madNbad wrote:
lifeandmylens wrote
I’ve never done star trails on film and thought I’d try while in west Texas. Was planning on finding a cool tree or something and setting up shop.
But things didn’t align. I was super tired from driving, it was a half moon that didn’t set until 3am and was very windy.
So I just got lazy and set it up outside my airstream that I was staying in for the night. Was planning on a 1+ hour exposure and after 30 minutes I was ready for bed haha. Also didn’t realize the red light was even there until after. Was still good practice! And really neat you can capture night skies like this with only one exposure.
Mamiya 7II + 43mm + 250D First, kudos for trying this after driving all day. Pretty good for a first attempt and the shadow from the tree across the trailer is a nice touch. One thing to remember is to compensate for reciprocity. You might have to dig around a bit to find a chart for the Vision films.
The 43 was certainly wide enough, so we will probably be seeing more of the star trails images.
Thanks. I think with a good subject in the foreground star trails could be very neat. For night stuff, I use Portra 400's reciprocity at ~ ^1.35, but for star trails we don't really need it. For foreground though we would.