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Balancing the moonlight and stars in a photo

Balancing the moonlight and stars in a photo

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Balancing the moonlight and stars in a photo

I'm working with a Canon 5D and I have a 70 to 200 millimeter f/4 lens on here. Nice long lens, because that mountain range is pretty far out there that I'm shooting. The exposure settings that I came up with, and this is after a bit of trial and error. When it comes to this type of photography, you're going to try out a lot of things and make a lot of mistakes, and then come to the point where you got the exposure as you want. So, what I came up with was F7.1, and pretty good amount of depth of field. The camera is set to ISO 320. And, my exposure is set to bulb. Now, bulb means that I can make the exposure as long or as short as I want it to. Now, you can press and hold down the button on the camera to keep the shutter open, but that's generally not a good way to do it, because you may introduce shake in to the camera. Not may, you will. So, a better way to do it is to use a cable release, and that's what I've got here. Now, this cable release is pretty cool, because not only does…

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