Friday, 18th June 2010
Windmill Star Trails
by Andy Kent
This is the Windmill at the Avoncroft Museum of historic buildings in Bromsgrove.
3 bursts from flash gun on last of the 30 second exposures. One either side of the camera, and one central.
Total exposure is 1 hour, stacked from 30 second exposures.
Getting the composition right in pitch darkeness took ages!
Equipment: Canon 450D, Sigma 10-20mm @10mm, Iso 400, F5.6
Andy Kent
Website: www.akphotographic.co.uk
Windmill Star Trails by Andy Kent was photo of the day on Friday, 18th June 2010. It is tagged Black & White, Night, Stars, Windmills. You can leave a comment below.
14 Comments
Wayne Christensen
Interesting photo. The star trails in ther upper portion of the photo show stars in the northern celestial sphere. They curve upward. Those in the lower portion show stars in the southern celestial shere. They curve downward. Where the wind vanes cross, the star trails are straight. They correspond to the celestial equator. The celestial equator is an imaginary projection of the Earth’s equator onto the sky. Nice work, Andy. What software do you use for stacking the photos?
Anurag
Very interesting observation Wayne.
Andy, was the alignment of the celestial equator and the wind wanes deliberate or serendipity?
Its an awesome shot.
Su
Very techinal shot and such patience, well done.
Morkel Erasmus
great work here – works well in B&W!
neaz ahmed
fantastic long exposure….
very interesting portfolio http://www.akphotographic.co.uk
liked its low light section.
greetings from bangladesh.
Malta Photography
Very interesting shot. It clearly shows the love towards what you do. I wanted to ask if using one hand held flash gun and firing at two different moments would have created the same effect.
renee
Amazing shot, congrats!
Grete
Spectacular capture, I love so much this long exposure. Excellent in all aspect. Congratulations Andy
Ellen Empson
Congratulations on this masterpiece of originality, composition, masterful technical skill and vision!
Kirk Jordan
I find it interesting to see how you have used a very modern photographic approach (stacking photos using acomputer) to produce and image that kind of feels like something from the 1930′s or 40s. It has that kind of tone I associate with large format industiral photography,
Marie Dunphy Harding
Brilliant work and endless patience! Thank you for sharing your art.
mike
Looks good in black and white also.
susolov
It’s nice to see your beautiful unique composition. Sometimes I think this Web site is only for mountains and sunsets. LOL!
Pauline Jones
This must have been a really difficult one to get right; well done.