Stars with Trails

[Melissa Hinton]

lol iPhone haha--no. I'm a windows phone kinda gal. Yeah I'm a pro at photoshopping, I just want to take the pictures, rather than have to photoshop them. I feel like that's kinda cheating.

 

[Melissa Hinton]

If you do use bulb use an ISO of 100 - 200, yes you will not get as many stars but you will get nice clean noise free images with the brightest stars.

I would suggest reading up on astrophotography and take small steps in getting what you want.

Yeah, I'm so impatient. Not that it's at all noticeable. So, I take it from what you're saying the noise reduction feature on the camera isn't going to be useful with these kinds of photos. I'm definitely going to be reading a lot more on astrophotography. Shame I can't learn it all in 5 minutes lol. I suppose if that were the case, everyone would be excellent at it and everyone would be doing it.

 

[Scott Murray]

Yeah, I'm so impatient. Not that it's at all noticeable. So, I take it from what you're saying the noise reduction feature on the camera isn't going to be useful with these kinds of photos. I'm definitely going to be reading a lot more on astrophotography. Shame I can't learn it all in 5 minutes lol. I suppose if that were the case, everyone would be excellent at it and everyone would be doing it.

You can use in camera noise reduction BUT if you take a 30sec exposure it will take 30sec to do noise reduction, if you do a longer exposure lets say an hr it will take an hr to do noise reduction. I always disable NR and do it in LR or PS.

 

[Melissa Hinton]

You can use in camera noise reduction BUT if you take a 30sec exposure it will take 30sec to do noise reduction, if you do a longer exposure lets say an hr it will take an hr to do noise reduction. I always disable NR and do it in LR or PS.

Ohhh okay, I understand. Well, I'm not going to be able to take any tonight; aside from it being super cloudy here, the shutter cable I got doesn't work w/ my camera...even though it said on the pkg it would. GRR---had to order one off of ebay since best buy doesn't seem to have them.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Yeah, I'm so impatient. Not that it's at all noticeable. So, I take it from what you're saying the noise reduction feature on the camera isn't going to be useful with these kinds of photos. I'm definitely going to be reading a lot more on astrophotography. Shame I can't learn it all in 5 minutes lol. I suppose if that were the case, everyone would be excellent at it and everyone would be doing it.

I agree with Scott. turn off Noise reduction and take care of that in post.

 

[Roy1961]

does a remote work the same as the cable for these shots??

 

[Scott Murray]

does a remote work the same as the cable for these shots??

Not normally unless you can specify how long to keep the shutter open, some releases have a slide click option to keep the button pressed down for bulb. That way you can take a long photo.

 

[Roy1961]

thanks Scott, now i need a shutter release cable.lol NAS

 

[Roy1961]

Only $25

 

[Melissa Hinton]

So, I did everything I was supposed to do and I got 2 pictures types. One was pitch black, the other was white. I left the shutter open for about 10 minutes. Obviously I'm still doing something wrong I took about 100 pictures, I tried changing the iso, aperture, white balance, nothing is working.

 

[Scott Murray]

Try this. 10 sec shutter, iso 800, f stop f4 or nearest.

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[Scott Murray]

You need to practice getting night shots right before venturing to star trails.

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[cwgrizz]

Not normally unless you can specify how long to keep the shutter open, some releases have a slide click option to keep the button pressed down for bulb. That way you can take a long photo.

Coming in a little late to this party, mostly just gleaning what I can. I saw this statement from Scott and thought I could add $.02. My remote (ML-3 I think is the number) for the D5300 works with bulb setting. You push it once to open shutter and then when you want to close the shutter, hit the remote again.

 

[Melissa Hinton]

Yeah, I have that feeling too lolol. Now if it'll just stop raining and/or snowing I can do that. Thank you again

 

[TonyD315]

I just came across this and thought I'd add in what I have learned about astrophotography. I took a workshop with a guy named Jack Fusco, Google his work, it's amazing. As it was said before there's a lot that goes into astrophotography. The longer the lens the shorter amount of time you have until the stars start to trail. I don't shoot single shot star trails for a number or reasons. I will shoot anywhere from 150-300 shots, depending on how I want the photo to look. Then I'll edit them in Lightroom and use StarStax to compress them into one shot.

The settings that I will use are usually 12mm at f4 ISO 1000-1600 with a 26 sec exposure. There is a chart you can find and it will give you exposure times based on your sensor size and focal length.

Most Nikons, definitely your 7100, are equipped with a internal intervalometer, so it eliminates the need to use a external release. I set the exposure to 26 sec, with a frequency of every 30 seconds to let the camera cycle, for X amount of shots.

Here's an example of a star trail I shot in Cape Cod, Ma back in the spring.

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