Jonzilla
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- Jon
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For Startrails
Well my other half was out watching a play and on the way home from dropping her off at the theatre I thought "what the heck" and went off to do a Star trail test.
When I was a few minutes away from the field I decided to shoot in I looked up, probably should have done it sooner, and low and behold. Cloudy. S***! Anyway decided to carry on as it was only a test. In the car park I set up my tripod and camera, got out my intervalometre and tried to get a good composition. 180 degrees of my view was light polluted, and a further 120 degrees had fireworks going off. FIREWORKS! Dur 5th of November! Idiot.
So anyway I was there and decided to carry on, I walked halfway into the field and stopped, decided that I couldn't be bothered to go to the other side of the field and point it back the way I had come, which was the only direction which wasn't light polluted and had fireworks going off. Setting up my tripod looking through the viewfinder, carefully making sure that some big trees were blocking any fireworks which may be going off in that direction, I was ready.
I got the intervalometre out, shoved the batteries in it, then went about playing with the settings... for half an hour. Nope couldn't work it out. So I just set it to continuous shooting mode and locked the shutter release in place, by now the clouds had gone, at least something went right.
I stood there in the middle of the field for fifteen minutes, getting thoroughly cold, damp and bored, eventually just went back and sat in the car while my camera was taking pictures 70 metres away. I couldn't see it but every 30 seconds I heard a reassuring "click click". Then I spotted another problem about 30,000 feet in the air, planes. Bloody loads of them, with their poncey lights flashing.
An hour later I retrieved my beloved camera and drove home, with the heater on full blast.
Back in the warm and comfort of my own home I download all the pictures, shove them into startrails.de and inspect my hard work.
This is what I got, not compositionally amazing, or average, pretty ***** really and I am sure it's not even in focus, or maybe that is the 30sec exposure.
I was just playing around with white balance do you prefer blue or grey?
and I also made a timelapse here
What can I do to improve? I only have a 50mm f1.8 which is more 80mm on my cam, unfortunately I think I need a wider lens but I can't afford one yet. I will be going out again once everyone has used up there fireworks and try again.
Well my other half was out watching a play and on the way home from dropping her off at the theatre I thought "what the heck" and went off to do a Star trail test.
When I was a few minutes away from the field I decided to shoot in I looked up, probably should have done it sooner, and low and behold. Cloudy. S***! Anyway decided to carry on as it was only a test. In the car park I set up my tripod and camera, got out my intervalometre and tried to get a good composition. 180 degrees of my view was light polluted, and a further 120 degrees had fireworks going off. FIREWORKS! Dur 5th of November! Idiot.
So anyway I was there and decided to carry on, I walked halfway into the field and stopped, decided that I couldn't be bothered to go to the other side of the field and point it back the way I had come, which was the only direction which wasn't light polluted and had fireworks going off. Setting up my tripod looking through the viewfinder, carefully making sure that some big trees were blocking any fireworks which may be going off in that direction, I was ready.
I got the intervalometre out, shoved the batteries in it, then went about playing with the settings... for half an hour. Nope couldn't work it out. So I just set it to continuous shooting mode and locked the shutter release in place, by now the clouds had gone, at least something went right.
I stood there in the middle of the field for fifteen minutes, getting thoroughly cold, damp and bored, eventually just went back and sat in the car while my camera was taking pictures 70 metres away. I couldn't see it but every 30 seconds I heard a reassuring "click click". Then I spotted another problem about 30,000 feet in the air, planes. Bloody loads of them, with their poncey lights flashing.
An hour later I retrieved my beloved camera and drove home, with the heater on full blast.
Back in the warm and comfort of my own home I download all the pictures, shove them into startrails.de and inspect my hard work.
This is what I got, not compositionally amazing, or average, pretty ***** really and I am sure it's not even in focus, or maybe that is the 30sec exposure.
I was just playing around with white balance do you prefer blue or grey?
and I also made a timelapse here
What can I do to improve? I only have a 50mm f1.8 which is more 80mm on my cam, unfortunately I think I need a wider lens but I can't afford one yet. I will be going out again once everyone has used up there fireworks and try again.
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