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The big dipper!

Started Sep 1, 2014 | Photos thread
Ramon94
OP Ramon94 Regular Member • Posts: 125
Re: The big dipper!

Thank you!
I'm actually not experienced myself, I do believe that it is important to avoid lightpollution as much as possible. For instance, I went into the woods late in the evening for these photos, I was situated in a dark are and aimed the camera away from the light sources coming from street lights. I was actually just 40 meters into the woods with my dog because I'm a bit of a coward xD.

When it comes to shooting it was a bit of trial and error since it's incredibly hard to see anything on the screen until the actual photo is seen on the screen after a longexposure shot.

I go to manual focus and focus infinity, in terms of aperture of what I heard you can actually shoot wide open since the stars from the viewpoint of earth is like a single plane(don't know how to explain), but I still chose F11. High ISO gave me alot of stars to work with in post processing, I've seen other settings from people shooting perhas 20 sec instead of 30 and ISO 6400.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/51944903 <---- here's another guys photo from this forum, this for me was amazing. he had a lower f number and iso, i should have tried that this h

Keep Snappin'!

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