{"id":2495,"date":"2011-10-19T22:50:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T22:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2011-10-19T22:50:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T22:50:04","slug":"photo365-day-292-star-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/photo365-day-292-star-trails\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo365 &#8211; Day 292 &#8211; Star Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight was interesting. I spent an hour and half in complete darkness on the moors. It was very cold, but I had a rug and coat and ePHOTOzine hat to warm me up.<br \/>\nWhy? To photograph my first proper star trail&#8230;and it&#8217;s going to be addictive. I used the Olympus EP-2 as the Pentax K20D is not fast enough at processing. You need to shoot 30-60sec exposures in succession. The K20D needs time to process between shots. The Olympus allows an instant shot after shot. I had to manually focus and it was near on impossible, but I managed. I don&#8217;t have a remote timer for the Olympus so I just sat and waited for 60 seconds for each shot and repressed the shutter. I took 66 shots.<br \/>\nWhen I got home I first created an animation in Photoshop, and then created this star trail using an action to speed things up. I&#8217;m pleased with the result.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/star-trail_450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1402\" title=\"star-trail_450\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/star-trail_450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe animation below has loads of aircraft passing through the shot, but these have been missed off in the image stack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stars_small.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1405\" title=\"stars_small\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/stars_small.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight was interesting. I spent an hour and half in complete darkness on the moors. It was very cold, but I had a rug and coat and ePHOTOzine hat to warm me up. Why? To photograph my first proper star trail&#8230;and it&#8217;s going to be addictive. I used the Olympus EP-2 as the Pentax K20D [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298],"tags":[658,1644,1891,2155],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-365","tag-derbyshire","tag-fox-house","tag-night","tag-star-trail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}