STAR TRAILS will change your night photography 

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I owe this channel so much. Thanks Tony. I highly recommend the stunning digital photography book.

Did someone say night photography?

Thank you. Just picking up photography again after a 40 year break. Boy has it changed. I love the moon and star shots. I will try this this weekend. Maybe, its cold here in Montana.

Your original star trails video tutorial was the first video of your channel I remember seeing. Glad you're updating.

You’re a world class instructor, Tony. Love the way you break things down!

Thanks Tony. This is a great video about star trails. You clearly explained what they are and how to photograph them. You answered every question I had about them. You make me want to try this out.

Awesome tutorial Tony! You always explain everything really well.

Brilliant tutorial. One of the best for star trails and live composite

"The stars are moving fast" Tony is a flat Earther 😂

Short, sweet, simple, and awesome!

Amazing...had no clue about this! Thanks so much Tony!!!!✨✨✨

Love the short format informative videos! Keep it up!

Great video guys! Thanks!!

Very nicely presented! Thanks Tony! 👍

Hey Tony I just bought your book Stunning Digital Photgraphy amd I love it. I am new to video and photography I just decided to start a RU-vid channel one day and now I am falling in love with shooting video and taking photos. I love your channel and you teach me so much. Thanks for everything you and Chelsea do I really appreciate it. Oh and I most definitely plan on purchasing all of your books.

Thanks for the tutorials, these are great. I just recently purchased a DSLR and have purchased your book and I'm working through it ... I can't wait to try this for shooting stars. Would you mind sharing what gear you used for this shoot?

Awesome! I definitely need to try this. Love new photo applications to try out.

This is so beautiful. 😍

Nice Video & Tips Tony ~~~~~~~ Thumbs Up!

Great video! Thank you!

Chelsea looks beautiful on that Lightroom Book cover. Great photo as always.

Oh boy, a night photography vid, my speciality : ) well these days I do more streets at night but nice to see you guys get out of your studio from time to time =p

Geeeez this was so easy! Thanks for this! I'm going to try it next time I have a night off! I'll be sure to post to the facebook group!

Great summary for making a star trail photography...

Thanks for an excellent video!

One and the only reason I still use Olympus cameras is the live composite and live time which let me do this in camera and also continuously monitor if it is working. I wish other camera brands would do the same. I have done really fun shoots with live composites. Especially in the cities at nights.

Thank you! This is great information, easy to follow, painless to actually execute.

Cool description, as always. The 14/1.8 is a real badass lens, I envy you for that piece.:)

60fps looking sharp guys. Keep up the great work!

Very cool. Thank you

Thanks for your video! 👍

More of instructional videos, please. I can only take so much of equipments reviews.

This looks epic 👌 Very nicely done. Great tips.

Thanks for your guide! Very helpfull

Thanks for this... love u guys

Great video, just gotta wait for a clear night. Thanks!

Regarding camera settings, I've taken a few star trail photos in my hometown (so with plenty of light pollution), and my go-to settings for star trails were 30sec, f/4, ISO 400 and I've gotten great results with that (I say "were" because I recently got a 10mm f/2.8 lens to use for this kind of stuff instead of my 16-35mm). Good info though on the continuous shooting mode, for some reason I spent loads of time setting up my 80D's intervalometer and didn't think to just do it in continuous mode! Another tip though with foregrounds - I personally like to take a specific foreground shot, so focused on the building or whatever, and exposing for it properly, then I'll just add that into the post-processing mix. For post-processing I use Photoshop blending modes for the star trails, then I'll mask in the foreground frame. Also don't forget to shoot a couple of dark frames to get a noise profile and subtract them from the star frames for better noise reduction. Using a dedicated stacking software is probably the easier way of doing it, as Photoshop runs so slow when I open up like 60 raw files as layers, but I end up with a TIFF back in Lightroom at the end of it for any final tweaking, so I kinda prefer it.

Do you use image stabilization for this? Great videos! Thank you!

I will try that. Awesome

Nice Video & Tips Tony

That is very cool. which lens are you using? I am kinda struggle between the Rokinon 14mm 2.8 manual vs AF same brand. which one would you recommend? Thanks

very cool thank you

Thank you for your tips. I would like to know whether should I turn on GPS and Asterotracer options for star trails?

Just got home from trying a star trail in London's Bushy Park, and this is the first video I see! Unfortunately, barely 5 minutes into my timelapse I was joined by about 40 inquisitive fallow deer. Lesson being: make sure you set up somewhere safe, not somewhere that you'll have to move/run away from! 😀

Thanks Tony!

Thank you, great video & teaching, just ordered a D3500 w/lots of lenses today, Subscribed w/ Belle.

Hi Tony!, I loved the star trail explanation, thanks!, but as I want to do this, I wonder if you know a remote for the Nikon D3500 that can lock the shutter open? Thanks in advance for any help!

Tony, pro tip for your Sony A7 series camera: There's a setting on your camera to not display the unnecessary animation on the side when you change exposure settings. The upside is the histogram doesn't disappear when changing exposure settings - so I highly recommend it. I think the setting is called "exposure set guide" or something similar.

perfect episode

Awesome tricks and really vry helpful video,,thnk u so much ♥️♥️♥️

COOL!!!

Really nice tutorial, thanks Tony. If you really want to nail focus for astrophotography, look into something called a Bahtinov focus mask. They are mainly used with telescopes, but you can buy them small enough to fit camera lenses. You can even make one out of cardboard if you're good at crafts :)

Fabulous,,,,

Thank you very much

6:15 That light painting, is that (and therefore this picture series) from several years ago? I recognise the scene.

