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f2.8 is the wrong aperture for this type of shot. Try it with F8-F11 and adjust your shutter speed accordingly.
I'm not sure on Nikon, but you probably can't do anything longer than a 30 sec exposure without a release cable.
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I have a cable release. Set it to bulb. Count to 30 or so.
The bigger the F stop, the smaller the aperture right? (I havent actually used my DSLR in M mode prolly in over a year) Astrophotography and Astronomy in general is best done with essentially turning your camera or telescope into a "light bucket". I rechecked, 2.8 is the reccomended aperture for astrophotography, my current lense lets me go to 3.5.
I locked the cable release and then went inside to do some reading last night for about 30-40 min. I had to clean up the noise so the trees weren't red using infranviewer so it's not very polished. Lightroom is downloading.
Living in Vegas and Milwaukee, I really missed having dark skies like this.
Like I said, not super polished. Also the first time I've tried taking pics of stars.
The bigger the F stop, the smaller the aperture right? (I havent actually used my DSLR in M mode prolly in over a year) Astrophotography and Astronomy in general is best done with essentially turning your camera or telescope into a "light bucket". I rechecked, 2.8 is the reccomended aperture for astrophotography, my current lense lets me go to 3.5.
I locked the cable release and then went inside to do some reading last night for about 30-40 min. I had to clean up the noise so the trees weren't red using infranviewer so it's not very polished. Lightroom is downloading.
Living in Vegas and Milwaukee, I really missed having dark skies like this.
Like I said, not super polished. Also the first time I've tried taking pics of stars.
I suppose it depends how you set your shot up...
I personally would use my widest angle and probably start at F8. Reason being is because at a wider angle I would capture about 70% of the sky in the field of view and 30% of the landscape etc...
With a wide enough angle (not too wide) you'll get a lil bit of a fisheye giving the sky a cool dome look and with the smaller aperture the entire picture will be sharper.
I would also bump the iso down to remove noise.
I personally would use my widest angle and probably start at F8. Reason being is because at a wider angle I would capture about 70% of the sky in the field of view and 30% of the landscape etc...
With a wide enough angle (not too wide) you'll get a lil bit of a fisheye giving the sky a cool dome look and with the smaller aperture the entire picture will be sharper.
I would also bump the iso down to remove noise.
TableFun
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Yeah, I played around with the iso last night. My camera goes up to 25,000 iso setting which is ridiculous. 400-1000 seemed to do the best. Its difficult to shoot the milky way like in the second pic and then decide what is light from super distant stars and what is noise.
A wider lens would totally help. I didn't really plan to take pics of this meteor shower until two days ago so I kinda fugged myself. The ones in Dec are usually good and the cold air at night makes for clearer skies, but the moon is supposed to be out... When Abby was born I rented a couple lenses from lensdepot.com (macro's etc). I think I'll do that again sometime later this fall when the leaves turn and then figure out which one I like best before buying some new glass.
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