More Stars…and a New Video
December 26, 2009 | Category: Nocturnal Photography, Photography
I’ve been slacking on posting photos lately so I thought I’d share a “reject” photo since I haven’t really shot anything blog-worthy in a while. Hopefully that’ll change on Monday (big, fun, icy-cold shoot planned)!
This is a “cave” near Pyramid Lake, NV during the recent meteor showers. 2.5 hours of exposing, freezing and conversing with some photo buddies. The red glow comes from a red-gelled headlamp facing into the rocks behind the camera.
And speaking of star trails, I’ll leave you with this new video I hacked together from my recent star trails’ still images.
Comments welcome…
Tags: blackrock, Dan Newton, desert, Light Painting, nevada, Nikon 17-35mm 2.8, Nikon D3, Pyramid Lake, Reno, Star trails, stars, timelapse, video
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Asa
on December 26th, 2009Dan, that video is phenomenal. Nice work! Cool soundtrack too, who is it?
Dan Newton
on December 26th, 2009Thanks. I forgot to give song credit, the song is call “Loud Pipes” by Ratatat.
derrick
on December 26th, 2009hi dan! may i ask if what time lapse software do you use? thanks.
btw, i’m a big fan of your star trails shots.. i jst got my tokina 11-16mm so i want to give it a try as well.
thanks.
Dan Newton
on December 26th, 2009Thanks Derrick. For the still images, I use either Startrails or Photoshop CS4 for my stacking. For video I use Photoshop CS4 to create the initial animation from still images, then I use VirtualDub and Windows Movie Maker (don’t laugh) to finish the video.
Adam
on December 28th, 2009Amazing video, and great stills too.
The clip at about 38s looks like its individual shots, one after the other (photo 10, 11, 12, 13…
Are the rest sort of moving averages? Like summed photos 10-20, 11-21, 12-22, 13-23…
bryan scott
on December 30th, 2009Very inspirational.
Aswirly
on January 4th, 2010This is absolutely fantastic. I love your star trails, and this video is just mesmerizing. wow.
Bob Towery
on February 7th, 2010Tremendous and unique image. Congrats on a great one.
Andrew Halligan
on August 4th, 2010Truly awesome vid. I also very much dig the background music.
Will
on October 24th, 2010Awesome movie clip! Thanks for sharing. You have a pretty good crew that you photograph with!
Neezhom Photomalaya
on December 20th, 2010Excellent inspirational work Dan!!
Adrian Kemp
on February 23rd, 2011Awesome stuff, was just looking on youtube and had seen this so thought I would take a look at your work and well what can I say it doesnt get much more inspirational as this! Fantastic stuff!
Greg Hines
on May 6th, 2011Dan,
A friend of mine (photographer) sent me your video from YouTube. It is amazing! I have been into night photography for years and with digital have been experimenting quite a bit. I really appreciate your work! Great stuff! Being a commercial photographer myself I am amazed that you are a student! If you are going into photography as a career you are well on your way! Your car and bike photography is super! I’ll have to “follow” your blog to see what else you do that is visually stunning!
Peter Van Bogaert
on July 11th, 2011Dan, I really really like your shots.
I’m planning on doing a stratrail shoot next week.
It will be my first one and I think I will follow your tutorial.
what do you do to prevent dew coming on your lens?
I have a Canon eos 500D. have no batterygrip yet, but I think it’s required when doing making long exposure shots.
JonRob
on July 27th, 2011Hi Dan,
Awesome startrails! Thanks for posting your techniques. I have a question though. How do you get your MC-36 remote to shoot 4 minute exposures with 1 second interval? It just won’t work on my Nikon D300s. According to the MC-36 manual, the interval time should be at least 1 second longer than the exposure. That’s not going to work since there would be a huge gap. Is there a trick to get the remote going? I appreciate any input. Thanks!
Purple
on September 13th, 2011Hi Dan,Very inspirational.nice work ….
RLT
on October 1st, 2011Truly inspirational, stunning photography thanks for sharing
Jon
on October 27th, 2011Hi Dan,
Been a fan ever since i found your page and encourage me to do time lapses practice as well. I am using quicktime 7 pro to piece all the stills together to create a movie.
One question here: in your “tent” clip where the trails movement go up like meteors (bigger trailheads than the tails), how’d did you put that together? — bigger trailheads and meteor-like trails??
Thanks Dan!