Hello and Welcome Back...!
First of all,I'll show you how to capture Milkyway.
You've seen pictures of Milkyway many times. That's a pretty exciting thing to do. It's not that hard...
It's all about Technique...
This picture is shot at Lake Victoria.
Images like this, always exite us.
Let's have a look at basic seetings in your camera...
First thing is Aperture or F Number.
This will decide how much light your sensor will gether. Lower the aperture larger the light it will gain. As an example,
f1.8 will gether more light than f3.5
Remember, this will decide how wide your picture will be. Less aperture, wider image.
Second thing is ISO
More the ISO more light sensitive your camera will be. Every Entry level DSLR can go up to 6400 ISO. But, there's a little minus point of ISO. More the ISO more noise will be there in the picture. So, basically we will shoot at ISO 6400 or lower.
And the last thing is Shutter Speed or Exposure Time
We will be shooting at slower shutter speeds maybe from 10 seconds to 25 seconds or more. Every Entry-level DSLR has slow shutter speeds up to 30 seconds.
But there's a rule here, to determine your shutter speed.
It's called the 500 rule
Take the focal length at which you are shooting and divide it by 500. You'll get average shutter speed. This will help you to get pinpoint stars. Otherwise at longer shutter speeds than the limit, stars will get trailed. Like long threads. That's another type of AP but we'll discuss it later.
Supposr, I'm shooting at 18mm than I'll took 18 and divide it by 500.
500÷18=27.78
Roughly 25 seconds. So, shutter speeds higher than 25 seconds, my stars will get trailed.
Ok. Now we've all know the basic settings.
For Milkyway images, one want to go at darker locations. Here's a site that'll help you to choose dark locations near you.
This'll help you get your dark location.
Now, here's a little hard thing. At night, your camera's auto focus will not focus perfectly on stars. We'll need to focus it to Infinity.
Here's a video on that.
So, after knowing every seetings and everything, we're good to go...
In short, Aperture between f1.8-f3.5
ISO between 800-6400 and Shutter Speed according to one's lens....
Now, there are applications and softwares that'll help one to determine Milkyway's location, rise time etc...
Like this one
You can find others too...
So, in the end
Just hit the Shutter Button and be Mesmerized...!
You've seen pictures of Milkyway many times. That's a pretty exciting thing to do. It's not that hard...
It's all about Technique...
This picture is shot at Lake Victoria.
Images like this, always exite us.
Let's have a look at basic seetings in your camera...
First thing is Aperture or F Number.
This will decide how much light your sensor will gether. Lower the aperture larger the light it will gain. As an example,
f1.8 will gether more light than f3.5
Remember, this will decide how wide your picture will be. Less aperture, wider image.
Second thing is ISO
More the ISO more light sensitive your camera will be. Every Entry level DSLR can go up to 6400 ISO. But, there's a little minus point of ISO. More the ISO more noise will be there in the picture. So, basically we will shoot at ISO 6400 or lower.
And the last thing is Shutter Speed or Exposure Time
We will be shooting at slower shutter speeds maybe from 10 seconds to 25 seconds or more. Every Entry-level DSLR has slow shutter speeds up to 30 seconds.
But there's a rule here, to determine your shutter speed.
It's called the 500 rule
Take the focal length at which you are shooting and divide it by 500. You'll get average shutter speed. This will help you to get pinpoint stars. Otherwise at longer shutter speeds than the limit, stars will get trailed. Like long threads. That's another type of AP but we'll discuss it later.
Supposr, I'm shooting at 18mm than I'll took 18 and divide it by 500.
500÷18=27.78
Roughly 25 seconds. So, shutter speeds higher than 25 seconds, my stars will get trailed.
Ok. Now we've all know the basic settings.
For Milkyway images, one want to go at darker locations. Here's a site that'll help you to choose dark locations near you.
This'll help you get your dark location.
Now, here's a little hard thing. At night, your camera's auto focus will not focus perfectly on stars. We'll need to focus it to Infinity.
So, after knowing every seetings and everything, we're good to go...
In short, Aperture between f1.8-f3.5
ISO between 800-6400 and Shutter Speed according to one's lens....
Now, there are applications and softwares that'll help one to determine Milkyway's location, rise time etc...
Like this one
You can find others too...
So, in the end
Just hit the Shutter Button and be Mesmerized...!
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