Showing posts with label startrails. Show all posts
Showing posts with label startrails. Show all posts
Friday, November 12, 2010
...threehundredsixteen/threehundredsixtyfive...
I got home late and quickly threw my camera on the tripod for this 30 min exposure. There's heavy light pollution in my yard but I wanted the trees lit just so. The brightest streak is Jupiter.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
...twohundredfortyseven/threehundredsixtyfive...
Day 2 camping:
Spotted newts (one named Chica), beaver gnawed trees, and cloudy star trails.
The star trail picture is actually the combined frames of the timelapse video (it'd be really cool looking if the blogger video resolution wasn't so crappy, come on over to my house if you really care to see it).
Spotted newts (one named Chica), beaver gnawed trees, and cloudy star trails.
The star trail picture is actually the combined frames of the timelapse video (it'd be really cool looking if the blogger video resolution wasn't so crappy, come on over to my house if you really care to see it).
Monday, August 30, 2010
...twohundredfortytwo/threehundredsixtyfive...
Tried a new startrail technique tonight. Instead of the ol' "frame yer shot and lock the shutter" technique I instead opted to shoot 100, 30 second exposures and layer them with this nifty FREE program, Startrails. The basic theory is by layering multiple exposures you eliminate the sensor noise (those icky color speckles that destroy clarity of an image) created by long dark exposures taken in warm climates. The longer the exposure the warmer the sensor gets, the warmer the sensor gets the more noise it creates and in summer it's already warm outside.
As I type this I haven't seen the finished product so I'll be as surprised (good or bad) as you. This was just a test. We'll be camping in the Allegheny National Forest this weekend and I plan on doing some serious startrails among other nocturnal photography awesomeness then.
This worked better than expected! I'm super stoked with the end result, check out that satellite! I live next to a prison which bombards my sky with enormous amounts of light pollution. I'm very surprised the trails are that bright. I even nailed Polaris like a champ. It figures, my wife turned on the porch light in the same frame as the satellite was passing so that's what's going on with the light flares in the sky and the weird edge on the roof (I had to black out the light on the house in that frame).
As I type this I haven't seen the finished product so I'll be as surprised (good or bad) as you. This was just a test. We'll be camping in the Allegheny National Forest this weekend and I plan on doing some serious startrails among other nocturnal photography awesomeness then.
This worked better than expected! I'm super stoked with the end result, check out that satellite! I live next to a prison which bombards my sky with enormous amounts of light pollution. I'm very surprised the trails are that bright. I even nailed Polaris like a champ. It figures, my wife turned on the porch light in the same frame as the satellite was passing so that's what's going on with the light flares in the sky and the weird edge on the roof (I had to black out the light on the house in that frame).
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| I can only assume those are also startrails (or planet-trails) reflecting on the windows |
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