Forest Lake Star Trails + repost

Gallery: LandscapePosted May 30, 2012238 views6 comments

Nikon D5100 w/ Tamron 10-24mm lens
Time-lapse image sequence stacked in Star Stax (free program)
Final image processed in PSE10

Thanks for the feedback on my prior image which was similar to this but didn't have star trails. While I realize there may be some lens distortion (that I still don't know how to correct in PSE10), I thought I'd put this out for your comments/critiques. Thanks in advance!

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on May 30, 2012 at 11:30 AM

Tonia, very nice! I like the star trails and the hint of purple in the sky.

Correcting the lens distortion is easy here. I do this in Photoshop, but Elements is probably similar. First select all, then go to the edit menu and look for transform. Choose distort. In this instance, drag the ULC by the handle and pull it to the left. Accept the transformation. That's all there is to it, pretty much. It may work slightly different in Elements, but substantively it should be about the same.

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Comment posted by Dean Sauskojus on May 30, 2012 at 4:27 PM

Incredible view Tonia. I like how you positioned the north star in the URC and the silhouetted trees fill the rest of the frame. Nice job.

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on May 30, 2012 at 8:57 PM

Great job, Lots of trails nicely blurred. I like your choice of fg

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Comment posted by Tonia Graves on May 31, 2012 at 10:46 AM

Thank you everyone! Phil, I will have to see if I can't play around with correcting the distortion (now that I know where to start looking). Thanks for explaining it to me!

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Comment posted by Tonia Graves on May 31, 2012 at 10:39 PM

Okay I figured out how to deal with the distortion! Thanks again to Phil Hodgkins! What do you think now?

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on June 1, 2012 at 10:22 AM

I've always wanted to try this Tonia, looks great to me.
I think the repost is an improvement..seems very slightly lighter as well? Perhaps it's just me

Have a great weekend!

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