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Here is a simple 10 step process to capture both star trails and nighttime sky photographs at the same time.
Nighttime photography is a lot of fun, gaining greater popularity and attracting more and more photographers. I’ve been exploring the various techniques and want to share with you the one I like the most. Now, I don’t pretend to be a master at nighttime photography. I’ll leave that up to the legends like Wally Pacholka. But we can still have a lot of fun and come away with some very nice images.
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Here’s a technique for combining night sky and star trails photography that really works.
Back in January of 2010 I published a blog post titled.
Ten Tips for Exciting Nighttime Photography
Now, I don’t profess to be an expert on nighttime photography. But the month of October provided a number of great opportunities to do some night shooting with some people who know what they are doing. October started off with a trip to Grand Portage in Northern Minnesota near the Canadian border. There I shot with Travis Novitsky and my brother Roger Nordstrom. Both are experienced at shooting star trails. And my friend Wally Pacholka is world renown for his astrophotography. And while I haven’t had the pleasure of photographing with Wally I figure during the associations I’ve had with him something must have rubbed off.
I’ve put together some thoughts on nighttime photography that I’d like to share with you.
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