For a great picture of the Milky Way, take a long-exposure image (about 30 seconds) using a moderately high ISO setting (ISO 1600+), and the maximum aperture of your lens (F/4 or lower). This will allow plenty of starlight to reach the camera sensor, and reveal more structure and ...
If you like photographing the Milky Way and the night sky in general, the Zodiacal Light is one of those rare natural events you can’t miss. In this video you’ll find everything you need to see and photograph the Zodiacal Light: inspiration, planning, gear and camera settings. Time ...
large sensor, high signal-to-noise ratio digital cameras. There are few photographs that have as much existential impact as a nighttime landscape against the Milky Way. In this article, we’ll show you how to make an amazing photo of the Milky Way galaxy with a minimum of effort...
In this article, we will take a closer look at how to photograph the Milky Way bow. I wrote this guide from the point of view of a person who has largely taught himself. During the last four years, I have also had the invaluable help of a fellow night photographer. I made all the ...
“This tutorial shows you how I photograph the Milky Way that’s obscured by the extreme light pollution in Singapore, using photography equipments that you may already have and a workflow that probably works on most versions of Photoshop,” Justin writes, adding that the...
Grab yourMilky Way Photography Blueprint for freerighthere. Here are some basic things that you need to learn before photographing star trails. For Circular Star Trails Locate The Polaris or Southern Cross: You may have noticed several star trail images that have a circular pattern and wondered ...
What you’re looking at on these maps is light intensity. White areas are the brightest and black areas are the darkest; with a rainbow gradient that runs between them. This gradient visualizes theBortle Scale. In my experience you can get images of the Milky Way in an Orange area, but...
I haven’t made a star trail image in a while because I’ve been lately concentrating oncapturing the Milky Way. The idea for this image is based off of something I learned from a tutorial by Andy Chatman:Photographing the Color of Stars. Andy shows us a very simple method to capture ...
Photopills is an excellentiOSandAndroidapp that can be used to determine the position and phase of the moon as well as the position and elevation of the Milky Way. So, besides photographing the moon, this app can also help with photographing any night sky objects. It also helps you to pla...
The term astrophotography encompasses a broad spectrum of night sky photography. You can think of Milky Way nightscapes as the ‘ultra-wide’ end of the spectrum, and planetary imaging as the ‘extreme close-up’ end on the other side. ...