Shutter Speed: Set the shutter speed for the maximum shutter speed you can use with your wide-angle lens choice to keep the stars as points of light. What an incredible experience to photograph the Milky Way and from that moment on, I was hooked! When I located the same stars on my screen, the image was filled with more stars than my naked eyes could see! I felt like one of those points of lights in the sky, one point among so many, infinite yet small at the same time. I stared into the sky until I found two bright stars with only a few stars between them. Anyone watching would have thought I was a bit strange as I kept looking from the sky to the screen. I pressed the shutter and a beautiful image appeared on my camera’s LCD screen, a silhouette of a bristlecone pine with beautiful colorful gasses of the Milky Way in the background.Īmazed at the intense colors and abundant stars I tried to figure out how there could be so many stars. Setting up a shot, I found a tree to add some foreground interest to the composition. The stars shone brightly due to the high elevation. I had previously seen an image of the full moon at night with a few stars and did some photography with moonlight, however this evening the absent moon made for a dark sky.Ĭrawling out of my sleeping bag, the blistering hot day turned icy cold at 11,000 feet elevation. One summer long ago, camping in the bristlecone pine forest in the White Mountains of California, I decided to do some night photography.
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