My first attempt at astrophotography. 

"Anon" (tjsielsistneb) 09/12/2015 at 23:28 • Filed to: None

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Didn’t come out the way I exactly expected it to since the Sony A7 phone remote app won’t take pictures in RAW! So what you see here are layered, I’ll try again tomorrow night, this time making sure it’s all in RAW so I can get better white balance!

Van Man, rocks the Man Van > Anon 09/12/2015 at 23:36

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And my only camera is my iPotato...

Nibby > Anon 09/12/2015 at 23:42

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this took me way too long but

Agrajag > Anon 09/12/2015 at 23:44

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Very cool. I’m going to an area with zero light pollution tomorrow night to attempt some astrophotography myself. Hopefully I get something halfway decent.

michael bleggi > Anon 09/12/2015 at 23:45

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my favorite attempt at long exposure photography

Captain of the Enterprise > Van Man, rocks the Man Van 09/12/2015 at 23:58

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Me too

S H: now with more letters! > Anon 09/13/2015 at 02:56

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I really dig the shot as is! I wish the PlayMemories app wasn’t so limited, it doesn’t allow bracketing or auto-hdr either (and no RAW), so very limiting for self-portraits. Here’s my a7 astrophotography shot from last Sunday.

Anon > S H: now with more letters! 09/13/2015 at 03:22

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That’s amazing! How many shots was it?

S H: now with more letters! > Anon 09/13/2015 at 04:03

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Thanks! It was one image shot at ISO1600, 30sec @F3.5 (kit lens at 29mm). It isn’t super sharp, but sharper than it is on Kinja (no clue why it looks worse on here). I took it at Point Sur, which is north of Big Sur (hour and a half from Monterey). Amazing place to watch the stars.

Yours looks crazy sharp (in a good way) what lens and did you sharpen in post?

Anon > S H: now with more letters! 09/13/2015 at 04:39

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I can’t ever get that glowing cloud effect! Is there something to look for to get it? As for mine it is a composite of 7 stacked images taken with my A7 at 4500 ISO, 30 seconds each. As for the lens, I used my Nikon Ai-s 24mm f/2.8 at f/5.6. I played with the color some as it was more washed out than the picture you see. I darkened the blacks, raised the blue and green channels, and darkened the neutrals a bit. However no post sharpening was done. When you layer photos it drastically reduces the noise and makes things sharper than a single high iso exposure. Also a prime lens dosen’t hurt matters.

Anon > Nibby 09/13/2015 at 06:42

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Lolololololol! The gif didn’t work at first so I was looking at it like “why did he cut out the tree?” Then I nearly shit myself! 10/10 would be startled again!

Anon > Agrajag 09/13/2015 at 06:46

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Yeah, I did this picture at home. I normally live in Baton Rouge (the most permenetly populated city in Louisiana) and as such, you can not see any stars within a hundred square miles of the place!

Anon > Van Man, rocks the Man Van 09/13/2015 at 06:48

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Go out and buy a cheap used DSLR or mirrorless camera! There are plenty of $100 mirrorless bodies and even more DSLRs!

S H: now with more letters! > Anon 09/13/2015 at 12:01

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Yeah, I thought about doing a stack but wasn’t sure how it works when not just shooting the sky.

It probably isn’t dark enough where you’ve had the chance to shoot. Can you easily see the Milky Way where you took the pictures? On the Central Coast the MW is ridiculously clear, hence the glow (FME, it seems at least as good as the deserts). I don’t think there are many places in the East with little-to-no light pollution. And yeah, I had some primes with me that I considered, but nothing wider than a 50, so I just shot it with the kit.