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Originally Posted by pressld2  Another beautiful clear night last night - but cold! I spent 2 hours in a graveyard to get this shot... 
I'm pleased with this one - a much more interesting foreground and I managed to get the pole star in frame again.
A few more tips to impart from last night's experience:
1. Dress warm and take coffee!
2. Make sure your tripod is rock solid from the start. I was set up on fairly soft ground and my tripod settled during the first 5 shots which meant all my star trails had little hooks on them! I excluded them from the merge and only used 195 of the 200 frames to create the final image.
3. Shoot after 10pm if possible. This one was taken at Farnborough in Kent which is very close to Biggin Hill and also on the flight path into Gatwick. During my shooting (which started at approx 8:20) a total of 41 aircraft flew past and contaminated 74 shots. These all had to be manually cloned out before merging the images. But there were only 2 or 3 images in the last 50 (after 9:30) that needed to be cleaned because the later it gets the fewer flights there are.
It's cloudy tonight with rain forecast for tomorrow. Not sure whe I'll get another chance to play.
Dave P. |
Dave, absolutely stunning shot, you should be very proud! We haven't had a clear night for 2 weeks up here and it's rained pretty much non-stop
Don't have many churches round here and i'm struggling to think of a decent foreground although perhaps the girder bridge over Loch Leven at ballachulish (if you've ever been up this way?)
Keep up the good work, you have a saleable photo there!
Andy