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I've had this idea for a while and it was just an idea until last night. It's not perfect but I still really like it and I hope you do too.
Taken with Canon 60D
lens : Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Exp : startrails
location : located on the map
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I read that the Geminid meteor shower was occurring, so I set up my camera for a 2 hour star trails image on my back porch. Looking very closely, I think I spot 3 faint meteors. The bright glow at the bottom is the moon working its way into the image. The wide streaks through the image are clouds. Might have been able to see more if the moon was not so bright, and if I was in an area with less light pollution.
Nepal, Annapurna Conservation Area Project, view from the Chame (2,710), 2012 | 482 sec, f/2.8, ISO 800, FL 200 mm
This is my first startrail. It consists in 623 photos taken with a Lumia 1020 and stacked with StarStax.
Stacked startrail shot equivalent of a 42 minute exposure. You can see the glow of our campfire in the bottom right. Took this over Fish Lake, Alberta.
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and learn from your Mistakes! but it turned out good!
Picture taken in Diest, Belgium.
This is my second attempt at star trails.
100 pictures at F4.5, 30sec, iso 800. Manually blended in photoshop.
No need for an additional exposure for the foreground since it was perfectly lit by the street lights behind me.
If my information is correct, then the largest star trail on the right should be Jupiter. But I have to find confirmation yet, since I'm a complete noob on this.
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:
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Any comments, criticism and tips are welcome