Star trails at EMC Raisting

pyry

Here's a star trail shot from EMC Raisting in Germany. Only managed 19 minutes of light before the camera dewed up, and it was time to go somewhere warm. But it turned out ok I think, even with imperfections left in the image

What do you think?

catcher33

i like the plane traces that show up

David_S85

very nice!

JC

I'm relocating to your part of the world soon, glad to see that my astrophotography doesn't have to die completely. I've had luck in the Alps, but was thinking that the lowland urban areas would be the death of my hobby. It doesn't look like you used a dedicated shot for the foreground. I like your white balance and exposure for the sky, but I think if you made a dedicated image for the foreground and layered it on top of the final sky image, that you could improve the look of the foreground, vis-à-vis improving the white balance and exposure in the structures.

Eia

That is cool. I like the human elements.... everything about this shouts space!

travelways

Very nice

pyry

catcher33 wrote: »

i like the plane traces that show up

David_S85 wrote: »

very nice!

Eia wrote: »

That is cool. I like the human elements.... everything about this shouts space!

travelways wrote: »

Very nice

Thank you all

I like to put some context to these and the massive radio antennas were just the thing. Very spacey waycey

pyry

JC wrote:

I'm relocating to your part of the world soon, glad to see that my astrophotography doesn't have to die completely. I've had luck in the Alps, but was thinking that the lowland urban areas would be the death of my hobby. It doesn't look like you used a dedicated shot for the foreground. I like your white balance and exposure for the sky, but I think if you made a dedicated image for the foreground and layered it on top of the final sky image, that you could improve the look of the foreground, vis-à-vis improving the white balance and exposure in the structures.

Thanks for your feedback!

Raisting is more rural than urban, at least enough to get you out of the worst of the light pollution.
The white balance in the fore comes from strobe light with FL-gels, or as I think of it, alien green.. You're right; It's not a masked in dedicated shot, but I thought the image found a decent balance between my green strobes and EMC's own lighting.

JC

pyry wrote: »

Thanks for your feedback!

Raisting is more rural than urban, at least enough to get you out of the worst of the light pollution.
The white balance in the fore comes from strobe light with FL-gels, or as I think of it, alien green.. You're right; It's not a masked in dedicated shot, but I thought the image found a decent balance between my green strobes and EMC's own lighting.

Ah, the foreground lighting makes sense now. I'd like to play around with this location, and get close to the ground, shooting up at the antennae, and maybe getting those two overexposed lights at the bottom out of the image. (or, in a dedicated foreground shot, increasing the strobe light so you can do a shorter exposure and not blow out those lights).

Nice shot as is though. I've had a few locations, north of Frankfurt, Strasbourg, near Stuttgart that I've wanted to try some startrails at, but it's always been cloudy!

Richard

catcher33 wrote: »

i like the plane traces that show up

Very cool combination of elements.

pyry

JC wrote: »

Ah, the foreground lighting makes sense now. I'd like to play around with this location, and get close to the ground, shooting up at the antennae, and maybe getting those two overexposed lights at the bottom out of the image. (or, in a dedicated foreground shot, increasing the strobe light so you can do a shorter exposure and not blow out those lights).

Nice shot as is though. I've had a few locations, north of Frankfurt, Strasbourg, near Stuttgart that I've wanted to try some startrails at, but it's always been cloudy!

Go for it. It's not fenced off, and there's about 30 antennas to choose from, some lit and some not. Bring your wellies, it's basically in a field

pyry

Richard wrote: »

Very cool combination of elements.

Thank you Richard

rwells

Very spacy!

Panther

Howdy Prvy,

Very neat capture, I'll bet it was a
surreal feeling being there among them !!!

I too like the plane trails?

pyry

rwells wrote: »

Very spacy!

Spacey wacey, timey wimey

pyry

Panther wrote: »

Howdy Prvy,

Very neat capture, I'll bet it was a
surreal feeling being there among them !!!

I too like the plane trails?

Thanks!

Adding to the surreallism was the quiet. Those antennas point at geostationary satellites so they generally don't move. And then one of them makes a short correction, whirr!