Its a dizzy ride to the centre of the galaxy
I learnt a few lessons from the last star trail session at the sandy side of Anna Bay, firstly.. go somewhere where there is no sand, tick. secondly set the timer correctly, tick
(note the malfunction from last time was actually due to the fact that I set the camera mode to single shot, this meant I missed an interval every shot and hence the 40 second gap between shots in my last one. It needs to be set to continuous low or high.
I still have a slight gap in the extreme view of the frame, but still better than the other attempt.
So with those key points addressed – for the next star trail session I think i need the following.. warmer location :), set the white balance to something consistent 😉 and take care of local wildlife or farm animals 😉 There was a cow terrorising this railway the following morning 🙂
This was a set of images from a fairly short time period, just over 2 hours, I do have another set at over 5 hours, however the moon rose within that period and there was some pretty funky autoWB changes throughout that set, thats for a rainy day processing session!
techie stuff
192 images stacked together using the statistics method in Adobe PS CC
(see here https://plus.google.com/100975265940134223422/posts/VnN5muFSypj)
The foreground image included a bit more on the bottom which gave me the ability to get a slight vertical pano shot happening.
D7000 coupled with Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 @ 11mm- Aperture: f/2.8 and Shutter Speed: 45.5 seconds
ISO: 3200
out front – long metal things commonly referred to as railway tracks.
Lovely jubbly and thanks for looking – I welcome any suggestions, comments and improvements to my photography, they are always warmly welcomed and always appreciate the time people take to have a look, plus and/or comment.
Awesome image! Really nice work!
clasic
Magnifique
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Sucking Sky,
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hashtagmyarse….love it, and even though I am not a fan of star trails I don't mind this one, nice work GB
Absolutely awesome +Gerard Blacklock!
Wow, Great work!!
Amazing…love it! 🙂
Wonderful shot
You've definitely nailed this one, +Gerard Blacklock 🙂
Earth has been conquered heaven.
No trains on this one at night, +Gerard Blacklock?
Outstanding image! Too much work for me. Great job.
Train perception ,[?]
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Wow Beuntiful
really beautiful
Good one +Gerard Blacklock
boom … LSD photo ?
very cool
Top shot.
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WOW!! Great pic Gerard!!
Very good foto.
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Wow..amazing
Great work- awesome shot!!
Amazing shot! +Gerard Blacklock
This is amazing well done
Thanks again for the tech notes an the story of the shots. Well done.
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Sweet work Gerry – you didn't shoot the frames in RAW? (which would solve your WB problem)
Dubbo hey – looks like a good spot mate
Did I ever tell you what a beautiful shot ,that is.
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Really nice! I will try star trails photography during my holidays. Thanks for your advices.
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glad it helped, thanks for stopping by and commenting.
+Jason Ruth
cheers mate, you know what, the #hashtagmyass tag is great, makes it heaps easy to find some of my posts, i suppose i could just use my name, but that's no fun 😉
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phewww that was a mission 🙂
cheers all.
I also guess it is a not-to-subtle stab at those of us that are guilty of paying homage to the hashtag gods 😉
Either way, I like it. Clever and funny (to me)
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yeah been there and seen that movie 🙂
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cheers!
that eye in the sky, showed me something unreal, frikken killa, man, love you