For some reason is stood out at me because (a) someone taking some pretty decent time lapse photos of stars didn't feel worthy of being "national news*", but more so (b) it got me thinking why I hadn't tried to replicate such photos before myself.
After a quick google about, one of the first links I stumbled upon was this explanation, on a blog called
This explanation (the first option described in the above blog) will likely be the process I will follow, and seems to be broken into four simple steps:
Put camera on a tripod, into Manual, put it on a large aperture (f4) and put the shutter onto bulb (admittedly this is a couple of steps in one, but oh well);
Put the camera on a high ISO, 400 - 800. I'll probably try 400 to start with;
Put on Manual Focus, and set it to infinity (8) - (double check though that any items in the foreground are also in focus before starting); and finally
Using a remote shutter cable, take a photo from anywhere between 5 and 30 mins (allegedly 30 mins gives quite a "crowd pleasing" result.
It seems to be a relatively straight forward process, which I will be sure to try next time I am camping or in a quiet place away from light "pollution".
So, has anyone else given this a try? Any tips?
On a somewhat related topic, I also stumbled across a Norwegian photographer called Terje Sorgjerd who is also in the business of taking amazing shots of quite different forms of light (stars, lightning from volcano's, the northern lights, etc)
If you have 5 minutes, I strongly suggest you watch the following videos he has created using a time lapse capture method. Amazing stuff:
*by national news, I mean "international news"... this exact story seems to have been repeated in every second online news site across Australia and the UK. If anything, it really shows we need a few more news corporations, who employ a few more real journalists! See below links for a small example!
