Astronauts Don Pettit and Matthew Dominick were interviewed together while onboard the International Space Station.
Matthew Dominick, left, and Don Pettit, right, do a show and tell with Nikon Z9’s while inside the ISS Cupola.are arguably the two greatest photographers to ever go to space and the pair were interviewed together while onboard the International Space Station .
The interview was conducted in the space station’s Cupola; a six-foot wide, six-sided module that has a direct nadir for shooting photos of Earth or celestial objects.they use with different lenses attached for different requirements. For example, Pettit shows a “daytime lens” that is “fairly slow” with an aperture of f/4.5.
Dominick says that when shooting from the Cupola, the Earth is moving by so quickly that he has to pick a fast shutter speed or he will sometimes “hand track” the Earth as it goes by to reduce motion blur. “When you’re doing that, you’re stabilizing on the Earth by looking through the viewfinder,” says Dominick. “You can see the Earth and you look to keep the center of the crosshairs of the camera on the same spot of Earth.”during his time on the ISS has been red sprites, large-scale electrical discharges that shoot upward from thunderstorm clouds that are red in color.
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