The Night Sky - First Attempt

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WhiteLight

Senior Member
Hi all...

This is my first attempt at photographing stars... the night sky.

dscwlp13.jpg

Link - http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/3601/dscwlp13.jpg

It would be great if you could take a minute & see the picture at imageshack cos i think the forum uploader is stripping something off the image & the colors are going off.
You'll know what i mean.
Do take a look & critique please!

Nikon D5100 with 18-55mm lens at 18mm
15 sec exposure at f/3.5

Thanks!
 
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Mike150

Senior Member
First, I'm not one qualified to "Critique" a photo. I do, however, like the shot. Mind if I ask what you had the ISO set to? I've tried night shots with my D60 but it starts getting grainy at ISO400 and is totally flooded with noise at 800.
 
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WhiteLight

Senior Member
Mike150 said:
First, I'm not one qualified to "Critique" a photo. I do, however, like the shot. Mind if I ask what you had the ISO set to? I've tried night shots with my D60 but it starts getting grainy at ISO400 and is totally flooded with noise at 800.
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Mike, i shot this at ISO 100..
Would've shot at ISO 50 if the D5100 allowed it :)

Added the ISO setting to the first post.

Incidentally i have not added any noise reduction on this.
I actually forgot to even luminance adjust in Lightroom cos i didn't see much noise that would hurt the pic
 
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Carroll

Senior Member
Wow.

I believe you are correct, in that the image at ImageShack shows a more detailed image. Perhaps it is because, at least on my monitor, it is a *much larger* image, at ImageShack. That is a mind-boggling shot of the stars!

I did a quick count, and I believe in the section of sky you captured, there are 2,983,765 and 1/2 visible stars! I think that might be a record of some kind. :star:

Thanks for posting!
 
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Rexer John

Senior Member
When I saw the thumbnail, it looked like it was completely black, I thought it was a joke pic of a 1st attempt.

Love all the different colours of the different types of star.
I live in an area where the sky never shows too many stars, when I did take a shot, my missus said it was a faulty camera with hot pixels and to take the camera back to the shop.
 
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