Photography Night Sky: A Field Guide For Shooting After Dark Jennifer Wu
Publisher: The Mountaineers Press

While many of the If you're shooting in particularly windy conditions, you may need to put some kind of weight on top of your camera to prevent not just camera shake but the possibility that the wind will knock your whole kit to the ground. I find that if you use a shutter speed that is Photographers often get tricked into thinking they need a very high aperture since the stars are far away, but remember that depth-of-field is about how much of the picture is sharp, not where the sharpness appears. Aug 22, 2013 - Slow shutter speeds are necessary, after all, for capturing flash-free images after dark. I am not a specialist in this fields and there are better camera systems than the NX system to do astrophotography, but it's definitely not impossible to do some kind of astrophotography. You can mainly do either star trails (capture the motion of the stars due to the rotation of the Earth) or you can simply shoot what you are seeing like in the photo below. But long exposures Long exposure photography can be divided into two categories: photos taken during the day, and those taken at night. Afterwards set the focus to manual focus to lock it. Feb 21, 2014 - If looking to shoot the Milky Way, shooting mid-summer (from May to July), when the galactic core is traveling through the dark sky above the horizon is optimal. Mar 7, 2013 - I really would recommend it to anyone who was considering trying their hand at night sky photography. Aug 23, 2012 - Shutter speed – 30 seconds: For this photo, I shot most of the night using a 30 second shutter speed (meaning that a professional tripod is necessary to keep the camera rock solid). Mar 5, 2014 - I often get asked how to shoot a night sky / starry sky.