Meteor shower photography

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chacharlie

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i was pretty excited about the meteor shower tonight. It was then that i realized "OH SNAPZ. PHOTOG OPP". anyway, i dont know shit about taking pictures at night, taking pictures of meteors, or taking any kind of time lapse. SO: is there anything i need to know to get some cool pictures of this apparently exciting event? is there any use for time lapse or are the meteors going too damn fast? any obvious techniques? i have a nikon d40 if that matters. if ive overlooked a thread or anything point me to it. muchos gracias!
 
k first get a tripod

or a way to make your camera not move AT ALL

then set your shutter speed really low (slow)

your apeture really high

and your iso low

thats BASICALLY how to take time lapse photography. basically.

theres alot more to the details than that though, but thatll get you through it
 
If you want star trails you don't want a wide aperature (f3.5), the higher the aperature the less light that will come in thus allowing longer shutter speed.
 
anyone know the correct way of merging say 60 photos together?
i took a whole bunch of indivual 30 sec exposures think i could overlay them or something.
 
sweeet sauce. ok i figured out shutter speed, aperture im fiddling with, and iso i havent figured out yet. so with the shutter really slow/bulb and the aperture low (3.5) the camera won shoot a dark sky, but it will shoot like a floodlight outside. it says subject is too dark. so when i figure out the ISO will that help? thanks for the help!
 
I've never done this but have you tried the overlay feature in photoshop? You might only be able to do 5 or so though. But I've never tried but you might want to look into it.

and this file will most likely be massive so hope you have a good computer
 
I've always read that f5.6 or something is good. The size of the aperture is related to the width of the star trails, I think I read that somewhere once. I heard that one that was supposed to happen soon or yesterday or whenever was supposed to be good.

All those sentences sound really awkward.
 
f/9

focus set to infinity or use a flashlight to find something in the foreground

tripod

bulb shutter speed with a remote release, set it to like 2 mins at first and then experiment, but for star trails 30 seconds won't get you much
 
So last night I took some night shots for my photo class, and I was

processing them today and whatup! Totally luckboxed and got a shot with

the meteor shower right in it. So stoked

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Hahaha that is pretty sick, great catch!

Do you feel like it's leaning a little bit to the right, though? I think because of the way the cars line up and the road falls, it seems uneven to the right. Did you play around with rotating it at all? Because just a fraction of a degree could make it even better...but I'd have to see it first.
 
i agree, it looks like a fraction to the right. its a sick photo, but if you can rotate it a little bit it would do alot.
 
also maybe consider cropping a bit off the right

there's some light pollution that turns into noise and it takes away attention from the fucking awesome shooting star

it looks like a lens flare haha but that's a sick photo
 
Not hating, but those stars dont seem right.. since when can you see stars when there is car lights pointing at you..
 
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