A NASA astronaut onboard the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) is taking a collection of epic pictures and sharing the strategies behind them. Matthew Dominick has captured intelligent selfies of himself zooming by means of the Future module, artistic off-camera flash portraits of the crew, and epic pictures of the Italian peninsula. Dominick, who launched to the ISS on March 3 for six months as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission, shares particulars on the tools and settings he makes use of for his pictures. 1/ A sliver of a moon rises out of noctilucent clouds and seems to look in direction of the horizon awaiting the approaching dawn. 1/250s, f5.6, ISO 6400, 170mm (50 to 500mm lens), cropped pic.twitter.com/6vq9NfdXx0 — Matthew Dominick (@dominickmatthew) July 6, 2024 Getting Artistic Onboard the ISS On July 4, Independence Day, in-lieu of fireworks on the ISS Dominick shared a collection of artistic off-camera flash portraits, mild portray a number of photos of himself on a single publicity.
Completely happy 4th of July! No fireworks on ISS so we used digicam flashes as an alternative. Experimented with “mild portray” in the present day. 15 sec, f22, 24mm, ISO 500. Turned off the lights. Manually actuated our personal flashes. Ambient mild solely from computer systems and experiment LEDs. 1/ Floating by means of pic.twitter.com/fe8arQh3aJ — Matthew Dominick (@dominickmatthew) July 4, 2024 Then he gave six crew members — together with himself — a flash every to manually actuate for a cool group portrait. Dominick additionally shared a intelligent selfie that blurs out the background of the ISS however he stays in focus. Achieved by way of a gradual shutter velocity of 1/5 of a second, the digicam is hooked up to a pole that he’s holding as he propels himself by means of the laboratory of the spaceship. 1/5 of a second, 18mm, f14, ISO 2500. The astronaut additionally shared a shutter velocity experiment he carried out whereas flying over Papua New Guinea. Conserving the ISO (6400) and aperture (f/1.4) fixed, he modified the shutter speeds from ten seconds to a 1/4 of a second.
A standard query theme when posting evening time photos from the ISS is publicity size. There are tips for taking pictures astrophotography from earth however what occurs when taking pictures at orbital speeds? Thread reveals photos with 6400 ISO, f1.4, and exposures starting from 10s to 1/4s pic.twitter.com/3YNwTeoOX7 — Matthew Dominick (@dominickmatthew) July 1, 2024 pic.twitter.com/Mm1JXi0AIB — Matthew Dominick (@dominickmatthew) July 1, 2024 Listed here are a number of extra superior photos taken by Dominick. The River Nile resulting in the Mediterranean Sea. 1/5s, f1.4, ISO 12800. “Experimenting with lengthy exposures making an attempt to seize star trails with the gorgeous buildings of the ISS. Within the final of 5 30 second exposures the solar cracked the horizon creating the sensible blue on the service module photo voltaic arrays. 5 stacked photos, 24mm, f4, ISO 800.” Southern Italy.
“An out of body moon creates a lens flare and illuminates the Dragon perched atop the Worldwide Area Station. Photograph taken looking Starliner’s window. 1/1.3 s publicity, 2000 ISO, f1.4, 24mm lens.” For extra of his house pictures, comply with Dominick’s X web page (previously Twitter). Picture credit: Images by Matthew Dominick.