Excellent, thanks Matt. I'm on holiday this week so fingers crossed for clear skies.
Simon
Here we are, first try at it and I'm glad I have something to show after an eventful night.
You should really put a disclaimer in the tutorial Matt, I became adamant in my mind that zombies existed and were lurking in the fields around East Midlands, dark country lanes by yourself in the middle of the night can lead to bouts of madness.
I plan to try this next week when I'm camping in a sheep feild outside Bideford in Devon. May have a practice before in the garden to make sure I know what I'm doing
That's a fine first effort mate, looks like there was a little bit of a knock to the camera mid was through but other than that a fine effort might just add that disclaimer
I did knock the tripod slightly when I got startled by Fred the horse making a noise, I didn't realise he was a few meters away despite already being there for a while.
Oh Fred was playing tricks on you
It's a bit worrying when you've already persuaded yourself that zombies exist when you think you're alone, to then hear a noise and see something large moving in the shadows behind a tree.
Is there any way to combat condensation on a lens? I noticed quite a build up once my shots were finished.
It's a real PITA there are various theory's I try and get my camera and lens acclimatised, try and have a breeze over it and stay down wind of the camera...but sometimes nothing I do seems to do anything for the situation others have rigged up little fans even hand warmers round the lens
Found this website whilst rummaging around the net, is this equipment any good for someone starting out, bearing in mind already have the camera, tripod and long lens.
http://www.astrotrac.com/Default.aspx?p=tt320x-ag
cheers matt and thanks for a great tutorial on this subject its realy helpfull hopefully we will have a clear sky tonight.
bleddyn
It's a bit worrying when you've already persuaded yourself that zombies exist when you think you're alone, to then hear a noise and see something large moving in the shadows behind a tree.
Is there any way to combat condensation on a lens? I noticed quite a build up once my shots were finished.
thank you so much!! another project for the weekend!
excellent
this is the type of photography that made me go buy a camera and i cant wait to actually get out and try it
some awesome stuff here, really makes me want to go out and try. Ideally need to find some company to take with me, not particularly fond of standing out for hours at a time on my own.
some awesome stuff here, really makes me want to go out and try. Ideally need to find some company to take with me, not particularly fond of standing out for hours at a time on my own.
You could always put a post up in the subsection of the forum for meeting up with others, just don't forget to add a location!
this is simply brilliant !!! I am really hoping for clear skies this weekend so I can use this advices !!!
sure I will - of course if skies is clear (in Aberdeen very rarely !)
Great guide will have to give it ago soon Out of interest what software/process do you recommend for stacking the images together ?
Well by and far and away the easiest way to do the stacking is to download the freeware StarStaX is a brilliant piece of software, which is exceptionally easy to use...plus is cross platform where as the original Startrails was and I believe still is a windows only software...also frankly StarStaX processes the stacking faster and renders a much nicer image
Thanks for that Just downloaded the software and looks really good, will have to get out and get some shots to test it soon
@MWHCVT matt do you ever stack in photoshop? I've a tarted stacking mine manually and the results are nicer than starstax
Great be sure to post your results up FYI if perchance it's clear in your part of the world there supposed to be a spectacular meteor show over this weekend, the same settings for star trails will also work for catching them naturally though as this celestial fireworks display is supposed to be stunning its absolutely hissing it down here (n)