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What are good startrails?
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!
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I prefer colored sky.With very long exposure we get color tones which are not visible.
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Thanks V! The colored sky seemed to be the natural thing to do!
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I too prefer a bit of colour as opposed to pitch black.
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Another fan of a sky with some colour.
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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.
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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!
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