Hi Tony. Thank you for the advises and the teaching you have given. Please let me know what is the S/W you are using to edit the exposure. Once again Thank you for all the tips and teachings.

Wow,nice

Nice photo! I need to check out starstacks, Ive been layering in PS and this way looks much easier than importing 10gb worth of photos into 1 PS file...

easy to understand. good

Thanks Tony great job greetings from UAE by the waw how to locate the north star? that is important for great Star Trails

I would love to get all your books, if your videos are this good I can't imagine how good your books are, but I live in Mexico, is there a way I can get them over here?

Thank you, Tony for taking "one for the team"! Definitely looked cold. At my latitude we can see the southern lights "aurora australis", to capture the aurora, do we use the same settings for a star-trail? Again, many thanks!!

Can you suggest a good way with the Sonys to get a good focus on say the orion nebula when using a 500af reflex?

Can the Star stack program also export the final product as a video also? Because it looked cool as it was generating the image

Wow! Is it just me, or has it been ages since you've done a tutorial? Personally I tend just to use time mode, but it's nice to have alternatives.

If you're shooting with a camera without a swing out LCD screen then look into buying a right angle finder attachment. When your camera is pointed upwards for sky photos it really helps.

I like your short videos on quick ‘How to do this….'

@TonytheLowLightBurglar, sorry if missed this, but does StarStax make that a video??? Cuz that looks more interesting than a still IMO.

What remote controller didi you use?

Okay you got me! Clicked because of the Fuji 😂

Please could you tell me the best setting for my my old canon 6d, thanks 👍🏻

Tony, is that a waxed jacket? It's nice, what's the brand?

Tony? Does StarStax reduce the visible noise by averaging the non-star-party of the image? Because in that case, could i do a really high ISO shoot with this method? like ISO 52 with a lower aperture? Or would the noise in the sky become weird objects?

Sweet

Awesome video! Does an EVF help or hinder astrophotograhy? I read both and did not have the R overnight to test it. (BTW, your iso video caused quite some stir. :) Will there be a follow up to the reactions?)

Tempted to ask if Tony has a tutorial on how to find the North star... Kidding of course. 😂

When where your books last updated, Tony?

We still need you and Chelsea to come to Alaska and shoot northern lights with us! We're expecting a coronal hole to become geoeffective early tomorrow morning. Weather is clear with virtually no moon so we should get some good shots the next couple of nights. Late Feb/early March is the best part of our season! Come on up guys!!

Could you do a iso 100 f18 and really long shutter or is it bad for sensor?

Do you have a book whit Capture One Pro 12?

Hi, Tony ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ So Awesome I would love to try to photograph the stars but I only have a Canon 80D with the kit lens 18 - 135 mm. I’m trying to save up for the EF 70 - 200 mm f/ 2.8 / IS 2 USM lens. Thanks for sharing, enjoy and have a Great week !!! Danny

Hi Tony, please help me choose between Canon 77D and 80D. In India the prices are: Canon EOS 77D DSLR Camera with 18-135mm Lens: INR 66,279 Canon EOS 80D Digital SLR Camera with EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Lens: INR 76,991 I'm planning to get one next month and I'm a bit confused between these two. I'm not going to Nikon since I just love Canon's dual pixle AF system and multi-angle rotating touchscreen. Please help me choose between these two. Thanks.

What lense did Tony use ? looks like a F1.8 lense

My go to film camera is the x-700 dew to the fact i have ben shooting with it since the 80s. 🤣 F2.8 28mm iso 100 set open on bulb for 2hr 45 min. And dam those jets!

Nice and simple tutorial. If you live in the suburbs and only a few stars are visible, will this type of photography work? Also, will this method work with m43 cameras? Cheers!

Would love to try this. In fact I just bought the Shutter Boss. But I’m terrified my camera will get rained on or stolen. Can’t afford to replace it.

So if I take 50 pics continuously with a 30 sec exposure all I need to do after is stack to get these trails? Thanks

Thanks for the tips! What if I can see the stars in live view but I cannot recognize if they are sharp and focused? Happens all the time to me... Do they have to have a special form when they are properly focus or, for example, they have to be of the smallest size?

can i use time lapse?

Can i do this on Gopro 7?

Tony How do we find the North Star? also have you used any of the 3rd Party phone apss like Photopills or TPE? would be a great thing to learn :)

I just use olympus, it does have live composite and does all that in the camera while you can see the progress on the screen.

Don't forget to turn off long exposure noise reduction! If not there will be gaps in your trails!

Hey Tony&Chelsea, when I shoot a 30sec exposure on my xt3 it has a long buffer before it takes the next picture, is that normal? Is it something that you experienced with your xt3 or other cameras?

How is it possible to get a trailing star circle around the north pole if the earth “spins”?? ;)

I don't have remote yet but when I take 30 second exposures with continuous shooting after a photo it takes like another 30+ seconds to process even if I'm pressing the shutter. I think it might just be how outdated my camera is Nikon d3100

If my camera has a built in intervalometer why is an external one better? I thought you said to use external instead and wasn't sure if I missed something?

so easy when you do it wow

I also recommend turning off your camera's noise processing. When I used to shoot astro on my D3200, the camera took so long to do noise reduction there were gaps in the star trails. Turning it off saved a lot of headache.