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 @[email protected], eat your heart out, here’s a space needle.

  • Tanis NikanaOP
    2·
    3 days ago

    Yeah, but then I’m stilll applying force to the camera body by virtue of pressing the shutter button.

    I think I need to endure CanonConnect or get a remote timer.

    • WesternInfidels@feddit.onlineEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I have a camera that supports Canon Connect, but after reading about it on the web a little bit, I decided I’d try it out … some other day. That day hasn’t come yet.

      I also have a cheap ($10 or less) simple wired remote shutter release. That always works. Worth the $10.

    • autriyo@feddit.org
      2·
      3 days ago

      My Canon has an option for using the touch screen as a shutter, while using live view mode.

      That works better than the 2s timer IMO.

      And canon connect does suck ass… I remember some third party apps, but those also didn’t work super well.