Stars

This post is about some shots i took a couple of years ago of the night sky. It was the first time i had ever tried taking photographs of stars and there were some obvious hit-and-miss images. It's DEFINITELY harder than it sounds.

I used my Nikon D90 and the standard kit lens for this shoot as it was just after i got the camera. The settings for it weren't the same for each shot as there was always tweaking going on with the settings. This was because if i turned to a different part of the sky there were lighter areas on the horizons due to light pollution over towns. But the general settings were around f5, 25-30 seconds, and ISO 500-750. You really have to do a couple of practices shots so you know the best settings, then make sure the light and the composition is right. 

These were just taken in my back garden but you have to be careful about the amount of light pollution that will get in the way of the light from the stars. Enough and you won't be able to make out the stars at all. It's always better to go somewhere with very little light pollution although in this instance it gave my images a nice burnt orange gradient which i quite like.

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