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20-10-11, 01:21 PM
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Re: Photographing the stars above

Right, no laughing

Last night at midnight the wind dropped. I was not in the best place to do stars, but... it's a start and a platform for me to build on.
I was in my garden which is in a large village, about 30 miles from the center of London. Not the best place for stars like I say.

I wanted to post these as even though they are not the best, I was amazed how many came through.

The First one I only hit autotone in ps. All exif info can been seen only flickr if you double click on the picture.

No1. Facing North, London to the left. A bit of a top of a tree bottom left.






No2. Facing East. You can see a small amount of blur in the tree where there was still a little wind.







No3. Both pictures, 2 and 3 are facing East. Both have had the brightness taken down and the contrast up in photoshop.
On the right there is what looks like a question mark. Anyone know what that is?




Like I say, 1st go at this and although not great I was happy with the amount of stars that came out. With the naked eye in my garden I only see 2% of this


     
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20-10-11, 08:07 PM
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Re: Photographing the stars above

Not bad for the first attempt Dave, I'm not sure I could do any better to be honest.
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20-10-11, 08:33 PM
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Thanks Ken. I will be giving it another go when the conditions are right.... and I'm in a better place.


     
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21-10-11, 05:17 PM
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Re: Photographing the stars above

Excellent stuff! I'd have a go at this at some point too I reckon We can always see so many stars here!

What shutter speeds did you use for these? And also - I've never done much that requires long shutter speeds before, as far as I can make out my camera goes to 30 seconds? How do I make it go longer? Does it not need special equipment?

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21-10-11, 07:56 PM
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Excellent stuff! I'd have a go at this at some point too I reckon We can always see so many stars here!

What shutter speeds did you use for these? And also - I've never done much that requires long shutter speeds before, as far as I can make out my camera goes to 30 seconds? How do I make it go longer? Does it not need special equipment?

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Shutter was trial and error. On mine is was 20-30 seconds, ISO 400-800. The moon wasn't about so I had nothing to focus on. Just pointed it up and clicked.

Your camera will have a bulb setting. When on bulb you press the shutter down and don't let go. This will leave it open until you let go. A remote would be best for this.


     
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21-10-11, 08:06 PM
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Yes, I would say, or camera shake would be horrendous! I have used it actually, in the past... long time ago! LOL! (Bulb setting that is, not remote. Must get.)

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