I always found shoes a bit of a mystery so I did a section just on them. It all gets down to that hump around the toes and then bending the toe-area and not any other part of the foot when adding heels.
I’m going to work on the landscape of the back next and then we’ll see!
This week I’ve prepared some tips for everyone who is confused with arms. I know that pronation and supination is confusing and I recommend to learn in by heart ❤
I have also announcement!
The day is approaching when I will release ebook or Gumroad PDF with all my anatomy tips + additional lessons + commentary.
I still am thinking how I will publish this but it will be done. Anyone who’s interested finally will be able to get everything in one place and some more good content. I will post some dates soon so look for that in next few weeks !
How do you write healthy parent-child relationships?
this might be more response than you want, but interesting (and kinda depressing when you think about it) fact: there’ve been a bunch of research studies where parents have been asked what they think makes a healthy parent-child relationship, and they tend to like…not answer the actual question because they think they’re being asked what good parenting is, which is not the same. so they talk about things like helping kids with homework and making sure they eat well. children, on the other hand, usually respond to the same question with stuff that’s literally just the definition of healthy relationships generally. affection, honesty, respect, spending time together, sharing interests. and the real kicker is, objectively, we know that’s the kind of stuff that actually has a much better impact not only on whether or not the relationship is strong and positive but also the kid’s overall happiness and psychological health.
so, if you want to write a character who’s really intent on being a Good Parent you’d have them putting massive effort into making their kid Grow Up Right, worrying about shit like if they have The Right Friends and they’re spending Enough Time Outside. but if you want to write a good relationship, just make parent and kid laugh together and respect boundaries and be emotionally supportive, like you would when writing a solid pair of friends or romantic couple.
No that was actually really helpful and I’m glad you took the time to give a serious response
Everyone should aspire to a cat’s understanding of healthy relationships
-they are vocal about their emotional as well as physical needs (alerting you when they need affection or entertainment in addition to when they need food), demonstrating an excellent example of self care and open communication
– they can enjoy being in a space with you while you’re each doing your own thing, demonstrating the healthy boundaries and separate interests
– they also like learning about what you’re doing and being involved in your hobbies (e.g. sitting on your laptop, cuddling while you read a book or knit a scarf or play a game)
-they consistently enforce their boundaries. first with nonverbal communication, then verbal (hissing/growling), then violence (scratching/biting) when needed, demonstrating that it’s 100% appropriate to defend your bodily autonomy by any means necessary, even against those you love and depend on.
-they demonstrate the importance of ongoing consent by respecting their ability to change their mind during physical affection and stop at any point
Caveat: This is from my driving experience, from a DC metro area view. Also, some bits are vague-blogging about a thing that set me off specifically because the failure to check a map along routes I have driven several times has thrown me out of a story.
1. Most cars made in the last thirty years, and are available in the US, get between 300-400 miles per tank of gas. (Ok, fun fact. My mom’s civic – 2006 with a roughly 13 gallon tank, the RV – 2007 with a 50 gallon tank, and dad’s Soul – 2016 with I think a 10 gallon tank…. all go about 350 miles on a tank of gas. The RV gets 7-9 miles per gallon, the civic gets 20-25 highway depending on who’s driving, the soul gets 25-30 highway depending on who’s driving. Your fuel efficiency alone does not determine how many miles you go before you have to get gas.)
2. Check distances on a map. Please. Otherwise you risk making locals or well-traveled people twitch a lot. (Yes, I know that TV shows make this mistake a lot. Do you know how much I’ve yelled at every show that is made on the other side of the country and thinks that you can get from NOVA to Baltimore in an hour or less? 45 minutes around the Beltway, plus the time to get to the Beltway, plus another 30-60 minutes to get to the near side of Baltimore, depending on route and traffic. Minimum of an hour and fifteen, if you’re right on the Beltway and just going to, oh, the ballpark.)
3. It is a minimum 2 hour trip from the MD suburbs of DC to Richmond. Especially if I-95 is part of your driving route. If you’re driving in rush hour traffic, it’s closer to 3, and that’s only if you haven’t managed to have major slow downs at routes 4 and 5, at Dale City, the Occoquan, Fredricksburg, and the Woodrow Wilson Bridge (provided, of course, you’re taking 95, and not 301, which, if you’re anywhere south of 95 and it’s rush hour, 301 might be less hassle. Or faster).
4. I-95, NOT The 95. As seen above, sometimes just 95. (Seriously, West Coast TV writers, will you please fucking not. It’s REALLY uncommon for people in the DC area, at least, to call I-95 “The 95″.)
