#Startrail photo movie#

Many photographers use a technique of shooting multiple, shorter length, time exposures and stack them during post-production, using Adobe Photoshop or another program that will allow you to stack multiple files into one photograph. We spoke with two photographers-Deborah Sandidge and Diana Robinson-to find out their techniques and tips for great star trail images. A star trail occurs when you photograph the stars over a long period of time, from minutes to hours. Of course this feature can be used to create any time lapse movie, not only starmovies.Photographing Star Trails is a unique way to capture the night sky in a photograph.

#Startrail photo movie#

The resulting image can be saved in Jpeg,TIFF or BMP format.Īnother feature is the creation of a time-lapse movie as an 'AVI'-file. This averaged image is brightend internally and at the end of the processing blended in 'lighten'-mode into the resulting image Optionally you can average some of the images to get a better signal to noise ratio for the sky-background or the foreground. Zooming into the images is done with the mouse-wheel. If there are some images you don't want you can uncheck them. You can load the Images and optionally some ames (will be averaged and subtracted automatically if exist). This is why I decided to develop the 'Startrails.exe' Taking the images is easy, stacking them (usually about 200 to 300 images) in Photoshop is not too much fun.

The big advantage is that the background heaven will stay as dark as on the single exposures. Instead of taking one long exposure one can take many shorter exposures and combine them in Photoshop.

With modern digital cameras is it relatively easy to get decent startrail-images.