A Dream Home
You may remember this house from my last post where the weather wouldn’t cooperate. Well, Saturday night may have only been 22 degrees, but there wasn’t a cloud in site so I rode back out to this abandoned house I found on Google maps to shoot some startrails.
This is a combination of 240 exposures. Each exposure was 30 seconds long. The exposures were then stacked together to show the movement of the stars in a two hour time period. The camera settings for the exposures were: f2.8, ISO 1000, white balance set to “tungsten” to help combat the light pollution from nearby towns.
The house is located near Pinetops, NC. It looks as though it was once a large, beautiful old farm house. It’s amazing to me that a house like this is just left to rot away.
Hope you enjoy!
Love your work! If you don’t mind me asking, what program/method did you use to stitch the photos together? I’m a hobbyist, but I’m trying my hand at night photography like this. Any advice you could give would be awesome!
Thank you Meg. You can download free software for the star trails here: http://www.startrails.de/html/software.html, or here: http://www.markus-enzweiler.de/software/software.html
Both of these work really well. You can also do it manually in photoshop if you want to. Other than that, my tips would be:
Find a really dark sky
Find something interesting for the forground
use high iso
wide open aperture
30 second exposures
Shoot for at least an hour
Hope this helps!