How To Photograph The Milky Way With A 18-55mm Kit Lens!

#astrophotography #milkywayphotography #nightphotography #spacephotography

[dogy]

But that's the key... no light pollution. There aren't a lot of places like that back east. Quite a few in the west.

[jeffreysokal]

Can't believe how high it is in the sky, much better than up north. Nice image.

[GullyBinga]

You dropped so many tips in this one short and it’s well appreciated.

[urbanexcursion]

Thanks for the quick run down! Gonna try this out soon!

[PW_Hawk]

The house reminds me of the house from interstellar, the seemingly empty environment just adds to that

[Thehackerguy]

Look up light pollution maps online to look for a good spot. A lot of farm areas are good but not perfect. If you’re out west in the US you’ll find on decently close by. As for the east coast, Spruce knob mountain in West Virginia is the best place with no light light pollution.

[HarshadKondalkar-cc]

Great Music combination with great pics

[jakubkurak]

Very good photo, but isn’t the star reduction too much?

[Duketh]

2 weeks ago we had the first cloud free sky in weeks.
I took the first ever night sky shot from my backyard, near Manila, which is extremely light polluted. I saw only 5-6 Stars with my naked eye.
Afterwards I had the whole sky full of stars. After editing I couldn't believe how nice it looked.
Can't wait to go to the beach far away from any town to take more shots.
And my cam is Canon M50 Mark II with 15-45mm kit lense.
I think the 50mm 1.8 that I just bought is too narrow.

[aucourant]

Great shot, the old rundown building makes this shot. Did you light up the building?

[Cake...]

Thanks for putting up the settings. I'll try this with my Canon R10. Worth noting also, good to have some kind of demister as the lens may fog up. Also if the camera is not weatherproof, best to wait until the warmer months to prevent moisture damaging the camera.

[lonnieclemens]

I like the 18-55mm lens or the 18-35 Nikkor lenses.

[Robin_Hood]

I do this with smartphone cameras. It's actually amazing.

[SchardtCinematic]

What Canon are you using? I got some nice photos back in the day with my T3i

[_cmi]

I decided to point my camera at the Milky Way to see what would happen. I already got the big panorama and was just messing around. Cheap camera and a cheap lens with free stacking software got me a decent picture with little effort. A short drive outside the city is all it takes.

[josh]

Great vid, I’ve been getting into Astrophotography lately and have a few cool sky only pics. How do you get an illuminated foreground when it’s pitch black otherwise?

[fire-breathingpiggy]

Have you got any advice for how to edit it like that in Photoshop?

[SilntObsvr]

Sad to say, for most of us, a dark sky area with low light pollution is a multi-hour drive -- and it's getting worse every year, as what were once remote, unpopulated areas become filled with money-making enterprises that feel the need to operate night lighting that isn't controlled to put the light where it's actually needed.

[Kimberly-ptjx]

Is it possible to take photos like this with a cheapo digital mirror less camera? I can change some settings but not many.

[Geness-Edits]

When I take a photo using these settings, the image is almost entirely white with very little detail.