The Charleston Center for Photography

This workshop will begin with a classroom session on night photography including discussion about photographing pinpoint stars, star trails, the Milky Way, the moon, comets and meteors, and more.

We’ll have dinner as a group and proceed to a location to be determined to escape the city lights and wait for the stars to come out.

On Saturday, we’ll meet in the classroom again and learn how to edit our night photography images the right way. This is an intermediate workshop. General knowledge of your cameras’ manual mode as well as the buttons and dials for changing aperture, shutter speed, ISO are required.

If the weather doesn’t pan out for us Friday evening, we have made Saturday evening available as a makeup outing. This is an additional option with no extra fee.

Things You’ll Learn

• How to photograph pinpoint stars and star trails
• How to photograph the moon, lunar eclipses, comets and meteors
• How to photograph the Milky Way
• Equipment necessary for night photography
• Optional equipment for increased success
• How to optimize your images in Adobe Lightroom
• How to combine images in Adobe Photoshop
• How to deal with artifacts and noise
• Best lenses for night photography
• Extra software that will enhance your images including Topaz DeNoise, Starry Landscape Stacker, and Starstax. (None required for participation in the workshop…demo only)