My first star trails shot

I decided to give this a go, I tried a 20 minute and a 30 minute and a 60 minute shot tonight while watching the COWBOYS win...lol

On the 20 minute shot the composition was bad, and on the 60 minute shot the trails were nice but the tress in the foreground were badly out of focus. The one that turned out best was this 30 minute shot. I did mess with it a bit in PP and ran it through Noise Ninja. Spent a grand total of maybe 5 minutes on it. Lets just say its a starting point. Please tell me where to go from here...

like I said, 30 minutes, ISO 100, f8, used my 24-105 at 24mm, bulb shot with a remote, on an older 30D, cc and directions to improve please...

wrong place too, thats what happens when you post late at night...lol

can a mod change the section to the Galaxy one, I dont know how...

Moved.

I always enjoy these star trail shots, David, and yours is a great example.

Thank you and thank you...lol

Beautiful composition!! I really like it!

Very nice , love the forground !

Thank you all, I have another 2-4 nights of clear sky, then it will probably cloud up till late spring. we are having a rare cold/clear snap, down into the high 20's (cold for us) and I plan on going down onto the beach in front of our homes and shooting from there. I dont know, there may be too much light in that direction.

The home in the picture is my neighbors across the creek from my deck.

I wanna learn to stack them, but cant find any help anywhere. I use elements 6, is that capable of stacking? If so any help would be much appreciated....

OK, here is my second go froim last night,,,CC plz... same house, but from the beach....

I really like that second shot much better !

me too, thank you!

hey, do you know how to stack multiple long exposures? I have been asking and no one is talking...its like a CIA secret...lol

I have aperature and elements 6 if that makes a difference

superdiver wrote in post #6889394
I have aperature and elements 6 if that makes a difference

There is a few here that do it and well and maybe they haven't seen your thread yet but one i know for sure is NightHound (Steve) . Find one of his threads and PM him and ask . He's always willing to help . I use Registax but i don't do the best job so i'm by no means an expert . Also read this thread , he does a good job :

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=597063

Wow David, that second one is very nice. Looks like a very dark area.

I PMd you back. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

If anyone that reads this knows of a quality stacking software program written for MACs please post it here.

Thanks

what about using a "bracketing" program to do the same thing? Will that work?