Night Photography

[rigsby]

 

[jazzywheelz]

Some nice shots there, rigsby What's the story behind the riot police shot?

 

[ViralEye]

you've also got Jupiter in that shot.

Is it by any chance the brightest star in the photo? Blueish in colour?

 

[Dogtown]

Is it by any chance the brightest star in the photo? Blueish in colour?

Yep that's it mate, with a good zoom lens (300mm) or even some binoculars (I have 10x56) you can see its moons too

 

[ViralEye]

I had no idea at all that was Jupiter! Many thanks for the info

 

[Dogtown]

I had no idea at all that was Jupiter! Many thanks for the info

Saturn is starting to appear now too.

When photographing stars, to avoid star trails, divide 500 by the focal length your on and that will tell you how long you can take exposures for before you get trails

 

[ViralEye]

Saturn is starting to appear now too.

When photographing stars, to avoid star trails, divide 500 by the focal length your on and that will tell you how long you can take exposures for before you get trails

Ok, so 500 divided by 11mm = 45.45 ..... i dont get it?

 

[rigsby]

Some nice shots there, rigsby What's the story behind the riot police shot?

Thanks mate, that was in Bristol. Something to do with a new tescos opening if I remember rightly.

 

[Dogtown]

Yes so you can set your shutter speed to 45 seconds and you won't get any star trails

 

[ViralEye]

Yes so you can set your shutter speed to 45 seconds and you won't get any star trails

My photo was shot at 30 seconds and that had traces of star trails. I would suspect that having a shutter speed of 45 seconds would definitely have visible star trails. Do you not mean 1/40 of a second?

 

[Dogtown]

Sure that wasn't the wind causing that? Even a slight breeze can mess things up. I normally shoot the stars at 15mm which allows me a 30 second shutter speed. When my dslr is on my telescope the focal length is 1200mm!!!

 

[Leeds(Ex)plorer]

Went to shoot the northern lights, saw fuck all, 5 hours in the cold well spent then

I did get 3 half decent shots of stars though

As usual straight off the camera no editing (could probably use some though)

 

[ViralEye]

Went to shoot the northern lights, saw fuck all, 5 hours in the cold well spent then

I did get 3 half decent shots of stars though

As usual straight off the camera no editing (could probably use some though)

some awesome shots there!

 

[rikgrimsby]

[video=youtube;hKPysnI7O2M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKPysnI7O2M[/video]

here is a short time lapse i did a few weeks ago

[video=youtube;hKPysnI7O2M]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKPysnI7O2M[/video]

here's a short time lapse what i did a few weeks ago.

 

[Styru]

here is a short time lapse i did a few weeks ago



here's a short time lapse what i did a few weeks ago.

Cheers for sharing, enjoyed the plot line of the second one more I think