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How to avoid trails for your stars, Use these following 500 rules, thankfully there is a solution for getting the perfect exposure. It is ‘The 500 Rule. For more details visit us http://thephotographersblog.com/the-500-rule-astrophotography/ or contact us +91 9881009999
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Get your focus right in the night. Every lens has a specific setting for achieving infinity focus. But the standard principle remains the same. With infinity focus, everything is in focus. For more details contact us +91 9881009999
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This workshop is for beginners who have just bought a new camera or those who are about to buy their first camera. 3-weekend Workshop - Fundamentals of Photography Workshops Pune. For those who believe they know a few basics but are hungry for more. This course is for you. Find the link below and register asap
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One thing to remember before you head out to shoot star trails is to check the weather at your shooting location. Check for the moon rise and the moon set timings specifically to know the time to start your shoot.
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This workshop is for beginners who have just bought a new camera or those who are about to buy their first camera. 3-weekend Workshop - Fundamentals of Photography Workshops Pune. For those who believe they know a few basics but are hungry for more. This course is for you. Find the link below and register asap http://thephotographersblog.com/workshops/ or contact us +91 9881009999/ 02025445315
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Learn best capture the star trails photography, the best and safest way, Mode: Manual, I recommend at least an hour of shooting to give a good trail. The question we always ask ourselves is should we shoot RAW while capturing star trail images? Well, the answer Visit Us http://thephotographersblog.com/startrails-editing-startrails-de/ or contact us +91 9881009999
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The Photographers Blog is Capturing the serene landscapes and beautiful macro images of flowers in Kaas & Chalkewadi Date: 7-8th October 2017 Time: 1pm on 7th to 7pm on 8th October Cost: 3950 /- per head (Includes stay and meals on both the days). For more details visit us http://thephotographersblog.com/workshops/ or contact us +91 9881009999/ 02025445315
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Upcoming Workshops in Pune. 2 -weekend Events (16-17 23-24 September)- Basic Photography Workshops and Advance Photo Editing Workshops. From basics to the secret recipes, learn everything to take your photography to the next level. Find the link below and register http://thephotographersblog.com/workshops/ or contact us +91 9881009999
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How to capture star trails | Star trails Editing and Settings
In this video tutorial we will learn star trails image stacking using startrails.de. one of the most widely used applications for
star trail photography.
This application has a very simple and minimistic user interface with amazing features for stacking the star trail images.
You have always heard over and over from your photographer friends that you should “SHOOT RAW”. The biggest advantage of shooting in RAW is capturing all the data from the sensor.
The question we always ask ourselves is should we shoot RAW while capturing star trail images ?
Well, the answer is Yes.
You should shoot the star trail images in RAW, you will need to carry a lot of memory cards to do so but then the amount of flexibility the RAW images will give you while editing the images in post processing is huge.
startrails.de does not allow you to edit RAW images, you will have to convert the RAW images into JPEG and then import these multiple star trail images in startrails.de. for further stacking.
Adobe Lightroom is considered as the best software for basic adjustments like color correction, lens distortion removal and adjusting the contrast and exposure of RAW images.
Checkout our video on basic
star trail editing in Lightroom here
Below are all the features of the software Startrails.de which can be useful for stacking star trail images.
1. Open images : This tool is used for browsing the folder in the desktop where you have saved the images and importing the same. Once the images are loaded in the image section on the left, you can uncheck the unwanted images like the ones with harsh foreground light.
2. Open Dark Frames : Dark frames are used along with the star trail images to reduce noise in the images. You can simply browse the folder where you have saved the dark frames using this tool.
3. Save image : You can save the final star trail stacked image in your system using this tool. You can save the image in BMP, JPG, TIFF formats.
4. Average Foreground : When you use this tool the images will be averaged to get a good signal to noise rate. The resulting image then is lightend and combined with the star trail image in blend mode lighten.
5. Startrails
: This tool is used to stack your star trail images. You will have an option to use two blend modes as mentioned below.
a. Lighten (with gaps, faster) : You can also choose Falling stars option along with Lighten blending mode this will give comet like effect in your final star trail image. We also have option to save each image for crescent trails in startrails.de software in this mode. You can use these crescent images in timelapse video. Watch this amazing star trail timelapse created using the crescent images.
b. Lighten-Screen-Blend (LSB, without gaps, slower) : You can select this option if your startrails have gaps between 2 stars. This happens while changing batteries or due to incorrect setting configuration in intervalometer while shooting.
6. Video : This is an amazing feature, you can create timelapse videos using this tool. All you have to do is select the frame rate and your timelapse video will created and saved on you hard drive.
startrails.de is very simple and free software to use and you can download the software from here. This software has a prerequisite of Microsoft .NET framework software which you can download from here. For more details visit us http://thephotographersblog.com/startrails-editing-startrails-de/ or contact us +91 9881009999.
