• lemmy_party@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    Very neat! Do you mind describing what settings you used and a bit about the environment where you shot it?

    • WhippetBowie@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Absolutely! We shot this about 20 minutes north of Haliburton, Ontario (I was there for a bike race).

      The camera is a Sony a6700 (it’s an APS-C camera so make sure to adjust if you’re shooting full-frame), the lens is a Sigma 16mm F1.4 prime lens .

      Shot @ ISO 100, f2.8

      Turns out it was only a 15 minute exposure (I think my 30 minute exposure was on my film camera, oooops)

      I found the north star by using the Photopills app, I also used the app to figure out what exposure to shoot at. It’s a great app for calculating exposure, finding the milky way, and planning shoots.

      I brought along a tripod, and used the (terrible) Sony app to remotely control the length of the exposure in bulb mode.

      Previous to this I took plenty of shorter star photos (15 seconds, ISO 1600, F1.4) which turned out really well. For those shots I just used a 2 second shot timer to prevent camera shake when activating the shutter.

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