#stargrazing

Midterms week just ended, and my friends already had this trip to Quezon planned out.  So I was very much excited because I couldn’t wait to test the remote timer I just bought for capturing long exposures. It took us about 10 hours of long drive including stop-overs and arrived at about 5 pm. We took a couple of pictures of the sunset, then placed our stuff on our room. 

While my friends were setting the place up for dinner, I went to the beach to look for a spot to set up my tripod and camera. Came back at about 7pm, realized I should’ve focused my framing and composition to the sky cause all I saw on the view port and live mode was pitch black. So I decided to max out my ISO to 6400 and just took shots until I get my focus right which took me a looot of time. 

I’m new at photographing stars so I wasn’t really sure which setting I should’ve gone for. Generally I thought it’d be good if there’d be lesser noise so I took a lot of shots with my ISO at around 400 to 800 at max. Until 5:30 am, I tried shooting exposures with different lengths, 10-30 minutes tops, mostly trial and error. It was a really a beautiful evening, saw a bunch of shooting stars appearing all throughout the night. Although I’m a bit frustrated as well because I didn’t get the ideal shot I was hoping for. Anywaay, better luck next time.

A couple of kids spray painted a penis to my Dad's truck one night while star gazing

A man almost 6 times over the legal Australian drinking limit tried to over take my Dad in his truck, hit the concrete island and slung himself into one of the wheels of the truck (not fatal), while we were at the shops

My Siamese Fighter, Ryu, passed away (same day as above)

After I was dropped off home, police had come to our house about my Dads truck being parked beside the house