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One for fun. Another first for me, a go at star trails (and boats and a plane trail it would seem) and a bit of light painting. Sorry about the same old composition but it was just a bit of practice and this is as far back as I could get from the tower.
I think this is pretty much the only direction (give or take a few degrees) you'd be able to get star trails from this location as, like stated in my previous post, it's surrounded by three towns ranging from pretty much west to north east, there's also the start point lighthouse flashing away to the SW. So what you're looking at here is in a SE ish direction.
I had the camera in continuous shooting mode and the shutter locked down using a cable release. This was a hundred 30 second exposures (50 minutes) stacked in Startrails.exe. I had let it run for 1.5 hours but it stopped after 100 exposures, so if anyone can shed some light on that I'd be greatful.
Shot on the d3100 and 18-55mm kit lens.
By the way, the big bright white trail is Jupiter (not really sure what happened in the middle)
Any constructive crit always welcomed.
Cheers,
Gary
Edit: I think next time I try this it'll be in moonlit to save any light painting!
My first attempts using the Live Composite feature in the Olympus EM1..... each picture is a multiple 15sec exposure automatically overlaid and the set range from 8 - 10 minute total exposure time
Nikon D90 + Tokina 11-16 2.8+ Giotto's MTL9351 B e MH5011 kit
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I didn't take much photos since I came back from New Zealand, so I was itching to go out again. Decided the weather is slightly warmer and so I headed out towards Murrumbateman. I have been keeping an eye on some poppy fields out there but they haven't fully bloomed yet, and also waiting for the right light.
Anyway this time I headed out at about 10pm (takes about 30 minutes from Canberra) on a clear night and this is the result.
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Desolation Wilderness, Ca.
Another great thing about being in the high Sierra is the darkness. This was shot from camp in Desolation Valley. With the sound of a waterfall to keep me company I sat in the darkness for 45 minutes shooting this.
This is a composite of 80 thirty second exposures. I stacked the shots together using this easy to use and free program called Startrails. You can download it here: www.startrails.de/html/software.html
Typically to get this effect I will take at least 30 minutes worth of exposures (30 - 2 minutes is a good length) and then one exposure for a foreground if I want to light paint or something then one exposure with the lens cap on (for averaging the blackness in the program). All of that is with the same settings. Then I throw it into the program and viola - a few seconds later I have this!
The great thing about stacking star shots is no noise. The bad thing (if you consider it bad) is you have to sit there and press the shutter every 30 seconds (or however long you choose your exposures). But when you get to lay back and watch shooting stars it's an easy payoff.
Just a little side note - it's always fascinating to see the different colors in each star. When you look at the night sky with the naked eye all the stars look white.
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This image is a composite of 578 30 second exposures, taken over a period of 5 1/4 hours, in the wilderness of the Richtersveld National Park, South Africa. It was a time just before full moon, hence the brightness of the scenery. This is towards the south celestial pole.
The images were stacked using Tawbaware Image Stacker (two different blending modes), with a little exposure and minor color adjustments in Photoshop and then finally finished off with Tawbaware Star Tracer to get rid of the gaps in the trails caused by the Image Stacker blending.
Camera is a 500D with Sigma 10-20mm, at F8 and ISO1600
The vehicle is my Mitsubishi Pajero, a regular on 4x4 trails around the country
Startrails over Mt. Bromo complex.
The light trail below are passing 4WDs driving towards the sunrise viewing platform.
Nikon D3200
18mm - f3.5
iso 6400
30sec
without tripod (camera on rocks)
stacking of 6 exposures
Rifugio Genova-Figari
(CN) Italy
140 superimposed images of a cold cold night...it's my first startrail and I need to improve my post-production techniques.
I just sticked the raw files together in photoshop and reducted the noise, hope you enjoy.
Startrails over Mount Hood.
23-30 sec exposures.
Dedicated to G3! : )
They would have been longer but I forgot to charge my batteries. : )
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100 exposures @ F4, iso 640, 30 seconds. Manually stacked
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As seen from Taormina, Sicily looking NE. Lightning is about 50 miles away over mainland Italy. 258 10 sec exposures at ISO1600 stacked in StarStax and processed in Pixinsight & Faststone. Used 550D with 14mm f2.8 Samyang lens.
Had a go at star trails while at a dark place out of town. Noticed afterwards that I estimated the South to far to the right, anyway, the trails show the earth is still rotating.
175 pictures over some 2 hours, using SX40 CHDK and a fixed TV script (Tv=32 sec).
Combined with freeware StarStax and EXIF data recovered form one of the 175 photos using EXIFGuiTool.