5. Maps. Are. Your. Friend. For love of fuck. So are calculators. Math is not evil.
6. Speed limits on the East Coast tend to be 60mph, sometimes 70mph, and often 55mph at best within city limits, on interstates. They’re higher once you get over the Appalachians and/or across the Mississippi. (It’s been a couple years since I’ve driven west, it’s a little fuzzy exactly where the demarcation is, and how it differs depending on how far north or south you are.)
7. Please do not have your characters be driving on an empty tank for a hundred or more miles because you did not take into account the distance most cars can go. Or, you know, get from DC to Atlanta in something less than 8 hours of driving and a minimum of two gas stops* while trying not to get pulled over for speeding in a car that someone is looking for.
*one if your car started with a full tank, and your characters are likely to be ditching the car in Atlanta or its greater metro area.
Seriously, if you’ve got other useful things for making travel times feel realistic, please reblog and add them. Especially little local things that can and/or will throw you out of a story which travels in or around where you know well.
For travel out West:
1. Distance is measured in TIME, not MILES. It’s 20 minutes to downtown from where I live (which makes the California part of my soul scream in WTF-ness every time Kidlet points it out) and it’s 4 hours or so to Seattle. We usually have NO clue how far apart things are, just how long it takes to get there.
2. States are generally bigger out here. So travel between them is going to take much longer. Take your estimate and add a good 6-8 hours. Then add another 4. When in doubt, add 2 more. Where freeway traffic doesn’t slow you down, mountains will.
3. When I say mountains, I mean MOUNTAINS. These are not the Appalachians, which are older and much more easily traversible. Out here you have the Bitterroots, the Rockies, and then once you get over those, the Sierra Nevadas. Basically, once you cross the plains, you hit one jagged, hostile set of mountain ranges after another. Most of them are winding roads that tend to be two lanes (near the big cities, you get two lanes for each direction!) but you CANNOT whip around the mountain doing 65-70 unless you have a death wish. Not to mention, there is snow in some places for a good 8-9 months of the year.
4. Gas and food stops are a necessary, even if you aren’t low on either. With large distances, the next stop may well be a good hour or more down the road, so ‘last chance for the bathroom’ calls are common on road trips. And you learn early that even if you don’t think you have to go, TRY.
5. Speed limits on the freeways out here are generally 65, but nobody really drives that. It’s pretty much 70-75, unless you’re absolutely sticking to the speed limit, in which case you should be in the far right lane. If you aren’t, expect there to be many dirty looks and much honking/gesturing.
6. Ahhhh, freeways. Californians have a love/hate affair with them that I don’t think the rest of the world understands. And yeah, we talk about them weird. ‘Take the 210 west to the 605, then head south to the 10 west, and that’ll take you straight into LA. If you hit the 101, you’ve gone too far.’ The Californians go ‘Thanks, man’ while the rest of the nation stares at us in horror. So, yeah. If writing in California/for a Californian, go ahead and use stuff like that. Otherwise, ditch all the freeway talk you’ve ever heard on TV/movies. (We also tend to take the freeway everywhere because we know it’s the most direct route – it’s taken my mom a good 20 years to train ‘take the freeway’ out of me as my automatic answer to ‘how do we get there?’)
While I have serious questions about the miles/tank listings based on 97 Civic, 11 gal tank = 250mi/tank if run to the very last fumes, everything else is dead on. Especially about distance here out West being a matter of Time not Miles.
I would firmly recommend anyone fictional or otherwise to never ever drive farther than half a tank before refilling cuz you just never know for sure & certain where-when the next gas stop’ll be.
I based that first one on what’s been typical for every car I’ve driven, which is both all two of my cars, and all eight of the family/my parents cars, and mostly didn’t get filled until at about 1/8 tank to empty. With a general habit of driving 60-70 miles per hour on the highway*, depending on who’s driving, and the vehicle. (Larger vehicles get driven slower; mom drives slowest, I drive fastest.)
Also, not a lot of city/surface road driving where there’s a lot of stop and start except with dad’s cars. Mom and I tend to do a lot more highway driving when we actually drive anywhere. Which does tend to change the gas mileage, and I neglected to mention that when I made the original post. (Probably because what sparked it was a fic involving lots of highway driving.)
93 Toyota Carolla, the mid-90s Chevy Astro van, and the Nissan w/manual transmission all got about 300 miles per tank, give or take ten miles.
