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" Northern Exposure "

© John McCollum

" Northern Exposure "

Uploaded: April 05, 2007

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171 30 second photographs stacked. The rotation of the earth causes the stars to appear to move in a circular pattern around Polaris ( the north star ) The horizontal red streak just above the left side of the hotel is a passing airplane.

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Comments

April 05, 2007

John, I have always wanted to do this...I think you mastered it!! Great Job!! I was just wondering how long you kept your shutter open.....had to be for hours...right? Thanks, Cara Ford #632549

John McCollum April 05, 2007

Cara: No only left the shutter open for 30 seconds. In contionus burst mode with the shutter button held down by a rubber band. Took 171 photographs over 1 hour and 20 min. Then stacked the photographs in Photoshop CS2 using an action that blends all them together. The battery ran down after 171 shots. I purchased an a/c adapter, put a power inverter on my Jeep and will try another over 8 hours soon. #4133289

April 05, 2007

Great Job!!!! I will have to try this....I think you did a reallll nice job!!! #4133316

Chris Budny level-deluxe April 08, 2007

171 shots!? Stacked, and your PC didn't go into meltdown? ;)
Wow, that is really impressive, and the hour-plus shooting paid off; what an eye-catching image! Did you have trouble with the hotel getting blown out during 30 seconds?
I like that the star streaks are long, but also have a start and end, versus continuous, circular streaks. #4142892

Steve Reffey April 11, 2007

Amazing work. My computer would have crashed :-) #4153187

Jillian Danielson November 07, 2007

So cool! I want to try this sometime too!! #5042051

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