Hello.
I'm Trevor and am a long time photographer but an absolutely newbie at astrophotography.
Gear:
Canon 7DmkII with a Canon 500mm F4.
Canon T5I (future astro mod)
Intervalometer should be here tomorrow.
iOptron Skyguider pro with 2 weight bars and 2 weights
I have a Player one guide camera and guide scope but won't break them out until the weather is nicer.
Svbony dew heater for the lens.
and a carbon fibre tripod.
I've been a photographer on and off since the mid 80's (yup I'm old). I started getting more serious with wildlife photography about 15 years ago. I started astrophotography because of a self imposed project (I really seem to like pain apparently) where I use my 500mm lens to shoot as many forms of photography using that lens without it being blatantly obvious that it was shot with a long wildlife lens. It's called "The 500 project"......yup creative names are us!
I've only been shooting a little over a month.
My first attempts at the Orion nebula I followed all of the settings I'd found online and I was running into an issue of a completely blown out core so I lowered my iso and turned out to be my best Orion yet. Now I just need to experiment more and get a lot more data to see where I can go from here.
Sorry for the long read and congrats if you made it through it. lol
Bortle 4 skies
Canon 7DkmII and Canon 500mm F4
Ioptron skyguiderpro
44 30sec lights at ISO 360.
Orion2 by Trevor Baldwin, on Flickr
I'm Trevor and am a long time photographer but an absolutely newbie at astrophotography.
Gear:
Canon 7DmkII with a Canon 500mm F4.
Canon T5I (future astro mod)
Intervalometer should be here tomorrow.
iOptron Skyguider pro with 2 weight bars and 2 weights
I have a Player one guide camera and guide scope but won't break them out until the weather is nicer.
Svbony dew heater for the lens.
and a carbon fibre tripod.
I've been a photographer on and off since the mid 80's (yup I'm old). I started getting more serious with wildlife photography about 15 years ago. I started astrophotography because of a self imposed project (I really seem to like pain apparently) where I use my 500mm lens to shoot as many forms of photography using that lens without it being blatantly obvious that it was shot with a long wildlife lens. It's called "The 500 project"......yup creative names are us!
I've only been shooting a little over a month.
My first attempts at the Orion nebula I followed all of the settings I'd found online and I was running into an issue of a completely blown out core so I lowered my iso and turned out to be my best Orion yet. Now I just need to experiment more and get a lot more data to see where I can go from here.
Sorry for the long read and congrats if you made it through it. lol
Bortle 4 skies
Canon 7DkmII and Canon 500mm F4
Ioptron skyguiderpro
44 30sec lights at ISO 360.
Orion2 by Trevor Baldwin, on Flickr