The first civic hybrid we had, mom’s 2005 civic, my 2007 Hundai (forget the model, I don’t have the car anymore to check), and the RV all got/get about 350 miles to the tank (and the RV is filled between ¼ and 1/8 because really don’t want it out of gas).
The second civic hybrid got closer to 400 if someone other than dad was doing most of the driving.
Dad’s current car, a 2016 Kia Soul, has generally gotten 350+ miles on a single tank of gas on the highway. It’s also pretty new, so that might change as it gets older.
*Mom apparently drives the RV closer to 55 most of the time to optimize gas mileage. It’s also carrying the entire set up and goods for the shop between SCA events, which is approximately an extra ton of weight, which tends to mean the gas mileage starts seriously tanking above 60mph. Like, below 7 miles per gallon sort of tanking, which when we can get 8 fully loaded at 55, is just. Not worth it.
last comment before I shut up. State of the roads also really influence driving speed and can again really differ from one place to another. To again parallel Belgium and the Netherlands. Dutch roads are well maintained and when not choked up ( 17 million people in a place that’s a third of New York state gives a lot of traffic jams) are a dream to drive on. The belgian roads uniformly drive my boyfriend to swearing fits.
I lied. I have another tip. The concept of what consists of a long trip also really differs from where you live. Being Europe-bred for me a 2-hour car trip is already considered to be longish and not to be done casually, 4-hour trip is long and a whole day trip is really far away.
The boyfriend who is in the states on a regular basis is starting to take over the american concept of far away and considers 2- hours peanuts, 4 hours more than doable and a day trip is long yes but acceptable.
Caveat: This is from my driving experience, from a DC metro area view. Also, some bits are vague-blogging about a thing that set me off specifically because the failure to check a map along routes I have driven several times has thrown me out of a story.
1. Most cars made in the last thirty years, and are available in the US, get between 300-400 miles per tank of gas. (Ok, fun fact. My mom’s civic – 2006 with a roughly 13 gallon tank, the RV – 2007 with a 50 gallon tank, and dad’s Soul – 2016 with I think a 10 gallon tank…. all go about 350 miles on a tank of gas. The RV gets 7-9 miles per gallon, the civic gets 20-25 highway depending on who’s driving, the soul gets 25-30 highway depending on who’s driving. Your fuel efficiency alone does not determine how many miles you go before you have to get gas.)
2. Check distances on a map. Please. Otherwise you risk making locals or well-traveled people twitch a lot. (Yes, I know that TV shows make this mistake a lot. Do you know how much I’ve yelled at every show that is made on the other side of the country and thinks that you can get from NOVA to Baltimore in an hour or less? 45 minutes around the Beltway, plus the time to get to the Beltway, plus another 30-60 minutes to get to the near side of Baltimore, depending on route and traffic. Minimum of an hour and fifteen, if you’re right on the Beltway and just going to, oh, the ballpark.)
3. It is a minimum 2 hour trip from the MD suburbs of DC to Richmond. Especially if I-95 is part of your driving route. If you’re driving in rush hour traffic, it’s closer to 3, and that’s only if you haven’t managed to have major slow downs at routes 4 and 5, at Dale City, the Occoquan, Fredricksburg, and the Woodrow Wilson Bridge (provided, of course, you’re taking 95, and not 301, which, if you’re anywhere south of 95 and it’s rush hour, 301 might be less hassle. Or faster).
4. I-95, NOT The 95. As seen above, sometimes just 95. (Seriously, West Coast TV writers, will you please fucking not. It’s REALLY uncommon for people in the DC area, at least, to call I-95 “The 95″.)
5. Maps. Are. Your. Friend. For love of fuck. So are calculators. Math is not evil.
6. Speed limits on the East Coast tend to be 60mph, sometimes 70mph, and often 55mph at best within city limits, on interstates. They’re higher once you get over the Appalachians and/or across the Mississippi. (It’s been a couple years since I’ve driven west, it’s a little fuzzy exactly where the demarcation is, and how it differs depending on how far north or south you are.)
7. Please do not have your characters be driving on an empty tank for a hundred or more miles because you did not take into account the distance most cars can go. Or, you know, get from DC to Atlanta in something less than 8 hours of driving and a minimum of two gas stops* while trying not to get pulled over for speeding in a car that someone is looking for.
*one if your car started with a full tank, and your characters are likely to be ditching the car in Atlanta or its greater metro area.
Seriously, if you’ve got other useful things for making travel times feel realistic, please reblog and add them. Especially little local things that can and/or will throw you out of a story which travels in or around where you know well.
