Another of the images from my recent trip to a salt lake. Sorry about having so many from a series posted consecutively. I haven't done star trails for a very long time and wanted to try a few more experiments. It was a long time before the milky way core rising, so this also gives an opportunity to just let it run. The good thing about star trailing is that you can just sit back and enjoy the stars. 9 image vertical panorama and 220 minutes of star trailing (the battery ran out - if I wanted to do more serious stuff, I'd have used a battery grip :P ). This time I did a vertical panorama as part of the sequence. I wanted to test this way to see about controlling the amount of foreground interest. A previous portrait star trail that I did - Passage of Time - I like doing, but would have liked a little bit more foreground for balance. Star trailing is one of the few times that I'll blend in different times for an image. Taking the panorama for the foreground at dusk, brought out the clearer foreground. At dusk, the fading light highlighted on the pressure ridges of the salt lake. For the star trailing - I thought about this for awhile and decided to keep the intensity of the constant trails. I have done comet trails before it was automated. I didn't want to do vortex trails for this either. The blog about the trip http://astrophotobear.com/astrophotography-dying-earth/
Temporal Disruption
