If you’d asked me 5 years ago if I thought a smartphone would ever be able to capture a decent image of the Milky Way my answer would have been a resounding no. With tiny sensors and small lenses that aren’t capable of guiding much light onto the sensor there’s no way they’re ever going […]
As you may very well know, long exposure photography is a method by which you expose a sensor to a scene for an extended period of time. But in this 15-minute video, PiXimperfect asks the question, then isn’t a video just a long exposure? Well, not really, but you can use a video to make […]
These two nearly identical star trail photos by New York City street photographer Eran Bendheim, shot one year apart, show something that’s really difficult to capture visually: the impact of COVID-19 on air traffic.
Las Vegas-based photographer and rock climber Luke Rasmussen (AKA PhLuke) visited Looking Glass Rock outside Moab, Utah, and shot this beautiful long-exposure photo of himself climbing up and rappelling down the rock while wearing colorful LED lights.
My Huawei P30 Pro arrived at 4:30 pm on April 6th, and I knew the night sky in Mersing would be amazing for me to try out this low-light beast. I had read a lot of good reviews on P30 Pro, but I was still skeptical, so I booked a room at my regular resort […]
During an earthquake, a camera capturing a long exposure of the night sky can capture star trails as seismograms that records the motion of the ground. Back on January 20th, a 6. 7-magnitude earthquake rocked Coquimbo, Chile.
NASA astronaut and photographer Donald Pettit recently posted some of his stunning star trail photography taken aboard the International Space Station (ISS). [Read More]
Photographer Mark Humpage went outside his home in the UK this weekend and captured this amazing photo showing the International Space Station (ISS) streaking across the sky four separate times. Quadruple passes of the ISS over the UK only happens a few times a year, and Humpage was fortunate to have clear skies during this […]
For the past several years, German freelance photographer Nikita Roytman has been working on a personal photo project in which she does landscape astrophotography in the style and mood of the 19th-century Pictorialism movement.
Here’s an 8-minute tutorial from Nature TTL and astrophotographer Matthew Saville about how to photograph star trails. Considered by some as the holy grail of astrophotography, this technique harnesses the rotation of the Earth for captivating images.