SAVE THIS VIDEO to make incredible star trails! Follow this steps and if you want to know more about astrophotography leave a comment with what you would want to know! 1. Find a place without much light pollution, during new moon and use SkyGuide to find Polaris. 2. 500 Rule. Follow it to capture the stars as sharp as posible. We don’t realise the huge speed in which the earth spins. So fast that you will get the motion of the stars in a normal long exposure. Perfect if we want to achieve star trails in just the ONE photo, but it’s better to make a bunch with stars sharp and then edit. The 500 rule resolves that, depending on your focal length: 500 / Focal length (mm) = shutter speed maximum to get sharp stars (sc) E.g. 500 / 25mm =. 20 sc MAX, anything below its ok. 3. Buffer, the amount of time your digital camera actually needs to process a photo. Normally, it does it so quickly you just don’t notice. But on long exposure photos that changes. Specially if we are taking several photos on interval. So it’s a good advice to leave an extra time after each photo. How much time? 20% of your shutter speed would do nice. For 20 second exposure you need to leave 5 seconds between each photo. 4. More settings: Focus, MANUAL and set by eye to the star. Exposure MANUAL, duh. And set the timer to 2 or 5 seconds when taking the first picture. 5. Editing software, you’ll want retouch colour and contrast. Lightroom could do; LRTimelapse offers free use to as much as 400 images and can export directly to video. Also Star Stax is a free software to create a single photo with the merge star trails. You won’t need more than 300-400 hundred to get results as this photos. Hope this helps and you nail your star trails next time! . . . . . . #Tutorial #Timelapse #StarTrails #ReelTutorial #explore #PhotographyTips #Filmmaking #landscapephotography