MRPS The Night Sky Presentation 20210510 - Stan Mansas

Step 4: Method
On location?
Setup your gear, it’s a good idea is to lay down a towel under your tripod it will catch anything you drop
Using apps adjust your setup: Frame your foreground and mid/distant objects so they’re where you want them in
relation to where the subject will be/traverse
Find and Focus: Shooting at night it is very difficult to find targets and get accurate focus. Generally we need to
understand the sky and to find infinity focus to shoot the milky way
How to find the Milky Way:
Having a basic understanding of astronomy certainly helps us with nightscape Photography.
As mentioned earlier, usually some portion of the milky way is visible all year round, we have to understand that the best
images are those that focus on what is known as the Milky Way Core. In the Southern Hemispheres we find the core,
which is the thickest and brightest part of the milky way in the constellations of Scorpio and Sagittarius.
As mentioned there’s amazing software available for desktop and mobiles which for any given day, month and year it will
tell us where everything is located in the day or night sky. Stellarium (free) and Photopills (Paid) are great.
Background Image: Stellarium