Star Trails Photography Tutorial: Take Pictures at Night

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40 Comments
  1. Tony & Chelsea Northrup says

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  2. 5520211 says

    you looks like Timothy Olyphant

  3. Abraham Moore says

    I'm a Huge Fan Of Your Incredible Knowledge. Thanks Professor👍👏 Knowledge🌌🌞🌎Is My Number One Favorite No Matter What!

  4. L47539637 4637 says

    What if the camera doesn't have infinite focus?😐

  5. Lucas Sullivan says

    Wow! Amazing Photography!

  6. Boris Chiu says

    Hi Tony, theres sth u reli hv to help me! Ive shot some photos in long exposure and edit in b&w. After stacking photos in starstax with photos edited in NEF(RAW) in Lightroom, there are colour banding in the white areas of the photo especially in the sky(as my photo has skies in it), how do i solve this prob?

  7. [email protected] DO_73327 says

    Hi Tony. Thanks to you and Chelsea for all that I’ve learned so far from watching your tutorials. I’ve only been experimenting with photography for about a year now and I have a question. In the beginning of this video you mention that a cold night is good but I have concerns. When I bring my camera back inside, after photographing the stars, will condensation damage my camera?

  8. Lana says

    Couldn't get Starstax to work.

  9. S.B. says

    Suparb tutorial, thank you very much😃👌

  10. Photoextremist says

    Beautiful Photo Tony

  11. Timothy1982 says

    How to prevent battery from dying during all that shooting?

  12. Archie Pina says

    Omg. I love this.

  13. Thomas says

    Ditch lens caps? Why does he say that?

  14. VI god says

    My lens doesnt show focus points on it… is there a way that ı can find the infinity point ?

  15. Michael says

    you mentioned in the video that this was 300+ exposures/2.5hrs. But I put some trails together and 45 exposures stacked almost seemed too much. Any reason in the disparity in the number of stacked exposures? Could it be the time of year?

  16. eugyero says

    garbage

  17. fgsz291 says

    Hi.

  18. Derek Dailey says

    Nice tutorial. Dew tip: You can buy USB powered lens heaters to keep the dew off of your lens, this is much better than trying to fight the dew with a cloth.

  19. Irfan Triple A says

    how to apply editing to all the photos?

  20. Pawel W says

    Nice trick with continuous shooting instead of B mode and one exposure.

  21. Joe McClinton says

    how do you apply one pictures settings to the whole group?

  22. Genial Jacob says

    Hi friend, I will propose you a new project, I hope you can do it and upload a video to youtube showing us the result of this. I cannot do it because I don't have the ways to do that (like the camera). The project is very simple, I see many videos showing STAR TRAILS but I cannot found a video showing CLOUD TRAILS and I'm not meaning CHEMTRAILS, I'm telling you to record the clouds in the same way as you do with the stars. I want to know what is the result of this, maybe its a great clue to know more about the earth "rotation" or the movement of the skys. thanks.

  23. All Things Eastern says

    Just bring a flashlight with you so you can see what you're doing. The ones that you can wear on your head free up both your hands.

  24. AR 23 says

    You must be a flat earther

  25. Kamil Nikodem says

    Very nice!

  26. Samuel j says

    Is this a video? I just see a pic till end 🤔

  27. Tom Martin says

    It used to be so simple with film. The most important thing was aperature setting. The rest was in the developing and printing. Dodge burn here and there. No way could you sharpen it. Amazing.

  28. Tim Smith says

    cesar milan really lost weight

  29. Hilti Lions says

    You sound like CGP Grey!!!

  30. RobbyJHope says

    Tony with facial hair, before my arrival to this channel!

  31. eyes wide shut says

    research flat earth…….. 🙂

  32. P4Reece says

    Why would you ditch your lens caps?

  33. ytrebiLeurT says

    Open the shutter for two hours and rotate the camera simultaneously to the rotation of the earth…

  34. John Buterbaugh says

    It looks like he spilled coffee on his very nice sweater, but I don't think that's what happened…

  35. Sameepa Namjoshi says

    Is there any other alternative for the remote?

  36. Ugo Salza says

    Just bought the
    How to Create Stunning Digital Photography, and the two recommendations that goes with it… I look forward to using and will be commenting on them, thanks for the video tutorial.

  37. Ugo Salza says

    Does your book on Amazon "How to Create Stunning Digital Photography" covers the details of this video? Thanks,

  38. Nilotpal Dey says

    Great video Tony.. Thanks a lot…

  39. Heed the Seen says

    Those flat-earth cavemen need to start taking notes.

  40. Sister Mary Clements says

    Not to go off topic, but shooting star strails proves that the earth is flat. Supposedly the earth is spinning, and that means your tripod is too (unless you're at the exact north pole). So how on earth, if your tripod is spinning for several hours, does Polaris stay a centred dot? It should be a U-shaped smere, because you're camera and tripod have shifted position.
    The only way your fixed tripod and camera can keep Polaris centred, no matter what latitude you're at, is if the stars rotate around you, with Polaris being the centre of rotation.
    The earth is stationary, and the sky is one, giant rotating something lol
    Peace

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