Casey615
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Hi all!
So we are planning a pretty badass 17 day vacation next week to Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado. Clearly all amazing places for a multitude of photo ops . Anyhow, I've been doing some serious researching on how to take star pictures, but have been very unsuccessful in achieving anything remotely similar to what I would like. I feel like all my settings are where they should be, I just can't put my finger on what it is I am doing wrong. Here are the details:
Canon Rebel T3 using a 75-300mm zoom lense
Manual settings are:
f/5.6
ISO: 6400
shutter speed: 5" (I tried 30, but I felt the pics turned out blurry due to the constant rotation of the stars)
I've played around with the settings, but it doesn't seem to affect it one way or another. This was taken at our farm, so the sky was crystal clear with no pollution around, on a tripod using a self timer (since I do not have a remote). Does anyone have some tips to share? What am I doing wrong?! I mean, these are downright just terrible..! (The first one the color at top right was from the self timer flashing..uhg)
So we are planning a pretty badass 17 day vacation next week to Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming and Colorado. Clearly all amazing places for a multitude of photo ops . Anyhow, I've been doing some serious researching on how to take star pictures, but have been very unsuccessful in achieving anything remotely similar to what I would like. I feel like all my settings are where they should be, I just can't put my finger on what it is I am doing wrong. Here are the details:
Canon Rebel T3 using a 75-300mm zoom lense
Manual settings are:
f/5.6
ISO: 6400
shutter speed: 5" (I tried 30, but I felt the pics turned out blurry due to the constant rotation of the stars)
I've played around with the settings, but it doesn't seem to affect it one way or another. This was taken at our farm, so the sky was crystal clear with no pollution around, on a tripod using a self timer (since I do not have a remote). Does anyone have some tips to share? What am I doing wrong?! I mean, these are downright just terrible..! (The first one the color at top right was from the self timer flashing..uhg)