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While brainstorming a trip to try and capture Star Trails / Milky Way and light painting, me and others have found a lot of good resources on the web to help educate us on executing capturing a good final image.
Here are some of what has been shared or found that I truly enjoyed. Feel free to share yours or even an image you have been successful capturing, in this thread.
Inspiration:
Textbook'ish Teachings and/or PowerPoints
Free Software
Stellarium
StarStaX
How To Videos:
[ame="http://youtu.be/COlvv21gRXQ"]Beginner DSLR Night Sky Astrophotography - TCS * Astrophotography - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://youtu.be/DKyaoVIA8Oo"]How to Shoot and Retouch the Milky Way - PLP #134 - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://youtu.be/IkLaTdfIAv8"]How to - Take Pictures of the Milky Way - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://youtu.be/A6ovDdRNNg8"]Glowing Tent Under a Night Sky: Getting the Shot with Corey Rich: Tech Tip: AdoramaTV - YouTube[/ame]
Here are some of what has been shared or found that I truly enjoyed. Feel free to share yours or even an image you have been successful capturing, in this thread.
Inspiration:
byteseller on FM Forums said:
Jredford here on TWT said:
vibhav on FM Forums said:
Klaus Priebe on FM Forums said:
Textbook'ish Teachings and/or PowerPoints
Free Software
Stellarium
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
StarStaX
StarStaX is a fast multi-platform image stacking and blending software, which allows to merge a series of photos into a single image using different blending modes. It is developed primarily for Star Trail Photography where the relative motion of the stars in consecutive images creates structures looking like star trails. Besides star trails, it can be of great use in more general image blending tasks, such as noise reduction or synthetic exposure enlargement.
How To Videos:
[ame="http://youtu.be/COlvv21gRXQ"]Beginner DSLR Night Sky Astrophotography - TCS * Astrophotography - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://youtu.be/DKyaoVIA8Oo"]How to Shoot and Retouch the Milky Way - PLP #134 - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://youtu.be/IkLaTdfIAv8"]How to - Take Pictures of the Milky Way - YouTube[/ame]
[ame="http://youtu.be/A6ovDdRNNg8"]Glowing Tent Under a Night Sky: Getting the Shot with Corey Rich: Tech Tip: AdoramaTV - YouTube[/ame]