Learning Deep Sky Astrophotography – Camera Settings
The camera settings will for Deep Sky Astrophotography will be different from other types of photography as you will be taking multiple images of a dim or invisible subject at night and then stack the images together. Camera Settings for…
Learning Deep Sky Astrophotography Tutorial
What is Deep Sky Astrophotography? It is photographing deep space objects like nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters. These objects are very faint or even invisible to the human eye but can create beautiful images when photographed using astrophotography techniques that…
Learning Deep Sky Astrophotography – Planning Your Composition
Composing faint or invisible deep sky astrophotography targets can be problematic. Fortunately, there are tools and techniques that can help with composing your target. There are two good and free tools you can use during planning to compose your image…
Deep Sky Astrophotography – What you need to know about Light Pollution
Many deep sky astrophotographers photograph stellar objects right from their own backyard. There are several good reasons to photograph from your backyard: Astrophotography can require a large amount of equipment and set up time You may only have a short…
Deep Sky Astrophotography – Planning for The Weather
Partly cloudy skies are terrific for landscape photography and cloudy skies could be great for macro photography so you don’t blow out your subject. Not so for astrophotography where “Clear Skies” is a common salutation between astrophotographers. Partly cloudy skies…
How to Photograph the Moon using Olympus’ High Res Mode
Olympus OM-D cameras have a High Res Shot Mode that takes and stacks multiple exposures to produce a high resolution image of up to 80 MP. This can produce a high resolution image of the moon without having to manually…
Night Sky Photography – How to Increase the Size of the Stars
Normally in night sky or astrophotography the goal is to get pinpoint, small stars. The smaller the stars, the more they are in focus. However, there are times you want bigger stars in order to highlight them. Making a constellation…
Beginning Deep Sky Astrophotography – Planning Your Photo Shoot (DSO Targets)
Planning for a Deep Sky Astrophotography photo shoot is much different than planning for other types of photography. First the targets are seasonal, targets only appear in the night sky at certain times of the year. The targets also rise…
Testing out Olympus’ New Starry Sky Autofocus Feature
With the OM-D E-M1 Mark III, Olympus introduced the new Starry Sky Autofocus feature. Starry Sky AF has two focus modes: speed for handheld and accuracy for mounting on a tripod. Wait a minute – handheld autofocusing of the stars…
Beginning DSLR Deep Sky Astrophotography – Equipment
What is Deep Sky Astrophotography? It is photographing deep space objects like nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters. These objects are very faint or even invisible to the human eye but can create beautiful images when photographed using astrophotography techniques that…
