Wednesday, February 18, 2009

February 18th - Star Trails

Star Trails
I've wanted to do a shot like this for a long time. The noise reduction feature on my camera takes about as long as the exposure goes, so this one shot took quite a while. 15 minute exposure + 15 minutes noise reduction = 30 minute image! But it was informative. I'll do this again with something else in the frame to give the image more interest. A tree, a building, a mountain lake... but for now I've gotten my feet wet with this type of shot. 15 minutes f/8 iso 400

8 comments:

  1. I love experiments! Where'd you shoot this? What's all the light on the horizon? And, what're the purple spots in the top left?

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  2. Very interesting shot - Might try something like this in the summer!

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  3. Cool! Definitely a long exposure, but neat impact!

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  4. Thank you all. This was shot in my backyard. The peak of my roof was at the bottom but I cropped it out. I think the yellow glow is from the lights of town. I have no idea what made the purple spots at top left. This was much brighter than this right off the camera. I used photoshop to darken it and I cooled the color temp a bit too. However, the different colors on the stars were quite apparent even before I did any editing :)

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  5. AWESOME!!!! 15 min...not sure my pentax does a 15 min exposure unless I have BULB pushed and that would be a long time to hold the button ;)

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  6. Yeah, I need to be on BULB and then use the remote. One click to open the shutter, then come back 15 min later and click again to close it.

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  7. Amazing! That's beautiful. I thought of doing something similar when I was taking photos of the snow a few weeks ago. May well gie it a go.

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  8. Wow...this is so great! It inspires many ideas. :) Well done.

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