Hadfield gives a space photography lesson

Chris Hadfield gives a photography lesson from space. Photo: YouTube
Published: April 25, 2013, 4:33 pm
Updated: 4 years ago

Canadian Astronaut, Commander of the International Space Station and social media rock star, Chris Hadfield, recently posted a video to YouTube explaining how he takes all those awesome pictures of earth from the ISS.

He also gives out wise advice over the course of his latest video.

“There’s not a race to get the picture. You can be patient. Like a hunter,” explains Hadfield.

To do his impressive space photography, he uses a DSLR with a long 400 mm lens attached to the wall of the ISS with Velcro. He emphasized the importance of ensuring every image has been properly focused and that he uses manual photography settings on the camera.

It seems space photography isn’t as easy as you might think.

“It’s not Instagram, it’s spaceagram,” said Hadfield in the recently uploaded YouTube video.

In the past, Hadfield has actually given a cooking lesson from space. For April fools, he also saw an alien.

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