On October 26 at 7:00 p.m., Glenn Randall will present An Introduction to Milky Way Photography. 

Recent advances in digital-camera technology have made it possible to capture the magnificent night sky as we see it, with no apparent movement of the stars. His talk will focus on techniques for planning, shooting, and processing photos of the glowing heart of our galaxy. During his lecture he will explain how to use Photo Ephemeris Web on a laptop or desktop to plan when and where to go to shoot the brightest and most interesting part of the Milky Way. He’ll teach students what lens to choose, how to focus at night, and what camera settings to use to achieve correct exposure, keep noise under control, and reveal the largest number of stars. 

One of the biggest challenges in night photography is creating images with clean, richly detailed land as well as sky. Glenn will discuss several strategies for holding detail in the land, including how to make two exposures of the same scene, one for sky and one for land, how to prepare each image in Lightroom, then how to combine the images in Photoshop. I will demonstrate these techniques using the latest versions of Lightroom LrC and Photoshop CC.