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Your pages Assignments Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 Tully Photography home page [|How to Photograph the Stars] Photographing the stars is known as astrophotography. It requires using RAW; this makes it easier to edit the photograph in the long run. In the article it states that Tripod, manual controls and a wide aperture lens is need to accomplish taking photos of the stars. The location plays a huge role in photographing the stars. Light pollution is a serious problem when photographing stars. If the photographer lives in a packed city with multiple lights they will have to drive up to an or longer away to avoid light pollution. You will also have to track where the stars will be the brightest and clearest. Lighting plays a huge role in photography. The lighting effects the whole photograph. Minimizing light pollution will help develop a better photograph. Taking multiple shots before hand helps determine where you will find the best light for the photograph that you desire. It is better to keep the exposure time as short as possible. You will end up with movement of stars because the earth is rotating. It is also stated that taking photographs in RAW can help dramatically in the end because you can edit photos to appear to your liking.