I have seen many great night photos but unable to replicate this can some one tell me what I would need to take great pictures of a night sky and what would be the best settings
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Night photography
#1
Posted 08 October 2013 - 12:45 PM
#2
Posted 10 October 2013 - 12:23 AM
ISO 1600
F 1.8
Time of exposition 15-20 sec
As you can see you will need to use a tripod. Also I want to say about your lens. If you want that the stars looks like small points it would be
Better to use wide angel lens if you want that stars looks like little lines you can try a telephoto lens.
#3
Posted 10 October 2013 - 01:33 AM
I have seen many great night photos but unable to replicate this can some one tell me what I would need to take great pictures of a night sky and what would be the best settings
You definitely need a tripod, and you definitely need a long exposure time. Anywhere from 5 seconds to 30 seconds is the norm. I usually shoot close to wide-open as it allows you to use a shorter exposure time.
To make your compositions more interesting, consider "painting" some of the foreground with a flashlight so that you get something interesting in your image: the sky alone isn't enough.
If you want to do star trails or something like that, make sure the moon isn't in the way.
Here are a few examples of night phots that I recently took:
Here, the trees were lit up with a flashlight.
721s F2.5 ISO 100
#5
Posted 10 October 2013 - 08:49 AM
Thank you so much for your help I shall get out and try tonight and lit you know how I get on Thank You Guys
#6
Posted 11 October 2013 - 03:07 AM
#7
Posted 11 October 2013 - 01:46 PM
I learned most of what I know from Royce Bair, a master of night sky photography. He is very generous with his knowledge and shares good instruction on his blog:
intothenightphoto.blogspot.com
I took this photo with my D600 and 14-24mm lens--ISO 6400 (!!!), f2.8, 15 secs, 14mm:
Hope the resolution isn't too bad--I resized it pretty small...
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#9
Posted 16 October 2013 - 11:33 AM
#10
Posted 16 October 2013 - 11:41 AM
#12
Posted 17 October 2013 - 10:51 PM
#14
Posted 18 October 2013 - 09:01 AM
#15
Posted 18 October 2013 - 11:46 AM
The 500 rule shows the maximum exposure before star trail begins.
Focal length. APS-C 1.5x exposure in seconds
12. 28
14. 24
16. 21
18. 19
20. 17
24. 14
28. 12
35. 10
If you want to take longer exposures, you will need a well setup eq mount and RA motor.
Much easier to take a number of exposures and then stack them.
#16
Posted 18 October 2013 - 05:23 PM
#17
Posted 20 October 2013 - 06:01 AM
Yes, the length of trail depends on focal length of your lens. You will get a trail on tele lens at shorter exposure time, that on wide angle lens. But as I wrote to create this photo I used a special software, that can combine few photos with short trails into one with long trails. Photo that I published here was created from 7 or 9 photos with short trails.
#18
Posted 31 October 2013 - 12:59 AM
If the weather cooperates, this weekend should be a good one for night sky photography--at least in my hemisphere. No moon! I'm heading out with a 14-24mm to find dark skies in Idaho. Wish me luck! (Lots of luck--things are looking a bit cloudy.)
By the way, in our discussions of night sky photography, I don't think anyone has mentioned the following tools:
Stellarium
The Photographer's Ephemeris
Starwalk
Dark Sky Finder
They are all apps or websites that I find indispensable in plotting sun and moon rises and sets, Milky Way positions, and skies dark enough to photograph the Milky Way.
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#19
Posted 31 October 2013 - 03:25 AM
Good luck! And here some night photo. I like photos of this guy. I hope they will inspire you) http://jankovoy.com/
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#20
Posted 16 November 2013 - 04:18 AM
I want to get out of the city and do some star trails... will have to try and organise a trip.
This shot was taken with my D600, hand held at Bondi Beach.