For travel out West:
1. Distance is measured in TIME, not MILES. It’s 20 minutes to downtown from where I live (which makes the California part of my soul scream in WTF-ness every time Kidlet points it out) and it’s 4 hours or so to Seattle. We usually have NO clue how far apart things are, just how long it takes to get there.
2. States are generally bigger out here. So travel between them is going to take much longer. Take your estimate and add a good 6-8 hours. Then add another 4. When in doubt, add 2 more. Where freeway traffic doesn’t slow you down, mountains will.
3. When I say mountains, I mean MOUNTAINS. These are not the Appalachians, which are older and much more easily traversible. Out here you have the Bitterroots, the Rockies, and then once you get over those, the Sierra Nevadas. Basically, once you cross the plains, you hit one jagged, hostile set of mountain ranges after another. Most of them are winding roads that tend to be two lanes (near the big cities, you get two lanes for each direction!) but you CANNOT whip around the mountain doing 65-70 unless you have a death wish. Not to mention, there is snow in some places for a good 8-9 months of the year.
4. Gas and food stops are a necessary, even if you aren’t low on either. With large distances, the next stop may well be a good hour or more down the road, so ‘last chance for the bathroom’ calls are common on road trips. And you learn early that even if you don’t think you have to go, TRY.
5. Speed limits on the freeways out here are generally 65, but nobody really drives that. It’s pretty much 70-75, unless you’re absolutely sticking to the speed limit, in which case you should be in the far right lane. If you aren’t, expect there to be many dirty looks and much honking/gesturing.
6. Ahhhh, freeways. Californians have a love/hate affair with them that I don’t think the rest of the world understands. And yeah, we talk about them weird. ‘Take the 210 west to the 605, then head south to the 10 west, and that’ll take you straight into LA. If you hit the 101, you’ve gone too far.’ The Californians go ‘Thanks, man’ while the rest of the nation stares at us in horror. So, yeah. If writing in California/for a Californian, go ahead and use stuff like that. Otherwise, ditch all the freeway talk you’ve ever heard on TV/movies. (We also tend to take the freeway everywhere because we know it’s the most direct route – it’s taken my mom a good 20 years to train ‘take the freeway’ out of me as my automatic answer to ‘how do we get there?’)
Especially if you’re crossing the mountains in Washington/Northern Oregon, between April and September we don’t have summer, we have Construction Season. Nobody is going anywhere fast for six months!
*This is also true of the I-5 corridor starting in Tacoma and heading southwards, the Tacoma portion itself has been under construction for longer than I’ve been alive
more general and less about realistic travel times. Driver’s behaviour change from place to place. Offensive gestures change from place to place. and sometimes you don’t even have to go very far.
I twitched really hard when a french writer wrote about a Dutch person giving another driver the arm ( an equivalent of the finger in belgium, france and other southern countries). While the Hague (dutch capital) and Brussels ( belgian capital) are barely two hours away I have never seen a Dutch person use or even know what the arm meant. Something I have abused once in a while to insult annoying people without repercussions
Also the weather. unless they are very experienced or having a death-wish any sane person slows down when the weather is bad either consciously or unconsciously. Same goes for when it gets darker especially if there are few lights around.
This by the way can also differ sharply from place to place. The Netherlands are almost uniformly well lit except for the really lost corners of the north or south east. Belgium being less populated still has entire stretches of the country that show up nearly pitch black on the light maps.
Caveat: This is from my driving experience, from a DC metro area view. Also, some bits are vague-blogging about a thing that set me off specifically because the failure to check a map along routes I have driven several times has thrown me out of a story.
1. Most cars made in the last thirty years, and are available in the US, get between 300-400 miles per tank of gas. (Ok, fun fact. My mom’s civic – 2006 with a roughly 13 gallon tank, the RV – 2007 with a 50 gallon tank, and dad’s Soul – 2016 with I think a 10 gallon tank…. all go about 350 miles on a tank of gas. The RV gets 7-9 miles per gallon, the civic gets 20-25 highway depending on who’s driving, the soul gets 25-30 highway depending on who’s driving. Your fuel efficiency alone does not determine how many miles you go before you have to get gas.)
2. Check distances on a map. Please. Otherwise you risk making locals or well-traveled people twitch a lot. (Yes, I know that TV shows make this mistake a lot. Do you know how much I’ve yelled at every show that is made on the other side of the country and thinks that you can get from NOVA to Baltimore in an hour or less? 45 minutes around the Beltway, plus the time to get to the Beltway, plus another 30-60 minutes to get to the near side of Baltimore, depending on route and traffic. Minimum of an hour and fifteen, if you’re right on the Beltway and just going to, oh, the ballpark.)
