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[Pola]

Hi All 🙂 

I recently purchased a new lens - SEL14F18GM FE 14mm F1.8 GM and I was trying to do some shots of Milky Way.

Can you give me some honest feedback on attached photo? What can I improve? 

Thank you! 🙂 

[TrekRover]

Hi Pola! Congratulations on getting that nice lens and nice shot. 

I've only taken a few milky way shots myself, but some things I found helpful was:

From a photography standpoint:

• Find the darkest place possible. I find that building and city lights can add light pollution.
• Keep your aperture wide open
• Test out different shutter times. With a wide aperture like f1.8 you will not need long shutter times.
  • There is an app called Photo Pills that can help you find the best shutter exposure duration for your camera and lens.
• Test out different ISO levels.
• Use a tripod and hope there are no vibrations or wind around the tripod

From a post processing standpoint:

• Lightroom or other editing software can help correct lighting and colors.
• You can test modifying exposure and color settings. I did a quick edit of your photo attached.

 

[Pola]

@TrekRover thank you for your response and picture 🙂 I'll try have some fun with lightroom

[tonygale]

@Pola congrats on the great lens, I agree with what @TrekRover said. Boosting contrast would help I think. It does feel like a darker place, and maybe a longer exposure (although if it gets too long you will get blur)

The milky way is a tough thing to shoot, good job!