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Published: 2007-11-11 23:34:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 1237; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 46
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Shot at F8.0, ISO200, 3 minute individual exposures layered in photoshop. 1hr30mins total exposures.Battery died after about 50 min so there is an unavoidable gap in the trail.
Unfortunate amount of cloud on what i thought would be a clear night.
*Update: I have reprocessed the image.
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fantastic star trail! really well shot and put together.
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Really cool.
Next time go with the flow and get all sorts of gaps... like morse code star trails.
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Great photo.. really cool technique, and very nice result
btw: have you really been out there shooting all night? Or "just" automated intervals?
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thanks!
I tend to shoot for about 1hr30mins with anything from between 2 mins and 5 mins individual exposures which are then layered into the final image you can see above.
add that to setting the camera up to compose the image, metering the shot and then double checking everything means Iām usually our for 3-4 hours. This is fine for the summer months, but this trail in particular left me ridiculous cold even hours after getting home and drinking soup!
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heheh i can imagine the cold 
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Great job on the star trails. Did Toby tell you how to do this? I would suggest getting rid of the last star trail too.
Alex
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yeah, i'd previously just done single exposures but then he mentioned the layering technique and i was quickly converted.
i was an idiot and didnt actually save the photoshop file that created this so i need to remerge all the layers to get rid of the last trail. one day i'll get round to it!
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In that case, indirectly you've ended up with my technique
I've got to admit it is a bit of a bitch to process them, I often have 200mb+ files.
Alex
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very nice, like the simple silhouette youve used. aston juxta? I'd almost suggest not bothering with that last bit of trail, as it doesn't add a great length to the trail, but shows up the gap.
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agreed, just need to redo the merge. certainly is Aston, not sure why i called it AJX...AJM is surely what i was going for; i blame the cold.
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(it is unavoidable with small radial blur to compensate for that time)
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i tried it out, and it really does make a massive difference! the only problem is that even with the marching ants on photoshop, it is quite hard to not blur any of the foregorund subject...especially with this image.
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I have done the thing in PS U can see the work in my gallery. I know it is difficult but U have to do the job in layers with masking. But now as I think... my case was a bit different since my ground object is not in the middle of the photo.... 
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Ah, this looks fantastic!
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