Startrails on Bearskin Lake

Posted by John P on Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:53 am

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A couple of weeks ago the Northern Lights were very strong for 3-4 evenings! On this night on the Gunflnt Trail in NE MN! I traveled to W. Bearskin Lake to capture the lights! Around 10:00PM they were not very strong so I did a 32 minute star trail! Shortly after this was completed, the fog from the lake totally engulfed me and the light shooting was done for the night! But I did get this one image!
Nikon D800
Nikon 14-24mm @ 14mm
ISO 400
F-3.2 @ 4 minute X 8 = 32minutes
Stacked in Photoshop CC

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by Jeff Munoz on Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:48 pm

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Fantastic John, awesome shot and light!

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by Pedro da Costa on Sat Oct 15, 2016 2:13 am

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Great photo i really love this star trail.

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by Wade Thorson on Sat Oct 15, 2016 6:52 pm

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So cool. I especially like that even the reflection of the stars are captured so well.

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by crw816 on Wed Oct 19, 2016 7:09 pm

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I like your composition of the landscape and position of Polaris here. Well done!

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by John Labrenz on Thu Oct 20, 2016 8:10 pm

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Nice one John!
Congrats on getting this one done before the fog rolled in.
Not sure if we are seeing some light pollution or not....you may wish to tweak the WB to adjust..

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by E.J. Peiker on Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:04 am

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It's a very cool shot. I think I'd be tempted to use a lower wight balance but that's just a personal preference. The trails are really thick and could be toned down in post by applying the Photoshop Minimum (Filters>Other>Minimum) filter and experiment with the radius but probably something like 3 pixels.

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by Blck-shouldered Kite on Sun Oct 23, 2016 7:52 pm

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Wow! Fantastic image!

Just went back and looked at the meta. Oh, so I guess you experimented to find the proper exposure and then stacked a number of images, eachl at that exposure?
Anyway, I have to get out in the next few nights to give this a go.

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by John P on Mon Oct 31, 2016 7:58 am

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E.J. Peiker wrote:It's a very cool shot. I think I'd be tempted to use a lower wight balance but that's just a personal preference. The trails are really thick and could be toned down in post by applying the Photoshop Minimum (Filters>Other>Minimum) filter and experiment with the radius but probably something like 3 pixels.

thanks for the tip EJ, I will give that a try on the master!

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by John P on Mon Oct 31, 2016 8:02 am

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Blck-shouldered Kite wrote:Wow! Fantastic image!

Just went back and looked at the meta. Oh, so I guess you experimented to find the proper exposure and then stacked a number of images, eachl at that exposure?
Anyway, I have to get out in the next few nights to give this a go.

That is what I did, I took 8 individual exposure with all the same settings! Edited the one in post-processing, copied all those settings to the other iamges and stacked in Photoshop CC

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