..here’s the story about the botched job that i was talking about yesterday.. just got bored and tried shooting stars last night, after seeing the first long exposure (5 mins), polaris was right smack in the middle of the frame! whee!! so i tried tweaking the settings and did a 50 minute exposure.. that didn’t turn out too well, in fact, it sucked (because of light pollution) so i decided to try plan B tonight.. after two tries, here’s what 184 exposures looks like in 82 minutes.. overkill? i think not, i was gunning for 400 shots, but my battery gave out.. i know the foreground’s not interesting but, heck, it’s 47 degrees outside, i didn’t wanna risk having my already inflamed sinuses out in that kind of climate.. but i admit, shooting star trails is fun!! 😀
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Ok, I need to take a shot like that sometimes! cool!
Creative, and cool. You have more patience than I’ll ever have ha ha
Wow! Fantastic job, congratulations, and thank you for your explanation!
Very cool.
Wow! What a lovely image! Superb experiment…
Wow !! very creative shot very well done!
I am suprised by what you did. Excellent ideas to get a wonderful result. The sky is awesome, well done!
SwissCharles
Wow! I did you did that? Well done!
5 min exposures create pretty amazing results… nice shot…
Awesome…I’ve never tried shooting star trails but this gives me some inspiration. This is great!
Nice! I always wanted to try that out, but i need to find some stars first 🙂
Your night out taking star shots paid of very well. I like the star trails picture very much.
Very worthwhile experimentation!
Are digital cameras great or what. In the film days having fun like this would have cost you a bundle. Cool shot!
So very creative. This is wonderful!!!
Looks great. That is something I’d like to try some day.
that’s sweet. perfect composition and i’ll have to try that technique. i’ve never really thought of that. i’ve seen some similar technique used by sam on ddoi but didn’t think of it for capturing stars like that. super cool!
Love the blues.
Very cool design…I like it:-)
wow, that’s cool Rian!! and with that type of lens it makes them look orbital around polaris lol love love
82-minute exposure? the shining polaris has made its mark…. =D nice!
Ok, so how did you do this? 🙂 I didn’t quite follow your explanation but still very creative!
That’s amazing Rian. I was just today reading an article on shooting star trails! You’ve done a great job. Having a foreground is great so you know what you’re looking at, but too jazzy a foreground would have detracted from the real subject. Astounding. Always something crazy interesting here. Hopefully, you’ll do more.
Bonsoir,
Wonderful shot..Great composition, colors..Bravo!
Thats really cool…it turned out nicely.
Cool experiment and a great shot… turned out really cool. 🙂
a lot of hard work which has paid off. very cool!
that is cool! and you have way more patience than i do.
Fantastic! I’m jealous, too. I’ve long wanted to take pictures of star trails but have never actually done it. As for the foreground, I think it’s great. The colors of the trees really add interest.
That is damn cool. I can’t do it around here, though…airplanes and helicopters all over the place screwing things up. Not to mention about 50 million lights.
Great work! Your dedication paid off nicely!
Can’t speak to all the technical difficulties/botched attempts you mention, but I really like this. The foreground makes this even more interesting as though the trees in front were on a different plane from stars above.
Very cool… I’ve always wanted to try that.
Very creative! I really like the effect!
Very creative and wonderful! 🙂
Superb experement and a fantastic jo, congratulations!
Fantastic shot — all your labors were worth it (at least for us, hopefully for you, too!).
incredible long exposure .. you make my day
Very, very cool and so nicely composed. I like the spinning effect of the stars and the colors of the night sky. Interesting and unique image, nicely done. You’ll have to share how you overlap the images to create 1 single image.