Ancient Light // Capturing Trails of Starlight Using Analogue Film
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- In this video, I demonstrate how to take analogue photographs of the night sky, using an analogue film SLR camera.
Here is my series of Ancient Light photographs, taken from 2017-2020.
www.melaniek.c...
You can find out more about astrophotography and star trails here:
earthsky.org/a...
Here are links to the high ISO film that I use (available from most photographic suppliers/ebay):
www.ilfordphot...
Here is some advice on how to use Ilford Delta 3200, as well as push/pulling the film.
shootitwithfil...
This is a similar camera to the one I use. They usually go for about £30 on Ebay, or cheaper.
www.filmcamera...
The wide angle lens Prinzflex auto reflex 28mm f2.8. You can see a description here:
www.worthpoint...
If you take photographs using these tutorial, please contact me on my social media links below to show your results!
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@@MelanieKing He makes less noise than usual... ;)
gotta love the streaks the stars leave as they pass by~ thanks for sharing this vid! I should hurry and do some night shots before the midnight sun is fully upon us here 😁
I'd love to see the results!
@@MelanieKing I'll share for sure!
Found your channel from Sam - this is really cool! I did photography for my undergrad. Not done too much recently due to quarantine, but this is a great idea for something to do whilst in lockdown! I'd love to do some shots from my window (I live quite high up in a flat with a great view). Anything creative in quarantine interests me so this is really exciting. Now to dust off my old Olympus OM-1 and see if she needs a new exposure battery - wait, that doesn't matter for this project does it? Excellent!!!
I'd be really fascinated to hear more about your PhD and how you got to your thesis - it sounds really interesting. I love anything to do with space and light. So glad I found this video :)
So cool, I'd love to see some astronomical photographs from a high up flat. Having a window as a frame to the stars could be suuuuuper cool. I am hoping to do an in depth talk about my PhD soon too :)
Hahha Sam at 0:08.. You can hear him drilling like a maniac ~1:08. Good Man.
Hahahahaha I hadn't even noticed that, very ghostly.
hashashahahahahaha i hadnt noticed that! i remember not telling mel to shoot again cus i walked in the back cus i thought i wouldnt be seen! how wrong i was
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Awww dont worry about it. Think of it as a collaboration. ;)
Great video! I've taken some astrophotography last summer with a digital camera and no clue what I'm doing, just that the beautiful big skies of Montana were so gorgeous even I could take nice photos of them. I'm a big fan of Carl Sagan and his series Cosmos, I think about his Pale Blue Dot monologue a lot when I stargaze, and your video articulated why I'm so fascinated by starlight.
In the video you mentioned shooting from your backyard, I'd love to hear your thoughts on dealing with ambient light pollution, as every time I've tried shooting in a populated area my pictures have been completely hazed out by streetlights and neighbors' houses.
Oh gosh, I love Carl Sagan and the concept of the Pale Blue Dot. I actually co-wrote a paper for Cambridge Scholars on the subject of "Cosmic Perspectives" last month with my collective "Lumen Studios", which will be published this Summer.
It could be worth looking for a light pollution filter online, I know the Royal Observatory in London has been using these.
Yeah! got my copy of ancient light today
Awesome! Thanks Dan.
Ha-I have the same camera. It had another name here (Dynax). I used it a lot before I went digital. Its a great little camera for sure. :-) You are shooting theist as you know. I enjoy your explorations. :-)
Greetings from Singapore! Stumbled upon your video while browsing for chemigrams demos. We're Canon 500N gang! Yay! Haha! Anyway, it's awesome how your photo turns out. I might feel that it's impossible to capture star trails in Singapore due to our excessive light pollution here. But I'm willing to give it a try.
Currently, I have HP5 Plus and XP2 400 on hand and that's my highest speed. How would you say should I go about shooting star trails?
Hello! I think it's worth a go! With 400 speed you will need to do exposures of at least 5 minutes and you might need to point your camera at the brightest star. If you are able to go to a city park and find the darkest spot that would be great too!
@@MelanieKing Thanks for your reply. Gonna try it out soon 😄
@@oOoladyblackmetalxXx Looking forward to seeing the results.
New viewer love it
I am curious about how to ISO400 sensitivity and upshift ISO1600 sensitivity? Self-processing negatives!
I'm not sure what you mean here. I usually push my negatives two stops to increase sensitivity. For ISO 400 I would simply do an exposure of 5-10 mins.
Their seems to be a lot of dodgy looking accounts. Randomly asking do you want to be friends. I might be paranoid but!!!
Haha I noticed that! 😂
@@MelanieKing bots...
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hey Im down for that project I have a few pics left in my ricohflex... heck this could even be a good opportunity no make a video I havent done one in a looooong whiile
also there are a few analog concept Ive been exploring that might interest you such as taking 3 pictures with different filters to make a colour one
Cool! ...the Rebel eos500 was 1993-1996 though (I thought it looked a bit too smoothly moulded to be 80s)...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EOS_500
Oh that makes sense. The camera was my Dad's, who used it for motorbike photography around that time.
@@MelanieKing Lovely... arty hand-me-downs are the best hand-me-downs :)