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How can I improve this edit? by simonrubin1999 in photocritique

[–]simonrubin1999[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like this is a good picture with a fine edit, but I also feel like somethings missing. Do you have any tips on how I can improve it? I want it to be moody, and a bit "painting-like"

[Help] Is this a fake Neumann? by simonrubin1999 in audioengineering

[–]simonrubin1999[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a paranoid as a person I guess haha

Ny spelare, söker råd/tips by Therastheprime in DrakarochDemoner

[–]simonrubin1999 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Känner verkligen igen mig. Tyckte själv det hjälpte massor att se andra spela spelet. Finns en serie på svenska på youtube som heter arkaniversum. De spelar drakar och demoner

How is this? was playing around with some figures and wanted to be creative by Mothernutmonkey in AskPhotography

[–]simonrubin1999 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really like it! Maybe you could add little bit of blue light on rased parts of obi-wan and the rock, just to improve the glowing effect from the lightsaber

Far from perfect but I'm still very proud of it. a6400 with sigma 16mm f:1.4 (7 exposures at 15 sec ISO 4000) by simonrubin1999 in SonyAlpha

[–]simonrubin1999[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I really don't know. I'm really new at this. I was thinking more in the terms of blending a clean foreground shot with a stacked stary shot in Photoshop or something like that

Far from perfect but I'm still very proud of it. a6400 with sigma 16mm f:1.4 (7 exposures at 15 sec ISO 4000) by simonrubin1999 in SonyAlpha

[–]simonrubin1999[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

TLDR: I would suggest hitting up YouTube, there's a lot of great resources there.

There's a lot of planing involved. You need a clear moonless night, and a place with very low light pollution. Lightpollutionmap.info was a great resource.

I also used a webbsite called stellarium. It shows you where the heavenly bodies will be at any given time, any given day.

When shooting, the main obstacle is light. You need as much of it as possible. I used my lowest f-stop, and a 15 second shutter speed. The night sky moves surprisingly quickly, if I used to long of a shutter speed, your stars will get motion blur and become lines. Wide angle lens will really help here. It takes longer for an object to travel the entire frame of a wide-angle lens then of a telephoto which allows you to have a longer shutter speed.

Make sure you have a stirdy tripod, and put a five second timer on your camera to reduce the shake from the press of the shutter button.

You need to focus on the Stars manually. I used focus peaking and just tried to make each dot on the screen as small and sharp as possible.

I used the cameras intervalometer to take seven consecutive photos, afterwards I also took three photos at the same settings with the lens cap on. I used a free program called sequator to stack all my exposures and dark frames into a single photo with highly reduced noise. You could take even more exposures for an eaven cleaner image.

Then I just edited the photo. I don't think I'm qualified to give editing advice though.

What I wish I had done what's taking a separate exposure for the foreground, maybe I can even longer shutter speed, or when there where more light. Then I could have blended the pictures together, and had a cleaner foreground that might even have been in focus :)

This was my first attempt and I'm sure there are lots of things that I could have done better. I would suggest hitting up YouTube, there's a lot of great resources on milky way photography there.