From what i've read it's not all to hard to shoot the Milky Way... We were staying in Wallabi Point on the North Coast of NSW and I figured it was the perfect place to try... Minimal light pollution.
I headed down the the beach at the end of the street around 10pm. It was a gorgeous sight. The Milky Way was visible to the naked eye. So bright, so clear, so perfect. The longer i was out there, the better the sky got. I saw about 9 shooting stars in the space of the 40 minutes I was there. That was special.
I knew I wanted to use my 10-20mm Sigma to get as much of it in as possible but I also knew my limitations with this lens only dropping down to f4.5... Having not shot the Milky Way before I did a bit of research, and knew basically; wide lens, widest apeture, 30 seconds, ISO around 1600. Well 1600 is as high as my old D40x can do, but the f4.5 was going to give me issues. I couldn't leave the shutter open any longer than 30 seconds. One, because on a 10mm lens any longer than 30 seconds you're going to get startrails, and 2 i don't have a remote shutter release and couldn't afford even more blurry images. Fail.
I threw on my 35mm prime which opened up to f1.8 and i got some brilliant bright stars, but with no foreground or focal point it may have well has been rain on a windscreen. I switched back to my 10mm and did a bunch of shots. The shot you see was the final shot i took that night, tweaked a bit in Photoshop to bring out the stars that my lens just couldn't see quite well enough.
Wallabi Point, NSW
Nikon D40x
Sigma 10-20mm @ 10mmISO 1600
30 seconds
f4.5
Self Timer
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