How To Create Stunning Star Trail Photographs START TO FINISH

[alanalain]

Thank you Alyn for all your videos and your awesome shared knowledge that help many of us embrace the night sky photography journey...

[mustang]

He doesn’t mention it early on but make sure you take at least two photos of your background or target first. One with it underexposed so that the lighting looks exactly how you want it, and another a bit more exposed to see the details in the target. Then you can mask them over each other and add all the star trail frames

[daviesrjack]

Watching for instruction/inspiration in 2024. Miss you, Alyn! Great to hear your voice again. Rest in peace ❤

[Wheeljack]

I've spent way too much time googling how to make a composite like you did (switch foreground), and here you show it in so few and simple steps. None of the guides I found mentioned "refine edges" for example. Thank you!

[willdobson]

Love you Alyn. ❤🙏🏼 Thanks for all the inspiration and incredible photos. Rest in power x

[TimGraham]

Well timed tutorial Alyn, a lot of us trying timelapses from the garden!

[bthink]

Wow! Thank you for an actually useful tutorial!

[phindumusa]

what a legend. Greatly missed. Continue to RIP, Alyn.

[neild]

Excellent, easy to understand tutorial, thanks!
One question: I do not have an external power source, just a couple of fairly new (tho 3rd party) batteries for my Canon 5D4, and a couple more that are in OK shape. Is there any reason why I could not program my camera to take as many shots as I think it can take on a single battery (maybe just 100, considering they would be 20 - 25 sec exposures and high ISO?), then immediately exchange batteries and do another 100 or so, and perhaps even repeat for a 3rd set? Thanks!

[clarissaberry]

I just want to say thank you for this video. I never leave comments but I created my first star trail and it is SO cool!

[markhollinshead]

Thanks Alyn for doing this tutorial, you make it look so easy, just need clear skies now, looks like we'll have to wait a few days. So inspiring Alyn.

[AnthonyDavidMatthews]

Yet another fact packed, easy to follow tutorial. Inspirational.

[SimonGodfrey]

This has been so useful Alyn! Especially what you did in Photoshop, I didn't know I could easily remove satellites etc with the spot healing tool and you showed me a much easier way swap out the foreground, thank you!

[nomadtravelphotos]

I just found this tutorial and tried my hand at it last night. Thank you, thank you for a great explanation of the basics of star trails. I'm hooked now!

[Swelinde]

It's a great tutorial, thank you for making it! I had an issue with weird patterns in my star trail shots and your remark about turning off lens correction turned out to be the issue. Cheers mate!

[terrygoyan]

I'm here because of the PhotoPils stream. Subscribed and hit notifications. Great tutorial Alyn!

[salilchoksi]

Although I have been photographing star trails since many years, I did pick up some very useful tips. Shows, that learning never stops. Thanks for a lovely tutorial !

[chachacha]

Great tutorial! Covers just what I need, I've been going over old files and now I have a new project!

[goatlova]

Was waiting for a video like this. Been taking loads of pictures but a totally new to photography and editing and had no idea where to start. Thanks.

[matthifalnil]

Thank you much! I took an image like this for a school project where we had to take a picture of something in motion, and I’m really proud! It’s not as good as yours, but I’m super happy with it. It also was so much easier than I thought! Though I won’t get feedback on it before the beginning of next year.