Astrophotography made simple
July 10th 2007 08:00
Astro Photography made simple
You do not need an expensive camera to photograph the night sky. You can use an old film camera or if happen to have a digital camera even better.
Digital photography has made photographing the night sky a vastly easier. Film cameras required special film and chemicals and you had to wait ages to get results.
You do not require expensive cameras to take reasonable photos of the night sky. Just about any digital or film camera will do the job providing you have a manual shutter setting.
Let’s concentrate on the digital camera first .You also will require an additional piece of equipment a tripod would be very handy and is essential for any night photography. Just about any modern digital camera will have a manual shutter setting.
You’ll need to practice a few times in order to any decent images after you become familiar with the settings you will begin to have better success a new image quality will improve .
Okay let’s say we would like to go out and take a picture of the night sky. Take your trusty digital camera secure upon a steady tripod select a portion of the sky you would like to photograph and you just about there.
After setting up your camera and tripod select a wide angle sitting on the camera point the camera at the portion of the sky you would like to photograph. I is important to
lock off the camera to minimise wobbly shots. Select the film speed set your digital camera at the highest film speed the camera will take pictures, this usually around ISO 800 or higher on some cameras.
Select the time exposure setting usually marked bulb or the letter B.
Start your first exposure at five minutes and then take another photo expose it for 7 minutes and so on. The amount of exposure time will be a little bit of trial and error at first.
With most cameras digital or film you will need to hold your finger on the button unless your have a cable release having a tripod is a must.
The longer you leave the shutter open the more like enters the camera and you’ll begin to see greater detail in the photos you take. There is a limit to the amount of exposure time given for any one photo taken. There will be a point that your camera will not accept any more light and the image will be very noisy and pixilated so you need to find a happy medium. For the same procedure can adopted for film cameras of course with film it will be more expensive and I don’t recommend it for novices.
With digital is not an expensive exercise why not give it a try ….. Let me know how you got on.
You do not need an expensive camera to photograph the night sky. You can use an old film camera or if happen to have a digital camera even better.
Digital photography has made photographing the night sky a vastly easier. Film cameras required special film and chemicals and you had to wait ages to get results.
You do not require expensive cameras to take reasonable photos of the night sky. Just about any digital or film camera will do the job providing you have a manual shutter setting.
Let’s concentrate on the digital camera first .You also will require an additional piece of equipment a tripod would be very handy and is essential for any night photography. Just about any modern digital camera will have a manual shutter setting.
You’ll need to practice a few times in order to any decent images after you become familiar with the settings you will begin to have better success a new image quality will improve .
Okay let’s say we would like to go out and take a picture of the night sky. Take your trusty digital camera secure upon a steady tripod select a portion of the sky you would like to photograph and you just about there.
After setting up your camera and tripod select a wide angle sitting on the camera point the camera at the portion of the sky you would like to photograph. I is important to
lock off the camera to minimise wobbly shots. Select the film speed set your digital camera at the highest film speed the camera will take pictures, this usually around ISO 800 or higher on some cameras.
Select the time exposure setting usually marked bulb or the letter B.
Start your first exposure at five minutes and then take another photo expose it for 7 minutes and so on. The amount of exposure time will be a little bit of trial and error at first.
Early morning Setting Moon
With most cameras digital or film you will need to hold your finger on the button unless your have a cable release having a tripod is a must.
The longer you leave the shutter open the more like enters the camera and you’ll begin to see greater detail in the photos you take. There is a limit to the amount of exposure time given for any one photo taken. There will be a point that your camera will not accept any more light and the image will be very noisy and pixilated so you need to find a happy medium. For the same procedure can adopted for film cameras of course with film it will be more expensive and I don’t recommend it for novices.
With digital is not an expensive exercise why not give it a try ….. Let me know how you got on.
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Comment by Ash
Australian Traveller
Flashes of memories
ah this is such great advice. I plan on trying this over the weekend. I have tried so many times to take photos of the night sky and no matter what I try they come out as a streaky blur!
Thank you, thank you and thank you!!!!!!
ash