my name is mwd: photos

Where I live there is a lot of light pollution, so whenever I’m in a more sparsely populated part of the country I can’t resist trying to photo some stars. Being late May, the sky isn’t really dark enough, but given it was going to be a clear night I set my alarm and got up at the mid-point between sunset and sunrise to see what I could see.

The moon was bright, so this is a shot of the sky away from the moon. Despite the brightness of the sky, I still got some stars, and if I squint a bit on the longer exposures I can tell myself I can see some traces of the Milky Way.

This is one area where the A7RII’s high pixel count works against me. I can’t take as long an exposure as the usual rule of thumb says, as I still get star trails. So I have to go shorter and boost the exposure, but a little noise is preferable (to me) than trailed stars.