Recently, I received a question from one of my students regarding what’s the right colour of the Milky Way. I think it is a good question. It also makes me want to share the answer with you all and how to get the right Milky Way colour. We have seen countless photos of the Milky Way in different colour variations, orange, magenta, blue and even white, but which one is correct? From an Astronomy perspective, the colour of the Milky Way should be yellow and orange. Like the bel

Milky Way is mesmerizing, but to photograph it, the camera settings are going to be slightly different than usual Landscape Photography. If you are new to Astrophotography, rest assured. 🙂 On this video, I will share what’s the camera gears should you use and what’s the right camera settings to photograph the Milky Way. Join our Photography Masterclass Community & improve your photography skill. Subscribe to receive photography tips & tricks and update from Grey Chow Please

One of the most frequently asked questions that I received is where to photograph the Milky Way? Well, no doubt that finding a good shooting spot for Milky Way can be difficult. The place has to be very dark with at least minor light pollution also preferably with a good foreground subject. Most people failed to capture Milky Way on their first attempt because they were shooting in a not "dark" enough place. The place has to be far from the city, with at least minor light pol

We all know that there are plenty of amazing sceneries in New Zealand that are very well known. However, this time I want to share with you all about this hidden gem, Moke Lake, a beautiful isolated lake off the beaten track. To your surprise, the place is actually quite near to Queenstown, another popularly visited place. It only took you less than 30 minutes to reach here. Note that you will drive along around 8 kilometres of unsealed gravel road before you arrive Moke Lake

If you would like to read the previous articles, you can check out following links: Complete Guide To Photograph The Milky Way – Part 1 Complete Guide To Photograph The Milky Way – Part 2 Camera Gears With technology getting more and more advanced in now a day, almost any camera and even a mobile device are able to capture the Milky Way (Of course, the image quality can be huge different especially on the Noise Control). In this article I will be focusing on DSLR camera, ther

Welcome to the Complete Guide To Photograph The Milky Way – Part 2, in Part-1, I have talked about how to Identify and locate the Milky Way, now let’s move to a more detail part, on how to plan your shoot. If you miss out the Part 1, you can find it HERE. 😉 Planning Your Shoot Finding a Milky Way can be very easy (with any APP that listed in my previous post), however, to find a good location for Milky Way especially one with a good foreground can be very challenging. First,

Galaxies are something that beautiful and mystery to people, among the billions glittering stars, Milky Way is one thing you can really see it with your naked eye and photograph with your camera. However with more and more places on earth get developed, the Light Pollutions making us slowly losing our night sky, it is estimated that around 80% of all the people live today never even get a glimpsed of the Milky Way. Milky Way no more something we can always see by just looking