![]() ![]() I’ll try to remember this for next time.A Star Trail shot of the stars rotating around the Pole Star in the North.Īfter some cloudy nights the sky finally opened up together so I headed out in the evening to try and make a star trail shot. It works well for the time-lapse but there is almost too much information for the #startrails. If I had to do it again I would shoot it at a lower ISO, and maybe an even shorter exposure. I converted that whole mess into a 4K UHD MP4 & proceeded to destroy my file quality by rendering a 720p low bitrate file to try and make it past the Instagram & facebook compression algorithms. You also have the option of saving out the individual progressive frames as JPGs, which I did and rendered yet another time-lapse. Once I had a usable #6K .MOV file, I took the individual frames from the time-lapse into an application called #StarStaX which layers the individual files over one another and blends them together into a single #startrail frame. ![]() I did my color & general image corrections in #Adobe #Lightroom (Adobe Photoshop Lightroom) and then back in into #LRTimelapse5 to smooth out my exposures and to eliminate the flickering (mostly caused by my headlamp). Since then, I took those 500 or so frames into LRTimelapse 5 and started the process of creating the #timelapse. I posted it a few weeks ago if you haven’t seen it yet. ![]() QUICKLY.īack at the computer the first thing I did was create a composite image to bring out the colors and details of the milky way and combine a few of the meteors we were able to see into a single frame. Once blue-hour broke, I began tearing down my frost covered gear, hoping for the best, but really just needing to get somewhere warm. But he was a trooper and we spent most of the night trying to name constellations, planets and letting our eyes adjust long enough to see the #milkyway. I felt a little guilty for dragging anyone along, I have a tendency to stick it out at the sake of my own comfort and common sense. I had other photos to capture & if there is one thing I’ve learned over the years it’s that you need to commit early and quickly in these situations, otherwise you don’t get much in the way of useful images for a time-lapse or image stack. ![]() I shot at 24mm and framed the wind vane the best I could so I could also capture the milky way and started my intervalometer and left it alone for the rest of the night. This would result in lots of gaps throughout the time-lapse. This feature, although really good at what it does, takes about as long to reduce noise as it took to shoot the frame. I turned off Nikons long exposure noise reduction feature to reduce the amount of times between frames. I set my camera to ISO 5000 at f 2.8 with a 30 second exposure. Using the app on my #iphone I was able to determine where the milky way would rise from and where it would ultimately fade out in the early morning hours. I was hoping to capture the stars rotating around that fixed point in the night sky & potentially the milky way rising in the same frame. I was heading out later than I hoped & committed to the idea of setting up there and trying to frame the arrow pointing at the #northstar, #Polaris. Having been to Observatory park a handful of times now I remembered the wind vane that was situated along one of the paths. I shot about 500 frames between midnight and five a.m. * just a quick warning, this is long & probably confusing, if you make it to the end let me know if you have questions. It’s not exactly the best way to execute a project like this & It’s resulted in a few thousand spare files and a number of mp4 files that I can’t really discern a difference between. I’ve been playing with this sequence whenever I’ve had a few minutes free. That being said I decided I should share this time-lapse I shot out at ( Geauga Park District ObservatoryPark) Observatory Park in Montville, Ohio. I like revisiting old projects. I think that process has made me better over the years and it helps guide me when I have a camera in my hand. I just stop when I have to and revisit when I can sneak back in. I was having a discussion with my boss Marv today and we came to the realization that I never finish anything. Or, rather, I never consider anything finished. ![]()
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