Fundamentals 3: Creating Star Trails
A Talk by Gabriel Biderman (Partner, Instructor, National Parks at Night)
About this Talk
Gabriel Biderman will teach everything you need to know about capturing, creating and processing star trail photographs.
Gabe will begin with an explanation of how to take your initial star point exposures and calculate the longer exposures necessary to create the star trail effect. Next he will talk about how different situations require different approaches to the initial capture. Both long and short exposures can be used to make these magical images and by the end of this class you’ll have the confidence and knowledge to use them both.
The last section of this presentation will cover necessary equipment (such as an
intervalometer, or an external battery pack) to ensure you have the right gear for the right job. While Photoshop is not entirely necessary to create star trails, it does open up more opportunities to capture them.
Gabe will finish with a demonstration of how easy it is to use Photoshop to help create star trail imagery from a stack of photos.
