Most smartphone cameras have around 30mm focal length equivalent to full frame cameras. 30mm focal length is not ideal for a close-up shot on solar eclipse but shooting solar eclipse… [Continue Reading]
Due to earth rotation, the Milky Way band rotates across the sky over the night. The Milky Way core rises before dawn during first half of every year starting from February… [Continue Reading]
If a smartphone is able to shoot Milky Way images, why not the Milky Way time-lapse. Creating Milky Way time-lapse on smartphones involves a lot of post-processing to edit all… [Continue Reading]
*Update: Comet mode star trails can now be achieved directly in Light Trails Android app without the need of StarStaX desktop app. Details in the link https://www.mobilephoton.com/introducing-light-trails-for-star-trails/ Photographing star trails… [Continue Reading]
In landscape photography, it is often that there is bright sky and the bright sunlight casts shadows on the objects in foreground. To capture the details of the sky and… [Continue Reading]
Smartphone camera sensors are too tiny compared to DSLR or mirrorless camera sensors. A DSLR/mirrorless camera with APSC size sensor is about 20-30 times larger than the sensors found in… [Continue Reading]
Often long exposure requires minimum movement on the camera and tripod is necessary in most of the cases. There are some situations that require only a few seconds of exposure… [Continue Reading]
Moon photography is relatively difficult with smartphone camera compared to DSLR. The main reason is the short focal length of most of the smartphone cameras that are mostly around 30mm… [Continue Reading]
To take a good and detailed night photo, it is important to understand how a camera works in capturing light. The diagram below shows how aperture (f number), shutter time (seconds)… [Continue Reading]
Crescent moon – single exposure (RAW) on OnePlus 3 (manual mode) with proper exposure on the moon. Foreground is noisy because it was underexposed and brightened during post-processing with Android… [Continue Reading]