Star Trails

Zygote

Last night i did my very first try of star trails. I'm very happy with the result even though i have seen pictures way way way better than this one. The composition isn't the most interesting either since the main object was to get a fairly sharp picture of star trails.

My camera is Nikon D50 and i used the 18-55 lens that was included when i bought the camera. I also used a tripod and a remote control.

Focal length: 18.0mm
Exposure time: 1515.000 s or about 25minutes
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO equiv.: 200 i don't think the iso on my camera get lower than 200 :rolleyes
manual focus

I shot in raw and had to adjust the picture a bit since it was pretty light.

Any advice would be very appreciated since i found star trail pictures to be a lot of fun.

Skippy

Zygote wrote:

Last night i did my very first try of star trails. I'm very happy with the result even though i have seen pictures way way way better than this one. The composition isn't the most interesting either since the main object was to get a fairly sharp picture of star trails.

My camera is Nikon D50 and i used the 18-55 lens that was included when i bought the camera. I also used a tripod and a remote control.

Focal length: 18.0mm
Exposure time: 1515.000 s or about 25minutes
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO equiv.: 200 i don't think the iso on my camera get lower than 200
manual focus

I shot in raw and had to adjust the picture a bit since it was pretty light.

Any advice would be very appreciated since i found star trail pictures to be a lot of fun.

Ohhhhh cool you captured a full circle good job
I get the feeling these star trail type shots are not easy to do.

Glad you got your circle in .... Skippy
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USAIR

Looks like a good start to me nice photo.
Still working on some of these...boy they sure take up a lot of time.
You can only get 5 or 6 of these shots a night

Have fun

Fred

Marc Muench

USAIR wrote:

Looks like a good start to me nice photo.
Still working on some of these...boy they sure take up a lot of time.
You can only get 5 or 6 of these shots a night

Have fun

Fred

For the full effect I recommend all night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

25 min in to the exposure tape off the lower section of the lens to retain the lights.

ericgtr

Interesting shot, I would think f/4 at 25 minutes would've blown those backgound lights through half of the photo but you pulled it off nicely.

Zygote

Thanks for your comments. I will try and find a darker location next time.

David_S85

http://www.solev.net/gallery_popups/bedruthan_startrails.htm
http://www.solev.net/
http://www.lostamerica.com/index.html
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/night-photography.htm
http://www.schoolofphotography.com/night/night3.html#bai
http://www.hoursofdarkness.com/Galleries.htm

Zygote

Excellent! Thank you, David