Carlos - Temecula: Asher testing the new Furniture line for kids... |
Simone-NYC: Little hands |
Tatiana - Prague: Welcome to the family Andrea Cerna |
Jennifer - Toronto: Eight years ago, we adopted a handsome boy from Ukraine. So even though he isn't exactly "new", today we celebrate a NEW year with our son. Happy Adoption Day, Alexander! |
Nadia - Phoenix: I experimented with a NEW shooting technique this week. |
Melinda - Buenos Aires: New flags for a new country for me! |
Jennifer and Alex---That was a very happy day!!! Still very handsome!! :)
ReplyDeleteNadia, What an awesome photo!
ReplyDeleteTatiana, congratulations on your precious baby girl!
ReplyDeleteJen,
ReplyDeleteWhat a happy event that is to celebrate!
I love the photos this week! Congrats to Eric! Congrats to Tat! Nadia, love the photo! You WILL be teaching me to do that when you visit!
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures everybody! Congratulations to Eric and Alex! Nadia, you must share how you took the picture, it is awesome!
ReplyDeleteThanks guys! I loved all the pictures from this week! Great topic!
ReplyDeleteThe shooting technique is called "Star trails". You can find a lot of tips and instructions online. This particular picture is a combination of 180 pictures with 30 second exposure each. I set up the camera in my backyard with a tripod, and used a feature called "interval timer shooting", at 180 pictures at 35 second intervals, so the camera will automatically take a picture every 35 seconds for 180 pictures.
This is the easy part, because after setting up the camera I just went back home and watched TV for 3 hours :-)
This website was very helpful with processing and combining the pictures, which is quite complicated:
http://www.naturephotographers.net/articles0509/fv0509-1.html
The shooting time was 3 hours, and the processing time was something ridiculous like 5 hours, but the final result is worth it!
Please try this, and I'd love to see your results!
Oh, one more thing, make sure you face the camera to the north star, so it makes perfect circles.
ReplyDeleteHave fun!