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John Charlton
{K:5595} 10/1/2003
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Hey Kim, this is pretty cool. somebody even liked it enough to make it a favourite. Just goes to show, we don't always see the value in our own work.
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Megan Forbes
{K:4617} 9/24/2003
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Kim,
This is quite a cool effect actually (although others might not agree with me!), and useful as an experiment. I recently got this star trail shot in Sweden - luckily for me it was new moon: http://forbesweb.typepad.com/photos/long_exposures/starp.html . Thanks for the comment on my moonlight shot. I probably should have mentioned that I have others which are better exposed, but look all greenish. I wonder if other films would have had that greenish effect as well - most unpleasant. Thanks for the time :).
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Steve Kompier
{K:4629} 4/8/2002
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Kim,
Remember, moonlight is sunlight and that's what caused the blue sky in this photo. Shoot when no moon is out and as dark of a location as possible.
Any sky glow will lessen the black sky you're looking for. Also, the smaller the aperture, the thinner the star trails will be, but F22 maybe too small.
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Dan Sanford
{K:300} 4/8/2002
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Experiment with f22 and it might come out darker. It is amazing how it looks like daylight, I like it.
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Kim Culbert
{K:37070} 4/8/2002
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Thank you Steve and Sean for your comments... this is something that I would like to learn more about and the comments really help.
Steve... I was looking at a webpage of astronomy pictures and all the pictures were on 400 or 800 ISO film... and the sky was black for all of those. I took some more night images which I will post in the next few days, when the moon wasn't out yet, and I was curious as to why my sky isn't black in any of them. I'll attach one right now actually. If it isn't the film speed I'm not sure what it would be. I am also going to try a few with f5.6 to see if maybe I was getting too much light from the stars? (is that possible??)
The attached photo is a 8 min exposure.
Any help???
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Steve Kompier
{K:4629} 4/8/2002
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Wow..this looks like a daylight shot. Neat.
Kim,
You really don't need a faster film like 400 because your doing a long exposure. You have nothing to gain except more grain.
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sean slavin
{K:3488} 4/8/2002
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amazing how much light the moon throws out. looking forward to seeing what else you tried. 8)
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