Chris Hadfield is known primarily for his cyberspace - favorable personality , hislove of David Bowieand being one of the most magnetic commanding officer aboard the ISS . But he ’s alsoan awesome photographer , and he had the opportunity to catch a subject many would pass for — outer distance .
But likeeverything in space , take great photos also comes with its own unique curing of challenge . traveling lensman Brendan van Sonattended a Q&A with Hatfieldwhere the former Canadian astronaut detailed some of ineptitude of trying to capture images in zero gravity . Here is one telling brainstorm :
It ’s really difficult to get beautiful , smooth tracking , especially if something is going by at a steady pace … reckon if this tv camera were floating weightless in front of me , so I did n’t have to constantly campaign this force up this way of life then attempt and use fine motor acquirement . If instead , I ’d just rent go of the television camera and it would stay powerful in front of me , and I ’d just track it like this . We get so ripe at it in cranial orbit that we can take free hand photos at Nox with farseeing shutter times .
Hatfield move on to explicate how an spaceman ’s greatest enemy in taking a pure shot is his or her own heartbeat as it make noticeable twitches in foresighted - exposure , zero sobriety photography . He also details the post ’s camera frame-up , and how gang capture all those amazing time lapses through a humble , scuffed - up window . [ YouTubeviaPetaPixel ]
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