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[Exioce]

I say easy to use, this actually took me about 4 hours...




(Apologies for repost but the original got scrubbed by accident almost immediately)

 

[milou]

Spam: Part of my sea fever project: http://www.milouvision.com/category/seafever/ featured on theprintspace blog: http://www.theprintspace.co.uk/blog/david-baker/

Also Lie of the Land column in OP: http://www.milouvision.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/OP June 2013.jpg

 

[milou]

I say easy to use, this actually took me about 4 hours...

Fab.

 

[milou]

And part of the Ridge Trees project featured in PH Magazine: http://www.phmag.ca/magazine/the-changing-landscape/ and an interview at Questioning Creatives: http://www.questioningcreatives.com/david-baker/

Currently gearing up for an exhibition of the Ridge Trees project in Christchurch:

Thought I had all the image but having just acquired an Epson 3880, now reprinting on 300gsm art paper. Huge learning curve.

 

[TdC]

did a little experiment just now...

 

[TdC]

more experimentation!

 

[TdC]

NB the above is taken from my roof terrace. I live in the middle of a small city and the light pollution is terribad. I am sporting mad wood for going out of the city to get some real star shots

Top pic: 15 x 15s exposure, 50mm equiv lens.
Bottom pic 115 x 15s exposure, same lens.

 

[caLLous]

Woo, the second one is winning so far. I should set something up here, we have practically zero light pollution, the night sky is incredible.

 

[TdC]

go for it dude. if you can set your camera to automated exposures or have a remote that does that (mine does). if you want single images, you can work out max exposure like so:

“Divide 500 by the focal length in 35 mm terms to get the maximum number of seconds of exposure without noticeable blurring. A 28 mm lens on a 1.6 crop factor camera yields: 500 / (1.6 * 28) = 11 seconds.”

if you want to stack them, I recommend a proggy called "startrails". le googlé is your friend. also...make a dark image like so : set your camera to whatever ISO, exposure, f-stop. lens cap ON. expose. keep that pic. the software will need it to cancel out noise and hot pixels and such filth.

also...full credit to Exioce for turning me on to this stuff

 

[Scouse]

Wi' mi' camera phone on a bike ride in the lake district the other day

Spoiler

 

[TdC]

btw, here's a crop of the full size image just to give you an impression of just how many stars the camera can see...even in the city with all the lights 0o

 

[caLLous]

Hmmm, I can't do automated exposures and I only have the remote that mimics the shutter button, not the fancy timer one (although I was and still am lusting after it for stuff just like this and time-lapse videos). I can plug the USB into my laptop and control the camera with the EOS software though and I'm pretty sure I can do automated exposures from there...

Colour me enthused!

 

[Fweddy]

Set your camera to continuous shutter mode and then tape down the shutter button.

I've been planning on a little camping trip to Kielder to photograph the red squirrels at dawn. I figured I'd try a star trail photo while I was there to pass the time.

 

[TdC]

Hmmm, I can't do automated exposures and I only have the remote that mimics the shutter button, not the fancy timer one (although I was and still am lusting after it for stuff just like this and time-lapse videos). I can plug the USB into my laptop and control the camera with the EOS software though and I'm pretty sure I can do automated exposures from there...

Colour me enthused!

dude I have a cheap as chips remote, and I discovered that if I hold down the remote's exposure button it goes in to continuous mode by itself. bonus

 

[TdC]

Set your camera to continuous shutter mode and then tape down the shutter button.

I've been planning on a little camping trip to Kielder to photograph the red squirrels at dawn. I figured I'd try a star trail photo while I was there to pass the time.

tbh I think the most valuable tip I read is "dress warmly"

 

[caLLous]

Wait. What? Am I doing a continuous stream of (for example) 15 second exposures? Or am I trying to put a gap between the exposures with a timer thing? I can lock the exposure button down on the remote I have so if it's the former I can make it work...

 

[Fweddy]

tbh I think the most valuable tip I read is "dress warmly"

I learnt that pretty darn fast the first time I got up at dawn to sit in a hide for a few hours.

I've never actually done it Cal but I believe it's supposed to be a continuous stream. I've read that anything longer than a six second gap between exposures will create a gap in your star trails. So start off with a full battery and don't mess up one photo half way through!

 

[Fweddy]

Wait. What? Am I doing a continuous stream of (for example) 15 second exposures? Or am I trying to put a gap between the exposures with a timer thing? I can lock the exposure button down on the remote I have so if it's the former I can make it work...

This thread is where everything I know on the subject comes from.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Most of what you see as "stars" over a city are in fact satellites. Sorry mates.

 

[TdC]

some more experimentation as it's a better night for it. here's a test exposure. 10 x 15 sec. ISO 200, F4 iirc.




this is my 12mm lens. due to technical things, the stars are just barely beginning to trail even with a total exposure time of 150s.

 

[Exioce]

Continuous shutter, 30 second exposures, leave it going for 30 or 60 minutes. Merge together in the software. Epic trails.

 

[TdC]

results from last night. I passed out asleep before I could upload 0o

 

[Urgat]

Pretty.

Polaris looks low in the sky, where abouts are ya?

Blooming clouds are screwing up my weekend sessions. I am dying to have another go at Saturn before its too low. Plus I don't have an east view so the moon is proving difficult to get as well.

Next realistic target will probably be the m81 galaxy in Ursa Major.

 

[Shagrat]

nice shot teeds.

 

[Embattle]

Most of what you see as "stars" over a city are in fact satellites. Sorry mates.

Most of mine would be either planes from LHR or helicopters.

 

[TdC]

Pretty.

Polaris looks low in the sky, where abouts are ya?

Blooming clouds are screwing up my weekend sessions. I am dying to have another go at Saturn before its too low. Plus I don't have an east view so the moon is proving difficult to get as well.

Next realistic target will probably be the m81 galaxy in Ursa Major.

deceptive: the green stuff is growing on a roof about 15 meters off the ground. I'm currently in the NL. trying another shot tonight if my laptop doesn't melt trying to export all the images in Lightroom: it's been chugging away for a good while now. total images yesterday was 480 x 5sec exposures. today I got 607 x 5s before my battery failed...noob mistake tbh

nice shot teeds.

cheers bud

 

[TdC]

okay I am done experimenting and want to do some real stuffs. sadly earliest time I can manage is probably in about three or four weeks... meh. Anyway, up to now I have made all the noob mistakes of -having my card be full half way through a shoot-, and -having my batterypack empty half way through a different shoot-, lol. Here are some reworkings of my two best results (imo) both stacked in Startrails with 12 images averaged for S/N.

This is some 600odd 5s exposures. Started at approx 0.45 hrs. Lens is a 12mm Olympus at f3.5


This is some 500 5s exposures. Started at 23.30. Lens is a 7-14mm Panasonic at f8

 

[caLLous]

I'm really quite enthusiastic about this. The weather has taken a turn for the lol though, so we're not going to have clear nights until Wednesday or Thursday. :<

 

[TdC]

you in the big France yes? maybe... *MAYBE* I could be up for a long weekend of star shooting, wine and delicious foods at some point during the summer. I might drive down with a mate/mates who's also heavily into photography. you up for some kind of meetup Calbacon?

 

[Wazzerphuk]

He's all words.