I was driving up to Northumberland for it an managed to hit a brick on the road at 60mph. Dented alloy, blown tyre and a spare tyre limited to 50mph. Didn't want to push my luck so came back home.
Ouch.
Love these
Didn't manage to see or capture anything where I am but that was probably down to user error rather than the subject not showing up
Thank you.
Much as I'd like to be able to stay awake (let alone conscious enough to operate a camera!), I'm hard pushed to be awake after 22:00 these days. Used to be a night owl but am now very much an early bird. I'm going to try to stay up a bit later this evening on the off-chance that the skies stay clear and that the Aurora makes another good show this far South.
If I do manage anything, I hope it's half as good as these, Dale.
Thank you Nod.
I missed it last night but my son got some photos on his phone. Thought I’d go out tonight but at the moment it’s clouded over a bit
It might clear up later.
Dale cracking cracking stuff can you bung any techs lens used and all manner of help at me please,
To avoid Nods problems.'erm Nod tell me about it,i'm going to bed in a mo it' s 7pm being old is like being 6years old again.
So can read wisdom bestowed laters I have a 16-35 f4 on the wide end and long end the 4000do is ii also F 4 plus exts if it's worth honing in shootiing canon Dale like you
tell me what to do buddy I've very little night shooting under me belt and my personal assistant will have to maul stuff for me.
thanks matey
stu
Tripod is a must Stu, 2 second timer too, press the shutter, step back.
Get a foreground of some description, houses, trees, whatever, to hold the bottom of the frame in and for some context. The further away from light pollution, the better. That said, these were in our back garden, I just worked from the shadows and avoided getting the street lamps in frame. They're LED anyway, so not so bad.
My set up was a tripod, 5Div, 16-35 f4L. Open the lens wide, I was at F4, my widest, biggest aperture lens for full frame. I have a 17-70 f2.8 but that's for crop and my little M5 was flat and the R7 was set up for Kingies. I did a 1 second exposure, get that colour in. I may try a bit longer tonight, we'll see.
Focus to infinity, or if you can, a star. I just used the focus scale. Open the lens up as wide as it will go, f4 for me on the 16-35f4L. 16mm, you need to be wide too but you can zoom in a little for composition purposes. ISO was 4000. I did apply some NR. I may try 2000 tonight and a longer exposure.
I think that's about it, it's all ballpark though, depends on conditions where you are.
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