What are good startrails?

[kevin99989]

There is a lot of light pollution whenever I shoot startrails these days. This shot was stacked from 30 minutes worth of 30 second exposures (60 images). Do you prefer startrails with a pitch black background, or is a slightly coloured sky OK?

Other comments welcome as always!

[vyeko]

I prefer colored sky.With very long exposure we get color tones which are not visible.

[kevin99989]

Thanks V! The colored sky seemed to be the natural thing to do!

[Marko]

I too prefer a bit of colour as opposed to pitch black.

[Iguanasan]

Another fan of a sky with some colour. :)

[khmerxbxboi]

great shot ! ;) need to learn how to do this

[AcadieLibre]

I think both can work. Not sure why you can't shoot some with colour and some b&w. It does not have to be one or the other, both is also an option.

[kevin99989]

Yes - for sure. And a lot of the background intensity can be controlled in my post-processing as well. I just wanted to see what you all thought!

[Bol Ray]

Some colour please!