Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: GrantKaye on June 22, 2010, 12:06:19 pm
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I got out Friday night and made a composite exposure of stars over Emerald Bay.
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This is a composite of 26 x 300" exposures. The half moon set halfway through the shoot, so I was able to get some light on the trees by the lake before the sky got really dark. A car came through towards the end, which illuminated the trees in the foreground in one of the exposures. I attempted to use the "lighten-screen blend" technique (http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/725769/0) illustrated by Floris in the Fred Miranda Forums, but couldn't get it to work completely, thus I had to fix some of the gaps in the star trails from battery changes by hand. There are probably more that I need to fix in the print version of the file, but I think this version is good enough to show. I hope you agree! Thanks for having a look.
Does anyone know of any other techniques to automate filling in gaps in star trails?
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Very nice photo, the light on the trees and near the water is very welcome. Without it, the image would a lot less attractive.