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Recently, I wrote a couple blog posts about how I shoot time-lapse photography and we will be using the same methods for shooting that I describe in that article. Sometimes, the parallel lines created near the east/west axis of the earth can create interesting patterns as well. A bare tree points the way to the North Star on the frozen marsh at Green Bottom, West Virginia. I like to find interesting foreground objects that are oriented in some way that lines up with the north star to create interesting compositions with the circular arrangements of the star trails.

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~90 photos, ISO 800, f/2.8, 30s each over 45 minutes Star trails over the capitol building in Charleston, West Virginia. For tips on foreground lighting check out the article I wrote on the subject! Huntington, West Virginia 31st St Bridge. The moon can provide foreground lighting but it’s best to shoot when the moon is not in the sky or if the moon is at crescent phase and won’t be passing directly into the frame of your shot.

The only other thing to watch for is the moon phase. As long as there are no street lights in the immediate vicinity. Interesting, colorful photos can be produced right on the edge of city lights. The good thing about choosing a location for star trails is that it doesn’t have to be in the darkest places. This is the method I will be describing in this post! Location I prefer to use Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop so that I can control all aspects of editing and get the most out of my photos while shooting in RAW. While I appreciate these methods and have used them myself, they mostly rely on JPEGs, which have limited editing potential. There are programs that will stack photos for you as well, such as StarStax. There are several methods that can be used to accomplish this, some cameras even come with stacking modes built-in.

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Layering in software makes it possible to combine multiple exposures, control noise more effectively through shorter exposures, discard frames that may have been ruined for some reason, edit out unwanted elements such as jet trails and shoot for as long as battery power will allow. Settings: ISO 800, f/2.8, 18mmĪll of that is solved with multiple single exposures in digital photography. A single 5 minute exposure for star trails.

Film speed, sensor heat, grain all factors that needed to be considered, a single moment of a bright light entering the frame could ruin a night’s work, and if you wanted a well lit foreground – forget about it. However, in the days of analog film, if one wanted to take a 1 hour star trail photo the only option available was setting the camera on a tripod for a single 1 hour exposure and hope for the best.

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Digital allows us to take a series of photographs over a long period of time and combine them in software on the computer, this is how I got started.

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Star trails in photos where the camera is facing north will appear in a circular pattern around the north star as seen in the photograph above, because the star is fixed and the Earth rotates about the north/south axis.ĭigital photography has made the creation of star trail images much easier and accessible to anyone with a digital camera capable of shooting in manual mode, a wide angle lens and a sturdy tripod. Relative to our position in space, and being situated in the northern hemisphere in the world (in North America), Polaris always appears at a fixed point in the sky and this is why the star can be used for navigation.

For this reason, the north star, Polaris, is often used as a focal point in these images. The stars themselves are not actually moving, of course, but they appear that way to us due to the rotation of the Earth. One of the things I get asked most frequently regarding my night photography is how are my star trail images created? Star trails is a term in photography used to describe very long exposures of the stars in which their movement across the sky can be seen in the resulting photo as “trails” of light. This is a stack of about 500 photos with a 30 second exposure time each, taken over 4 hours.

4 hours of Earth’s rotation are represented around the New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia.