Here is my collection of astro photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157627826423347/
You can also search my flickr feed for key words like milky way, astro, comet, meteor etc. A short form of things I’ve learned: Focusing can be a bitch. My best success has been to go into liveview, aim at the brightest star or planet, crank the LV magnification all of the way up and do my best. It also helps to take some blue masking tape and “lock the focus in”. The faster the lens the better. I don’t like shooting any slower than f/2. When doing an astro-pano that includes the horizon, have one set of frames shot close to, but above the horizon and an overlapping set that is mostly below the horizon. Occasionally I experiment with the “below the horizon” frames not be on astro tracer, but the foreground is going to be dark, it doesn’t matter to me as much if it is a bit blurry. Every time I go out and shoot, I end up doing a bunch of test frames. With ISO invarience, it’s better to get your raw frames at too low of an ISO and bring the up in post than to blow out brighter objects. Again, experiment. What I really need to learn is image stacking. For straight astro, I’ll never do as well as the hubble, or even someone with a decent scope, so I usually concentrate on astro-landscape, which means finding something pretty to put in front of the sky. I haven’t had a chance to play with the K-3 III yet. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from ret4est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
