After seeing some good shots of star trails on here I thought I would post a few of my recent attempts! Open for any comments and feedback.
#1
I took this shot over the Easter weekend this year of a group camping under the stars on the Murray River near Berri, SA at Booky Cliffs campsite, Murray River National Park. After living in the city the stars out there looked amazing! And the river was beautiful so I took many shots of them both that weekend. I like the stars reflection in the water and the warm glow on the horizon from the sun in this shot. The sun had set a long time beforehand though. The LMC can be seen in the upper left.
Taken with a Nikon D3s, Tokina 12-24mm (18mm), 30 sec at 8000 ISO. I didn't want trails so I kept the exposure time low. The new D3s's have amazing high ISO fine grain!
#2
Star trails over the Spencer Gulf at Point Turton, South Australia. A composite of 20 exposures of 30sec each combined in Startrails.
Nikon D80, Tokina 12-24mm
#3
My first real attempt at star trails with my old DSLR, Nikon D80. After problems with long exposures due to purplish ghosting on the sensor, I discovered the Startrails program and this is a 44 minute compilation of 88 x 30 sec exposures. I like the colours in this shot.
#4
Star trails taken at Flinders Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
This is a combination of 100 one minute exposures, ISO 1000, Tokina 12-24mm set at 12mm, f3.5, Nikon D80. Images combined with Startrails software.
I used a small torch to illuminate the foreground logs and trees for the first and last images of the 100 image sequence. As you can see, I managed to get the SCP in the centre of the image without cropping!
#5
Similar to #4 taken at Flinders Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.
This is a combination of 120 one minute exposures, ISO 1000, Tokina 12-24mm set at 12mm, f3.5, Nikon D80.
#6
Entitled "Lighting up the Milky Way" - The Cape de Couedic lighthouse near Admirals Arch, Flinders Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island, SA 'lighting' up the Milky Way. 2 minute exposure Nikon D80, Tokina 12-24mm.
Thanks. Yes I aim to combine a nice terrestrial foreground with trails etc. Seems to set the stars off well and put them into perspective and makes for a mroe intersting image I think.
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Originally Posted by mswhin63
Excellent shots there, I hope to get to inlclude more foreground in my future shots just like that.
Thanks.
