{"id":390,"date":"2012-01-21T15:15:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T15:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nickt.co.uk\/naturalworld\/?p=390"},"modified":"2012-06-17T08:54:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T08:54:37","slug":"star-field-photography-return-to-the-peckleton-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nickt.co.uk\/naturalworld\/index.php\/2012\/01\/21\/star-field-photography-return-to-the-peckleton-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Star field photography – return to the Peckleton Tree!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stars over the Peckleton Tree<\/p><\/div>\n

This year I’ve decided to do a 365 (photo a day) project with the aim of improving my landscape photography as well as my portrait and other photography. This was my photograph for day 13.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It had been a freezing few days, and when I was driving home from the supermarket I noticed that the skies were completely clear, and that the stars were out in force. Well, I couldn’t resist getting in on the star field action so I dashed home, dropped off the shopping and the wife, grabbed my camera and headed back out. Where to go though? Easy – remembering a landscape photography commission I’d undertaken in the middle of last year I remembered an excellent large tree in the neighbouring village of Peckleton. This was to be my subject for the night.<\/p>\n

I initially decided to do some star trail action with my Canon 5D Mark II, so set the camera up with the 17-40mm lens on the tripod and set to taking a number of 30 second exposures which I would then layer together in Photoshop to show the movement of the stars.<\/p>\n

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Star Trails at the Peckleton Tree<\/p><\/div>\n

However, I wasn’t too impressed with the composition of this picture, it didn’t say anything to me.<\/p>\n

As it was getting cold, late and I wanted to go home I didn’t want to be messing around setting up the 5D again in a different location, however I still needed to get a photo for the 365 that I’d be happy with so I decided to try out my Fuji X100 on a long exposure.<\/p>\n

I changed viewpoint, getting a little closer to the tree and quickly put my X100 on the tripod. I dialled in the manual settings I thought would get me a good result and the following picture was made…<\/p>\n

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The Peckleton Tree at Night – Photographed with the Fuji x100<\/p><\/div>\n

I was delighted with this one – the stars had taken on an ethereal glow and the ‘almost silhouette’ of the tree worked brilliantly against the orange streetlights of Earl Shilton. Not bad for a ‘point and shoot’!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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