*** dgrin worldwide sky shoot 2005 ***
Andy
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mod edit: i'm posting this for mongrel, who's organizing this event. this is the official information thread. please, only mongrel should post to this thread.
if you have questions, comments, etc, please post them in this comments thread.
if you have questions, comments, etc, please post them in this comments thread.
Mongrel wrote:
I'm going to go ahead and set the date\time on the 'unnofficial' Dgrin Sky Challenge 2005 for:
Tuesday June 21, 2005 at 7pm GMT
For some of us it will already be June 22, but that's ok
Hurry up and let me know if this is OK....
I'd like to wait until Andy gets back and make sure this is cool, and request that a Sky Challenge sign up thread be stickied. This is so we can all log in if we are going to participate and where we will be shooting from.
NOW-
After giving it some thought, I think it would be best that we shoot *whatever* the most interesting view of the sky we can find for that date and time. Rather than limit it in anyway this will allow us some leeway for creativity and such. I *highly* suggest we shoot as wide as possible
(Andy will go easier on me if we do...:rofl )
Thanks again for all the positive interest in this idea, I look forward to seeing the results if we can pull it off.
(Also, if a moderator would be so kind to let me know whether I have overstepped my bounds by posting and pursuing this I would appreciate it. I *honestly* don't want to appear too aggresive :uhoh )
Well, let's see....
In order to 'see' what time it will be where you are at 9pm GMT on June 21 take a look here:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&day=21&year=2005&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=0
If that chart is correct, in Sydney and Brisbane Australia, it will be 7am. Not so good for our friends in and around Perth-5am there.
In Anchorage Alaska it will be 1:00pm.
In New Zealand (Wellington) you should be fine-9am there.
Not so good for points east London over to Singapore (it will be 5am there).
Ok, so what do we do?
Easy: We do the 'challenge' TWICE. One for 9pm GMT and one for 9AM GMT!
This way no matter where you live, you will have a *shot*in the *dark* AND a *shot* in the *light* :thumb
Now, Behr brought up a very good point. Because this is a weekday many of us will be unable to participate due to work constraints. So....
How about we move the "Sky Challenge 2005 Part I" up a few days to Sat. June 18 at 9pm GMT? We would then be in a Sat\Sun period which may make this whole thing more enjoyable. I doubt very much we will miss the few minutes of daylight by not going for it on the 21st. And we still get a pretty chunk 'o the moon :wink
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Well Folks, here we go. After mulling it over and considering all suggestions and options I had to 'go for it' and make a decision.
Official date and time for the Digital Grin Worldwide Sky Shoot 2005 (Phase 1) will be:
Saturday June 18\Sunday June 19 at 9pm GMT SHARP
NOTE: If possible, carry a compass to record the direction of your shot. It will give us an idea of which way you were facing.
Following is a link already setup for that date and time. Find your city or one close by for your shooting time. Also, it would be a good idea to synchronize your watch\clock to GMT *before* you go out to shoot
LINK: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&day=18&year=2005&hour=21&min=0&sec=0&p1=0
My apologies in advance if you happen to fall into one of the dark spots. I will understand if you choose not to participate. However, there will be almost a full moon at that time so you may want to get your tripod out and give it a go.
Depending on the response to 'Phase 1', I would like to have a 'Phase 2' using 9am GMT. I would like to set that up for the next moon phase. We'll see how it goes.
I'll communicate with Andy about where to put the shots and other stuff.
Thanks again to everyone for the great response and support of this idea, I'm looking forward to the pitchas'
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Thanks,
Mongrel
Kalama Park, Kihei, Hawaii 96753
N 20º 43.882"
W 156º 27.146"
Shot straight up under a palm tree...Ahhhhh, paradise!
http://www.pbase.com/kudbegud
This is the Hudson River Valley, looking south as seen from near Bear Mountain, New York. Lat: 41.29N, Lon: 73.92W shot taken at 5pm eastern time, June 18th, 2005
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Center of DuPage County, Illinois, USA at 4pm local time. At a park about a mile from my home. 41.878º N x 88.067º W. Weather was 70º F slight overcast and breezy. North is at the center of the image
This has no EXIF, as Panorama Factory and other editing does not preserve this information. I have a control pic with EXIF if need be.
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Facing Northwest in our backyard in St Paul, Mn. USA
dave.
Basking in the shadows of yesterday's triumphs'.
A beautiful collection so far!! Mongrel - fantastic idea
I'm going to sleep now. I will catch up and add details in the morning. good night guys!
** Back after a few hours sleep - fantastic shots everyone!
Here are a few details about my shot:
The Mosque of Omar (bottom center), also known as the Dome of the Rock, was built by Caliph Abd-el-Malik in the 7th century on Temple Mount, the site of the Temple of Solomon. The latter was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. Regarded by Moslems as the site from which the prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven, and by Jews and Christians as the place where Isaac was nearly sacrificed.
