best lens for night sky photos
Sep 16, 2020 08:57:17 #
Sep 16, 2020 09:14:13 #
Sep 16, 2020 09:31:11 #
Great! I think your ready to have fun doing night skies. Keep posting them.
Sep 16, 2020 09:31:29 #
Sep 16, 2020 09:37:44 #
Sep 16, 2020 09:58:02 #
The lens worked well and the stars in the middle of the image are round. Those on the perifery of the image are only slightly stretched so the lens is definitely a keeper. The central core of the Milky Way however is covered by the foreground trees.
Sep 16, 2020 10:09:28 #
PoppieJ wrote:
A couple of months ago I ask about what you all thought was the best lens for night sky. I was looking to rent for a work shop that I was attending. I ended up getting a Sigma 14 to 24 f2.8 Art lens. I coupled that with my Canon 6d. The workshop was this past weekend at the Grand Canyon and I thought that I would share some of my results. All of these are using this lens except the trails which I did at 200 mm also using Sigma lens. Let me know what you think
Good shots. Bet you buy the lens huh . The photos are good except the trees are covering part of the milky way I would have looked up more and moved aside to expose more of the milky way. But they are great for a first time and that lens is a keeper.
Sep 16, 2020 10:46:41 #
larryepage
Loc: North Texas area
Sometimes in these workshop situations, you get assigned a place in a line of people that might not be the spot you would choose if shooting alone or with a partner. It provides incentive to keep trying and to go out and shoot again...
Sep 16, 2020 11:14:39 #
PoppieJ wrote:
A couple of months ago I ask about what you all thought was the best lens for night sky. I was looking to rent for a work shop that I was attending. I ended up getting a Sigma 14 to 24 f2.8 Art lens. I coupled that with my Canon 6d. The workshop was this past weekend at the Grand Canyon and I thought that I would share some of my results. All of these are using this lens except the trails which I did at 200 mm also using Sigma lens. Let me know what you think
I am No Astro Guy ,but they sure look Great to me,personally. I'd say you picked a wonderful lens and I own a 6D as well and although it focuses slow , it can produce great images in very low light scenarios.
Good Job Poppie.
Sep 16, 2020 12:15:07 #
I think #2 is my favorite even if you didn't light the foreground. Nice stuff!
Sep 16, 2020 12:44:39 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
Nice shots. To really freeze the stars the exposes should be less than ~400/focal length(mm) = Max exposure time in seconds. Or else use a star tracker, of course your foreground would move a bit. I have seen some images where the foreground as added back in afterwards to avoid the issue with a star tracker.
Sep 16, 2020 13:14:02 #
Sep 16, 2020 14:26:46 #
Looks like whatever you used works.
--Bob
--Bob
PoppieJ wrote:
A couple of months ago I ask about what you all thought was the best lens for night sky. I was looking to rent for a work shop that I was attending. I ended up getting a Sigma 14 to 24 f2.8 Art lens. I coupled that with my Canon 6d. The workshop was this past weekend at the Grand Canyon and I thought that I would share some of my results. All of these are using this lens except the trails which I did at 200 mm also using Sigma lens. Let me know what you think
Sep 16, 2020 17:16:38 #
Sep 16, 2020 17:58:55 #
They look superb shots. I am working trying to define between the Sigma 14-24mm and the Tokina opera 16-28 mm
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