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With star trail images, any slight knock on your tripod can ruin the final image so I'd already given up as soon as I saw how windy it was. The weather forecast for the night was for light winds but when I got there it was absolutely howling, so much so that my car was being rocked by the wind. The waning gibbous moon was below the horizon when I began and started moving above the horizon about two thirds of the way through, casting its ambient light on the lighthouse and adding a blue hue to the sky. This is a 3 hour exposure (325 images at 30 seconds each) of the Guilderton Lighthouse 125km north of Perth in Western Australia. So hopefully my parents won’t see this photo, cause he’s getting this as a 20x30 framed print for Christmas. It’s virtually SOOC except for some added darkening of the sky. My alarm went off, and I hopped the fence, went back out there, and got this. Went back to my car, turned it on and did some reading of Job, and caught some sleep. So I upped the aperture, set my remote trigger for an hour, and let it go. It was too dark and each shot would have to be about 5 min in length. Unlike my similar shot of a cross I wasn’t able to do multiple shots and then blend them with startrails.exe. Drove to the windmill, parked on the side of the road, hopped a short barbwire fence and tried some test shots. I got dinner in town (best Ruben I’ve ever had) and waited until it was pitch dark. I got to the lake which was hoping would offer me a sunset reflection of the Rockies only to find the lake frozen, and thus, no reflection. Driving to this random lake 2hrs southwest of Colorado Springs, I noticed a lone windmill on the side of the road, and quickly make a checkpoint in my GPS in case I wanted to come back to find it. I considered turning around several times after realizing the clouds I was promised earlier in the day were not to be found and my chances of catching anything with a sunset were dwindling. Sometimes you don’t have a destination in mind when inspiration strikes you. Some small colour adjustments were made using a Vibrance layer and a layer mask to exclude the foreground.įor my Photography books Understand Your Camera and Compose Better Pictures see My Author Page USA or My Author Page UKįor Galleries, Prints and Licences see Edwin Jones Photography More of the trails were brought out with Topaz Clarity and then Topaz DeNoise was used. The latest version has a new feature which cuts out the small gaps between each image as the camera triggers the shutter.

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StarTrails.exe is free from and automatically does the blending using jpegs. This one with lockdown reducing flights there was not a single airplane airplane track. In previous shots for the same amount of time I would have to use the heal tool to remove about 8 to 10 airplane tracks on individual shots.

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It is very important to turn off all long exposure and high ISO noise reduction to avoid increasing the gap between exposures.

I knew where the North Star was from previous shots but would otherwise use the Google Sky Map App.

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The camera was set to manual at f5 aperture, shutter speed was set to 30 seconds and ISO 1000. Pointed north towards the pole star to get the circle. This can be done in an urban area as long as no street light is in the field of view. Set it up with a timer and then left it to it overnight until the battery ran out.

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354 shots at 30 seconds each and then combined in free software Startrails.exe. Nearly 3 hours worth of Star Trails taken from my back garden in Pagham last night. As long as there is no street light directly in the field of view the Camera can see and record stars. This was taken in my back garden in a medium sized town though it is on the edge of town. Never let anybody convince you that it is only possible to take decent star trail images many miles away from any light pollution. Also the moon was up during the day not at night. The timing was ideal because last week had many day of clear blue skies and cloudless nights. I have taken this viewpoint from my back garden several times before but the current lockdown seemed a good time to try it again.