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Night sky pictures - how to focus?
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<blockquote data-quote="nickt" data-source="post: 184990" data-attributes="member: 4923"><p>For your night sky scenes, put lens in manual focus and adjust to that infinity point that Mike described and leave it there. Automatic scene and meter modes will rarely get your night shots correct. The camera doesn't know what you want. You might want a clean shot of the moon in a black sky or you may want to see some clouds and hints of colors from sunset. Its up to you to find the exposure to give you the results you want. Another tip, the moon is a sun lit body. Its a big rock sitting out in the sun with a lot of black around it. You can spot meter it, or guess at it. But it's not going to be a very long exposure for the moon as the main subject. If no moon in your shot, just go for the exposure that looks best. Stars are similar to the moon, but you won't be after detail, so whatever exposure makes them look nice is good. Don't let the camera meter, it will try to make something of the blackness and it will be noisy. Back in film days, you would need to think a little harder, but with digital, you can experiment at no cost. Try different apertures and different shutter speeds to get the stars to look the way you want. Just keep your lens on that infinity point.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nickt, post: 184990, member: 4923"] For your night sky scenes, put lens in manual focus and adjust to that infinity point that Mike described and leave it there. Automatic scene and meter modes will rarely get your night shots correct. The camera doesn't know what you want. You might want a clean shot of the moon in a black sky or you may want to see some clouds and hints of colors from sunset. Its up to you to find the exposure to give you the results you want. Another tip, the moon is a sun lit body. Its a big rock sitting out in the sun with a lot of black around it. You can spot meter it, or guess at it. But it's not going to be a very long exposure for the moon as the main subject. If no moon in your shot, just go for the exposure that looks best. Stars are similar to the moon, but you won't be after detail, so whatever exposure makes them look nice is good. Don't let the camera meter, it will try to make something of the blackness and it will be noisy. Back in film days, you would need to think a little harder, but with digital, you can experiment at no cost. Try different apertures and different shutter speeds to get the stars to look the way you want. Just keep your lens on that infinity point. [/QUOTE]
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