Well, I tried! I have great admiration for those who can take night images. You need to have 17 hands and about 3 torches too. Fortunately, a car came along the road and lit the church up beautifully while I was taking this long exposure image. I need to do some more reading and then go back on another clear night to see if I can execute this better.
I checked your settings. You have good camera and lens. Open aperture as wide as it will go. I have 1.8 on my 35mm and 3.5 on my kit lens. The higher your aperture the longer exposure and higher ISO you will need. Next your focus you want at infinity ( rather than explain I ask people to you tube this). Camera should be in full manual for night and no filters not even UV shoot with naked glass. With the wide 12mm you have try a shutter speed of 20-30 seconds , and if 4.5 is your lowest aperture use a 3200-4000 ISO. If you can go lower on aperture adjust down to no lower than 800-1000 you want to make sure as many pixels as possible are exposed well. Also if you don't have hand held or remote shutter trigger use the self timer to avoid any blur from you pressing shutter.
@dide thank you. I have been practicing hard for almost a year now. What was your shutter speed was it 103 seconds? If so that is too much with out a deep sky object tracker. It will cause your stars to trail. With the 12mm I think 30-35 is the cut off before they trail. I don't know 100% because my widest is 18mm on my 18-55 kit lens but stars trail at 25 seconds on that one. And at only 13seconds on my 25mm but that 1.8 is hard to resist for letting light in.
@sarraphoto Exposure was 103 seconds - I will try upping ISO and reducing exposure time. Thanks again for your comments, I appreciate your help. If you have been practicing for a year, then I only have 364 days to go…...
@dide a little less. Set out for my first milky way photo last May. I have been completely hooked since then. I was only night shooting a couple times a month until I started 365 again. All the extra practice has helped. It was a great journey of trial and error and many shots tossed in the recycle bin. But I just love being out in the quiet of the night with my very own little window on the universe.
I think this is really great. Fav. I love your composition - what perfect timing by that car and you've got stars - I can never get stars. I'll have to practice and try and use some of Sondra's advice.
May 1st, 2016
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