Learning more about Star Trails
I listened to a photopills master class with Gabe Biderman who is a part of National Parks at Night give a talk about Star Trails and learned a few things. 0. One trick is since you're in Manual Mode you can play with offsetting ISO vs f/stops vs Shutter speed. I guess I do that already. It's easy, but you can get the same amount of LIGHT, but maybe bend time. Use Photopills to see how that offset works - [I think it may be in the Exposure function]. 1. One is that you can use Ps in place of StarStaX. It does some of the same things but the way in which you do it is: (this is a greatly simplified example). [Not sure about cleaning up satellite/plane errors and whether to use dark frames.] I am also not sure about how fast or slow this works, but it's a cool alternate method to try. Select your photos in LcR and Select Photos --> Edit In --> Open as layers in PS In PS, select all the layers and then change from Normal to "Lighten" in the Layers TAB. Before sa...