Star Trails Nightscape: This past Sat conditions were good so I headed down to Borrego Springs CA to do some star trails work using one of Ricardo Breceda's metal sculptures for the...

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Nov 28, 2022 20:18:36 #

JN56 Loc: Southern California

This past Sat conditions were good so I headed down to Borrego Springs CA to do some star trails work using one of Ricardo Breceda's metal sculptures for the foreground. People were camping at my first choice the Serpent (BLM land) there campfire with the added light and smoke was a no-go. I knew the Scorpion wasn't far and that its general location should work well given I needed to point the camera north towards Polaris. Studied the process a fair bit but this was first attempt at time-lapse star trails. 15 / 3 min frames using Sequator for the merge, Affinity Photo for the edit. Next time I might reduce time by 1 min but increase the frame count by double to 30. Any input on process is appreciated. Thanks for looking...

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Nov 28, 2022 20:28:58 #

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Nov 28, 2022 20:36:33 #

Iron Sight Loc: Utah

"This past Sat conditions were good so I headed down to Borrego Springs CA to do some star trails"

That was a brilliant Idea!!!!! 👀
+ the Meta Data attached to the photo👍

Nov 28, 2022 20:52:02 #

luvmypets Loc: Born & raised Texan living in Fayetteville NC

Very cool!!

Dodie

Nov 28, 2022 21:03:08 #

PoppieJ Loc: North Georgia

looks like you exposed well as the colors show up in the stars. If you had over exposed they would only be bright white. And you don't have any satellites in the picture

Nov 28, 2022 21:18:22 #

BassmanBruce Loc: Middle of the Mitten

Nice shot.

Nov 28, 2022 22:20:51 #

DelRae Loc: Oregon

JN56 wrote:

This past Sat conditions were good so I headed dow... (show quote)

THANK YOU FOR SHARING DelRae

Nov 29, 2022 06:05:08 #

Fstop12 Loc: Kentucky

Very interesting foreground feature. I haven't done a star trail image in a long time. Mine usually consist of 30 sec expsures with a 1 sec pause between shots. I usually do a blue hour foreground image and then when it gets dark I try to get the stars as sharp as I can before starting the camera. My shoot usually lasts about 3 hours. In post I use Starstax to blend the star images and then I blend my blue hour foreground shot with the blended stars image.

Nov 29, 2022 06:30:54 #