Re: [APML] Star Trail colors??

["Stuart Heggie" <stuart.j.heggie@sympatico.ca>]

Fascinating comparison - thanks for posting that!
Stuart
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Hammonds" <shammonds@creatorsview.com>
To: "'Discussion of Film Astrophotography'" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 4:11 PM
Subject: RE: [APML] Star Trail colors??


> Ray, Stuart, Gary,
> Thanks for the nice comments. I have updated the page which now includes a
> similar shot with E200. It is also a bit bright, but the colors seem nicer
> to me. It's all a personal choice I guess.
>  http://www.creatorsview.com/astrophoto/nms04/polartrails.html
> 
> 
> Scott Hammonds
> www.creatorsview.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Butler [mailto:ray.butler@nuigalway.ie] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 3:53 AM
> To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography
> Subject: Re: [APML] Star Trail colors??
> 
> 
> Scott Hammonds wrote:
> 
>  >  Hi Film Connoisseurs,
>  > I recently returned from a successful trip to New Mexico Skies with my  >
> friend Chris Hetlage from the Atlanta Astronomy Club. It was a great trip  >
> and Mike and Lynn Rice are outstanding hosts. I have quite a few shots to  >
> process, over 30 frames, plus star trails. While scanning the star trails I
> > noticed a big difference in color between the 2 different films. 
> Kodak E200
>  > and Fuji Velvia 100F
>  >
>  > Here is a link to a processed shot using a fairly new film(at least to
> me),  > Fuji Velvia 100F. It had a green cast to it on the long exposures,
> but not  > on the daylight shots. What do you think of the color?
>  > http://www.creatorsview.com/astrophoto/nms04/polartrails.html
> 
> Scott, that's a lovely star trail composition with the foreground trees. 
> It's a keeper!
> 
> To judge the film's colour response, and the nature of the "big difference
> in color" that you report, we'd really need to see your E200 trails side by
> side with it. But from the Velvia shot alone, the trails seem to be
> predominantly bluish, with weak oranges and reds. I'd expect more
> pronounced/diverse colours with E200.
> 
> Ray
> 
> 
> > 
> > Here is a link to a few daylight shots:
> > http://www.creatorsview.com/astrophoto/nms04/daylight.html
> > 
> >  
> > Thanks,
> > Scott Hammonds
> > www.creatorsview.com 
> > 
> > 
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