Night Photography

I'v been been fascinated for some time with the night sky and astronomy, long before I even embarked on photography. Something fascinating about looking at the night sky and is surprising how much you can see when you know where to look. I'm now looking at capturing this through my camera.

I have recently found two photographers that have given me some inspiration and techniques into what is possible with night photography.

The first is a photographer with the screen name of Dangerous Dave, you can view his flickr webpage here to see his work. He captures deep space images through a telescope and some of the sights he captures are quite amazing . Another photographer I'v been looking at is Ben Canales and you can see his work here , he captures images using a SLR camera and lenses in a landscape style.

I have now started a project which I will do for the rest of the winter on clear nights capturing the night sky and seeing what star scape's I can achieve. Below are a few example from the project so far.


Bodmin Moor. Travelled to the Moors last weekend with my friend Mairead, she's quite familiar with this part of the Moors and offered to drive me hear. She showed me this cool location where you have all these rocks piled on top of one another, not quite sure how they formed but there make for a fascinating foreground for the star scapes.


The moon from my back garden taken with my Canon 400mm mounted on a tripod.