Star trails at the lighthouse

[Daniel-K]

Went out for sunset and it was pants, so stayed and done some star trails at this well known spot.

Next time think i will use longer exposures to get more trails. 

 

Canon 5Dm3

70mm F4.6

x20 x2.30" exposres

ISO 1000

[Craney]

Nice shot.   How did you get the lighthouse light to not dominate the frame??   Were you in the right angular spot ??

[Daniel-K]

8 minutes ago, Craney said:

Nice shot.   How did you get the lighthouse light to not dominate the frame??   Were you in the right angular spot ??

i used a telephoto lens to allow my to stand further away but make it look closer

[John78]

13 minutes ago, Craney said:

Nice shot.   How did you get the lighthouse light to not dominate the frame??   Were you in the right angular spot ??

Photoshop probably, get the light house properly exposed and then paste on the 20 star trails frames in the background

[Daniel-K]

1 minute ago, John78 said:

Photoshop probably, get the light house properly exposed and then paste on the 20 star trails frames in the background

id like to see that method please 

[happy-kat]

Probably find could use Sequator too as you mark which is your base frame.

It's a great image.

[John78]

1 hour ago, Daniel-K said:

id like to see that method please 

I'm genuinely impressed you haven't done that, it's a good effort.

The easy (cheats) method would be add all the layers for the trails then have your lighthouse layer, add a layer mask and airbrush the star trails into it.

The other thing you can do is set a much lower f number and do massively long subs for the star trails and then you don't get the breaks in the trails.

 

I'm aware of sequator but never used it, but that should do this technique for you also.

[Craney]

I tried to do a similar shot on the North East coast   ( Alnwick )....  the glorious beams, focal point building and arching Milky Way in the background..

didn't quite work out....

Wind, full Moon and even rain ( shower cloud top right)  .... all  conspired against me.   A work in progress as they say...