Thanks. Your biggest problem might be trying to figure out how to focus
if the scene is extremely dark. I was fortunate in having remembered
that my last shot the day before was at about 30-40 feet at 150mm. I
figured 14mm would be good to go for a near hyperfocal effect if focused
at 30 feet and it was. If you're going to do the night sky and have no
bright objects at suitable distances to focus on you might want to
preset the camera for hyperfocal use. Pre-focusing at about 20 feet
should take care of you from 12 to 25mm with near focus ranging from
about 4 feet at the short end and 10 feet at 25mm and both, of course,
covering infinity. That's assuming a resolution of 50 lines/mm or good
enough for a largish print. If doing web images only it will be much
less stringent.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/13/2013 2:20 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Chuck Norcutt <
> chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=4354>
>>
>> This is the backyard at my daughter's house in High Point, North
>> Carolina the morning after I shot the soccer game. It wasn't in my plan
>> to submit this as the "night shot" but when I stumbled down the stairs
>> in the early morning for some coffee I could see this scene depicted
>> from the many windows along the back side of the house.
>>
>>
> Gorgeous. Well worth the effort, sir. I'm going to try some night-sky
> photography a little in the coming weeks - there are places I can go south
> of town that are away from the light pollution of Gary, the steel mills,
> and Chicago, and also away from the air pollution of the mills.
>
> Very nice entry.
>
>
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