3. It is a minimum 2 hour trip from the MD suburbs of DC to Richmond. Especially if I-95 is part of your driving route. If you’re driving in rush hour traffic, it’s closer to 3, and that’s only if you haven’t managed to have major slow downs at routes 4 and 5, at Dale City, the Occoquan, Fredricksburg, and the Woodrow Wilson Bridge (provided, of course, you’re taking 95, and not 301, which, if you’re anywhere south of 95 and it’s rush hour, 301 might be less hassle. Or faster).
4. I-95, NOT The 95. As seen above, sometimes just 95. (Seriously, West Coast TV writers, will you please fucking not. It’s REALLY uncommon for people in the DC area, at least, to call I-95 “The 95″.)
5. Maps. Are. Your. Friend. For love of fuck. So are calculators. Math is not evil.
6. Speed limits on the East Coast tend to be 60mph, sometimes 70mph, and often 55mph at best within city limits, on interstates. They’re higher once you get over the Appalachians and/or across the Mississippi. (It’s been a couple years since I’ve driven west, it’s a little fuzzy exactly where the demarcation is, and how it differs depending on how far north or south you are.)
7. Please do not have your characters be driving on an empty tank for a hundred or more miles because you did not take into account the distance most cars can go. Or, you know, get from DC to Atlanta in something less than 8 hours of driving and a minimum of two gas stops* while trying not to get pulled over for speeding in a car that someone is looking for.
*one if your car started with a full tank, and your characters are likely to be ditching the car in Atlanta or its greater metro area.
Seriously, if you’ve got other useful things for making travel times feel realistic, please reblog and add them. Especially little local things that can and/or will throw you out of a story which travels in or around where you know well.
For travel out West:
1. Distance is measured in TIME, not MILES. It’s 20 minutes to downtown from where I live (which makes the California part of my soul scream in WTF-ness every time Kidlet points it out) and it’s 4 hours or so to Seattle. We usually have NO clue how far apart things are, just how long it takes to get there.
2. States are generally bigger out here. So travel between them is going to take much longer. Take your estimate and add a good 6-8 hours. Then add another 4. When in doubt, add 2 more. Where freeway traffic doesn’t slow you down, mountains will.
3. When I say mountains, I mean MOUNTAINS. These are not the Appalachians, which are older and much more easily traversible. Out here you have the Bitterroots, the Rockies, and then once you get over those, the Sierra Nevadas. Basically, once you cross the plains, you hit one jagged, hostile set of mountain ranges after another. Most of them are winding roads that tend to be two lanes (near the big cities, you get two lanes for each direction!) but you CANNOT whip around the mountain doing 65-70 unless you have a death wish. Not to mention, there is snow in some places for a good 8-9 months of the year.
4. Gas and food stops are a necessary, even if you aren’t low on either. With large distances, the next stop may well be a good hour or more down the road, so ‘last chance for the bathroom’ calls are common on road trips. And you learn early that even if you don’t think you have to go, TRY.
5. Speed limits on the freeways out here are generally 65, but nobody really drives that. It’s pretty much 70-75, unless you’re absolutely sticking to the speed limit, in which case you should be in the far right lane. If you aren’t, expect there to be many dirty looks and much honking/gesturing.
6. Ahhhh, freeways. Californians have a love/hate affair with them that I don’t think the rest of the world understands. And yeah, we talk about them weird. ‘Take the 210 west to the 605, then head south to the 10 west, and that’ll take you straight into LA. If you hit the 101, you’ve gone too far.’ The Californians go ‘Thanks, man’ while the rest of the nation stares at us in horror. So, yeah. If writing in California/for a Californian, go ahead and use stuff like that. Otherwise, ditch all the freeway talk you’ve ever heard on TV/movies. (We also tend to take the freeway everywhere because we know it’s the most direct route – it’s taken my mom a good 20 years to train ‘take the freeway’ out of me as my automatic answer to ‘how do we get there?’)
Caveat: This is from my driving experience, from a DC metro area view. Also, some bits are vague-blogging about a thing that set me off specifically because the failure to check a map along routes I have driven several times has thrown me out of a story.
