Take your pic: Our favourite reader photos!

Here are this month’s reader photos, with tips from Toast Coetzer. Send your best shots to takeyourpic@gomag.co.za.

Nikon D700 Nikon 14 – 24 mm lens

I took this photo at about 10 one night. We were at Stuurmansfontein, a well-known guest farm in the Carnarvon district in the Karoo, where you can stay in a traditional corbelled house. I used my tripod and a remote shutter release. The lens was at its widest (14 mm) and I used a shutter speed of 30 seconds at aperture f5.6 and ISO 200. The white balance was set to “cloudy”. I illuminated the corbelled house for about 10 seconds using my headlamp. I tinkered with the photo on my computer later to make the Milky Way stand out more.