Red Ring Tupperware Party, Unabashed (17)

I believe the high iso is to get enough of the light from the not so bright stars, Lisa.

f/4 - for allowing as much light in without messing stuff up - but I would have thought that f/8 or even f/11 would have been sufficient enough.

30 seconds is a good enough length of time with the above settings as not to allow light pollution to ruin a photo.

I have read, and Baz (aka A.S.I.G.N) on here wrote a wonderful thread - https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=766644 - that if you are in an area with more light pollution - or that you want a "longer" photo, you can stack them - i.e. put the camera on high speed burst mode for 30 seconds at a time or something, using a wired remote, lock it in so it takes something like 2-3 hrs worth of photos, then using special software (that is free and downloadable), it churns it all out and gives you a wonderful photo...

What Harm said. Even though it was very dark out and you could see a ton of stars with the eye, and the milky way, the first few shots I took at ISo 1600 and ISO3200 came out with only the bright stars clearly visible.

I guess the right way to have done the shot is to take a bunch of exposures at a lower ISO and used a stacking program like Deepsky stacker, but I was lazy and wanted to get what I could with one shot.

then you have the inherent issue of:

High ISO - more noise - shorter timed photos - stack them up with almost no blurring of stars

or

Low ISO - crappy camera - no noise - longer timed photos - staked up with possible blurring of stars due to the timing....

oh okay. Thanks guys!!

In all honesty, there was a bit of post processing as well. I did bump the black level and reduce the exposure of the raw a bit and that greatly reduced the noise. Also, cut back on the saturation as it wasn't really needed and that too reduced noise.

gjl711 wrote in post #10695955
What Harm said. Even though it was very dark out and you could see a ton of stars with the eye, and the milky way, the first few shots I took at ISo 1600 and ISO3200 came out with only the bright stars clearly visible.

I guess the right way to have done the shot is to take a bunch of exposures at a lower ISO and used a stacking program like Deepsky stacker, but I was lazy and wanted to get what I could with one shot.

I would only want to do it with one shot.

Yours is very nice as it is

Thanx.. It was more an experiment than anything else. We were out in the high desert and it was very dark. reviewing the picture hurt your eyes.

to be printed and framed?

*peeks in*

Harm...you thread killer!

but i also revived it!!

*chirp*

Looks like it is on life support to me.

Clear!!!!

bloody hell, you all just came out of the woodwork!