Tested: Photographing a NASA Rocket Launch!

7 thoughts on “Tested: Photographing a NASA Rocket Launch!”

1. Norm, Any thoughts about using a tilt-shift lens to make sure the perspective is not distorted towards the top of the rocket/tower.

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2. How did you stop the lens from fogging up or getting condensation on it?

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3. hand warmers on top of the lens, under the garbage bag!

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4. That gif is very cool despite the lack of visibility. I’m glad you got at least that and it wasn’t a complete washout.

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5. https://petapixel.com/2018/05/23/this-camera-got-too-close-to-a-rocket-launch/

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6. Nice article. Congratulations on your first launch. Here’s hoping you get to do many more.

   A couple of things that I have learned from doing launch photography at KSC and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for several years;

   for night launches, stop down more than you think you need to. You wouldn’t believe how bright it really gets out there.

   garbage bags are ok for the first time, but you will want to invest in building an enclosure for your cameras if you do this more than once. I one time saw a camera that had been wrapped in a bag and then a vulture had decided to perch on it. The bag was shredded and the camera soaked. Plus building stiff is fun

   The commercial triggers are great but pricey. I build my own out of about $20 worth of electrical parts (a transistor, a rotary pot, a couple of opto-isolators and some resistors and various other parts) and a custom 3D printed enclosure. I can build about 8 of them for the cost of one of the off the shelf triggers.

   Put your name, address and phone number on your tripod, your camera body, your lens and your memory card. No one is going to steal your stuff but, If there is an accident with the launch vehicle, the base is not going to let you go out to the pad and get your gear back. They are going to go out and collect everyone’s cameras and review the footage to see if you caught something significant to the investigation. (Before you flip out, that waiver you signed gives them the right to do this). They can’t confiscate your images or your gear (that would violate the First, Fifth and Fourteenth amendments) so they will try to send everything back to you but we had cases where stuff was sent to the wrong people.

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7. It is certainly a great fact that there has been already launched such photographing NASA rocket in very recent. The users will get other updated information that has provided in https://uaetechnician.ae/mac-data-recovery that will guide the users in a significant manner.

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