My first attempt at photographing star trails. This photo is made from 118, 30 second exposures at f/4 and ISO 1600. The straight lines are from planes passing by during the exposures.
Thanks Nancy. No, it only took an hour. I set my camera to continuous shooting. Manual exposure. Shutter speed set to 30 seconds. Aperture at f/4 and ISO 1600. I then manually focused, put the camera on a tripod, plugged in my remote release, hit the shutter button and locked it down and let it take pictures for an hour. Once the images were on my computer I did a little adjustment to them in Lightroom then I put them all (118) into a program called StarStaX (it's free!) and it assembled them into one photo.
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WOW! How did you do that?? It's just gorgeous. Did you have to stay up all night? Great!
Thanks Nancy. No, it only took an hour. I set my camera to continuous shooting. Manual exposure. Shutter speed set to 30 seconds. Aperture at f/4 and ISO 1600. I then manually focused, put the camera on a tripod, plugged in my remote release, hit the shutter button and locked it down and let it take pictures for an hour. Once the images were on my computer I did a little adjustment to them in Lightroom then I put them all (118) into a program called StarStaX (it's free!) and it assembled them into one photo.
How fascinating! Your result is well-worth all the effort.
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