Snapping a Great Pictures with a Smartphone Yes! Great Northern Lights photos can be also snapped with your smartphone! To get those aurora shots perfect, follow these few easy steps: Turn off the appsand take the load off your phone. I’m sure you have plenty of apps running in the bac...
Static star pictures are a little bit more gear dependent, because you are limited by how long you can take the picture before the stars start to move across the sky. The time for this varies depending on your focal length, but as a general rule of thumb, exposures longer than around 20...
When evaluating an aurora picture on my camera’s LCD, I’m often shocked by the colors I see that are not visible to my naked eye. The camera captures a much more vibrant color when you can only see the faintest bit of color with the human eye. I’ve learned to shoot test shots ...
At the most basic level, an HDR photo is really just two (or three, or nine) photos taken at different exposure levels and then mashed together with software to create a better picture. It’s a bit more complicated than that, but not much more — that’s basically the gist of it. I...
Thus, we get to the Aurora Sensor Cleaning Kit. It comes with pre-moistened swabs, as well as dry swabs to use after you’ve used the wet swabs. But, I’m getting ahead of myself. Step 0) Get Your Camera Ready For Cleaning First and foremost, you need your camera batteries to be...
Well, the answer is in a technique called “focus stacking”, except you are probably going to take two images, with one focused on the sky and the other focused on your foreground. Then you use a blending technique in Photoshop to merge the two shots into a single composite, with perfec...
Though it comes with its significant weight of 840g, which was quite heavier than my previous crop sensor camera, I was amazed by its low light sensing capabilities due to which I could capture some amazing pictures of Aurora Borealis. On the flip side, with so good light sensing options,...
High Speed:On– works well with high speed (bi-directional) so I’ve found no measurable advantages to turning this off. Flip Horizontal:Unchecked– User preference Finest Detail:Unchecked– Always leave unchecked If you want to takeVincent Versace'sadvice and change the Platen Gap to Wider, ...
I used ASTAP to plate solve with my guider, and still use it now that my imaging camera is computer literate (the DSLR was not). There's no reason you need to be on-line, regardless of which camera you use. Posted14 April 2022 - 09:09 AM ...
How to improve this moon shot - posted in Major & Minor Planetary Imaging: Hi folks, I have been working on improving my moon shots for a while now. It might be fair to say I have been farting around. Nevertheless, I do want to actually take better sho