testmeat photoblog

good goddamn i wish i had a remote control for my camera. when the stars came out in pellegrini the weren't at all shy. the sky at night looked amazing, however i only had a maximum of 30 seconds to capture it, even my mate's compact camera gives him 180 seconds to play with. to get this i carefully balanced the camera, pointed it skywards and pressed the shutter every 30 seconds for just over 10 minutes, or 22 times to be exact. as the camera was on the ground i had no idea what it was really aiming at, so i was fairly pleased with the result. in my head though i'd have got a totally kick ass 30 minute exposure if i had a remote. i created this by putting all of the photos on separate layers in photoshop and setting the blending mode of all but the bottom layer to lighten. i had to nudge each layer a little bit to account for real life nudges i made when pressing the shutter.

here's the original