If you’re hoping to photograph the northern lights then you need to be well prepared. You might not get many opportunities! One key decision is choosing which focal length is going to get you the best aurora photos. In this post I’ll dig into this topic and make my recommendations.
How long can your exposure be to prevent star trails? A handy chart for a ton of focal lengths to help you render your stars as points and not trails.
Star trails are a wonderful way to represent the night sky with your astrophotography but sometimes we also want to capture stars as singular points of light. I’ll show you how to figure out how long your exposure needs to be to, using the 500 rule.
These 10 simple tips will help you to capture incredible images of meteor showers.
A detailed tutorial on how to photograph a lunar eclipse – from capturing the images to processing them in Photoshop using Smart Objetcs.
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