How to Polar Align a Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer for Astrophotography
An accurate polar alignment is key to being able to take longer deep sky astrophotography exposures and to capture more information in your images. It’s important to take your time and get it as accurate as possible. Polar alignment, leveling…
How to Set Up the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer for a Deep Sky Astrophotography Shoot
When I first started out in deep sky astrophotography, I made myself a checklist to set up my equipment for an astrophotography shoot. If I didn’t do this, I knew I would forget a step and have to start over. …
Learning Deep Sky Astrophotography – Camera Settings
The camera settings will for Deep Sky Astrophotography will be different from other types of photography as you will be taking multiple images of a dim or invisible subject at night and then stack the images together. Camera Settings for…
Easy Flower Macro Reflection Lighting Set Up
A reflection is a great way to add depth and interest to your macro photographs. In this blog, I’ll show you a quick and cheap set up for reflections in close up photography. For this reflection photograph I used a…
Learning Deep Sky Astrophotography Tutorial
What is Deep Sky Astrophotography? It is photographing deep space objects like nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters. These objects are very faint or even invisible to the human eye but can create beautiful images when photographed using astrophotography techniques that…
Learning Deep Sky Astrophotography – Planning Your Composition
Composing faint or invisible deep sky astrophotography targets can be problematic. Fortunately, there are tools and techniques that can help with composing your target. There are two good and free tools you can use during planning to compose your image…
Clear Outside – A Terrific Weather App for Nature Photographers
I discovered the Clear Outside Weather App while researching Astrophotography apps, but it turns out that it is a really good weather app for anyone who photographs outdoors. Information in the Clear Outside App Clear Outside is a cool little…
Deep Sky Astrophotography – What you need to know about Light Pollution
Many deep sky astrophotographers photograph stellar objects right from their own backyard. There are several good reasons to photograph from your backyard: Astrophotography can require a large amount of equipment and set up time You may only have a short…
Create Colorful Oil and Water Macro Photographs using your Tablet as a Background
If you’re stuck indoors or just looking for a creative photography idea, give oil and water macro photography a try. It’s easy and can be done with supplies and equipment you should already have at home. Oil and water macro…
Deep Sky Astrophotography – Planning for The Weather
Partly cloudy skies are terrific for landscape photography and cloudy skies could be great for macro photography so you don’t blow out your subject. Not so for astrophotography where “Clear Skies” is a common salutation between astrophotographers. Partly cloudy skies…
