wow that's crazy, even hard to believe, that it is real! great shot! what kind of settings did you use for that, would like to try it too

he cant remember what settings.

but i think it would be around f/11 1/80-1/150

then again i cant understand how he could have captured all of those stars with those settings, if he used a slower shutterspeed the moon would have looked like the sun.

did you know the hubble telescope once kept its shutter open 3 months to photograph a distant galaxy?

This post was edited by doyleo on Jan 13 2009 10:47am

He's already mentioned using dodge and burn so he could easily have used those tools to darken the moon and make the stars lighter.

Not too hard.
I used BULB to hold the shutter down long enough to allow enough light to come in from the stars and the moon.
THe stars are originally quite bright, and some of them were quite dark. The moon was really bright, but you could still see the details.

Dodge/Burn used on darker stars and light stars to bring a somewhat even balance.


E/ I belive I used a higher Fstop than F/11. I think it was around 18.
I don't usually get a shot I want until after a bit of time fooling around with settings. I've found no real guide on how to get them
to look the way I want, so it's pretty much experimentation.

This post was edited by TheBlackRose66 on Jan 13 2009 12:21pm

if thats really a photography, you made yourself, its really great, but lol, it looks quite familar to things i make with ps

It's not like that everywhere. You're just lucky to live in high altitude area. In low altitude areas, the stars do not show up as well. It's very different.

I went to Arizona and the nights there are amazing. Not so much in Alaska, though, even though we have plenty of areas with no lights at all here in Alaska.

You think this is fake? Please do not call my work fake without any photos of your own posted here to prove yourself knowledgeable about anything to do with Photography.

I live in Calgary, Alberta. (Pretty much one of the highest altitude places in Canada, and I live right by the Rocky Mountains)
In Alberta, we are a farming country mostly. Meaning, with a 30 minute drive I can be driving in COMPLETE darkness. (Darker than when you close your eyes maybe!!)

And on a really clear, (Especially winter) night, you can see the stars SO good.
This picture is pretty much exactly what I see. The only difference I did was make the moon a little bit darker (About 1 sweep of 40% Dodge tool)
And the stars a bit more brighter by making some lighter and some darker with varying rate percentages of the Dodge/Burn tool.

Again, this kind of photography is quite simple. Google "Astrophotography" if you want, all you need is a big lens and a sturdy tripod and the slightest bit of
knowledge of how light travels from the stars and takes a few seconds to reach the earth from outer space.

Some people can even buy Astrophotography telescopes, which is pretty much a REALLY expensive telescope, that attaches like a lens to the camera body and can literally see
galaxies like the Milky Way.

Again, it's not hard.

That first comment is really pretty funny coming from you, seeing as you're absolutely clueless about anything to do with film.

Oh, it takes minutes, if not years for light from other stars to get to the earth, not seconds, although what that has to do with just taking a photo of the sky I don't know.

hehe from what I've learned in physics classes in highschool distance to other stars are measured in lightyears which is the distance traveled by light in a year and the closest star is like 4 something lightyears away

Not too sure how close the nearest one is but a few light years away sounds right.
It takes minutes for the light from our sun to reach the earth, let alone from another star.