Meteors come and sometimes they glow
December 14th, 2009 • chatter, photography
Last night was the Geminid Meteor Shower and I was lucky enough to see a few — two to be exact. However, my girlfriend, in the span of 10 minutes, saw nearly a dozen. I have no idea how I missed so many since I was standing in the middle of a field looking up, mostly. I admit that I was fairly busy snapping shots of the hanging fog and attempting something artsy. I did get some neat pictures but all of my sky-ward shots turned out terrible, I think it was due to the overall amount of ambient light around coupled with the hazy night. Everything is either too blue or too amber/red, despite having tweaked all of the white balance settings to get as much black as possible. I’ll see if my pictures from the shower tonight are a similar color, although I’m going to a different location entirely where there should be a lot less ambient light around.
Here’s one of the hanging fog pictures from last night since all my actual sky pictures turned out looking like absolute garbage
