New camera

[Renevatia]

Re: New camera

I like the contrast on the street one.
What is that dot moving in bottom left of your third pic? a flashing light on a plane?

for the first pic, you could always try to manual focus, which is more reliable in low light unless you have one of those epic lenses that specializes in low light focusing or ultrasonic lenses.

[darkshark]

Re: New camera

Autofocus wouldn't work on the tree picture at all, it was literally pitch black and the camera AF couldn't lock onto anything. Fstop on that picture was at 29 so it should have been able to focus on the stars too, but the sky moves just enough in 2 minutes to blur the stars out.

Trying to get things right asap because the lunar eclipse starts in 4 hours haha.

** yeah the dotted line in the 3rd pic is a plane.

[Renevatia]

Re: New camera

Autofocus wouldn't work on the tree picture at all, it was literally pitch black and the camera AF couldn't lock onto anything. Fstop on that picture was at 29 so it should have been able to focus on the stars too, but the sky moves just enough in 2 minutes to blur the stars out.

Trying to get things right asap because the lunar eclipse starts in 4 hours haha.

** yeah the dotted line in the 3rd pic is a plane.

with a t2i i found that f20+ is literally a joke in terms of clarity
so i wouldnt suggest using such high f stop, but it looked like you are far enough to focus on both star and the tree. anything at above like 15m is literally just less than 1% difference in image distance. I'd go around f/8-13 in that picture.
Try to focus on some really far away building and then switch off the AF, take pic.

If you have a laptop, do remote shooting with kit usb should help. most of the shake comes from when you hit the shutter button.

btw I still havent found the shutter hold option on my t2i for bulb, do i REALLY have to hold it down lol...

PS omfg lunar eclipse why i still sit here. I need to get ready for this shit too. Why didnt anyone gimme a headsup fff.

[darkshark]

Re: New camera

I have a remote so I don't even touch the camera, no shakes there. Lowering to f8 would seriously cut down on some exposure time too, so that might work well for the stars.

I DID GIVE YOU A HEADS UP. lol
I might have to drive out somewhere up on a hill or something, the moon is supposed to dip down to the horizon and look EFFING HUGE...AND RED. Should make for some nice pictures.

[Renevatia]

Re: New camera

I have a remote so I don't even touch the camera, no shakes there. Lowering to f8 would seriously cut down on some exposure time too, so that might work well for the stars.

I DID GIVE YOU A HEADS UP. lol
I might have to drive out somewhere up on a hill or something, the moon is supposed to dip down to the horizon and look EFFING HUGE...AND RED. Should make for some nice pictures.

hopefully i can see it here in vegas, not sure about any hills around here, unless i drive up a 4500ft mountain about 40min from here, really not sure if i am up for that at 4am in the morning.