I’m very excited to announce my first eBook “Nightscape”. This is not an eBook that only covers a few basics of how to photograph the night sky. I have poured nearly everything I know into this eBook, it was truly a labor of love with a passion to share with you as much knowledge as …
A big thank you to BorrowLenses for sending me these camera bodies to test out! Weight, the enemy of every hiker and backpacker. I spend my days hiking to remote locations in the mountains and desert. The weight of my gear is always a burden, even though I have minimized what I carry. Late last year when …
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Previously I showed how to achieve this effect in Photoshop: Fog Filter Effect for Stars in Photoshop, I finally got around to buying the physical fog filter from Tiffen, and I am quite pleased with the results! Buy now at B&H or Amazon Below you can see how the brightest stars are enhanced, and the lower magnitude stars are …
In a previous post The Best Lenses for Night Photography I highly recommended Rokinon lenses due to their lack of coma and low price. With the recent release of the Sigma 35mm f/1.4 lens I felt it was time to put all the fast 35mm lenses head to head and see which rises to the top. …
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My D700 after a long fridgid night of shooting Aurora timelapse I’ve made some major updates to my pages for Recommended Cameras,Recommended Lenses, and the classic blog post Night Photography Gear for any Budget. It’s been nearly a year since I first created these pages, in that time I have done gear reviews, taught many …
The 2013 Perseids meteor shower is approaching fast, I want to share with you my methods to capture an image like this from the 2012 Perseids
The annual meteor shower Eta Aquarids is this coming weekend (the night of May 4th and morning of May 5th) this is an above average meteor shower capable of 60 meteors per hour. The peak of the shower is between midnight and dawn local time. The moon will not rise until 3:00 a.m. and will …
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I’ve had a lot of inquiries about selecting camera gear to do the type night photography I do. This is a very hard question to answer, but usually it comes down to budget. So I decided to create a list of recommended gear based upon budget to help people get started. This post was harder to …
I’m often asked what the best lenses are for night photography, my recommendations may be a pleasant surprise to your wallet! What do you want in a lens for night photography? The most important factor is how much light a lens will let in so we can shoot at lower ISO’s, this means apertures of …
After my first successful attempt at shooting the Perseids meteor shower I became addicted. I have shot 2 other meteor showers since then and have more planned for the future. Photographing a meteor shower can put quite the stress on your camera, especially the battery. Cold conditions in the mountains and taking continuous 30 second …