Star Trails and Long Exposure

anvilimage

I was walking up this pitch black road and decided to try bulb mode for the first time. After a few failed attempts, I got this on a 5 minute exposure.



Of course, there's always a back story to why I'm walking up some road in the middle of nowhere at 2AM. You can read about that on my photoblog...

-joe

Mr. Quiet

Niccccceeeeee! I think if you cropped it and took out the road it would look better?

anvilimage

I was actually composing this shot to try to get the vanishing point of the double yellow and guardrail. The star trails were like a surprise bonus!

I'm going to re-shoot up there pretty soon (most likely) and I'll try this again with a wider lens to get more sky...

Thanks for your comment!

-joe

Mr. Quiet

Sure thing