Camelopardalis Star Trails

kdog

Fellow Dgrin member Stumblebum and I ventured out to a place he knows about 3,000' up a mountain outside of San Jose to photograph the Camelopardalis Meteor Shower. The shower was a bust, but I thought I'd share the resultant star trails shot.

Fiddlestix

Outstanding photo. But starting to feel dizzy!

bgarland

Very nicely done!

Sam

How do you spin the camera without the tree spinning?

Sam

Stumblebum

Sam wrote: »

How do you spin the camera without the tree spinning?

Sam

C'mon Sam, you know better.....you have to hold the camera body steady.....and spin the lens as fast as possible! That's what kdog told me, but my trails didn't come out quiet as nice....perhaps I should have been rotating the lens with both hands.

JC

Nice! Did you do the trail fades in post, or was the sky clearing as the night went on?

slpollett

Very cool!

Congrats on the steady hand while you spin the lens.

Sherry

kdog

Fiddlestix wrote: »

Outstanding photo. But starting to feel dizzy!

Thanks, then I did my job.

bgarland wrote: »

Very nicely done!

Thanks, Brad.

Sam wrote: »

How do you spin the camera without the tree spinning?
Sam

Sam, I had had both the camera and the tree mounted to the same solid platform and rotated both of them together.

Stumblebum wrote: »

C'mon Sam, you know better.....you have to hold the camera body steady.....and spin the lens as fast as possible! That's what kdog told me, but my trails didn't come out quiet as nice....perhaps I should have been rotating the lens with both hands.

I can't tell you all my secrets, man.

JC wrote: »

Nice! Did you do the trail fades in post, or was the sky clearing as the night went on?

Thanks, JC. That comet effect was done in post.

slpollett wrote: »

Very cool!

Congrats on the steady hand while you spin the lens.

Sherry

Thank, Sherry!

David_S85

Sorry to hear that the Camelopardalis disappointed, but that's a great star trail photo you ended up with, Joel.

byoshi

Nice one. How many stacked images is this?

Stumblebum

I would have gotten some decent shots off if this guy didn't keep walking in front of my setup......:D

kdog

David_S85 wrote: »

Sorry to hear that the Camelopardalis disappointed, but that's a great star trail photo you ended up with, Joel.

Thanks, David.

byoshi wrote: »

Nice one. How many stacked images is this?

Thanks, Brandon. 220 frames, 20 seconds each.

Stumblebum wrote: »

I would have gotten some decent shots off if this guy didn't keep walking in front of my setup......:D

. Nice shots otherwise!

anonymouscuban

Stumblebum wrote: »

I would have gotten some decent shots off if this guy didn't keep walking in front of my setup......:D

Hey Taz... I had the same problem shooting with him.

kdog

anonymouscuban wrote: »

Hey Taz... I had the same problem shooting with him.

Admit it, you guys just like shoot celebrities.

Qarik

killer shot!!

kdog

Qarik wrote: »

killer shot!!

Thanks, Daniel.

EvanThomas

Cool star trails! Thanks for sharing

PrevailingConditions

A seriously amazing shot. A lot of effort went into this and clearly paid off handsomely. I'll be up in the Sierras in a few weeks and am hoping to catch some Milky Way/star trails work. This is very inspirational.

Best,

Mike