How to Create Amazing Star Trails

Ijust subscribed amnd want to say Thank you for sharing. I got to say I learned a lot. I come from the old days of film. So you are a great help when it more creatively!

Since i learned how to do star reductions from your channel... i wonder what a star trail image would look like after a star reduction (on the original set, before layering) 🤔

Beautiful ❤

I have another question about your work flow I'm in the process of using PS to create star trails but when try to use a layer mask to remove plane trail or car lights I create the mask to remove stuff my spot removal brush doesn't work on the mask so I have to use the image itself I may settings wrong what would your advice if you have time

i really enjoy. your videos im looking to re-edit my some of my star trail photos using your technique but how do you remove plane trails do you remove them on the finale image on each photo if so will this create gaps in the trails and again im learning a lot from your videos

Hi Richard, I have just watched this video again and have to say it is so much better than I first thought. That photo turned out super and you made it look so easy to do. I love how you check it all and make sure that you got rid of all those imperfections, making sure that the image is as good as can be, brilliant ! I am saving this to my useful videos so that I can watch it over and over again till I learn as much as I can on how to get shots like this. Thank you for sharing this and showing us how to do these types of photo, I think it is great that you spend so much time helping us learn and it’s much appreciated 😁👍

Would love to know what is different with the Z6II. Especially since it has the built in intervalometer

fantastic tutorial...makes me want to run out and get a wide angle to try this ....

Another great video and very informative. I'm a complete newby to night time photography and your videos are a great learning medium. Big thumbs up.

Thank you!! Thank you for making this look easy !!

So we have to touch the camera to reset the aperture and shutter speed when we shoot the last 15 foreground pictures?

Where did you focus? The house or the stars? Thank you!

Great tuto as always, thank you so much, I tried on a serie of 150 photos, the result is very good on the screen, but when i try to flatten the image, the result is bad, it gives me a "blurry" or "foggy" image, i tried different way to save it in .psb, .tif, .jpg and always bad quality image, any idea why it happen ? thank you!

I love rubbing it out. Such a good time. Great tutorial!

This is amazing work… thanks so much for sharing!!!

Beautiful jobs 👍🏽👍🏽

Your videos are always a joy to watch. Thanks for all your work!

Great tutorial very well explained 👍

I agree I love it too Thanks for that I'm only a beginner of Nightscapes and Photoshop plus I have Paintshop ProX8 it will be a lip biting , hair pulling time but it will be FUN

Hands down the best tutorial for star trails and post-processing that I've come across. Well done and thank you!

Good job 👍

your video has been the first video that actually made sense when working with layers in photoshop. Thank you!!!!

Very much like your work. I do a similar process with cars and now you have given me some new ideas about some places I know not far from where I live. Keep up the good work.

I have so much trouble with photoshop but you have made this much easier to understand, big thanks!
Would love to know more about the light painting, do you leave camera the same position but just focus on the building and randomly shine light on the front? Sorry I’m just starting out

Amazing video. What software do you recommend or is better photoshop or Lightroom?

Fantastic video, Richard! Don't hesitate to repeat things as this is how the information finally trickles into our brains! Indeed something finally 'clicked' for me with the masks! I really appreciate all the time you take in these videos. I shall be saving this one to re-watch for sure!

I love your tutorials and your passion, thank you. Do you have any hard learnt tips on ensuring the camera doesn’t move when changing the aperture?

Thank you, great workflow you have! But one thing I did not fully understand: When you did the Video the building was fully lightened, but on your shots it was not... did you do some lightening only for the tutorial video? And how exactly did you do the lightening? With a torch? And where does these lightening stripes (you wiped out later) did come from? I did not see you on the shots? See, I´m very interested in these lightening thing because that is a critical thing if you want to have something lightened in the foreground and very seldom somebody explains how it´s done. I thank you!

I have had a look at other tutorials but I prefer your method and will try your way first, many thanks love all your videos :)

I left my camera out for a few hours and was wondering why the photos were so low resolution and my camera was set to 4 megapixels. It was cloudy anyways I’m not mad

Nice approach, thank you for sharing!

Maybe use StarStaX ?

Amazing. Thank you! Great work and the final image is BEAUTIFUL!

Thank you Richard, brilliant tutorial.

Thank you, Richard. I've been taking lots of 30sec exposures for star trails. I really like your technique of using 3 minute exposures.
Have you experimented with star trails using your star tracker? I switched poles (it turns the opposite direction) and set it on x12 to make it move faster. I got long star trails in less time.
Also, my Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens shows much more star color than my Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 . Is it because it is a high quality Nikkor lens or because the Nikkor's larger light gathering f/1.8 aperture?

Again, FANTASTIC tutorial, well done mate!!! Richard, as I was watching your process, I couldn't help thinking about your computer setup for handling all these ram/disk space hungry processes ...I was wondering if you might touch a bit on this subject and do a short vid about your setup, ie amount of ram you have installed, if you use a dedicated hard drive for your performance setting within Photoshop etc. I know that's always a bit of a boring subject for some, but could be helpful for others who my be having trouble putting together a composition due to computer hardware issues. I know this, because I was one of those folks for year. Thanks again, forever a fan!

So I have a question when you selecting all images in LR to export to PS. I understand that holding shift to select multiple images, but how do you deselect a image without deselecting all the other images thank you

Sound Aussie 🇦🇺

Amazing video! This is easy to follow and comprehend! Haven’t found a better video than this! Thank you so much!

Richard, using 3 minutes seems simple enough, I’m wondering if their is an outside temperature that would trigger you to use a shorter time or if you have had to worry about the sensor getting to hot. I’m also shooting Nikon.

Richard, this is an important question. I've suddenly realised it in the field the other day. When shooting the stars, focus at infinity but when light painting focus on the building. But if you cannot move your camera or your tripod, how to refocus on the building (when you're already focused at infinity)?

Richard Tatti, what more can I say...you're an absolute brilliant - as an astrophotographer, artist, and above all a teacher!

Gorgeous shot, Richard. It’s very pleasant to learn from you. Thanks, man.

Fantastic image!!!❤️ Love it 😊👍 great work! Thanks a lot...

Richard hi love the videos, one thing did you sync the edits in lightroom before sending to photoshop

Richard....thank you for all your videos and all the work that goes into producing them. Until I discovered your channel I was attempting star trails with 30 second exposures and having perhaps 250 -300 images. Obviously processing 300 images is a lot more involved than processing 30-40 images at 3 minute exposures. Question....does the 3 minute exposure work better in Australia because of less light pollution or doesn't it matter? Is there any benefit in doing the shorter exposures?

My understanding is that u should give more “rest time” between shots on a DSLR to help cool the sensor?

Richard, I want to see all the series. Thank you, great job!

Fantastic video! Love how you show in field and post processing of night images that's is easy to follow along with most only show one part. Can't wait to see what's next.