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Week 31: Wide Aperture, 2021

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“ Milky Way - Off of Cape Cod ”

I am learning to shoot the Milky Way. This is a long exposure of 30 seconds at f3.5 and 18mm. There's so much to think about in the night shots and its fun trying to adjust the settings to learn what tweaks need to be made. I only did a little post processing in this image with the white and ...

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Pauline Brotherton Edited 4 years ago

Well done. Lovely image.

Well done. Lovely image.

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Sherri Vallie Edited 4 years ago

Well done!

Well done!

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Judy Toomey Edited 4 years ago

I love it! Are you hooked on the Milky Way yet?

I love it! Are you hooked on the Milky Way yet?

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Joe O'Toole Edited 4 years ago

Nice job, definitely a big learning curve with this type of photography.

A few suggestions:
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Nice job, definitely a big learning curve with this type of photography.

A few suggestions:

1) find a good calculator for your camera settings. I know that with a full-frame camera, the longest you can shoot to keep the stars as points is about 25 seconds. For a cropped sensor, it will be less.

2) You'll want to shoot as wide as possible (it appears as though you did here (f/3.5), and that rather than f/18, 18 is actually your focal length).

3) Once you get the hang of the basics, you can take 2 exposures, one for the foreground, and one for the sky, then combine them in editing.

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