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A boat pond at Lenton, Lincolnshire.
This is 137 photos stacked together using Adobe Photoshop CS5 to create the final startrails shot.
Each shot was at the following settings: 16mm, 15 seconds, f/2.8, ISO 3200 with a 3 second interval between them.
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Taken from Oxfordshire, UK on the night of the peak of the Draconids Meteor Shower. I was imaging for almost 5 solid hours and didn't detect a single meteor in that time. There were periods when clouds came through the field of view so this is just 2 hours 15 minutes worth of images stacked.
Canon 1100D with 18-55mm kit lens, ISO-800 for 20 seconds at f3/5. An almost 80% Waxing Gibbous Moon was really bleaching the sky so the fainter stars were lost. Images stacked using StarStaX then processed in Fast Stone Image Viewer. The camera was set up next to my telescope pier so the tree was illuminated by my laptop screen as I was out imaging the Moon at the same time with my ASI120MC camera
The consolation prize for sitting on the side of the road for 5 hours waiting for an aurora that didn't show
Double Arch, Arches National Park. My Flickr friend Don Cook and I went out to do the night sky through Double Arch but we spent so much time uh trying to get the light painting down that I used up my hour I had planned to do a startrail. So I went back a couple of nights later. The sky had some light clouds passing through, accounting for the distortion particularly on the planet at the far left. All in all, it was still a lovely evening.
Techie stuff: Canon 5D Mark III, 14mm F2.8L, ISO 6400, 30 sec at F2.8 x 130 exposures stacked.
Taking many pictures for capturing the Perseid Meteors, the rest of the pictures can be used for a Startrail.
I've never been any good at startrails, I'm a pretty patient guy but standing around for 20minutes+ doing absolutely nothing isn't something I'd like to do on a regular basis. That particular night however was so incredibly calm and peaceful I had no trouble at all standing still for..., well, I'm not sure time passed at all that night. This is from two weeks ago as I haven't been able to go out much lately. Good thing to have tons (and I mean tons) of unprocessed stuff for backup :) I wonder why the star trail streaks are dotted, maybe because of clouds passing by?
Aufgenommen im Death Valley auf dem Artist Drive . Das Bild besteht aus einer 20 minütigen Belichtung
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Cathedral Peak, Yosemite National Park, Ca.
After a nice afternoon thunder storm the skies cleared up almost immediately by dusk. Perfect for some startrails. Unfortunately the North Star was off to far to the left from Cathedral Peak (which is what I wanted in the image). The light glow on the horizon is NOT lights from Owens Valley - it's the near full super Moon rising (here it was still at least an hour away from rising).
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Star Trails showing the movement of the Earth in relation to the Stars above St Andrews Church Greensted near Chipping Ongar in Essex. The picture is made up from 305 x 15 second exposures stacked on top of each other to create the effect.
Austrian Alps
Foreground taken at the very end of the blue hour.
Startrails taken over the course of roughly 1,5 hours.
Samyang 16mm 2.0 and Sony A7II
Taken from Pier Park, New Westminster, BC, Canada.
This is a stacked image. Canon EOS 5D Mark III with Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 @f/2.8, ISO-500, 242 exposures at 13 seconds each with 4 seconds pausing time.
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Its a freezing cold night here in Ireland with a clear sky and virtually no wind - perfect for hunting for star trails. I had two locations in mind - this is the second of the two and a familiar subject, I've photographed the Horseman on many occasions this year.
My take on star trails is pretty much the same as everyone else - there are two popular techniques, a single long exposure or multiple exposures combined in Photoshop. Each of these has its place. The single exposure is good for shooting in near darkness with no strong light sources. Multiple exposures are necessary if there are additional light sources that will possibly blow-out in a long exposure (street or window lights etc).
This is a single 30 minute Exposure. Shot in RAW and converted in PS, the image is pretty much straight from the camera (I did crop the image as some light contamination had crept into the RHS, also a simple border is added).
One of the most difficult aspects of virtual zero-light photography, is trying to get your focus right, a few test shots using a flash is helpful here - or for purists, come at dusk and set up your shot, lock down focus and wait for darkness. The exposure is down to experimentation after that, I've tested a few settings and for this shot used ISO 200 at f/5.6.
The illumination of the sculpture was created naturally as a result of ambient light coming from traffic along the N4 (no PS dodging or burning here). In total about 6 cars passed during the exposure. It was a stroke of luck to limit the exposure to 30 minutes as any additional light hitting the sculpture might have caused high-lights to blow.
More from this sitting to follow.
93 Photos de 30s, 14mm, F/3.5 ISO 6400, intervalle de 33s. Assemblées dans Photoshop CS4 grâce à la méthode suivante: blog.tinyenormous.com/2009/10/04/star-trail-stacking-in-p...