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We arrived at Sarakiniko at Milos on a windy summer afternoon. The sky was blunt as always but we didn't care much; actually we were glad. We had one sole purpose that night and that was star trails. It was our first attempt and after reading various articles and drooling over the results it was time to create something of our own. Beautiful place Sarakiniko is. Huge limestone boulders carved at natures will over the years, it has been a photographers paradise for years and for the following four hours it was destined to be ours.
I know it is a simple composition but it is my first attempt at this and I didn't want to complicate things a lot. The base shot was taken after the sun had set and then after waiting for about 2 hours to get completely dark we took 30 consecutive shots of four minutes each to get the star trails. Postwork included stacking all the images and blending each layer in lighten mode.
Hope you like it. Can you spot the shooting star??
Location: Sarakiniko, Milos island, Greece
*Settings for the base photograph*
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Tokina 12-24mm f/4 AT-X AF Pro DX 12mm
Aperture: f/16
Shutter Speed: 60''
ISO: 100
Flash: Did not fire
VR: OFF
Filters: -
Tripod: YES
*Settings for the star trails* 30x
*tech stuff
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Tokina 12-24mm f/4 AT-X AF Pro DX 12mm
Aperture: f/4
Shutter Speed: 240''
ISO: 400
Flash: Did not fire
VR: OFF
Filters: -
Tripod: YES
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Comments: 232
That sounds like a lot of work but it was worth it!
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yes it involved staying up quite late
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poly kalo! Bravo! Prospa8hsa kai egw na kanw star trails den kserw akomh ti exw bgalei giati den exw emfanisei to film.Blepw apo ayta pou grafeis oti xrhsimopoihses dyo lhpseis.Phres dhladh prwta to background kai meta fwtografises ta trais?
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Νομίζω ότι το φίλμ υπερισχύει ακόμα σε τέτοιου είδους φωτογραφίες. δεν χρειάζεται να βγάλεις πολλές αλλά μία και καλή εφ όσον δεν χρειάζεσαι μπαταρία. δεν είχα μαζί μου την αναλογική γι αυτό και το έκανα ψηφιακά. Το μειονέκτημα του φίλμ είναι ότι δεν μπορείς να αρχίσεις να τραβάς από τόσο νωρίς συνεπώς περιορίζεσαι σε μαύρο ουρανό ενώ ψηφιακά μπορείς να βγάλεις μια πρίν και να ασχοληθείς με τα αστέρια αρκετά αργότερα με την διάρκεια να εξαρτάται από τις πόσες μπαταρίες έχεις.
Έτσι όπως το είπες έγινε. Μια αρκετά πρίν για να έχει χρώμα ο ουρανός και μετά από κανένα δίωρο ξεκίνησα να βγάζω για τα αστέρια.
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Σ'ευχαριστω για τις πληροφοριες!
Το αποτελεσμα παντως ειναι αψογο! Η ιδεα των δυο φωτο δινει πολυ πιο ομορφα αποτελεσματα! Πρεπει να παω το φιλμ για εμφανιση να δω τι εκανα και εγω! Αν και πολυ αμφιβαλλω να καταφερα κατι καλο γιατι ακομη και αν τεχνικα ειναι καλη το τοπιο που ειχα μπροστα μου δεν με τρελαινε και πολυ
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Amazing work. Can't wait to see your next "simple" composition.
Well done!
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well it is simple
thank you though!
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that always puzzles me a lot. the results are fantastic,
and is very surreal. it's like night time in fairy land!
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yeah I like the results too, this is why I tried it
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amazing stuff! Thanks for explaining how you did it.
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you are very welcome lass
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Good result and interesting variation on the technique that us Aussies use.... will have to think about it. Did you alter the blending mode on each of 30 layers?
I like that you have retained the light in the sky ffrom the base shot.
We use stacking software and 30 sec exposures and torches
eg Cains shot.[link]
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each and every one except from the base layer which was my early twilight exposure.
tweaking involved some masking and some hot spot removal but it is pretty straightforward in general. The problem is the gaps in the star movement which can't be seen on the jpg but small as it is its still there so I am still on the look for a better method or a camera with enough juice to go for hours
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are you using moise reduction? which gives a processing down time between shots. Turn it off set the cam to multishot and 30sec exposures and lock down the shutter. then allow stairtrails.exe to stack them.. the sky you get will be the sky thats there.. I expieriment with half an full moon nights and exposures.
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no no noise reduction. i don't think startrails exe can handle raw. will see though. Thanks!
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wow this is amazing, this is a gorgeous shot, very nice
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hello,
did you read this one two, I really liked it.
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your picture is great, one question:
with four mins, did you use the built-in noise reduction?(the d200 is not too good in dark situations, so I suppose you have the noise reduction activated)
If so, you have another 4 mins of reduction processing between each shot, that may fragments the line into a a dashed line of star trails, but that's not the case...so what did you do?
thanks.
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well something like this. the one I read was off dA.
no I didn't use the built in noise reduction, I would have a long gap in the stars if I did. There was a lot of noise in the pictures but in lighten mode you can't see it.
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ok.
I somehow got to get a timer remote but they are so expensive
thanks for sharing information.
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Yeah I spotted the shooting star, about 1/3 the way above the water directly under the O shape, right? Question wouldn't this have been the same using an ultra long exposure??
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well the star is near the horizon line at the centre.
it would have been the same as far as the circle is concerned but I wouldn't be able to have such a bright background. Plus I don't have a battery that can run for two hours straight.
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lolz! yeah that damn energizer bunny is so full of crap, nothing keeps going and going- everything breaks down...
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well done great shot.well worth all your time.
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wow, that's a great composition!! i'm impressed
i've tried to take pictures of stars this summer and after some attempts i gave up because my camera's sensor started to get too hot and produced light spots in the pictures 
..and i see the shooting star
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you are very welcome, glad I could help a bit
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