I've been a bit quiet photographically of late, and thought that it was about time I changed that.

It was such a beautiful crisp and clear night tonight that I decided to give some startrail photography again.

I was feeling lazy tonight, and couldn't be bothered with fiddling with custom white balance to get rid of the orange glare in the sky, so thought I'd try B&W for a change.

This consists of 71x individual 60 second images merged using the startrails stacking software.

Exposure was 60 secs @ f/5.6 at ISO800 shot on a Canon EOS 40D with a Sigma 10-20mm lens set at 10mm.

I tried to add a bit of detail to the house and foreground by using my Speedlite 550EX on the last shot but overcooked it somewhat and just ended up with loads of flare as condensation was just starting to form on the UV filter.

Hope you like it.

Date 19.4.2011 Time 00:00-03:09

399x30sec

ISO 100

18mm

F 3.5

AWB

Image generated using 51 shots of 3 mins exposure shot over night. If you have a canon camera you must try Magic Lantern, you don't need to buy intervalometer. Besides intervalometer, magic lantern adds many more feature like trap focus, upto 9 AEB shots for HDR etc.

tijuana mexico

Las Campanas Observatory, Chile

Colored edit.

My 1st attempt at startrails...

20 x 1min exposures

Polaris middle..after that I'm lost

Taken from Hull, East Yorks

Made from 38 single images. Merged with startrails software from startrails.de

Exif:

Camera: Canon EOS 1000D

Lens: Canon EF-S 17.85mm 4.0-5.6 IS USM

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17mm

30s

f/4.0

ISO 400

星轨 startrail

A combination of multiple 30 second exposures layered in photoshop

220 20sec exposures stacked in startrails.exe

Startrails over Jenny Wiley State Resort Park in eastern Kentucky.

3 hour of Ecséri church ruins by night

Star Trail en Ermita de Bell Lloc en Cerdanya francesa

-Taken with Canon 7D and Tamron 10-24mm @10mm

-413 images stacked.

-2.5hr shoot

Pentax K200D

Kit 18-55mm @ 18mm F/3.5

177 30sec exposures

Basic star trail output using www.startrails.de appliction.

Problem: Obviously bumped the tripod numerous times.

Céu com nuvens finas, poluição luminosa alta, tudo pesando contra a fazer alguns registros do céu. Mas não para um belo startrail, que é o tipo de fotografia em que ao utilizar longas exposições com a camera em um tripé fixo, você consegue capturar o movimento aparente das estrelas no céu, devido a rotação da terra. Quanto maior o tempo de exposição maior o "arco" criado pelas estrelas. Nesse caso em especifico foram 37 fotos com 1 minuto de exposição, totalizando 37 minutos de trail.

A região em evidencia é o sul celeste, com o futuro prédio do CEFET compondo a imagem. Nesse caso foram 37 fotos com 1 minuto de exposição, totalizando 37

My 2nd attempt trailing the stars. Started at about 10:13pm and ended at 12:02am which drains all the power of battery. Total of 202 jpegs made to create this photo.

Shots info:

Camera Model :Canon EOS 50D

Shooting Mode :Manual Exposure

Tv( Shutter Speed ) : 30

Av( Aperture Value ): 5.6

Metering Mode :Evaluative Metering

ISO Speed :400

Lens : EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

Focal Length : 10.0mm

White Balance ModeAuto

AF ModeManual focusing

Manfrotto 055 Pro B

Phottix Remote

Merge in startrails.exe

1er essai , 200 photos avec logiciel startrails

Just an experiment =)

Valtellina - Italy

Took advantage of being out in the middle of nowhere in Manitoba, away from any source of light pollution, and got the star trails thing mostly figured out. The only thing I screwed up was the hyperfocal distance so that the trees in the foreground were in focus.

238 exposures, 30 seconds each, using the interval timer in the D200; equivalent to about 2 hours. ISO100, f/2.8. The trees in the foreground were lit for a fraction of one shot using my flashlight.

Trazas de estrellas en Argüeso

sleeping in the last remaining Cedar forest in the Cedarberg

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Ma premiere tentative de ``startrail`` a l'ile Verte

My first attempt with Startrail at IIe Verte

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Testing my camera trigger...

Olympus E-3 & Samyang 8mm Fisheye

vegos.github.io/TriggerAid

github.com/vegos/TriggerAid

I can't beleive how well this came out, it wasn't really going very well to start with : tripod fell apart in my hand, battery ran out, couldn't get it to keep taking pictures (all completely my fault) but eventually I got it to keep going for 40 minutes while I watched TV.

I didn't pick the most ambient-light-free-zone (my back garden) because I'm to lazy to walk a couple of hundred metres across the road to a dark place.

85 pictures at 30second exposure with f/5.6 and iso400 stacked using startrails.exe (I think the gap in all of the lines is where I deleted one where I was shining a torch at the lens to see if it was steamed up)

Which one of these is better B&W or colour? I think the red one but my dad prefers the B&W because "the red shouldn't be there, it's just street lights"

This image consists of 93 pictures blended into one. They where each 30 sec. exposures at f4.0 and ISO 800.

Star Trail Photography Trip, Startrail first try

7 images stacked to make this exposure. Each shot was a 4 minutes exposure

These three images are the same, it is just post processed differently