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First of all, thank you for being you and for making good art. I am a huge fan.
I loved the recent photos of the stars you shared on your page! Was that what you were able to see with the naked eye as well? Were the photos taken in a spot with very little light pollution to get that level of clarity, or did the camera enhance the stars?
It's more than the naked eye could see. But there's no light pollution where I am right now, so you can walk outside and look up at the milky way.
What I see is this:
What the camera sees in a four minute exposure is this:
Tonight it was cloudy, and I thought there wouldn't be much chance of getting anything, and I was surprised when I discovered that the clouds were moving enough that the camera, taking a 4 minute long exposure, was able to find the stars. Here's a tiny film of a few seconds of what the camera saw...
Good evening! As a night photography nerd I’m loving those shots with the Pixel 6, but I’m wondering about the foreground lighting - is that ambient light, or is it on purpose with a flashlight or similar? It’s really impressive that it doesn’t wash out everything else in the shot.
The foreground light is the phone taking a tiny amount of light -- basically what's coming from the house windows, or even the starlight itself -- and using that as a light source, in the same way it uses stars as a light source.
Here's what happened when I tripped an automatic light outside for a few moments while I was shooting...
and this is what it looked like when the lights were off...