Saturday night I tried my first ever attempt to photograph the Milky Way and even threw in a little light painting to complete the attempt. All shots were taken with a Nikon D850, 17-35mm lens @17mm, 20 sec, ISO 400, f/2.8. CC encouraged!
rdrechsler wrote:
Saturday night I tried my first ever attempt to photograph the Milky Way and even threw in a little light painting to complete the attempt. All shots were taken with a Nikon D850, 17-35mm lens @17mm, 20 sec, ISO 400, f/2.8. CC encouraged!
Dick, Outstanding images.
Those are a nice set, I am just starting into taking Milky Way shots from here in Greece. This is my first ever attempt at taking a shot of the milky way from my backyard in Nea Koroni, I think I could have gotten a better pic from my farm but didn't feel like walking 2 miles at the time, planning a shoot to try again. I took mine with an 18-135mm on a canon sl1 at 18mm f/3.5 20 sec 600 iso. Still trying to figure out the settings
rdrechsler wrote:
Saturday night I tried my first ever attempt to photograph the Milky Way and even threw in a little light painting to complete the attempt. All shots were taken with a Nikon D850, 17-35mm lens @17mm, 20 sec, ISO 400, f/2.8. CC encouraged!
The D850 is a beast at astro, and gives you a lot of leeway in exposure settings. Stars are beginning to streak, so drop exposure time and raise ISO. Assuming you were on a tripod, did the lens have VR? If yes, turn in off as the vibration resistance algorithm will attempt to correct for shake that isn't there.
For the last image, use the tint slider to shift the color to something like 3400k, which will take away that red tint, which does not look natural.
There is a lot of noise in the image which is easily corrected in post processing.
Overall, for first attempts at a difficult subject, you did great.
UTMike wrote:
Great start!
Thanks Mike. Gotta start someplace
Jay Pat wrote:
Very nice, Dick!!
Pat
Thanks Pat, it’s always fun to expand one’s boundaries, literally and figuratively 😎.
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
The D850 is a beast at astro, and gives you a lot of leeway in exposure settings. Stars are beginning to streak, so drop exposure time and raise ISO. Assuming you were on a tripod, did the lens have VR? If yes, turn in off as the vibration resistance algorithm will attempt to correct for shake that isn't there.
For the last image, use the tint slider to shift the color to something like 3400k, which will take away that red tint, which does not look natural.
There is a lot of noise in the image which is easily corrected in post processing.
Overall, for first attempts at a difficult subject, you did great.
The D850 is a beast at astro, and gives you a lot ... (
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Great feedback. That’s what I need. Thank you. It was a fun shoot. It’s hard to find dark sky anywhere in SoCal, but I’ve got another idea of where to give it another try. Stay tuned.
Dick,
Pretty good for your first attempt. The only thing I would change is to use ISO3200. You are getting too much noise from post processing. Here is a photo I took at ISO3200, f2.8, 20 seconds, on a D500. Also, 20 seconds is fine and you shouldn't get any streaking of the stars at that speed. I'm assuming either VR was turned on (turn this off when using a tripod) or the tripod was not steady enough.
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