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The biggest advantage of shooting in RAW is capturing all the data from the sensor and you will have to convert the RAW images into JPEG. Learn all about star trail photography step by step and the best way to capture star trails is to take multiple exposures and combine them in post processing. For more details visit us http://thephotographersblog.com/startrails-editing-startrails-de/ or contact us +91 9881009999
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Infinity Focus for Star Trail and Night Photography
star trail photography,
it is necessary to get the stars in focus. Let us understand what is infinity focus and how to get your lens to focus at infinity.
star trail photography,
it is necessary to get the stars in focus. Let us understand what is infinity focus and how to get your lens to focus at infinity.
What is infinity focus?
Before getting into the real technical definition of infinity focus; let me try to simplify things for easy understanding.
When you focus your lens on infinity, it means you have focused on things that are very far away from you. It also means that everything in your frame is in focus up to infinity. Infinity focus is mostly used for star trail photography or Astrophotography or most commonly while photographing the Milky Way
Infinity Focus Milky Way
Related: A step by step guide to shooting star trails
With infinity focus, you make sure that the faraway subjects are in focus and will thereby appear sharp in your pictures. Technically, at infinity focus, the light rays coming from your subject are parallel to your lenses.
Until the point of infinity focus, light rays tend to diverge or spread while they reach your lens. When you set infinity focus, you make those light rays parallel by virtue of your lens adjustment feature, so that once they are parallel, anything beyond the point of your subject remains in focus until infinity.
Theoretically, everything remains in focus and that is why we call it as ‘Infinity Focus’. You don’t have to adjust the focus of your lens every time you compose for a picture.
When to use infinity focus?
Infinity focus is typical to focus on far away subjects like stars, Milky Way or Astrophotography, where you want to make sure the subject appears sharp in your photographs. Shooting star trails is the best example for using infinity focus. Instead of relying on autofocus, you will get better results with manually focusing on infinity for far away subjects. Photographing Fireworks is another good time to use infinity focus.
Infinity Focus Fire Works
Related: Significance of dark frames in night photography
How to achieve infinity focus?
Good old days manual lenses had hard mechanical stops on focus scales of the lenses. So it was easy to set the lens on infinity focus even in the dark by just turning the lens to a mechanical stop.
With the advent of autofocus lenses, these infinity stops started to disappear. Setting up an infinity stop to a lens needs a lot of calibration for the lens manufacturer.
With autofocus though it is possible to shoot at infinity, (later on that) so none of the manufacturers cared about giving infinity stops to autofocus lenses back then.
Although, today we find infinity stops on many lenses, not all the lenses have the infinity stop marking on them.
Two effective ways to set your lens to infinity focus. 1. When your lens has the infinity marking on it
An infinity stop is marked with an inverted 8 on the focus scale as shown in the below picture
You simply have to choose to set your lens to infinity by moving the focus point to this mark. Don’t forget to take test shots before you go for the final one. The exact position of infinity focus differs from lens to lens, so it always better to know your lens and it’s exact infinity mark position where it works the best.
2. When you do not have an infinity mark or your lens
This is a simple manual method. Set your lens to autofocus and focus on a distant bright object. Maybe on the brightest star or a far away light source. The moon serves the best to set autofocus.
Once you have achieved that focus, gently turn your lens to manual focus without touching the focus ring.
You now know that you have a distant object in focus because you have already achieved that with autofocus. Turning to manual mode after achieving correct focus with autofocus means the focus will remain intact until you disturb the manual focus ring on your own.
Without disturbing the focus ring, take test shots of your distant objects. There are 99% chances that you will get your far away subject in focus.
I have used this method for star trails, the Milky Way and it works perfectly.
Infinity focus Milky Way
Although my lens has an infinity mark on it, I prefer using the above autofocus method most of the times. Since the autofocus lenses are not calibrated manually these days for infinity focus, the lens performance at infinity focus is affected by many variables such as the temperature of the lenses, the moving parts inside a lens.
Zoom lenses have more moving parts and the focus point may get affected at every focal length. Lens mechanics also vary with each camera manufacturer. A canon motor in a lens may behave differently than a Nikon motor.
So it is best to know your lens in advance and test it before you go out for the actual shoot to get the desired results. Most of the times, this method with using autofocus and then switching to manual mode works well.
The only care to be taken is to do it gently. Once you are in the manual mode and you do not touch the focus ring, you are sure that your lens will not refocus again and will be steady at the same focus setting (at infinity) throughout your shoot.
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