit of Venus! Since the transit started at 3pm I decided to leave work early to take a timelapse of the entire event. A bunch of interns had just started and being a former lead of our intern program I decided to invite them along. Willie, some interns, and I left work and found a nearby parking garage and drove to the top. We made it with just enough time to setup our tripods and start shooting away. For the next 5 hours I took at least 1 photo every minute! My plan is to create a little time-lapse video showing the transit, however, photoshop cannot automatically align the images (300mm on a DX body wasn't enough to get 40% overlap) so I have to manually align each image (ugh -- and there's 450 of them … double ugh)! Towards the end of the Transit some clouds rolled in and blocked part of the view of Venus but also made for some really interesting scenes! Willie also noticed at one point that an airplane was flying right into the path of the sun and I raced over to my camera to snap a couple shots! It was also interesting to see how ovular the sun gets as it sets. As the sun sets to a lower elevation angle the suns light rays have to travel through a greater part of the Earth's atmosphere -- when this happens the rays bounce more and are visible with greater distortion. To our delight, we were treated with an absolutely BEAUTIFUL sunset after the sun went down. I almost packed up my gear before the sky just exploded with color. There wasn't much to play with compositionally but I think I have something that came out pretty nicely. Stay tuned for more from this day! Nikon D300s w/Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED-IF AF-S VR Most of the images taken something along the lines of: 300mm, f/5.6, 1/250 sec, ISO 200
Boatworks Golden Gate Bridge, 75th Birthday Fireworks Celebration Slacker Hill, Marin Headlands, CA The GGB is a special structure for many of the local San Francisco photographers and although I don't get up here as much as I'd like, I always admire the beauty of not only the bridge, but the landscape in which it was built into. Knowing that parking would be limited and photographers would be out for this special celebration I arrived early (9 hours early or so) with Zack and Wilson and hiked to the top of Slacker Hill. Shortly after Jave, Alan, Jared, Carl, and Toby showed up and a number of photographers followed. During the time we waited we hung out, got to know each other, grilled some sausages, and eventually started debating if there was a better spot for the fireworks. Alan disappeared and when he came back he swore that there was a better spot. So off Jared, Alan, and I go, down a steep hill and over to a bunker that was lower, further west, and hopefully had a better view. While "better" may be relative, we all decided to stay and shoot from this location instead of the normal Slacker Hill composition. We had some time to kill before the fireworks and as the sun set and blue hour began I could hear photographers all around me firing away. The color in the sky was behind us but blue hour is always pretty when you're looking at the Golden Gate Bridge. BY the time blue hour began I noticed a lot of boats had gotten into position waiting for the fireworks to start. I thought they might pose an interesting subject for a photo so I dialed the ISO down, set the aperture to f/13 for some decent light-stars, and clicked away. It took 90 seconds to get the exposure right and in that time the boats moved all around, creating an interesting abstract effect of color, movement, and an almost semi-firework in the water. I have another photo with much sharper boats (at a higher ISO and faster shutter) but I thought this was much more interesting. Nikon D700 w/Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8G ED AF-S: 24mm, f/13, 90 sec, ISO 250, Tripod No filters used because I was too lazy. I under-exposed slightly to keep the sky from blowing out and then pulled the rest of the photo up.
Model: Jacob Baugher Photographer: Aaron Meyers http://www.aaronmphotography.com/
Model: Jacob Baugher Photographer: Aaron Meyers http://www.aaronmphotography.com/
Model: Jacob Baugher Photographer: Aaron Meyers http://www.aaronmphotography.com/
Model: Jacob Baugher Photographer: Aaron Meyers http://www.aaronmphotography.com/
Model: Jacob Baugher Photographer: Aaron Meyers http://www.aaronmphotography.com/
Model: Jacob Baugher Photographer: Aaron Meyers http://www.aaronmphotography.com/
Model: Jacob Baugher Photographer: Aaron Meyers http://www.aaronmphotography.com/
Model: Jacob Baugher
Photographer: Aaron Meyers http://www.aaronmphotography.com/
Model: Jacob Baugher Photographer: Aaron Meyers http://www.aaronmphotography.com/
Model: Jacob Baugher
Photographer: Aaron Meyers http://www.aaronmphotography.com/
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