Every workshop I teach usually has a star photography component. All through the 1980s and 90s we’ve always shot landscapes by moon light and experimented with star trails. Since the advent of digital photography, we now have the ability to shoot star fields. Star fields are vast areas of stars such as the Milky Way that, before digital photography, were very difficult to shoot. Digital allows us to photograph stars as individual points of light instead of streaks like we did with film. It’s a great era we live in with digital photography. So many things are possible today. This photo was made on the chilly night of October 8, 2010 with a Canon 15mm Fisheye lens on a Canon 5D MkII full frame sensor camera. The exposure was 20 sec. at f-2.8 using ISO 6400. The fisheye lens allowed me to get the entire Milky Way from the west to the east. For information on exposure, lighting, filters and composition, please check our Tips and Techniques section.