Advait Mehla

On 17/05/2020 at 22:48, KernowBeard said:

Hi Advait,

The lens used was a 70-200mm Tamron f/2.8. I would for sure recommend a prime over a zoom just because you'll get better quality however you will then lose that use of different focal lengths. I'm pretty sure these were all shot at 12800iso, F/2.8 and I took around 300 for each. Increasing your focal length will mean less exposure times as the trailing will become apparent quicker, if the lens has an f-stop of 2.8 (or even less) then that'll help counter it; as well as your camera's iso limit. It's not often you'll get nice sharpness with a wide open aperture though so I'd recommend looking up lenses that are known to be sharp at those f-stops. The skies I shot under were Bortle 4 I believe.

Hope this helps!

Thank you for the help! Unfortunately, my lens is a 70-300mm f/4.5 - 6.3 which sucks. I should probably avoid 300mm in that case because that would mean a lot less light entering. To top it off I live in bortle 8 haha. That adds another issue, because increasing the ISO too much immediately overexposes the sky like crazy. I have a combination of multiple crappy conditions, I suppose I will leave tiny and dark(relatively) targets like these for darker skies and not mess with them right now.

Hey, I know its been a while since you took these, but could you by any chance tell me some of the EXIF details, namely ISO, shutter speed and number of images stacked for these images? Also, what was the bortle of the skies, and was this on a prime lens? Would you recommend going beyond 200mm for these at the expense of aperture and shutter speed(I have 70-300 Nikon kit lens).

Thanks