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The other night, when our power was out, I took advantage of the dark and moonless night to capture a photo of the heavens, facing south. The lens, a 24mm F3.5, and the exposure was 30 seconds, ISO 100. ("When life gives you lemons" July 15th, 2015.)

The next night, I got serious to improve the image. I changed to my ultra wide 17mm F2.8 lens, upped the ISO to 6400, shortened the time to 15 seconds, to reduce star trailing, and selected this image, facing south/east. With the increased speed and larger aperture I was able to capture more stars and a bit more of the milky way. The sky was over illuminated greatly, so much that I deepened the tones, added contrast and selected a naturally pleasing color.

Feel free to download, just give me photo credit.

eugene spiegel

*Note...If you were to count the individual stars, don't get distracted half way through.

Description
The other night, when our power was out, I took advantage of the dark and moonless night to capture a photo of the heavens, facing south. The lens, a 24mm F3.5, and the exposure was 30 seconds, ISO 100. ("When life gives you lemons" July 15th, 2015.)

The next night, I got serious to improve the image. I changed to my ultra wide 17mm F2.8 lens, upped the ISO to 6400, shortened the time to 15 seconds, to reduce star trailing, and selected this image, facing south/east. With the increased speed and larger aperture I was able to capture more stars and a bit more of the milky way. The sky was over illuminated greatly, so much that I deepened the tones, added contrast and selected a naturally pleasing color.

Feel free to download, just give me photo credit.

eugene spiegel

*Note...If you were to count the individual stars, don't get distracted half way through.