..well ok, moonlit, but since the moon is not in this image that would just be a silly title now wouldn't it
After seeing some fantastic starlit skies and landscapes and reading some tutorials written by several members of this gallery (thanks for your great work btw!) I had to give this a try. Nowhere near as good as most of the stuff I've seen but I'm pretty alright with how this turned out.
This is just one image, since I did not need any fg detail I decided to take just a single image instead of combining two exposures.
I did have some problems here, I used a 30 sec exposure to get a lot of stars, but when looking closer the stars are already small trails, not sure how to fix that other then with a shorter ss and higher iso which did nto turn out that great either. Also my afterglow got ruined by some late clouds but hey what can you do
Any and all tips for improvement welcoe of course! Thanks!
Tech; Canon 7d, 17mm @ f6,3 iso 400 & 30sec
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There is no solution but try a shorter exposure time; in fact I think I read a paper last week about un-trailing star trails by software but as far as I know there is no application to do that yet.
You can try taking several images of the short exposure and then combining them to increase brightness and/or reduce noise. As stars move you need to align the pictures first with some pano software, then use different layer modes to either average or add the exposures. Averaging reduces noise, adding increases brightness. The problem is that as you align the stars the background which is static will go wrong so you then need to reposition the sky in the shot. Ahh yes, not easy :)
@ Luis, yeah I figured the only (easy) way was a shorter ss. Thanks for explaining the other method, not sure I'll try to use it anytime soon though
A longer focal length will also increase the triling....even at shorter SS....so be careful there! I usually do my night images w/o the moon and try opening up on the 17mm to f4 or or 4.5.....DOF should be OK in this case .....focused on infinity.
Pretty darn nice starry night image. The additional light and color being reflected in the water makes for a nice compliment to the open night sky and I think you executed this well. Looks like you did well in holding back the noise too. Nice work.
Lon