beth anthony
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i found a fun piece of freeware that lets a user stitch multiple images of the night sky together to create star trails.
startrails
i used it to create this image:
basically all i did was put the camera on a tripod, set the manual focus and set the manual exposure (20 seconds, iso 400, f/4 if i remember correctly). i plugged in the canon shutter release cable and took a test shot. once i verified that the exposure was correct i pushed the button on the shutter release cable and locked it in place. 138 images or about 2 hours later i retrieved the camera and now full cf card and loaded all of the images in to lightroom to convert to jpgs, then loaded the jpgs into the startrails software. it took awhile to load them, but it processed them as it went. the startrails look jagged in this version because it's been resized, but in the unresized image the trails are much smoother.
the image i posted was from my backyard. i wanted to do some during my last trip to grand tetons n.p. but due to the clouds i wasn't able to.
startrails
i used it to create this image:
basically all i did was put the camera on a tripod, set the manual focus and set the manual exposure (20 seconds, iso 400, f/4 if i remember correctly). i plugged in the canon shutter release cable and took a test shot. once i verified that the exposure was correct i pushed the button on the shutter release cable and locked it in place. 138 images or about 2 hours later i retrieved the camera and now full cf card and loaded all of the images in to lightroom to convert to jpgs, then loaded the jpgs into the startrails software. it took awhile to load them, but it processed them as it went. the startrails look jagged in this version because it's been resized, but in the unresized image the trails are much smoother.
the image i posted was from my backyard. i wanted to do some during my last trip to grand tetons n.p. but due to the clouds i wasn't able to.