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Processing night shots with StarStaX

Processing night shots with StarStaX

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Processing night shots with StarStaX

In an earlier movie, you saw me shoot a star trail set-up. And in that movie I talked about how, while you could do a really, really long exposure to get the movement of the stars, the problem in the environment that we had with doing that meant that the foreground was going to be overexposed. If we had a super long exposure, the mountains in the foreground would be completely blown out. So in that movie, I talked about shooting a series of still pictures and then assembling them in software to make a star trail. So that's what we're going to do here. So let's take a look at the shots that I've got. Here, as you can see, I'm working in Aperture, and by the way, it doesn't matter what software you're using, if you're using Aperture or iPhoto or Lightroom, at this point, it's all pretty much the same. I'm just dealing with a bunch of pictures that we're going to ultimately assemble into a star trail. So here's the first shot. Now before I do anything to the picture I'm just going to…

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