night photography

Do you love the stars? Are you fascinated with the night sky? I know I am. 🙂

I’ve been reading a lot about night photography lately. I’ve always loved the stars and the sky and the whole concept of outer space, so naturally, I want to capture images of it. I’ve played around a few times with my camera at night, and even made a somewhat pitiful attempt at photographing star trails.

So the other night, I set out with my camera, planning to take a whole bunch of pictures of the night sky with a nearly new moon. I thought I might stack them to see the star trails, or maybe time-lapse them so I could watch the stars trek across the sky. Well, as it turned out, Mother Nature disagreed with my plans. I looked outside and couldn’t see the sky at all. It was completely obscured with clouds. Ugh.

Well, I (hopefully) put the camera on my tripod and set the timer so that it would start taking pictures a couple hours later. Surely, the sky would clear up by then… And I went to bed. Well, you can watch the time-lapse video I made and see what happened for yourself. My husband noted that it looked like the opening of a horror movie, so I set it to some spooky music. Leave me a comment and let me know what you think.