{"id":1002,"date":"2015-05-16T11:34:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T03:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2015-05-17T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T03:37:10","slug":"heartland-star-trails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/heartland-star-trails","title":{"rendered":"Heartland Star Trails"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8893\/17550077488_6f54fffe3e_z_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Star Trails above HDB flats<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This evening, I saw a Facebook update by a friend who was excited over the clear, starry sky that she saw at the East Coast Park beach. Since I stay in the east as well, I decided to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Looking out of the window, I see a nearly-cloudless sky filled with stars. I originally intended to see if I could get a milky way shot, but wasn&#8217;t successful. So I decided to go for a star trails shot instead.<\/p>\n<p>To get the star trails, I set up my\u00a0Fujifilm X-T1 with the Zeiss Touit 12mm f\/2.8 lens and set the intervalometer to take a hundred shots. The exposure was found by trial and error (helps having a computer nearby to check these.) to be 20s at f\/5.6 at ISO 1600.<\/p>\n<p>After the 100 shots, I downloaded the images into Lightroom CC, then did some exposure\/colour adjustments on the first shot. I opted for a slightly bluer white balance which I think looks better for the night sky. The HDB flats in the foreground was kind of bright, so \u00a0I toned that down via Lightroom&#8217;s graduated ND filter. Once I am happy with the adjustments, I used the Sync Settings in Lightroom to apply to the other 99 shots, then exported them as JPEG files.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the 100 images were stacked in StarStaX, which did an excellent job at stacking them and also filling in the gaps in the star trails. It&#8217;s by coincidence that I managed to get the centre of the trails in the centre of the frame. Talk about good luck!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, I saw a Facebook update by a friend who was excited over the clear, starry sky that she saw at the East Coast Park beach. Since I stay in the east as well, I decided to check it out. Looking out of the window, I see a nearly-cloudless sky filled with stars. I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/heartland-star-trails\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heartland Star Trails<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[489,501,158,487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1003,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ckphoto.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}