Photographer’s Note
I took this picture yesterday morning in Titusville, FL. I started down on Wednesday and got about half way there before I found out that the launch was scrubbed. I went down Friday and waited for two hours before it was scrubbed and then drove the 2 1/2 hours yesterday and it finally went up. I used my D200 with my 80-400mm lens on a tripod. I was about 6 miles from the pad. I had my camera set on Aperature priority at f8 but made a mistake and set the exposure comp at -.3 and that caused my pictures to come out dark so I had to do some Post Processing. I hope that you enjoy this and let me know what you think. The whole set can be found at kgarrett.smugmug.com
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danpolley (217) 2006-09-10 8:37
Must of been a fun experience, I have enjoyed several missle launches but never a shuttle. Sorry about the exposure problem but a fun photo neverless.
paulw
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(2014) 2006-09-10 17:42
Lovely image despite the conditions. Good detail to it. Well captured. TFS.
rewshearer
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(682) 2006-09-10 23:32
Obviously your subject choice is excellent and the timing of the photo is great, but compositionally it could be better.
I would've liked to see this in portrait, perhaps with the water cropped out and much more sky above the shuttle. I suspect you wanted to include the smoke along the ground, but it's not essential to the photo.
Thanks for sharing
Rew
Photo Information
- Copyright: Keith Garrett (kwgarrett11) (63)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2006-09-09
- Categories: Decisive Moment
- Camera: Nikon D200, Nikon 80-400mm VR
- Exposure: f/8, 1/1000 seconds
- Details: Tripod: Yes
- More Photo Info: view
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2006-09-10 8:21
