International Space Station

I wonder if you can get 'em while they're on their spacewalk! haha.. seriously though clever to get out and try at least and not half bad. far better than what i'd get in 45 shots!

Which one of you photogs coughed up the dough for a Canon 1200mm f/5.6? Stack a couple 2x teleconverters on it and you could see what the astronauhts are eating!

how do you know when and where the ISS will be?

I've wathed the ISS several times and even attempted to shot it. It passes in and out of view rather quickly and getting a decent shot in 45 shots is commendable

muscleflex wrote in post #3434890
what is the sunny 16 rule?

The rule seems to be... 'you'd apply the "sunny 16 rule" and set f/16 and 1/film-speed.'

I just did a quick Google and came up with this link...
I will have to wait till the end of July to try to capture the ISS from where I live.

Hope this helps.

http://photo.net/learn​/astro/star-streak

embdude wrote in post #3434876
You over exposed it.

No serriously...

Just like taking shots of the moon you need to expose for normal daylight conditions since the station is in normal daylight.

Try the sunny 16 rule, your camera is not gonna get it right unless you fill the frame.

I bet you would have a lot more detail if it was exposed properly.

I think you're right. Having never tried this before though, there is a very narrow window of opportunity to get the shot so I had to pretty much decide what my camera settings would be before it appeared. Since this one happened just as the sky was rapidly becoming darker, the situation changed too quickly to experiment first. I just wanted to make sure I didn't have it set so dark that I ended up with nothing. Next time I will either shoot a little higher shutter speed, or bring the ISO down a little bit.

2005GLI wrote in post #3434973
how do you know when and where the ISS will be?

Follow the links on this page:

http://spaceflight.nas​a.gov/realdata/sightin​gs/index.html

Did you ever re-shoot the ISS?

For those wondering about the sunny 16 rule...

it is an old classic rule of thumb used by photographers to get proper exposure without use of a light meter...

Until the 1950's cameras did not have the ability to measure light, so the ability to determine exposure in your head was much more important than it is today!

The rule is as follows:

For a sunlit scene set f-stop to f16 (hence "Sunny 16")
Set the shutter speed the same as the ISO speed

This will give proper exposure!

If you are not in bright sunny light then you just need to open the f-stop or slow the shutter or increase the ISO to compensate, a little compensation in shady spots and much more in interior or dark spots.

i like the shot, i've seen it go over but never tried to photograph it.