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Re:Placing My Camera Lens 300 Feet from a Rocket Launch by js2 on Monday March 05, 2018 @11:36AM (#16522203)
Please click through to the photographer's web site. He's captured some really nice images. My three favorites:

- "January 7th, 2018: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launches the classified Zuma payload for Northrup Grumman, and lands the first stage of the Falcon 9 back at Cape Canaveral eight minutes after launch"

- "June 11th, 2016: United Launch Alliance's massive Delta IV Heavy rocket launches a top-secret satellite, designated NROL-37, on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office"

- "November 19th, 2016: A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket launches NASA and NOAA's GOES-R satellite"

There doesn't seem to be a way to link directly to the images. They are hosted on a CDN with an auth hash which I think will expire, so search for the date here:

http://johnkrausphotos.com

He's 18 BTW. At first I misread that he'd been a photographer for 18 years. Bravo.

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Re:Placing My Camera Lens 300 Feet from a Rocket Launch by mikeash on Monday March 05, 2018 @01:53PM (#16523335)
I’ve been following his career on the SpaceX subreddit. He’d talk about getting out of school to photograph a launch, or occasionally being unable to do so. For a while he was unable to take close-up pictures because they decided not to accredit minors. He’s quite a guy!
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Re:Placing My Camera Lens 300 Feet from a Rocket Launch by andrewwharton on Monday March 05, 2018 @05:36PM (#16525210)
There's another photographer as well (Brady Kenniston) who got some magnificent shots of the Falcon Heavy launch.

This is my favourite:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bradykenniston/26259934188/

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Re:Placing My Camera Lens 300 Feet from a Rocket Launch by Analemma_ on Monday March 05, 2018 @12:58PM (#16522895)
That long-exposure photo of the Zuma launch is incredible! I've never had an intuitive sense of what the first- and second-stage trajectories look like, but that photo nails it.
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Re:Placing My Camera Lens 300 Feet from a Rocket Launch by vvanders on Monday March 05, 2018 @09:55PM (#16526532)
Indeed, that's incredible work. Colors are well processed without being over saturated. The technical side is spot on while also maintaining fantastic composition.
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