The shrine was covered by a lead dome until it was replaced with a gold-colored covering in 1965. Because of rust, the anodized aluminum cover was again replaced in 1993 with a gold covering.
Middle East politics propose a threat to this location and ancient prophecies of armagedon are related to this site.
In this worldwide project, the Dgrin Worldwide Sky Shoot 2005, I wanted to shoot a location significant to Jerusalem. I chose to shoot from Mount Scopus (31.793N 35.242E), the Eastern most ridge in Jerusalem, bordering the Judean Desert, in order to get the mosque and the moon in the frame. Although the sky was dark at 00:00 local time (21:00GMT) I'm very happy with the result as I feel it screams "Jerusalem".
Taken with Canon 20d with Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM @ 105mm, ISO200.
One f/11 2.5s frame processed twice and blended for dynamic range in bottom of photo.
Second frame f/11 1/100s shot within seconds for moon exposure and blended in image.
A daylight photo of the mosque HERE
and a historic view HERE
Nir Alon
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Latitude 37.63, Longitude -122.48. 59 degrees, sunny. Saturday June 18, 2005, 2 p.m.
At the edge of the Pacific Ocean I'm facing east over the Sharp Park Golf Course. These trees have a difficult existance, salt, wind, storms but they hang on. In honor of their tenacity I chose them for the shoot.
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Taken in Sea Clif NY overlooking Hempstead Harbor. I would love if we could do more of these at different times....
Here's mine:
Medford NJ, USA (39n54, 74w49), 5pm EST looking East. Shot over Johnson's Farm, one of the last working farms in my hometown.
Note: Please leave this one *out* of the coffee table book
Some great shots above-Andy looks like ya' kicked this one in the butt
Mongrel
Raining to beat the band ... expecting Noah's Ark to float along any time ...
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Around the corner, kinda, from where I live.
This is north or west, depending on who you ask, never ask
for directions in Charleston.
Direction is strange here, and I didn't even think about a compass.
Humungus, it was starting to drizzle, turned into real rain.
(Best darn unknown bird I will ever shoot)
It was between this photo and another, killing me....... and my husband
liked a third. ginger (reshoot called for!)
This shot was take in near vertical, slightly SouthWest in Reno, Nevada at 2pm. I was in a housing tract so I figured no house was better than a bunch of houses. The forcast was for showers
Chris
Camera Make: SONY
Camera Model: DSC-V3
Image Date: 2005:06:18 14:00:27
Exposure Time: 0.0020 s (1/500)
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO equiv: 100
Exposure Bias: -2.00
White Balance: Auto
A picture is but words to the eyes.
Comments are always welcome.
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Coordinates: 39 41.123n 74 36.357w looking dead north.
View EXIF here:http://behr655.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=25367580
http://behr655.smugmug.com/gallery/2514206#132038106
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The beach is one of my favorite places. And today, it didn't disappoint
Looking North towards Half Moon Bay.
Ian
ALSO PLEASE: Load the shots into the dgrin.smugmug.com gallery (info in first post on this thread... i just had to load up like 10 photos... :uhoh
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June gloom left us for the day to allow for postcard picture perfection. I think it was in the mid 70s, quite breezy and sunny.
I don't know our longitude and latitude.
Mongrel, this was a fantastic idea, thanks so much for organizing it. I hope JeffW gets a shot in. We were in touch via phone and he was fighting traffic to get back to his camera in time.
I bumped into a photog from dpreview (?) named Marq. I told him what we were doing today and he seemed VERY jealous
My border disappeared so I copied the details here:
Los Angeles, 2pm June 18th. Looking southwest from Echo Park Lake towards Downtown.
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Think of it as a Cherry Ripe down payment
The Chief just informed me people aren't uploading the pics and info here:
https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/601861
According to instructions.
PLEASE, put your uploads in the dgrin skyshoot gallery above BEFORE you post the pic here. Ya'll are making too much work for the big guy and like they say....it's rolling down hill
Thanks in advance for your help with this!
Mongrel
thought that I posted correctly ...
It appears to be there now.
http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/601861/1/25373255/Large
I did redo my caption a couple of times, perhaps you popped in on the photo, as I was editing my prose
re: my photo! (we never stop learning, aye)...as I have never had the need for the internal camera clock...I did not realize that the clock, does not self correct for daylight savings time:uhoh
...hence the discrepancy of time on the EXIF
It was really cool to think that at T-3 minutes there were dozens of people around the world preparing to take a picture just like I was.
Incidentally every time I told someone that I went to the Solstice parade after it was over asked if there were a lot of naked people. Apparently it is known for that.
Yes, there were lots and lots of naked people. Not that I have a problem with that.
Except for naked guys on bikes maybe.
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Panorama of Thousand Oaks, taken at 2 PM local time.
Sony 828, tripod.
Original is here, it's fairly large (due to the nature of the merge:-).
The gallery of originals is here.
Where are you guys (or rather where were you guys)?
Nir Alon
images of my thoughts