Lee Bothma Photography

27/12/2022

58 500 000 000 000km from earth (58.5 trillion I think😂) is the Rosette Nebula. About 6 hours of exposure time to get this image!

27/08/2022

NGC 2359 (also known as Thor's Helmet) is an emission nebula in the constellation Canis Major. The nebula is approximately 11.96 thousand light years away and 30 light-years in size.

HSO | Narrow Band | Pixinsight | Photoshop | Lightroom

16/08/2022

The Carina Nebula, I always used to just admire the Milky Way, but now knowing what's in that pretty little band that runs across our night skies, I have a much greater appreciation for it all.

This Nebula is 8500 Light Years away, yet those of us who know where the Southern cross is, are so close to seeing it just off to the side.

25 Hours of Imaging to get all this detail. This new hobby knows how to put your PC to the test when integrating all the images together and making sure every last star is perfectly aligned.

14/08/2022

A few stones and some sand😒

Explore this photo titled Kubu Island by Lee Bothma () on 500px

03/08/2022

So my days of Wildlife and Landscape photography are officially over, well, they have been for many years now actually! I held onto the dream of one day starting up properly again, but between work, family, and just life in general, it was not meant to be.

So, all my camera gear has been sold and I have after many months of research and lots of head scratching, got into and are going to focus on what is Deep Space Object Imaging. Something you can do when the day is over and kids are asleep.

In Summary, bla bla bla, here is what you get when you take 450 B&W images and use voodoo magic Astro software... use an Equitorial Mount, and Narrowband filters, Fan cooled Astro Mono Cameras, essentially giving you auto-tracked, Black and White Images, which are then assigned a color channel based on their wavelength.

21/08/2020

One of my favorite pics going to print for the first time. I’ve kept this one close, so I’m printing for private use first 🤔🤔 thanks Willem Oets

17/08/2020

Probably the hardest edit of my life, this is a 6 image HDR trying to get the full dynamic range. I've been working on this one for about a week now and I think I am finally happy.

28/07/2020

Dullstroom golfing weekend? was supposed to be anyways! Taken with my drone as I was too lazy to go back to my room to fetch my proper camera.

23/07/2020

Drakensberg Koppies.

16/07/2020

Some grass, a mountain, a storm, a double rainbow, all the usually lekker things you get when standing outside your car on the main road, drenched!!!

15/07/2020

A photo of a tree!!