Camelopardalis Star Trails

kdog · May 26, 2014

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 · May 26, 2014

Outstanding photo. But starting to feel dizzy!

bgarland · May 26, 2014

Very nicely done!

Sam · May 26, 2014

How do you spin the camera without the tree spinning?

Sam

Stumblebum · May 26, 2014

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 · May 26, 2014

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

slpollett · May 26, 2014

Very cool!

Congrats on the steady hand while you spin the lens.

Sherry

kdog · May 27, 2014

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 · May 27, 2014

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

byoshi · May 27, 2014

Nice one. How many stacked images is this?

Stumblebum · May 27, 2014

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

kdog · May 27, 2014

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 · May 28, 2014

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 · May 28, 2014

anonymouscuban wrote: »

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

Admit it, you guys just like shoot celebrities.

Qarik · May 28, 2014

killer shot!!

kdog · May 28, 2014

Qarik wrote: »

killer shot!!

Thanks, Daniel.

EvanThomas · May 29, 2014

Cool star trails! Thanks for sharing

PrevailingConditions · June 2, 2014

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

Camelopardalis Star Trails

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