Startrails at the Moonrocks
 

I was shooting digital star trails several months ago. While doing that, I left the film camera open the whole time just to see what it would do. I just got my film back. It was the only exposure on the roll for about 6 months so I forgot that I even took it:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3429/...323a5df7ef.jpg

I got this processed through Walmart believe it or not. I found out recently that their mail-out film goes directly to Fuji Labs. They process E6. It cost me $4.88. Not bad.

Holy shit that is awesome! I took some pictures like this once, but I just pointed my camera straight in the air on a tripod. Didn't turn out nearly as cool though.

How long do you figure the shutter was open for that shot?

That is awesome. I have this one picture I took of my family next to a camp fire that looked a lot like that. The sparks from the fire looked like shooting lights. Good picture, thanks for sharing it with us!

Brilliant. Looks professional!

It could be used as an album cover!

Beautiful!

I'm not going crazy. I did see a similar picture before.

http://www.mountaintrailphoto.com/im...ey-of-fire.jpg



I like yours better.

Jehu, great photo!

Thanks guys. Here's the photo that I was working on:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3546/...a67eaa.jpg?v=0
It's a digital photo. I was shooting with Dan Newton (liquidinplastic.com). He has instructions for stacking startrails with a digital camera. I liked it but I'm still a film junkie. Before I started the digital photo which consistes of over a hundred 30 second exposures, I set up the medium format with VS100 film. I also set up the 4X5.

The nice thing about VS100 is that the reciprocity starts to kick in and sort of self regulate the exposure. I just focused, set the aperture to f16 and opened the shutter.