Taking pictures of the stars

jcorll

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Aug 8, 2009
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Western PA
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Thanks Lee!
I am trying to get more and more into photography as I have been playing around with it for about 2 years now. Any advice is good advice for me!
 

Nightfly

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Maine
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I would use Provia 100F with a f/5.6 aperture and a wide angle to normal lens. Compose with something interesting like trees, mountains, etc. Expose from 30 minutes to a few hours. You will need a dark sky for long exposures, so no Moon or city lights. Light pollution will limit your exposure times.

Kodak E200 is a good film as well. Here is a one hour shot Pentax 67, 105mm @ f/5.6 with E200 pushed 2 stops (forgive me, most of the images on the roll required this). I would only push this film one stop for star trail use and only under very dark skies. For star trails, MF film rules!

 
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