Photograph--Sky at Night

Sky at Night
Well I am not really like to shoot at night but there are something that I always wan to shoot are only available at night.
Moon and Stars!

ok start with stars, just testing and trying to shoot the stars.
So didn't find a good place and time, We shoot beside a road in Cyber, I don't know where is it.
There are a bright moon and many street lamp create light that affect in stars shooting.


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(cropped)
I adjust the white balance to make it blue instead of the orange of street lamp beside. Then photoshop make it bright more and sharpen it.

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This1 just crop a bit, actually shooting stars photo like this didn't need to have telephoto lens. People use wide angle more, to get a wide space and fit in foreground like building or trees.

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Then is the moon. I wanna to shoot moon with texture long time already. This photo is my second try at 1weeks ago after get my new lens. My first try in long time ago fail to get the texture and i thought that is the lens problem.

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(shoot at 105mm and 100% cropped+sharpen in photoshop)
But after i research on it, it is not the lens problem. 18-55mm, i though it is not long enough to have the texture( of course it is still not long enough to get a big moon). Then i tried again after get 28-105mm lens. This shoot taken few days ago but not a full moon day..sad

Tips: How to shoot moon with texture
Normally when we see moon, we will think that it is not very bright, so we will use slow shutter to shoot it. But actually the moon is bright than we thought, so we just need to use fast shutter then can get the texture. I am using around 1/125 and f8 @ 105mm.



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My next target, shoot moon with texture and a clear foreground,
not just a lonely moon is dark sky.
These just some testing shoot since i didn't bring any tripod and black card or 430 flash,
and didn't find a good place with nice foreground also.

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Shooting people and moon using build-in flash to make the people "available" in the photos.


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Another shoot, thanks to nafets, the emo ka to be the model of emo photos. XD


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