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6/22/2025, 2:14:22 PM
>>4438529
Basic suggestions, really.
You need to be taking dark frames to clean up those hot pixels (the red and purple shit). Not difficult to look up how to do it.
You have some heavy coma in the periphery and the corners of your frame. Some lenses cope better than others with this, but I'm guessing you're shooting wide open on a 50mm to 24mm prime lens. Stop down to f/2.8 and you'll probably fix most of it. Because you're be narrowing your aperture to address this, you will either need to boost your ISO (which will make things look marginally worse across the frame), or get used to a technique called stacking. Also not super hard to do if you just look it up.
Your composition is very bland. You just have some random shit in the right side of the frame and then a generic piece of the sky as your subject. Nothing wrong if you're just doing it because stars and sheeit are cool, but as a photograph it's just plain boring. Nightscape astrophotography (what you're kind of doing) is more whole when you incoporate an interesting foreground. Doing this also requires you to stack frames because getting the sky and foreground properly exposed in one shot is borderline impossible, not to mention getting it in focus at f/2-4.
Buy a wide or ultrawide prime lens for as little money as you can be assed spending (because this shot is rather tight for milkyway shots), and get familiar with stacking frames. That alone will up things tenfold.
Basic suggestions, really.
You need to be taking dark frames to clean up those hot pixels (the red and purple shit). Not difficult to look up how to do it.
You have some heavy coma in the periphery and the corners of your frame. Some lenses cope better than others with this, but I'm guessing you're shooting wide open on a 50mm to 24mm prime lens. Stop down to f/2.8 and you'll probably fix most of it. Because you're be narrowing your aperture to address this, you will either need to boost your ISO (which will make things look marginally worse across the frame), or get used to a technique called stacking. Also not super hard to do if you just look it up.
Your composition is very bland. You just have some random shit in the right side of the frame and then a generic piece of the sky as your subject. Nothing wrong if you're just doing it because stars and sheeit are cool, but as a photograph it's just plain boring. Nightscape astrophotography (what you're kind of doing) is more whole when you incoporate an interesting foreground. Doing this also requires you to stack frames because getting the sky and foreground properly exposed in one shot is borderline impossible, not to mention getting it in focus at f/2-4.
Buy a wide or ultrawide prime lens for as little money as you can be assed spending (because this shot is rather tight for milkyway shots), and get familiar with stacking frames. That alone will up things tenfold.
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