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Star Trails
Star Trails
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Challenge: Long Exposure (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Nikon AF Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G IF-ED DX
Location: Taos NM
Date: Jul 30, 2005
Galleries: Sky
Date Uploaded: Jul 30, 2005

Caught with a fish eye lens, hence the bits of land in the corners.

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neat image
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Statistics
Place: 99 out of 200
Avg (all users): 5.4068
Avg (commenters): 6.0625
Avg (participants): 5.1881
Avg (non-participants): 5.5704
Views since voting: 1156
Views during voting: 400
Votes: 236
Comments: 17
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/07/2005 10:19:18 PM
Interesting to see the different colors from stars and planets (and other celestial objects).
08/06/2005 06:36:23 AM
ok... I would not say WOW if it wasn't for the star that does not move :D 7
08/06/2005 03:49:33 AM
Awesome, so glad there is a strails exposure. I REALLY wanted to enter one myself, but wasn't gifted one clear evening during the challenge dates. Technicallly good exposure, and definitly long.... say 10mins? However I would have appreciated some forground reference. Also looks to be massively fisheyed.... maybe its just me.
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08/05/2005 09:21:59 AM
interesting shot
08/04/2005 10:19:19 PM
Great shot, it would be nice to have a foreground object as a reference.
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08/04/2005 03:12:20 PM
Would love to try this, fascinating stuff, this must have been exposed for hours!
08/04/2005 05:12:58 AM
I always love these photos! Can't wait to see the setting details!
08/03/2005 07:18:56 PM
Interesting take on this challenge but the photo itself does very little for me. The white smokelike running thru the photo 1/3 from the right is very distracting and the bottom corners add nothing but distraction to the photo. Good luck in this challenge. <5>
08/03/2005 06:55:14 PM
I'm dizzy.....
08/03/2005 05:45:53 PM
This is a cool effect and an amazing natural phenomenon. However, it is not that interesting to me from a photographic point of view. I honestly have no idea what else could be done to improve upon this, short of having another point of interest. I remember seeing a star trail shot a while back that had an observatory in it - that worked pretty well, I think.
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08/03/2005 03:16:19 PM
Really tough to pull this shot off with just a single exposure. THe noise in the upper left and the glare across the middle are distracting. Alos, I would have liked to see more foreground elements to provide additional interest.

Theme 3/3
Composition 0/2
Technical 1/2
Image Impact 0/3

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08/03/2005 04:54:25 AM
The star trails need a little context here - though judging by the land in both bottom corners you did this by spinning around rather than a several hour exposure. Still, an interesting attempt. 6.
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08/02/2005 10:59:07 PM
Good capture of long exposure. However, this makes me feel dizzy. I wish there was a point of reference so that I could stop spinning - the circular motion of the stars makes me feel this way.
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08/02/2005 04:54:18 PM
I don't get the feeling that these "dots" are stars. I would probably have been good idea to include more landscape in the frame.
08/01/2005 11:13:51 PM
With a digital! Amazing shot! Hope you didn't too many pixels out!
08/01/2005 11:30:11 AM
fascinating
08/01/2005 02:00:21 AM
This is long exposure, nice job.


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