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Stitching together stacks of stars

Stitching together stacks of stars

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Stitching together stacks of stars

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- Previously, you saw me out in the cold battling the elements, try... yeah, okay, it wasn't that bad. Anyway, I was out shootin' star trail pictures. I was trying to get one of those images where, or a couple of those images where I've got streaks of stars in the sky, and I was doing it using a method whereby I was taking lots of images at shorter shutter speeds, still very long, but shorter, so that I could stack them together. So, rather than shooting a single, 4-hour shot, I was shooting a series of 30-second shots, with the idea that they could be combined later. Now, I'm gonna show you how to combine them. And I'm actually gonna show you how to combine a couple of images because it turns out the first one I shot didn't really work, but I wanna show you that one because there's something important that we can learn from it. So, I've copied the images over from my camera. I've got a whole bunch of JPEGs. Now, I…

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