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The use of light has the ability to change what we see, influence our emotions and alters our perspective of the world around us. The use of colour can heighten that experience and indeed completely change the look of an object or situation.
Whilst faffing about light painting this lakeside summer house I noticed the startrails in one of the results. So after faffing about some more I realised that I might be able to stack the shots later for greater effect.
Although there is monster light pollution I still gave the startrails.de stacking programme a go with 3 or 4 longish exposures & found it actually works quite well..
More of the same I recon over the winter months, maybe further from town though to get some cleaner skies ;-))
Startrails free proggy link >>> www.startrails.de/
© 2012 Michael Ridley
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Subject: Startrails 2012
Date: 2012/05/18 and 2012/05/19
Exposure: 60 x 1min = 1h, ISO 1600, f/2
Filter: Astronomik CLS
Camera: Canon T1i/500D (Hutech modified)
Lens: Contax (Carl Zeiss) 100mm f/2
Mount: "Fixed tripod" Actually, the camera is on a turned-off AP900 equatorial mount, pointed at the celestial equator, but tilted with respect to the horizon, so the stars look like they are moving straight up. Note the slanted tree to the left.
Processing: Raw converstion to TIFF using Canon Digital Photo Professional. The 60 TIFF subexposures were combined in StarStaX 0.41 lighten mode. Resizing and JPEG conversion in Photoshop.
Notes: Facing East -- stars are rising above the trees. The strange star colors are probably caused by the CLS filter combined with the modded camera that makes everything too red.
2 different tries at Startrails taken with the clear skies in Northern Spain.
I must give credit to the freeware I used with these (found at www.startrails.de/html/software.html)
This seems very easy to use and certainly is effective.
This capture is made in 1800m at -15 degrees Celsius. Schwitzerland.
Canon 50D
10mm wide open
ISO 100
Exposure 2659 sec.
Manual mode
Manual focus (infinity)
Postedit: Levels, curves and noise in PS CS3
[ You should see this on black! ]
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Canon 550D. Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 fisheye. Shot @ f/4. ISO 3200. 35 x 15 second exposures. Stacked in Startrails.
Lets see... photoshopped each photos (raw).. stiched them together... Then HDR... then Nik software... wat a painstaking job
100 stack for startrails over Ditchingham
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Imagen de la fortaleza de Castellar de la Frontera (Cádiz) en una noche iluminada por la Luna.
Canon 60D
Objetivo Canon 17-40mm L en 17mm
f/ 6.3
ISO 500
Dos horas de exposición total, montada con Startrails
Trípode
this is 13 5min exposures. making just over an hour in startrail
not a particaully great shot but it does have its charms
Esta, va dedicada para un compañero y mentor en esto de la fotografía nocturna, por todo el cariño y buenos consejos que siempre nos a regalado, si si eres tú......Míquel!!!!! Creias que me había olvidado de tí, pues no.
También se la quiero dedicar a un compañero magnifico, que digo compañero, un hermano, es mi tete Pepe.
Muchas gracias por estar ahí, tanto tú como María.
Muchas gracias a todos!!!!
A startrails video taken on a bright moonlit night.
600 images were taken to make this 25 second video.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - Stars appear to rotate around Polaris due to the earth's rotation. I found this old abandoned barn in Jim Edgar State Park. I took a nap in my car during the nearly 3 hours it took to shoot this.
Observando la lluvia de Perseidas en el faro de Portinatx, este Startrail, sin rastro de ellas a pesar de esta larga serie de 50 fotos, eliminando los aviones que si fueron muchos.
f 3.5
ISO 3200
60"
Mi segundo intento para capturar el recorrido de las estrellas. Nada que valga mencionar, pero para mi es un logro encuadrar al polo celeste. Tendría que haber hecho exposiciones de 45 segundos y no de 30 seg, aumentar las fotos, esta vez fueron solo 60, debían haber sido 120. La próxima vez debe quedar mejor.
Villa Serrana - 2013.
Went out for the Perseid meteor shower. Saw some bright meteors while I was setting up, but not so much while shooting.
Eureka! I figured out what I did wrong the last time. I combined 41 images here using Iris, which has a command line interface. I accidentally combined them using the Add2 instead of Add_Max2 command. Silly me. :-)
This is a combination of 41 images, each 30 seconds long at 18mm, ISO 400. The light pollution on the bottom left is from a nearby road. I combined the images in Iris and tweaked it in Photoshop to make the startrails more visible in shrunk down versions of the image... The star colors are real, though the white balance might be off.
I think it looks much better on black