Thank you very much for your kind words @molometer
This picture was quite simple. The f2.8 and the big field of view of the lens helped a lot.
Nice to read that you started shooting RAWs. You will love the possibility of that it affords. A little tip, try to underexposure your images a little bit when shooting in RAW. From underexposed images, you can restore much more details than from pictures with saturated areas.
Which software do you use for editing?
Thanks mate :-)
I'm using an ancient copy of Photoshop 3 but it seems to work ok still.
I'll take your advice on the underexposure tip. I'm getting my head around all this stuff and it's great fun. :-)
That should still be fine :-)
I have set up my Nikon to make a EV of -1/3.
Nice to hear that you have a great fun with all the stuff :-)
Thanks for the info Kevin. My son also showed me how to adjust the EV on my Canon 70D and I have been experimenting with it for a little while.
It sounds counter intuitive to reduce the EV for night photography but I can see how it does make sense.
Hopefully I can get at least 'one' night of clear sky ha ha.
I cross my fingers for a clear sky and a fast setting moon :-)
Maybe I expressed myself a little bit misleading. Your intuition is right, in night photography reducing the EV makes no sense, because you need every Photon that your camera can catch.
It‘s useable for all situations where you could get saturated (overexposed) areas. Also, mostly in daylight photography.
I've been out this evening doing some photos of Andromeda and by playing around with the EV settings have been getting some better images. Remember those images that I got where it looked like daytime?
I've managed to solve that issue and now at least they look like night time photos ha ha. I'm just going to edit the raw files now and see what I get. fingers crossed.
The Moon was still up when I was shooting so I don't think I got much of the Milky Way. We will see? :-)
Maybe the moon shone too brightly then. Do you remember the moon phase?
The moon can outshine the Milky Way, but if it's on the other side of the sky, you could still see it. It depends how bright the moon is.
I'm really looking forward to your pictures :-)