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<\/p>\nHere are Hayati\u2019s tips for snapping stunning starscapes with a phone, as well as some suggestions that could help you capture specific night sky features.<\/p>\n
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In 2023, Hayati captured a thousand-year-old\u00a0roadside inn or caravanserai in central Iran\u00a0 framing the constellation Orion in the night sky. He used his smartphone’s main\u00a0lens\u00a0set to 1x, with an f-stop of 1.8, a 30 second exposure, and an ISO 1600. He also reduced some of the noise in the image using Adobe Photoshop.<\/p>\n
How to set up the shot<\/p>\n
All modern smartphones have similar lens technology. Apple and Android phones can automatically shoot dark skies in a digital image file format called a JPEG using a \u201cnight mode\u201d setting.<\/p>\n
But Android users may opt for manual \u201cpro\u201d mode and shoot in RAW files (selected through advanced camera settings). RAW files are unprocessed images and contain more data, allowing greater flexibility when editing colors, exposure, and other details afterwards. (Apple phones shoot in automatic mode, but these settings can be adjusted through third-party apps.)<\/p>\n
Tweaking some advanced camera settings can also help. Under dark skies, the camera lens needs to take in more light to capture a clear image. The shutter speed or exposure time\u2014basically how long the camera shutter is open, should be slower to allow more illumination. Ideally the setting should be on a slow shutter speed, between 15 to 30 seconds. The lens\u2019 sensitivity to light, a setting called ISO, should be high\u2014around 800 to 3200\u2014to increase the input of light based on the scene. (Digital cameras also adjust the aperture, or how wide the camera lens remains open, but the aperture is fixed on smartphones.)<\/p>\n
While it might seem tempting to zoom in, avoid digital zoom, and instead, use the main lens (set at 1x) on the camera for the best resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Hayati\u2019s tips for snapping stunning starscapes with a phone, as well as some suggestions that could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,13548,9124,366,18,117,19,17,1029,50217,11723,432,253059,12275,253058,1240],"class_list":["post-598012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-astrophotography","tag-aurora","tag-design","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-milky-way","tag-mobile-phone","tag-phone","tag-photography","tag-sadeq-hayati","tag-smartphone","tag-star-trails","tag-stars"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116961970844997590","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}