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Shooting and processing a long exposure at night

Shooting and processing a long exposure at night

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Shooting and processing a long exposure at night

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- On a previous Practicing Photographer, we... You know, on a real TV show they'd do that more dramatically, so I'm going to start again. Previously, on the Practicing Photographer... All right, anyway... In a previous one I did a star trail image by shooting a bunch of images at 30 seconds each and then stacking them in post-production. I'm going to do a star trails image again, but this time I'm going to do it in the more traditional manner, which is to take a really, really long exposure of the sky. The reason that you would choose one over the other is that the method I used before really helps you manage noise. You don't have to worry about noise because you're not doing a really long exposure, which is one way that noise gets generated, and you don't have to crank your ISO up real high to keep your exposure times down. However, it does require a lot of post-production, it requires that you have an intervalometer…

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