Beginner's advice on photographing milky way
Beginner's advice on photographing milky way
Hi! all. I am learning to take photographs of the milky way. I have been trying to take at Marina Barrage over the past 2 Saturdays but have not been successful. i experimented with different ISO, Aperture & shutterspeed. I only manage to capture very faint spots of a few stars. during both occasions, i tried to take around 8pm to 8:30pm. Under what weather conditions is more favourable to take? Or is there any ideal spots i should try? I have a Canon EOS 650D with 17-50mm f2.8 lens & a Sony A6000 with 16mm f2.8 lens. are these good enough to take?
Re: Beginner's advice on photographing milky way
Were you pointing towards the sagittarius region? The summer milky way sets very early at this time of the year so I don't suppose you could have caught it. Try again in May to August next year. Also, there was high cloud in the sky the past two saturdays, so I don't suppose it was ideal.
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Re: Beginner's advice on photographing milky way
If its, as you mentioned, that you only "manage to capture very faint spots of a few stars", then it's unlikely that you will be able to capture the Milky Way even if it comes around.wolvie77 wrote:Hi! all. I am learning to take photographs of the milky way. I have been trying to take at Marina Barrage over the past 2 Saturdays but have not been successful. i experimented with different ISO, Aperture & shutterspeed. I only manage to capture very faint spots of a few stars. during both occasions, i tried to take around 8pm to 8:30pm. Under what weather conditions is more favourable to take? Or is there any ideal spots i should try? I have a Canon EOS 650D with 17-50mm f2.8 lens & a Sony A6000 with 16mm f2.8 lens. are these good enough to take?
The more pertinent question would be on your camera setting. You should be able to capture a lot more than just "faint spots of a few stars", even in Singapore.
Is your shutter too fast?
Is your aperture too tight?
Is your ISO too low?
That you are "experimenting" with the 3 settings means that you may not fully understand yet on how your cameras work. In terms of DSLR-astro, the 650D (with Tamron 17-50/2.8 I presume?) is more than enough - many of us still use the Canon 1000D or 450D to shoot so there's no reason why you can't.
Share with us your shutter-aperture-iso settings and your understanding and we can then start on setting you on the right path.
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Re: Beginner's advice on photographing milky way
Hi
You can get some tips from here :
http://www.angelfire.com/stars5/singastro/
http://asignobservatoryii.com/astrophotographytips.htm
You can get some tips from here :
http://www.angelfire.com/stars5/singastro/
http://asignobservatoryii.com/astrophotographytips.htm
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