Why I stopped fighting those long exposure star trail shots...

I used to think stacking star photos was cheating. Like you had to get the perfect single shot or it didn't count. Then I tried a 30 minute exposure of the Milky Way from my backyard last summer and it came out all blurry and washed out. So I gave in and used the Sequator app to stack 20 thirty-second shots from my tripod. The difference was night and day, I got this clean spiral of stars with the trees sharp underneath. It felt weird at first but now I see why everyone does it. Has anyone else had that moment where you changed your mind about a photo trick?

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max80817d ago

Stacking totally saved my astro shots too, blurry mess before that.

lindaw2916d ago

Friend tried stacking once and said it looked worse somehow.