St. Peter, Pirton

Hello all

It's been a while since I last posted. But since then, I finished the Starting Photography course and started and finished the Continuing Photography Course (held at the Worcester College of Technology).

I thought I'd share the final photo I took for the course.

St. Peter, Pirton - Meta



It's a stack of 50, 30 second exposures taken on the night of the Longest Day (not the best night to take a night shot ).

Anyway, all comments (critical or otherwise) are welcome!

Cheers
Moosh

 

Hi Brian

I borrowed a friend's 1 million candle torch and for one of the exposures "painted" the church.

I used Startrails (Startrails application) to combine the images together. I think the way it works if that it pulls through the brightest pixel from each frame and then combines the result. Therefore only one frame is required of the church to be illuminated.

I'll have a ganders in the Expressive Travel Photography forum.

Cheers
Moosh

 

As Brian has said, they're stars.

I had to find somewhere that had no street lighting to pull this off. It's amazing how much light pollution is out there!

The stars "rotate" around the North Star and I located that using the Big Dipper as a reference. Now that may sound technical but I had help...

I happened to be watching an episode of Peppa Pig and that explained it (YouTube - Peppa Pig - Stars).

I've bought a cheap intervalometer (Timer Remote control for Panasonic DMW-RSL1 DMC-GH1 G1 on eBay (end time 12-Jul-10 17:46:58 BST)) and set it to take 50, 30 second exposures with a one second gap between exposures.

If you do want to do this (which is very easy to do), take a torch, a spare battery or two and a good book with you otherwise it can get very boring listening to the camera clicking away!

Cheers
Moosh

PS: Brian, every time I see your avatar I keep on thinking it's a sniper in the long grass!