Star light, star bright..

Day 16

What a day! It's 11:15pm. I have just sat down, after all but giving up on today's pic. The young fella has has been calling me into his room non-stop since he went to bed... an hour late. At 10:45 he did me the favor of falling asleep. I had been trying to get some self portraits with the dog, but she was not co-operating and I was distracted trying to listen out for the young fella. His mum has gone out to gallivant meet up with some old school mates for dinner, and he was not happy about that at all. Whenever he disobeyed and I raised my voice, he'd then mope and start saying his mantra "I want my mummy"..

I had almost given up, when I walked out for a breath of fresh air, looked up and saw (what I assume is) Betelgeuse and the belt of Orion. Hmm. I have never photographed the stars before... or the moon for that matter!

So I set my camera on a tripod, with remote shutter release (an old YN602 with shutter cable), opened my 35mm f/2 to f/2, and iso at 200. I set shutter speed to 20s. And here you have it! JPEG with minimal levels adjustment in PS. I was impressed :) at 30s the star trails were remarkable but the sky was too messy/hazy. Even at 20s the trails are still visible. Awesome. Makes me keen to try out those image stacker software.. but apart from the one or two times I might try this sort of thing, I can't see it being of much use. Besides, I sold my fisheye lens :)

So that's today for ya.

Time to watch a DVD and hit the sack.