Comments on: 4 Steps To Creating Star Trails Photos Using Stacking Software

By: Anna Patrick

Anna Patrick — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:37:02 +0000

Star trails photography are always fascinating! Here are some examples of inspiring star trails photography http://www.photographymojo.com/2011/09/inspiring-star-trails-photography/

By: Che Ku Zainal

Che Ku Zainal — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:36:45 +0000

I love this images very much & if you’ve pleasures pleased give me some tips…

By: kalerblind

kalerblind — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:26:03 +0000

thanks for the tutorial DPS! here mine.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasputern/5085655816/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasputern/4621727867/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasputern/4792469864/
and the vid.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rasputern/4793730162/

thanks a lot.

By: Gavin Treadgold

Gavin Treadgold — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:27:14 +0000

Re: Using the Southern Cross – that is a very approximate solution to find the South celestial pole. Check out the more details instructions here for using Crux (Souther Cross) and the Alpha and Beta Centauri (Pointers) to more accurately find the point that stars will rotate around.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_pole

By: Susheel Chandradhas

Susheel Chandradhas — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:13:39 +0000

Love this… Unfortunately where I live, the sky goes pink every night… I’d have to drive out about 2-3 hours before I can get a dark sky. Very likely that it’s worth the trouble.

By: Tami

Tami — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:23:29 +0000

Great article. I’d love to see the post on image stacking in Photoshop too.

By: Patrick Anderson

Patrick Anderson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:07:21 +0000

I’ve been fascinated with star trails since I was a boy – saw my first in one of those old “Time-Life” nature books.

I read about a similar technique in Sky & Telescope magazine a number of years ago. I would love to do these more often.

Here’s an example I shot earlier this summer at Devil’s Tower in Wyoming.

http://pjaphoto.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!CB835C39033EE67F!434.entry

Thanks for posting this – I love to see how others accomplish this!

By: evan johnson

evan johnson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:29:28 +0000

I’ve been doing a lot of long exposure shots lately and have the star swirl shot on my list but I’m procrastinating and keep moving it down the list.

Thanks for the article though, very helpful.

http://photoexpose.blogspot.com/

- Evan

By: Chris Luckhardt

Chris Luckhardt — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:48:33 +0000

Great article and thanks for using my photo (the last one, credited to “motionblur”).

I would like to clarify that my image is a single shot without the use of stacking software. I did use Noise Ninja to clean up the image a bit. For the record, I used my old Rebel XT body, the exposure time was 771 seconds, an aperture of F/3.5, 200 IS) and my 28-135mm lens, set wide and using the infinity setting.

All of my star trails photos are single exposure images. At one time I had considered the stacking technique, but once I purchased the Rebel XTi, I found there was no need, thanks to its mostly noise free captures.

For another example, using my Rebel XTi in a single capture with *no* Photoshopping, please see this image: http://flickr.com/photos/motionblur/2476300145/

By: batman

batman — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:37:48 +0000

this is great – just what i’ve been looking for.

keep it up – ill be keeping tabs.

kind regards