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Published March 9, 2012 | Firstly to get a great photo of the northern light require a lot of experience especially if you are using a film camera, saying this some digital cameras can capture a nice image using some basic setting.
- Use a tripod. You need to hold your camera very steady so hand holding your cameras will more than likely result in a blurred or less sharp image
- Use a camera remote control or a shutter release cord. If you do not have any of these items you could try use you cameras timer. You are trying to photograph in the dark so even the slight amount of camera shake from you pressing the shutter button could result in a poor quality image, this is why remotes or shutter release cords are recommended,
- Select a ISO from 400 up. The desired ISO setting all depends on how bright the northern lights are. Sometime an ISO of 1600 can result in some great images.
- A wide-angle lens is best lens type for this activity if you are using a DSLR.
- Shutter Speed and aperture
- Full Manual: Set the dial on your DSLR camera to "manual mode". Use an aperture of f/4 to f/5.6 and a shutter speed of about 30 seconds. If you are using a wide angle lens this aperture setting should give you enough depth of field to make it appear as if the foreground and the background are in focus.
- Aperture Priority: Set you camera top Aperture Priority Mode. start with a aperture of f/4 and take a few practise shots increasing the aperture slightly to see which test image give s the best results.
- It’s dark and there is very little to focus on so your auto focus on your lens will probably find it difficult so it is recommended that you manually focus your camera lens.
- Set you camera to a single focus point, or single metering point. Normally central metering is recommended.
- Set the white balance to bulb mode.
So our camera is not setup but this does not guarantee you will get a great image. First you need to take a few test pictures. If the results are an images that are too dark open you aperture and increase your ISO. If the image is too bright try reducing your shutter speed or aperture. Continue taking test images and adjusting you camera one setting at a time until you get the desired exposure.
Note : Long shutter speeds are not recommended because they can cause the image to appear blurry.
Published March 9, 2012 | The biggest space weather storm in five years was heading towards with the possibility of been visible over Ireland. Unfortunately the Irish weather was not co-operates as that skies were not so clear.
This solar storm was the result of a massive X5-class solar flare released from the sun
For watching an event like you need to be as far north as possible. But is the strength of this particular CME from the Sun are strong enough this type of event may be visible further south. So pick a location with a dark clear sky.
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Astronomy Ireland
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Published February 14, 2012 | Solving Problems with Indoor Photography
What’s the secret to indoor photography?
When using my camera indoors why do my photos blur?
Problem with Indoor Photography
The biggest problem with indoor photography is the available lighting. Composing a shot and believe that there is adequate lighting is the digest mistake made by most amateur photographers when taking pictures indoors. In automatic modes the shutter speed of most camera will slows down to compensate for the low light conditions. The problem that this causes is due to the slow shutter speed if movement occurs the image will be blurred. Also because the scene is often to dark the end results are often an underexposed imagers.
You can’t easily replicate the same lighting condition indoors as the day light conditions outdoors , because you may not have access to the expensive lighting equipment.
Indoor photography challenges us to seek out alternate means of lighting so that we can get our indoor photography sharp and clear.
- Take a look at the room. Where is the light coming from? Where are the shadow?
- Is there anything in the room you can reflect light off the room. This can be both good and bad. White ceilings and wall can reflect light from a powerful flash to help brighten a dull scene, but if there is a glass windows or door behind you subject that flash light can bounce back at you giving a horrid glare in your image.
- Can you move any objects light laps etc. to improve the lighting.
- If you are using the inbuilt flash on your camera make sure you are not too far back from your subjects. If you subjects are out of you flash range then you need to turn off you flash or it will only darken your subjects.
- When you are in a situation where your camera flash does not have the range/power you need to turn off the flash and adjust your camera to cope with the environment. This is where your cameras ISO setting are required. ISO controls your cameras light sensitivity. The more sensitive to light your camera is the easier indoor photography gets. Most cameras allow you even in automatic mode to manually adjust your ISO setting. There is no one ISO setting recommendation for indoor photography because the amount of light can differ from one room to another, so take several test photo increasing the ISO setting between each image and use the display screen on your digital camera to determine which ISO setting gives the best results
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Published January 23, 2012 | 
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Published January 23, 2012 | In simple term HDR is a techniques to get more contrast in pictures. A normal cameras take pictures at a single exposure level with a limited contrast range. This results in loss of detail among some bright or dark areas of an image. Through HDR you can compensates for the loss of detail by taking multiple pictures at different exposure levels, then stitching them together to get a single picture (A HDR image).
Published September 29, 2011 | The secret to sunset photos is to underexpose your image. By underexposing your image you can get the strong colours to give you a really amazing image
Setting up your camera. First set the camera to aperture priority mode, then chose the aperture you want and the camera will select the matching shutter speed. e.g. try aperture F5.6 and take the shot. Then look at your shutter speed, because you were in aperture priority mode that camera auto selected the shutter speed. Now change your camera over to manual mode put in the same aperture and set the shutter speed to double the value the camera auto chose for the previous shoot previous shutter. Take another photo and the results should be a image with more stronger colours.
Published September 29, 2011 | One of the most important things to know when taking photos in Aperture..
The smaller the F number the bigger the hole that lets light into your camera sensor. So the larger the F number the small the hole which results in less light getting into your camera.
A small F number means that you can take very fast photos, but you have a very short dept of field. Good for Portrait photography, digiscoping where you want to focus on a specific subject.
What is Aperture Priority? Effect on Shutter Speed, Depth of Field and Digiscoping
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