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A fainth band of norrhern light, seen from the molo at Laukvik, captured in full color by the sensitive camera sensor. Together with countless stars that shine in the dark canvas of night. Where as the aurora stayed relatively motionless, the stars rotated accros the sky, around Polaris, high in the night sky. It took 73 images to create this startrail, each with an exposure time of 20 seconds.
Read my blogposts about this trip to Lofoten at
www.nandoonline.com/lofoten-2017-part-1/
Now playing with startrails - The Nikon D7000 has a built in interval exposure function. The exposure details for this image are 60 shots at 30 second - f6.3 (ISO 200, 10mm lens) on manual with an interval setting of 32 seconds on the camera - the interval must be longer than the set or expected shutter speed. (If you have left exposure bracketing on set at 3 like I did - silly! - then the manual max becomes 8 seconds which I can sort of make sense of but which certainly confused me for a few minutes not to say about 25)
This was from my back garden which as you can see suffers from light pollution as does almost everywhere in south east UK. I set the camera up and left it alone on its tripod for just over 30 minutes (60 shots 32 second interval - hence a 2 second gap between each exposure). I have some more interesting sites in mind but don't relish sitting around in the dark for an hour or more waiting for the sequence to complete - I can hardly leave the kit there unattended!! Quite apart from the way loitering like that looks to the uninitiated it's rather boring!
Back to business - the resulting 60 raw exposures were batched through Nikon's ViewNX2 to jpgs and then I used the remarkable and free "Startrails" software - very easy to use - many thanks to the author Achim Schaller
I would have gone for a shot centred on Polaris (north star) but that way be street lights....
First effort not bad - feeling my way in....
View on black is different
About:
Last Wednesday night the forecast looked good: no clouds, no rain and almost new moon, so I setup my tripod and laptop at my balcony, I used NkRemote to record a time-lapse starting from 23 till 5, exposure was locked to 30 sec at f5, a pause of 30 seconds between shots. After the firsts shot succeeded I went to sleep (no risk of thieves, I live on the third floor with no access to my balcony)
At 6 I woke up and took everything inside and went off to work.
Today I processed everything. Things to remember next time:
- No pause of 30 seconds between shots
- battery can only last for 300 shots
- portrait mode instead of landscape
I was gladly pleased that in our light polluted country it's still possible to make some interesting star trails. The colors you see are already from the rising sun at 2h30 ! Still working on a version without of the 175 first shots, it's a little bit darker
.To get the full effect view this on black
Location:
My home in Boechout, Belgium
This image is also geotagged
Technical stuff:
211 shots of 30" @ f5 shot between 23 and 2h30
merged them with the StarTrails application
a little bit of post processing in photoshop to remove some strange highlights in the trees.
Usage:
All my images are copyrighted, if you want to use it for anything contact me first.
Any comments, criticism and tips are welcome
Startrail Kg Mentiri Simpang 200 - D750+20mm f/1.8, 252 picture stack with startrail.exe
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. -John F. Kennedy
This was one of the startrail pics from this weekend when I sat over a stock tank hoping to catch a few meteors. The clouds moved in later to disappoint the early morning viewing. I managed to get 517 frames to generate this picture.
Cannon Mark II, ISO 1600, f/2.8, 24mm
Startrails in my backyard on a mild summer night in Melbourne, Australia. The photo was taken using the Olympus Live Composition setting.
Time-lapse season starting again... Maximum projection of (part of ) a series of images acquired last week end.
Filé d'étoiles, vu de Salbert, créé avec 63 photos :
* 30 secondes de pose
* ouverture : f/5
* focale : 10 mm
* sensibilité : ISO 200
L'ensemble a été assemblé avec Startrails.
This is the second part of the pictures I shot last weekend. They where shot during the night or in the early morning before I was able to repair my bike. In the background you can see the "Felberg" which is the highest mountain of the Black Forest.
I've made a timelaps movie out of the single shots from this startrails photography which is only 2s long. I will have to try this once again and take more shots.
I also screwed up a little bit on the camera settings.The timer of my D5100 was set to 31s and the exposure time was 30s. I think the 1s wasn't enough which is why it only recorded one shot every minute instead of two. I first recognized my mistake back home, but the next time I won't make the same mistake again.
Has anyone made similar experiences with timer settings, especially for the D5100?
Yay! I finally got my ''first'' startrail shot :D
The weather conditions weren't perfect, on the right side still a bit of the sun, and on the left side the moon will come up in some minutes, but now i know how to get a good one :)))
I also catched one shooting star!
Have a nice day/night :)
So, kids. This is what happens if leave your camera outside while it is freezing... The lens will fog and freeze aswell.
This is an example image of my new Gimp Script "Startrails"
It can be used to create startrails videos.
Here is an example video:
And here you can find the script: registry.gimp.org/node/25638
Update V2: www.flickr.com/photos/pascalk89/6284336886/in/photostream/