During Sunday, as it rained here in Brisbane, I decided to go through all the old 35mm slides that I had from my Uni days back in the late 70's, early 80's.
How many pictures of rocks can one student take? Well as luck would have it, in amongst all those geological slides I found 3 star trail pictures that I'd taken from the backyard of the family home in Rockdale, Sydney.
Getting a friend to scan them, I realised that one of the images was of the Southern Cross and so I decided to try and process it. The light pollution was terrible but I did the best I could to remove it. I was pleasantly surprised with the result and noticed that if I played around with curves I could get some nice star colours.
So I present to you one of my first ever astrophotographs taken back in 1980 and processed 32 years later!!
I too prefer the old style star-trails as they look more like brush strokes than the newer digital versions I've seen. However having said that, I wouldn't mind giving the odd star trail another go with my DSLR!!
Very interesting! I've only ever taken star trail shots using DSLRs... but when I see a single ruined frame out of 3+ hours worth of shooting due to car headlights (or whatever else), I'm very glad to be in the digital age
