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Get started taking beautiful astrophotos with your DSLR camera with simple and easy techniques that anyone can learn - even if you don't know anything about astronomy or astrophotography.
Using modest equipment and basic methods that are within everyone's reach, A Beginner's Guide To DSL Astrophotography will demonstrate easy and basic methods of capturing the beauty of the universe. You'll learn how to get the best out of the equipment you already have. By following the author's steps, you'll avoid many common mistakes.
Long-exposure astrophotography is the magic that reveals the beauty and wonder of the universe. Objects that are too faint to be seen with the eye, even with a telescope, can be captured using the author's tested techniques.
Richly illustrated, almost all of the photos in the book were taken with very basic equipment:
- Canon's least expensive DSLR, the EOS 1000D (Digital Rebel XS)
- Canon's bargain 18mm-55mm f/3.5-f/5.6 IS zoom lens
- A simple fixed tripod
- An easy-to-make homemade barn-door tracker
- StellarVue's inexpensive SV70ED 70mm Travelhawk f/6 doublet refractor
- Orion's reasonably-priced Sirius EQ-G German-equatorial mounting
A Beginner's Guide to DSLR Astrophotography is not a traditional paper book. It is a digital book on CD-ROM that you will be able to view on your computer in any internet web browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Opera. ISBN: 978-0-9729737-6-2.
About The Author
Jerry Lodriguss has been an amateur astronomer and astrophotographer for more than 25 years. He first became interested in astronomy at the age of seven, when he looked through a "spyglass" at the Moon and saw that it had craters. After that he would lie in his grandfather's boat in the backyard, and stare up at the stars wondering if someone on a planet going around one of those stars was doing the same.
While studying journalism at Louisiana State University with the intention of becoming a writer, he discovered his love for photography by first taking photos through his telescope. He later graduated with a degree in communications from the University of New Orleans where he studied film. His professional career began in 1974, working part time shooting high school sports for $5 per picture at a small suburban weekly newspaper in New Orleans. He then worked as a staff photographer for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, and for four years as Louisiana Newspictures Bureau Manager for United Press International. After leaving UPI, he freelanced for publications such as Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today.
He worked since at the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper as the staff sports photographer from 1987 until 2009. His sports photography has won numerous national and international awards including first place prizes for both feature and action photography in the National Football League Hall of Fame Contest, and one of his images was named Pro Football Photograph of the Year in that competition. He has twice won first place honors for Sports Portfolio in the prestigious National Press Photographers Association / University of Missouri Pictures of the Year competition. His sports photography has gained him three Pulitzer Prize nominations by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Jerry now writes and shoots digital astrophotos from his home near Philadelphia.
