I really really want to take one of them amazing star pictures.
Been searching all over the web for a good how-to guide, found this:
Prepare The Camera
Set camera lens to widest aperture (f/2.8 is better than f/4 or f/5.6).
Set the shutter to bulb or the longest shutter speed that you can.
Set the ISO to the highest number that you can.
Set the White Balance to Tungsten.
Focus on infinity and lock the focus there.
In daylight, try out several different long exposures.
Now You Place The Camera On a Tripod (or bean bag).
Aim it at a nice familiar constellation, like Orion in the winter sky or the Big Dipper in the summer sky.
If you can, use the camera's self timer to open the shutter, and try not to move the camera during the exposure.
You will take a set of pictures at different exposures You will begin with a 1second exposure, then move to 2 seconds, 4 seconds, 8 seconds, 15 seconds and 30 seconds.
Judge And Pick The Best Images
Once the pictures are taken, you need to upload them from the camera to your computer
Open them up and use 100 percent magnification when looking at them.
As you might expect, the longer exposures will record the most stars, but at some point the stars will start to trail too much.
Really long star trails make interesting astrophotographs as a separate technique,
For now you will want to look through the series of pictures you took at different exposures and pick the one that is longest without unacceptable trailing.
Improve Your Stars Image
When you pick out the images you like the best, you can enhance them and improve the look with your simple software photo processing program that has some kind of photoshop capability.
Adjust the color balance, the brightness, contrast and color saturation until you found the best combination.
If t he picture seems "grainy" you might shrink it to a smaller size. This is usually measured in pixels. Play around with it until you find the combination that gives you the clearest picture.
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