1. Most cars made in the last thirty years, and are available in the US, get between 300-400 miles per tank of gas. (Ok, fun fact. My mom’s civic – 2006 with a roughly 13 gallon tank, the RV – 2007 with a 50 gallon tank, and dad’s Soul – 2016 with I think a 10 gallon tank…. all go about 350 miles on a tank of gas. The RV gets 7-9 miles per gallon, the civic gets 20-25 highway depending on who’s driving, the soul gets 25-30 highway depending on who’s driving. Your fuel efficiency alone does not determine how many miles you go before you have to get gas.)
2. Check distances on a map. Please. Otherwise you risk making locals or well-traveled people twitch a lot. (Yes, I know that TV shows make this mistake a lot. Do you know how much I’ve yelled at every show that is made on the other side of the country and thinks that you can get from NOVA to Baltimore in an hour or less? 45 minutes around the Beltway, plus the time to get to the Beltway, plus another 30-60 minutes to get to the near side of Baltimore, depending on route and traffic. Minimum of an hour and fifteen, if you’re right on the Beltway and just going to, oh, the ballpark.)
3. It is a minimum 2 hour trip from the MD suburbs of DC to Richmond. Especially if I-95 is part of your driving route. If you’re driving in rush hour traffic, it’s closer to 3, and that’s only if you haven’t managed to have major slow downs at routes 4 and 5, at Dale City, the Occoquan, Fredricksburg, and the Woodrow Wilson Bridge (provided, of course, you’re taking 95, and not 301, which, if you’re anywhere south of 95 and it’s rush hour, 301 might be less hassle. Or faster).
4. I-95, NOT The 95. As seen above, sometimes just 95. (Seriously, West Coast TV writers, will you please fucking not. It’s REALLY uncommon for people in the DC area, at least, to call I-95 “The 95″.)
5. Maps. Are. Your. Friend. For love of fuck. So are calculators. Math is not evil.
6. Speed limits on the East Coast tend to be 60mph, sometimes 70mph, and often 55mph at best within city limits, on interstates. They’re higher once you get over the Appalachians and/or across the Mississippi. (It’s been a couple years since I’ve driven west, it’s a little fuzzy exactly where the demarcation is, and how it differs depending on how far north or south you are.)
7. Please do not have your characters be driving on an empty tank for a hundred or more miles because you did not take into account the distance most cars can go. Or, you know, get from DC to Atlanta in something less than 8 hours of driving and a minimum of two gas stops* while trying not to get pulled over for speeding in a car that someone is looking for.
*one if your car started with a full tank, and your characters are likely to be ditching the car in Atlanta or its greater metro area.
Seriously, if you’ve got other useful things for making travel times feel realistic, please reblog and add them. Especially little local things that can and/or will throw you out of a story which travels in or around where you know well.
im very grateful for the lessons in photography i was taught in stop motion class because just now they made it possible to photograph the stars with my phone in spite of the camera usually not detecting the light of stars because theyre so dim,,,, enjoy these shiny motherfuckers
ok so if everythings normal, your phone camera should have a manual mode (sometimes called pro mode). in it, change the settings of the shutter lag to 20 seconds, then put the phone down on some stable, plane surface and press the photo button (usually when using your camera, the volume buttons can be used as photo button) and let the phone still for the whole 20 seconds.
(basically the problem with most cameras is that they dont have a very good light sensitivity in the dark, however that doesnt mean they cant detect it at all. the longer the shutter is open, the more light your camera takes in and the more burnt/light your pic will be, so in (literally) dark situations, make the shutter lag longer to get all that light you need! also i said 20 seconds but really you can make it shorter or longer depending on what kinda stuff you want for your stars)
Yes this!
Additionally, adjust your ISO to the highest number (mimics the film used for very low light and low speed images)
And set your shutter speed to the longest time possible (on my phone it’s 10 seconds).
Leave your focus settings on Auto, and if your phone camera has a timer option, turn that on (five seconds is generally enough).
Plan your shot first, then find a place to set your phone down so you can get the image you want. The less light pollution, the better; you’ll pick up FAR more stars in your picture.
Once you know what you want to shoot, tap your screen to “focus” it, then hit the button to take the picture, set your phone down, and back away from the “tripod”. Don’t touch your phone for a good 15 seconds, just to be sure.
You will not be disappointed in the results, let me assure you.
Not even a little bit.
From a really useful smartphone photography course, the instructor shared this helpful list of phone photography apps that are free or under $5. Adobe Lightroom’s app is free and you can use it without a paid Adobe subscription, and it has a manual camera setup.
There's a Mirror on the Wall 