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Starry Photos - How??

tripod, cable release (or remote), and a few second exposure at low ISO. take photos somewhere outside the city, too. somewhere where the stars are actually visible.
 
northrop said:
tripod, cable release (or remote), and a few second exposure at low ISO. take photos somewhere outside the city, too. somewhere where the stars are actually visible.
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Those shots are very high iso though. Lots of noise in the pictures :(

@ OP. Get a tripod and set the exposure time to about 3 seconds and put the time on so when you press your shutter button the camera wont move when it actually takes the picture.
 
My understanding is, because of the rotation of the earth, long exposures of astronomical subjects aren't really possible with a normal tripod because they end up looking streaky. Apparently they make motorized tripod heads that are calibrated to keep your camera moving at the same speed as the sky, so you can take longer exposures of the moon and stars etc.

The other option is to crank the ISO and just start shooting, which is what it looks like they did for the OP photo set. Man, that second one with the wrecked ship and the cool green light in the foreground is just amazing looking. I will have to try something similar, next time I'm out in the country where they're no city lights overnight.
 
^that's a good point about the ball head.
madmike0408 said:
Those shots are very high iso though. Lots of noise in the pictures :(

@ OP. Get a tripod and set the exposure time to about 3 seconds and put the time on so when you press your shutter button the camera wont move when it actually takes the picture.
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some noise is definitely a direct result of a little bump in the ISO, but you also get the noise from long exposure shots even at base ISO (the noise is a result of an overheating sensor). if you go to that link again, you'll notice the photographer has included a few camera settings for a few of his photos, and most of them are indeed at ISO 100 (some at ISO 400). either way... shooting this isn't always easy.
 
There are tutorials everywhere about how to take decent star photographs.

Essentially - start with a tripod. A real tripod. Take it to the Everglades or atop a mountain, anywhere with no light pollution

manually focus to infinity, then just touch it back ever so slightly. Infinity is out of focus on stars, just a tidge back is right on.

Set the camera to iso 100 or so

Turn on your cameras long exposure noise reduction (the camera will take a second photo with the shutter closed, and apply a filter that removes its own noise)

Point at an area of interest, any focal length will do, any aperture, but wide open seems right.

Set the camera to take a 3-30 second photo.

Now move the camera to the foliage, ship, car, architecture, rubble, whatever you want in the foreground. Compose that photograph

Set the camera to bulb mode or a longer exposure like 15-30 seconds.

Open the shutter.

Take out your flashlight and shine her on the subject. Just quickly brush the light over it.


Take both photos home, and photoshop the two together.


Once you exceed about 30 seconds (even less than than, more like 15 seconds) - the dots of the stars become lines with the earths rotation.

If you want to really get something neat, take 60 or so successive 30 second exposures and layer them atop each other. Star Trails!
 
Good info, bob - thanks!

I really do need to try this sometime soon...
 
wreak ship picture.

Camera: Nikon D300
Exposure: 44 sec (44)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 10.5 mm
ISO Speed: 1600
Exposure Bias: -1 EV

The list continue from flickr information .

But from the look of it the brightness/contrast/ vibrance have been edited in PP .
 
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