KC Nicely Photography

Dan Nissley spotted this historical structure with the three little pigs threatening to blow the house down and invited me to shoot star trails with him on the site.

I chose to try out my new Nikon Z8 camera instead of my Nikon Z6ii that I usually use for night shots. I am pleased with the results. I think the camera is just as good as the Z6ii, at least for star trails.

I made what I thought was a fatal mistake on this shot. In the original photo composition I failed to realize that I was cutting off the bottom corner of the building foundation. Thanks to AI I was able to generate the bottom of the photo to correct the composition.

I think it turned out pretty good. Thanks to Dan for inviting me to spend the evening with him shooting the stars.

BEST VIEWED FULL SCREEN

I decided to do a moonrise shot last night as the full blue moon was rising during blue hour. Unfortunately the clouds had other ideas. I waited the clouds out and captured this shot of the moon peaking through the clouds about an hour after moon rise.

This is my first moon capture with the new Z8 with the 500 pf lens. This is going to be a great combination for moon photography. There was a lot of humidity in the air last night and I was shooting through the clouds. Even with those conditions this image is incredibly sharp.

And here is the final shot. The train arrived after about hour of waiting.

I used a 10 stop ND filter to slow the shutter speed down to 1 second to add the motion blur to the train.

Jaci and I walked up to the Siegrist Farm to check out the sun flower field today.

I got up early this morning to capture a nearly new moon, 3% illuminated

Friday night I was invited to shoot star trails with Dan Nissley at the home of Jeff Bauder. Jeff recently completed the restoration of a 1940 Ford 2 door and was kind enough to let us shoot star trails at his place with the Ford as the subject. What a beautiful job Jeff did on the restoration.

Jeff was kind enough to set up chairs in his warm garage for us. After an hour and a half of setup and taking several light painted shots of the Ford, Dan Jeff and I had a nice visit in the garage while we waited on our cameras to do the work of capturing the stars for the next 2 hours.

Here are the results...

Practicing photography around the house.

Tonight's Full Moon from Lititz. It is the Worm moon.

Nikon D500, Nikon 500pf