Cloud cover – the big bane of single exposure star trail photography – depreciated an already shaping up to be sub par star trail. I thought that framing the shot from the tree tops would be a good foreground. I was still a bit of a coward about straying away from the actual sky itself […]
Sometimes a parking lot will do. I took this in a hotel parking lot in Douglas, Michigan on a weekend trip out of the city. This shot was my first star trail with my 50mm prime lens, which can go down to f1.8, letting more light in. I loved the deep star trails etched by […]
This was probably my least impressive star trail to date. I was at my sister-in-law’s house in Lansing, NY and I opened the shutter for the night and left it till morning. I knew the battery was low which is why the shutter was only open for 68 minutes. I obviously didn’t want the shutter […]
This is a 45 minute star trail taken at Green River, IL. Green River is about a three hour drive from Chicago. It’s about the darkest skies I can get locally, so it’s where I was going in 2017 to practice my craft, The blur in these photos is the Milky Way stretching with the […]
My first star trail ever. I barely knew what I was doing when I hooked an intervalometer to my camera and hit the bulb open. I was using a $20 amazon aluminum tripod. Thank goodness it wasn’t windy or the camera would have blown over. At least I knew to take the camera off auto […]
Second time is the charm. Death Valley National Park contains one of the darkest skies in North America so of course I definitely wanted to get my camera out and get some night sky shots that would be impossible anywhere near the great lakes region where Chicago’s city lights blanket out the stars for hundreds […]
Photos were taken in Ithaca and Lansing, NY in early August, 2016. This was my first attempt at star photography. These were taken with a samsung nx3000 manual camera and a wide angle lens. I found that a narrow aperture and 20-30 second shutter speed worked best. I started to get star trails, where the […]
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