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This is my first time trying to do a 30 minute exposure and star-trails. It went ok! [OC] (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by WhippetBowie to c/pics

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[–] lemmy_party 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very neat! Do you mind describing what settings you used and a bit about the environment where you shot it?

[–] WhippetBowie 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Absolutely! We shot this about 20 minutes north of Haliburton, Ontario (I was there for a bike race).

The camera is a Sony a6700 (it's an APS-C camera so make sure to adjust if you're shooting full-frame), the lens is a Sigma 16mm F1.4 prime lens .

Shot @ ISO 100, f2.8

Turns out it was only a 15 minute exposure (I think my 30 minute exposure was on my film camera, oooops)

I found the north star by using the Photopills app, I also used the app to figure out what exposure to shoot at. It's a great app for calculating exposure, finding the milky way, and planning shoots.

I brought along a tripod, and used the (terrible) Sony app to remotely control the length of the exposure in bulb mode.

Previous to this I took plenty of shorter star photos (15 seconds, ISO 1600, F1.4) which turned out really well. For those shots I just used a 2 second shot timer to prevent camera shake when activating the shutter.