Firstly 2010 was a good movie in my opinion. I thought about going with the Moby song about stars but settled on a fairly obscure film reference. Previously I had talked about taking pictures of stars and night time photography and I will like to come back to this now.
Since I got my D40 I have driven my fiancee stir crazy while Im out at odd hours of the night hanging around a camera. It started while on holiday in South Carolina. Somehow the A.C. fan had been turned off.
Everyone else was fine. I was far too hot. Sitting in a stuffy house I tried to sleep but ended up getting up, taking my D40 with me and scurrying outside. Luckily (?) it was 4am and most of the lights were off. Walking through the pitch black path, not thinking about all the aligators that may be lurking around I found a car park (parking lot). It took me a while to figure out that my camera will not take a picture on Autofocus if it cant focus. Unfortunately stars are too dim to focus on. Even with my 4am tired eyes I did manage to get 1 photo in focus.
As you can see I had no clue where the north star (polaris) was. The next few nights I moved my photography down to the beach where at least half the sky was dark. A lengthy time was spent searching for the plough (ursa major), finding that I used it to find draco and then eventually ursa minor which contains polaris at its tail. Here is the best photo I got. 18mm, f-4.5, 1190 sec ISO 400.
Unfortunately you can see the light polution bleeding through over 20min
Since I got my D40 I have driven my fiancee stir crazy while Im out at odd hours of the night hanging around a camera. It started while on holiday in South Carolina. Somehow the A.C. fan had been turned off.
Everyone else was fine. I was far too hot. Sitting in a stuffy house I tried to sleep but ended up getting up, taking my D40 with me and scurrying outside. Luckily (?) it was 4am and most of the lights were off. Walking through the pitch black path, not thinking about all the aligators that may be lurking around I found a car park (parking lot). It took me a while to figure out that my camera will not take a picture on Autofocus if it cant focus. Unfortunately stars are too dim to focus on. Even with my 4am tired eyes I did manage to get 1 photo in focus.
As you can see I had no clue where the north star (polaris) was. The next few nights I moved my photography down to the beach where at least half the sky was dark. A lengthy time was spent searching for the plough (ursa major), finding that I used it to find draco and then eventually ursa minor which contains polaris at its tail. Here is the best photo I got. 18mm, f-4.5, 1190 sec ISO 400.
Unfortunately you can see the light polution bleeding through over 20min
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