I am happy with my progress so far and have learned lots about astronomy as well as how to shoot photographs at night, having almost no experience in the field of photography, I believe I have started to make considerable progress in developing some good quality images of the night sky. I am starting to understand that this type of photography is difficult to do, as conditions are always changing, elements such as the moon, the length of the days and also the temperature and cloud cover, all impact on my ability to shoot a good photograph of the stars at night.
The first test shoot gave me an excellent opportunity to get out there and see what it's like after dark and the results I got were of a good quality considering I didnt have a great deal of knowledge about night photography.
The next stage is to do many more shoots after dark to see if I can capture a decent star rotation and foreground subject to go with it.
Just before going out to shoot some new material, I decided to visit the PCAD library to see if there were any books which could possibly give me a bit more information about how to shoot some night photographs which include the stars above.
I loaned out the following books:
Lighting the Landscape: Roger Narboni - Berkhauser 2004
The Complete Guide to Night & Low Light Digital Photography: Micheal Freeman -Ilex 2008
Although unfortunately after flciking through the books, I simply couldn;t find anything which was relevant to the star photographs which I was shooting, I saw many good images which featured foreground interest at night, but they simply weren't very relevant to my search for information.
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