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Post by mortified on May 22, 2020 8:49:35 GMT
what gear/settings did you use for those photo's as i am very envious ? Any camera with the ability to set shutter speed could capture something similar. You can see the Milky Way with naked eye when dark enough once your eyes adjust to the dark. Tripod, Camera with ability to set shutter speed and aperture manually, and shutter speed set to 30 seconds maximum. Any longer and the stars come out as dashes as they move across the sky. People who do star trail photos such as below just leave the shutter open for minutes or even hours. Is that the observatory on Calton Hill in Edinburgh? Nice one. Actually, looking again at that Mull photo, it's rather clever. Flash has presumably been used to light up the boat but a long exposure to capture the stars. And the boat isn't over-exposed. I doth my cap
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Post by Gaz on May 22, 2020 10:33:35 GMT
Why couldn’t they photograph stars from the moon? 😉😂 Same reason you can't photograph the stars at lunch time on earth 🤔🙄 Exactly... we could’ve used you when we were countering Davyno’s moon conspiracies 👍😂 He was good for a laugh😂
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Post by 4th Chord on May 22, 2020 13:26:09 GMT
Any camera with the ability to set shutter speed could capture something similar. You can see the Milky Way with naked eye when dark enough once your eyes adjust to the dark. Tripod, Camera with ability to set shutter speed and aperture manually, and shutter speed set to 30 seconds maximum. Any longer and the stars come out as dashes as they move across the sky. People who do star trail photos such as below just leave the shutter open for minutes or even hours. Is that the observatory on Calton Hill in Edinburgh? Nice one. Actually, looking again at that Mull photo, it's rather clever. Flash has presumably been used to light up the boat but a long exposure to capture the stars. And the boat isn't over-exposed. I doth my cap You can either use a flash at the end of the exposure or use the light from a mobile phone or torch to ‘paint’ the scene.
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