Often when you talk about astrophotography, first things that come to mind are Long Exposure and High ISO. For most of the time this is true but then there are times when you cannot use both at the same time and sometimes you just have to stick to short exposure times. Sometimes, the images produced with a short exposure will not have much detail of the sky, but if you are a dark site, it is sufficient enough to capture those details. I recently visited East Cape lighthouse, which is the easternmost point of New Zealand to capture the milky way rising next to the lighthouse. This was my first time so I did not know what to expect. These beautiful beams going across the sky looked so beautiful and I wanted to capture them with the milky way rising. As usual, I set up my camera to a 20sec exposure, ISO 6400, f/2.8 and not to be surprised but the lighthouse was overexposed and I did not capture any of those beams. A bit disappointed, I tried again with slow exposure and got better. Then I thought, the reason I am not capturing the beams is because, when on […]
It was such an honor when the editor at UNO. Magazine asked me if I would like a feature in the magazine. Who could say no to it. This was going to be first magazine feature and really did not know what to write about myself, struggled to start with and then went back and asked the editor for some tips. She suggested writing a photo essay and that’s when I decided to write a short essay on my 4 year journey into astrophotography. After sorting a lot of images and proofing the article, it was finally the time when the article went under the press. Freshly printed, i got to see the final result. Wow, what an amazing feeling it is when you see an article featured in the magazine. I am too happy to not boast about it and the hard work that UNO. and guys at Fuel Agency has done to bring the latest issue to your nearest table. Below is my article feature, feel free to share and don’t forget to checkout UNO. Magazine and Fuel Agency [pdfviewer width=”100%” height=”570px” beta=”true/false”]http://amitkamble.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Uno-Issue-32-2016_Amit-Photo-Essay-2.pdf[/pdfviewer]
