I wish I could tell you that I’ve taken ages to post something new because I’ve been so busy. Freelancing is tough right now for most photographers, and I am no exception.
Still, it’s Christmas and I wanted to upload some pictures for you to take your mind off the endless playing of Slade and Jona Lewie on the radio.
These photos show a giant redwood tree standing next to the house at Wakehurst Place, a National Trust property near Haywards Heath. Every year, the tree gets decorated with hundreds of lights and becomes the country’s largest growing Christmas tree.
I have shot this tree before, but I wanted to do something a little different this year. I kept checking the forecast until a clear, cloudless night came up; I wanted to see stars. I used a facility that I found on my camera called “interval timer shooting”. Have a look and see if your camera has it.
I was able to set my camera to take a series of twenty-second exposures with a break of twenty seconds between each one. Clever stuff.
After loading all the pictures onto my Mac, I used Dr. Brown’s Stack-a-Matic to lay all the exposures on top of each other to give the star-trails you see in the pictures. There's a link here to Russell Brown's site. He has an interesting vocal style, there's no doubt about that (just watch his videos!), but he is a very interesting guy with some amazing stuff on his site.
The one at the top is my favourite, and I quite like the one at the bottom, but it was this one that The Guardian used.
Still, it’s Christmas and I wanted to upload some pictures for you to take your mind off the endless playing of Slade and Jona Lewie on the radio.
These photos show a giant redwood tree standing next to the house at Wakehurst Place, a National Trust property near Haywards Heath. Every year, the tree gets decorated with hundreds of lights and becomes the country’s largest growing Christmas tree.
I have shot this tree before, but I wanted to do something a little different this year. I kept checking the forecast until a clear, cloudless night came up; I wanted to see stars. I used a facility that I found on my camera called “interval timer shooting”. Have a look and see if your camera has it.
I was able to set my camera to take a series of twenty-second exposures with a break of twenty seconds between each one. Clever stuff.
After loading all the pictures onto my Mac, I used Dr. Brown’s Stack-a-Matic to lay all the exposures on top of each other to give the star-trails you see in the pictures. There's a link here to Russell Brown's site. He has an interesting vocal style, there's no doubt about that (just watch his videos!), but he is a very interesting guy with some amazing stuff on his site.
The one at the top is my favourite, and I quite like the one at the bottom, but it was this one that The Guardian used.
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