Dinosaur sculpture against a night sky, Anza-Borrego, California.
Last night I set up a couple of simultaneous time-lapses of the night sky here near Borrego Srings. It was a perfect, warm, moonless night for such activity!
This is a single frame from one of the time-lapses. This was shot on a moving 6 foot ramp made for just such purposes. I had a second camera in a stationary position – so from the camera I have a time-lapse, and I can stack the images and make a long star trail image. At some point I will probably do both, but don’t know that I will try them while working from a laptop on the road.
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Wow that’s amazing how you have one camera moving and another stationary, then overlap them via photoshop. I actually never heard of such a thing, Thanks!
Cool concept Ron. Looking forward to seeing the final results.
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Hi James,
Thanks! I wasn’t very clear – actually I won’t combine the footage – I’ll end up with two separate clips, one moving and one still. Although the still version could be stacked to make a single frame on star trails.
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Thanks Ricard!
Have you done it before ? In my experience, stacking TL images doesn’t work well. For the TL, you want to shoot wide-open maybe f1.4 to f2.0 (to have bright stars), but this isn’t so good for stacked star trails which seem to require about f4.0.
I love those sculptures at AB. Should be a very cool time-lapse Ron.
WOW. I stumbled onto your blog because of the moon tonight. Your photography is awesome. As a scrapbooker, I’m really into great pictures. Also love me some dinosaurs & my state of Hawaii!!! Mahalo nui & Aloha.
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Thanks Candy – glad you found it as well! Really enjoyed your beautiful state last Fall.
Thanks Russ – they are cool.
QT Interesting – I haven’t created a star trial image before.
Wonderful and more treats to look forward to!! When I saw the image I did wonder if one of my “residents” had escaped!!!
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Thanks!