Starry Night
With the forecast for the Northern Lights over southern Scotland looking promising and with clear skies I decided to walk out to Belhaven Bay to see if I could capture this amazing light show. However lady luck wasn't with me and the Aurora didn't appear. But my efforts weren't a complete 'bust' as the starfield above Belhaven Bay was amazing and so I set the XT1 on the tripod and set about capturing the scene. Photographing at night is a challenge in itself, especially with an electronic view finder (EVF) as everything is dark. I did heed my own advice and took a torch with me to check the settings and to focus I set it to manual and infinity on the 10-24mm. The other issue is the movement of the earth. Anything above 20 seconds and the stars will blur. So to capture the stars the ISO had to be set to 3200 and the exposure around 20s @ f4. For the 'star trails' I dropped the ISO back to 200 and the aperture to f11 to give me an exposure ...