Hello!
Few days ago (August 12th) was the peak of Perseid meteor shower. So me and 5 of my friends went to somewhere safe and quiet and clean to observe the sky. Fortunately, I knew a small house 6 km away from a village that was a good spot for that purpose. We didn't have the key for the house, but we could get to the roof with a ladder. So Tuesday night we went there, took our stuff to the roof with a little bit hassle. The ladder wasn't sturdy and it was missing a step. Anyway we managed to took ourselves and tools for cooking the dinner, sleeping and cameras to the roof. The reason we wanted to get to the roof was that the place is that there might be wolves and snakes around, so not safe to lie on the ground and watch the sky.
First my friends cooked the dinner so we could watch the sky with a full belly.
There were no lights there and we used our phones and flash lights to see what we were doing. After eating dinner, I set up my main camera (6D + 24-105) for that star trails. The first disappointment happened here, when I realized my considered fully charged battery is actually empty. Fortunately I had an extra full battery in my camera bag, so I replaced the battery. While my main camera was taking photos of the sky, I took photos of my friends with my other camera (80D + 50 f/1.8).
It was around 2:30 A.M. that my friend told me that my camera is not taking pictures any more. The second battery was over after around 300 shots.I expected it to last more, but sadly, my expectations doesn't change reality.
At this point I mounted the 50mm on 6D and took the battery of 80D to continue photographing my friends.
Just to check the ability of my camera, I took this photo at 3:11 A.M. while the only source of light was the rising moon which was not even full or high in the sky.
One thing that comes to my mind while taking shots like this is what if I spot a dangerous animal in the photo? or worse, what if few mysterious people showed up in the photo? What should I do about it?
We were tired by then, two of my friends were already asleep, and the others were going to sleep. I was the last one to sleep after trying to see more meteors.
The next day, my friends left at 9 in the morning to get back to work and I went back to the village to check the photos of the night before.
I don't know I was fortunate to capture one meteor or unfortunate to capture JUST one meteor, but anyway, I captured one meteor.
Did you see any meteor in the past week?
Should I do a tutorial on how to take star trails photos?
All photos are taken by me, except noted.