![]() More information and to purchase at /product/the-astrophotographers-log-book-25-sessions/:īack in April, I was contacted by Patrick Whitener, the partnership coordinator at USB Memory Direct ( ), maker of custom and branded flash drives. The Log Book is wire-bound and opens flat or a full 360 degrees. The end papers are also handmade by the author and each set is unique. The front and back covers are designed by the author. A built-in bookmark makes it easy to locate where you left off. The thick covers also make it sturdy and durable under the varied conditions you might experience, whether at home or at a remote dark site. ![]() The front and back covers are laminated 2mm book board for a solid writing surface on your imaging table or your lap. The Astrophotographer’s Log Book, at 6″ x 9″, is sized to fit easily into your astrophotography gear bag. It’s for beginners to help establish good imaging session habits early on, for the advanced astrophotographer who wants and needs a consistent place to record and find the data they worked hard to collect, and for the astrophotographer who likes to look back on old records and reminisce about those special sessions. This log book is for astrophotographers who want to record as much data for each session as they like, or at least have the available place for it when they do. So I compiled this set of pages I hope will also fit your needs and help you have more productive and repeatable imaging sessions, and provide a detailed memory you can look back on in the future. And, those that did exist, seemed very open-ended and more like the blank book I was already using. I looked for a journal or format to meet my needs and discovered there were many different versions of observer’s logs, but almost no journal books for astrophotographers. In the paragraphs I wrote, it was difficult to consistently find the information I needed for planning follow-up sessions and time consuming to search the pages for it. So, the notebook became, over time, a less-organized and incomplete record of my imaging sessions. Doing it by memory each time, it was easy to miss adding a line of data, or write it in another place for that session, or flip back and forth between pages to make sure I had it all written down correctly and in order. The Astrophotographer’s Log Book arose from documenting my own imaging sessions, but rewriting the same information over and over in a blank notebook. You could enter the data on your computer or reference your online posts, but an analog copy will long outlast any digital journal you may use. However long it takes, though, it’s difficult keeping all the necessary data in your head, especially over multiple sessions and targets, different equipment and, not to mention, years. The process of creating astrophotography images is a lengthy, long-term project, although excellent images can be made either singly or over a short period of time. Please go HERE for more information, photos, and registration.Īstrophotography involves many important steps, from choosing equipment, planning the object to photograph, setting up and taking down equipment, and processing image data, to data storage and presentation of your astrophotographs. This workshop is conducted at a ‘photographer’s pace’ to allow for as much immersion into the environment as possible, using our senses and perception along with camera technique to make better photographs and to both experience as well as photograph amazing landscapes, abstracts, and intimate nature imagery. One of the largest and last remaining temperate rainforests in the world, with its lush green canopy of giant Sitka spruce and Western hemlock, takes you back in time with a bit of a Primordial essence. ![]() The rugged, rocky shore exposes the remnants of the ancient North American coastline as ragged sea stacks that have withstood millennia of the relentless pounding of storms thrown at it from the Pacific Ocean. The coast of Washington State in the Pacific Northwest is the longest undeveloped coastline in the United States. ![]() We’ll visit waterfalls, amazing beaches, and primordial rainforest, exploring and experimenting and becoming better photographers through awareness, seeing, and contemplation. Join myself and my good friend Lalit Deshmukh for 7 days, 5 full days of photographing, on the Washington Coast of the Pacific Northwest.
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