This is stunning mate... You have inspired me to do some of the star shots I wanted for a while.... would love to see the milky way shot your daughter got if you have a link to some place it might be hosted? Fav
@gazbadger I might pop it in my other album once she's got it sorted out. What I would say is that I would just search Alexis Birkill's notes on this site for star shots - that's where I got all my info from (and his shots are astonishing...).
Which leads me to my final thanks to @abirkill himself. I'm honoured that he's fav'ed this shot, not least because we wouldn't even have gone out and attempted them without the excellent advice he has provided on this and numerous other subjects on this superb site. Thanks mate.
@snaggy Thanks for the advice Kev. I do consider Alexis to be the benchmark for great long exposure night photography. I love his work... I will check out his advice tomorrow.
@gazbadger Some of the key issues revolve around how long you can shoot before the stars move and become trails. On full frame this is (best case) 600 divided by the focal length in seconds, but we were using 500 to give us a bit of breathing space (at 24mm that was about 20 seconds max). Cameras with different size sensors will have different equations.
Then it was about getting the aperture wide open on a clear, moonless night and cranking the ISO up as high as you dare (3 to 4000 is a good starting point - the 5D really helps here). Hope that helps.
@gazbadger I might pop it in my other album once she's got it sorted out. What I would say is that I would just search Alexis Birkill's notes on this site for star shots - that's where I got all my info from (and his shots are astonishing...).
Which leads me to my final thanks to @abirkill himself. I'm honoured that he's fav'ed this shot, not least because we wouldn't even have gone out and attempted them without the excellent advice he has provided on this and numerous other subjects on this superb site. Thanks mate.
Then it was about getting the aperture wide open on a clear, moonless night and cranking the ISO up as high as you dare (3 to 4000 is a good starting point - the 5D really helps here). Hope that helps.