Programs: AA EXP, mid-tier with pretty much everyone else
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Originally Posted by Madone59
Great shot bthotugigem05. Would you mind sharing some details on the shot like exposure time and camera?
Thanks! I used a Sony a7rIV with the 12-24mm f4 ultrawide. Was sitting in J so I had some room to set everything up (and I warned the flight attendants what I'd be doing because it can look quite suspicious). I set my tripod up to get the camera closest to the window and then draped the J blanket over the whole assembly to get ambient cabin lights out of the frame.
Settings were:
15mm
30 second exposure
f4
ISO 3200
Thanks! I used a Sony a7rIV with the 12-24mm f4 ultrawide. Was sitting in J so I had some room to set everything up (and I warned the flight attendants what I'd be doing because it can look quite suspicious). I set my tripod up to get the camera closest to the window and then draped the J blanket over the whole assembly to get ambient cabin lights out of the frame.
Settings were:
15mm
30 second exposure
f4
ISO 3200
Was this setting referred to the Aurora shot? BTW, it was a great shot!
It's an amazing shot, the Aurora, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy all in one shot from a moving aircraft.
THIRTY seconds ??? Then it would be a very smooth flight. I sometimes try the same (sky shots from the plane), but I expose usually four or at most eight seconds, because even in the smoothest flights there are some minor motions which render the stars to small streaks. I use a suction cup which I paste to the window and wrap in the blanket provided by the airline to evade cabin lighting. Then I use an intervalometer to make several frames of which I can select the ones with real stars (no streaks) and stack them with image stacking software.
EDIT: Or use a yogamat cutout of the size of the aircraft window wrapped around the suction cup. This blocks all cabin lighting.
Jan 29, 2020, 6:28 am
