The longer the lens you use, the shorter the shutter speed will need to be. However, don't take 30 seconds as the perfect answer for taking pictures of the stars that aren't star trails. 30 seconds of shutter speed only makes the stars look BARELY oblong, and you really only notice it if you zoom way in on the computer. I find that if you use a shutter speed that is too long, the stars in the sky start to look oblong because of Earth's rotation. Shutter speed – 30 seconds: For this photo, I shot most of the night using a 30 second shutter speed (meaning that a professional tripod is necessary to keep the camera rock solid). Milky Way in Idaho Camera Settings for Night Photography of the Milky Way If you are subscribed to this website via email and don't get the videos associated with my posts, be sure to check out the on-location video of me photographing the Milky Way here. MANY of you asked how the photo was taken, and wanted a tutorial on photographing the Milky Way. I was pretty happy (okay, fine… I was ecstatic) that so many of you said such nice things about my picture. I posted the photo on our Facebook page, and it received 1,548 likes, 177 comments, and was shared 84 times. Last week, I took a photo of the Milky Way above an old schoolhouse building in Idaho.
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