Path To The Wormhole by Jared Revell
My first star trail attempt.
While at the Grampians for a few days with family, Neil and I headed out to Lake Fyans after our sunset shoot to do some star trail shots. It was really peaceful and relaxing out there, very surreal.
Even though we were on hardly any sleep, finishing off at 1:30am, and having to be up at 5am the next morning, I think this was worth it. I’ll definitely be trying this again.
Startrail from the peak of Mt Buffalo
Canon 40D
Lens: EF-S 10-22mm
Focal Length: 10mm
Shutter Speed: 30 seconds x 114 shots
Aperture: f4.0
ISO: 800
Auto White Balance
Format: RAW
Tripod & remote shutter
Drive mode set to Continual Burst
Post Exposure +0.9, sharpening & noise reduction
Converted to JPEG and layered together
Full details can be found here in my blog tips
Comments
WOW Jared, that’s amazing, I’m going to have to learn how to do this!
thanks Raquel !
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So lovely Jared….guessing need your wide angle lens and a tripod for this…amazing results
thanks Carmel :-)
tripod, yes
wide angle…the wider it is the more stars you’ll get, but you’d be able to do it with your lens, I think
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Just waiting for the event horizon to connect.
Thanks for the details on how you did this Jared. I have heard that leaving the shutter open for a long length of time to achieve this effect is not good for digital cameras. Things overheat. Nice to see that there is a way around this. Great capture.
haha ~ now that would be a shot !
thanks Dharna, and no worries :)
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Truly amazing!
thank you lenzart !
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This is incredible
thank you Melanie !
:-)
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Well that worked pretty darn well didn’t it!
thanks Andrew :-))
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bloody awsome Jared, and your first attempt so cool mate. i’m heading up bush my self over the long weekend, was going to give this ago.
thanks Mick !
looking forward to seeing yours after the long weekend ! :-)
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Looks great Jared. Well done. It a fair bit of work these days to do startrail shots.Back in the day I use to do up to 10 hr exposures.
Did you lock the remote to let it take a shot every 30 secs or did you do it manually with the remote?
thanks mate :-)
just about to head out…good timing
I set the drive mode to burst and held the remote shutter down for 5 seconds, and then it continues to shoot until I press it again (an hour later) to stop
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Great image Jared and thanks for your details………how did you know in which direction to point your camera ?
thanks Hans
having a compass does help, but Neil showed me a cool way to find the south celestial pole using the Southern Cross.
You can also do it using the Magellanic Clouds.
I’ll put together a journal on my blog and let you know when it’s done if you like.
– Jared Revell
Thats what I was hoping you were doing.(its so easy) I recently gave a talk at our local camera club about startrails and how to do it the old school way and the new way. There is a program you can use and also the Photoshop way to put them together.