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Comment on How To: Make your own 1/8" miniphone to household sync cable CHEAP! by Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:29:15 +0000

this is cool

Comment on Lets Go Streaking, a Guide to Star Trails by Doug Bibo

Doug Bibo — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:28:26 +0000

Dan,
Very nice write up. I do star points, star trails, and star point time lapses. What I don’t get is the star trail timelapse, where the stars have tails, suggesting a lot more movement. I don’t get how that’s done. Is that a software thing?

Thanks,
Doug

Comment on Lets Go Streaking, a Guide to Star Trails by Star Trails – Tricks to the Trade | 366 Project - 2012

Star Trails – Tricks to the Trade | 366 Project - 2012 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:38:04 +0000

[...] This tutorial was taken from: http://www.liquidinplastic.com/2008/06/startrails/ [...]

Comment on Lets Go Streaking, a Guide to Star Trails by Bob Hamers

Bob Hamers — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:25:19 +0000

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the great tutorial. I was amazed with the pictures and just needed to try it for myself. I just cant seem to get rid of one problem. Even if the camera is in continuous drive mode, I keep getting small gaps in the star trails. I guess this is just due to the delay caused by the shutter cycle. How do you deal with it in post-processing?

Regards,
Bob

Comment on Lets Go Streaking, a Guide to Star Trails by Harsh

Harsh — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:56:13 +0000

Hi Dan,
Great Article! I was wondering if I can use the stacking technique with my Nikon D3100 ?

Comment on Lets Go Streaking, a Guide to Star Trails by Martin Sutcliffe

Martin Sutcliffe — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:54:42 +0000

Dan, great stuff. As you mentioned gaps can appear at larger print sizes and I am finding this happens at not so large sizes. I suspect this is due to the delay between shots which seems to be caused by buffering issues. Is there a way to overcome this? A fast card doesn’t seem to make much difference/ My camera is Nikon D300.

Comment on More Stars…and a New Video by Jon

Jon — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:17:59 +0000

Hi 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!

Comment on How To: Make your own 1/8" miniphone to household sync cable CHEAP! by Cream of Beats

Cream of Beats — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:09:15 +0000

It worked perfectly! I got the mono 1/8 cord at Radioshack for $5.29, and the AC plug at Lowes for $1.69. Really simple to make. took 5 minutes to make 2 sync cables. You saved me about $60! Thanks!

Comment on Sleep is for sheep: More night photography! by Aris

Aris — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:25:52 +0000

Stunning photo (Vertical) I love it!

Comment on Lets Go Streaking, a Guide to Star Trails by Mark Connick

Mark Connick — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 07:30:11 +0000

Hi Dan,
Thank you very much for this great guide. Really well put together and great images. I’m now ready to give it a go.
Much appreciated.
Regards.
Mark