Star Trail Photography for Beginners!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2023
- In this beginner's guide to star trail photography, we'll take you on a captivating journey through the night sky. Join us as we explore the mesmerizing beauty of star trails and learn how to capture them using basic photography techniques.
In this comprehensive tutorial, we'll cover everything you need to know to get started with star trail photography. From choosing the right equipment to finding the perfect location, we'll walk you through each step of the process. We'll also discuss camera settings, including exposure time, ISO, and aperture, to help you achieve stunning results.
Throughout the video, we'll share practical tips and tricks to make your star trail photography experience a success. Learn how to plan and compose your shots, avoid common pitfalls, and create striking compositions with the stars as your backdrop. Whether you're a photography enthusiast or a beginner looking to explore astrophotography, this guide is perfect for you.
Join us as we unlock the secrets of capturing the mesmerizing movement of stars over time. Get ready to immerse yourself in the magic of the night sky and create breathtaking images that will leave you and your viewers in awe.
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This is really what I need. From gear to post processing. Gonna try it today. Thank you!
Wow. What a great presentation. You answerd all the questions I had in my mind. Keep making great content like this, particularly on Astro. Cheers.
This video seems to be an almost exact copy of the Alyn Wallace video on star trails from three years ago. Unfortunately he is now deceased.
This is so helpful, thank you! I can't wait to try my first star trail photo :)
Awesome video. Love the Start-To-Finish approach. Just what I needed!
Hello from China, fantastic tutorial that allowed me to take my first star trails picture ever. All the information are to the point and very well organized. I would add a tip, test the features you need (like manual focus with digital zoom, interval settings…) before going on location :P … and I did catch a satellite (or a plane?) that I post processed in that single plane.
Latest GoPro does everything for you. :)
I captured several star trails on my October 14 annular solar eclipse trip to New Mexico and Utah. I chose to do star trails rather than Milky Way landscapes because the Milky Way wasn't showing the galactic core in October. The star trail images went very well. Interesting, I am expecting to meet an astrophotographer friend from Germany in Big Bend National Park prior to the total solar eclipse in April. I'm hoping for clear skies at night so Milky Way and star trails will be good. If partly cloudy, then timelapse videos will be an option.
Thank you very much for this tutorial
Thank you so much!! Very informative and I feel ready to give it a try! Excellent teaching
Great instructions, thank you
Awesome video .
Thank you
Im new to this
Excited to try this in MN !
Great video and excellent presentation style. Thank you.
Great video. Now to try it out.
Awesome video. Heading out tonight to shoot some trails!
Thank you Mallory!
great video. Will have a try!
Very inspiring video😊👍🥰
Please keep creating content ., excellent ❤
Great vid, thanks.
I have a query that no one can seem to answer:
Why do we see ZERO parallax in star trail time lapse videos? This can only occur if the stars are roughly the same distance away. If the stars were different distances away there MUST be parallax.
Thanks. Fantastic video. I don't know if you have a background in education but you really give clarity. I was also surprised you said that star trails were possible in urban areas with a lot of light pollution. I live in a city Bortle class 7. I had previously set my camera up in the garden to test the intervalometer but had never thought of trying to make star trails. It worked! StarStaX is a great find as quite a few programmes appear to be for windows only. Keep making the videos.
I’m so excited to try this!!!
Yay!!!! They are so fun!! Lmk how it turns out!!!
Very helpful and easy to understand and follow!
So glad you enjoyed it! Wishing you happy shooting!
Finally video that I need :) Thanks Mallory
ahhh! Glad you liked it!! Happy shooting, and LMK when you shoot some trails!
Fine explanation! there are several ways to do Star Trails, I think. I do less pictures with more time (about 3 min) and I like to put it together with GIMP, which is similar to Photoshop (but free). But I shurely will give your method a try.
Thank You for the great informative video
Glad it was helpful! Happy shooting!!
Very good stuff Mallory…I’m starting to get hooked on this Astro stuff…possibly the next frontier for me 🙂
Thanks, Walt!!! We will get out and some some astro soon :) This summer has just been crazy!
Tks foer the vid and tutorial. My camera has a time lapse and I forgot to set to 1 sec interval. Meaning it continuously shot for ard 320 images until my batt dies. i down loaded the images and I got exactly 320 images. What's the reason that you said set the interval for 1 sec?
Thx
I usually take 30 second images for star trails, but there is a third option... 3 minute exposures. If something goes wrong, the night isn't ruined and you have fewer images to stack. Post processing goes faster with fewer images to remove airplanes and satellites.
Thanks for the tips. It been to cloudy on the east coast of NC to try anything right now, but I will be trying software out when I get a chance, Thanks!
Wishing you clear skies!! Hope it helps :)
Good tutorial. Thanks
Glad you found it helpful!! thanks for watching
This was great! Have you done star trail videos? I think one of my favorite things is when it's like a cumulative timelapse where it starts as a night sky and then plays out the stars creating the trails.
I have some star trails with hundreds of images. Putting them into a video form would be a fun challenge. I will have to watch a few youtube videos to learn how to do that.
great video, thank you. How do you taper the ends of each star trail so they dont start and end so abrubtly?
Great question! you can play with the "comet mode" in Star Stax to make the trails look more like comets with tapered tails. Hope that helps!
Great tutorial! Question, let's say you want your foreground sharp, do you take a foreground image first then do your star trails and blend them in PS?
Thank you! You are spot on! I try to do a blue hour blend with my foreground nice and sharp and noise free then blend them together!
Great shot i hope your going to shoot the annular solar eclipse in October!!
It will be right over central texas so going to do my damndest!!!
I just recently picked up my first digital camera and haven't tried this.
I also have many many star trails on film I started shooting them in the early 80s.
Thanks for sharing.
I do have a question I know nothing about. For the digital processing program do I get lightroom clasic ?
welcome to digital!!! You definitely should process in Lightroom Classic! LRmobile is great... but classic gives you better features, in my opinion! I recently shot my first star trail (2hours) on film and I was blown away!! so so cool!
@@mallorydavisphotography gratz on your star trails it take a bit longer but it's something cool pluss all the different night scapes you can add below them.
Thank you for the advice lightroom clasic. That's what I'm going with.
Thank you.
Stacking lol 😆
Pretty cool, I've never tried shooting star trails (intentionally 🙂 ). StarStaX looks very cool. So with this you don't have to make a composite with a separate foreground?
too many images, right?! This particular image set I used, I shot into blue hour so it gave me a nice clean foreground. You typically should shoot a separate foreground, but totally personal preference!
Camera on raw or jpg ?
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how much you want to bet?!
@@mallorydavisphotographythe only decoration is his comment.. fear based comments.
Do MP matter when shooting Astro?
In my opinion, no! What matters is the cameras ability to handle noise. I shoot sony bc they have the best sensors for low light photography. I get great results from my A7iv (33mp) and my A7riv (64mp).
How do you avoid the "zipper" look on the star trails? I have tried shorter time between shots and it still has that look.
be sure your interval between shots is 1 second! otherwise the stars will move and you will have those gaps
And - would one hour of shooting give me decent star trails?? Thank you !!!!!!
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