How To Create Colorful Star Trails Like Lincoln Harrison And Other Tips
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- If you love star trail or night photography you've probably come across a Lincoln Harrison photo at some point in your google search. If you ever wondered how to create such colorful star trails this tutorial will point you in the right direction with a few extra tips as well! If you have any questions feel free to ask!
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Great info thanks. Lincoln Harrison is the main man alright for star trail imagery
Thanks!!! He definitely has star trails down to a science!
Excellent tutorial Mike!! I loved your presentation and simple instructions. Thanks for your efforts and keep the awesome videos coming.
thanks a lot for the tips, think you helped out very many photographers out here like myself, always trying to improve their technique and skills
You're welcome!! Take care!
All your videos are awesome Mike. Thanks.
Thank you very much!
wow thank you so much for this tutorial!i.ve been looking for how to make the startrails colorful for a long time！thanks again！
Thank you, I am going to try this weekend.
Heather West it might be hard with the moon out. You’ll get better results during a new moon. Still give it a try for fun
Great job. Been following you for a while. Your videos and photography keeps getting better. Nice job.
Thanks for sharing yours experience Mike
Great man, thanks 👌🏼
Thanks Mike...another great video! cheers brother!
Awesome dude. You give me a lot of things to try so thank you very much good sir.
Love your videos Dude, Really Enjoyed, I also found out a while ago; I use the canon 90d with a 12mm samyang at oso 400 and 640 and the lumix s5 with the 20 to 60mm stock lens and the colors do look much better on the trails, I use the live composite mode now to watch it ong....All the best from the u.k and have a great Xmas and 2022...God Bless
Great tutorial! Liked and subscribed at once.
Thanks heaps. Appreciated.
You're welcome!
Hey tks for the tutorial. I took a lot of star trails but certainly not that colourful. Im wondering why a long duration of 6 to 10 hrs can bring out the colour. It adds more trails and the circle become more complete but I don’t understand longer duration equals more colour. If the trick is underexpose why won’t a shorter duration bring out the colour although it may just look half circle. And don’t he give a little push on the saturation or vibrant slider in post?
thanks so much i always wondered how he did this :)
No problem! It was weird at first under exposing the night images however it helped so much to capture more color in the stars!
Great video !
Thanks!!
Brother White Balance has some use in Colorful Star Trail 🤔 and lot of love from India 😍🙏
hey Mike , can you explain wiht the video , blur method of Lincoln Harrison star trails ? Because him method is not only color trails.He adds blur.
creo que utiliza en la circumpolar desenfoque radial y lo calza justo con el centro de la estrella polar
Great video, thx! How many images would be needed to get these results?
This was about 3 or 4 hours and roughly 400 photos. The longer you go the better your results will be. Lincoln Harrison typically does 6-12 hour long star trails.
@@Milkywaymike thank you for the info!
very helpful
Thanks for watching!
funny how i got to your channel i have a tutorial on how to do a LE stacking and you came as suggested
Great channel man
Nice - but how do you make the stars to move around in circular motion ? Can you explain that process ? Thank you
Yeah it requires a couple extra steps So I made a tutorial on that as well… ua-cam.com/video/Du83Tn8ZEg8/v-deo.html
@@Milkywaymike : Excellent ! Thanks !
Done bro✌️
so it seems that that lower the ISO the better the colour ( to a point of course) if you use long exposure times, would that wash out the cooler? and how much time in between photos (interval?) do you typically use to get such colour?
Question 1) No, the exposures may be longer however you still under expose by lowering the ISO and increasing the Fstop. Those values are dictated by how dark a location is.
Question 2) The exposure time is whatever you want it to be (25, 30, 45, 60 seconds) or several minutes of you want. The shorter the exposure the more photos you will end up with which makes it harder for computer software to handle. So for example Lincoln Harrison will take 45 or 60 second exposures to reduce the number of photos to work with. The interval between photos is typically 1 or 2 seconds depending on how fast the exposure can write to your cameras memory card. You don’t want to go any longer than that since it will give you larger gaps. The last key ingredient for color is length of time. Lincoln Harrison usually shoots for at least 6 hours.... 6-12 hours is his norm and it will give you a lot of rotation...then when you under expose you can pull out more color from the stars.
@@Milkywaymike Thank you so much, you really make it easier to figure all of this out. Really enjoy and appreciate your channel
(Sorry for my English) Plase there is something I do not understand. If he is taking photosfor 6 or even 10 hours.. what about batteries? Can you stop between the shoots to change the batery?
He shoots with a Nikon D810 with most likely a power grip or an external power supply. My D810 with a power grip can photograph 8-12 hours so it's possible to go that long without stopping the camera to change batteries. If you need to stop and change batteries you have to be careful to not bump the camera out of its position and to do it as quickly as possible.
Milky Way Mike thank you so much. I'm poor. Can't aford that type of camera. Hehehe. Thanxs for the info. Love your channel. I've learned a lot.
Camera is not the problem, every camera body should be connected to an external power source. Try to find an adaptor that can be fit into the battery place of your camera and buy a powerbank or connect your camera directly to the lighter of your car. On Google you will surely find some stuff at a reasoneable price. Beware of dew... water condemsation can ruin your photosession. Good light (and forgive my English).
To get real colours of Stars, one of my friend advised me to increase the aperture 1 stop of my base aperture. Is it true ?
Nilotpal Dey That depends on your other settings. You definitely need to under expose to capture more colors because if you are exposing for the foreground the stars will be white (over exposed). I would say decrease your iso by 1 or 2 stops. So typically my night images are ISO 3200 F2.8 Shutter 25 seconds... for star trails make it ISO 1600 or 1000, F4 shutter 25 seconds. (In a low light pollution area). If you are in heavy light pollution make your iso even lower.
Mike many thanks, for your advice....
there is always one psycho able to dislike a perfect video on youtube lol i wonder what does he looks like
Honestly, I love the look of Lincoln Harrison's star trails, BUT I believe they have more artificial color than a bag of M&M'S.
haha... yeah, they are very vibrant. Not everyone's cup of tea...