I waited till after moon set to open the shutter and capture these beauties spinning between the trees. I made two edits of this one, color and black and white. I probably prefer the color edit between the two.
Spinning Though The Trees
Stormy Florida Nights
I came out to Big Pine Key in Florida to try and film the perseid meteor shower. I had a very short window of time to work in, as the meteor shower coincided with a waning gibbous moon. I tried to take a few star trails the day I arrived with the moon still up […]
Back To The Mojave
While at a work conference in Las Vegas, I landed the day before the conference started, grabbed a car, and gunned it on interstates and back roads to the Mojave Preserve in California. Time was of the essence and I had a new 10.5mm Prime lens to play with. I found a cool cross road […]
Polaris Under Fall Leaves
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 […]
Low F Stop Light
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 […]
Lessons In Clouds
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 […]
Green River Edits
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 […]
Mojave Night
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 […]
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