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I had this grand plan to take a night shot of a little Catholic church that's about 30 minutes north of us. I had been there before and thought that it would be a cool foreground for some star trails (I've never tried star trails until now). I contacted the Priest in charge of this little church / cemetery, Fr Sisnaros, and not only did he give me permission to do the shoot out there after hours, but turns out he's a photography bug also and came out for the first few hours to help and also take some photos himself.
OK, I messed up - but I think the result was still kinda cool. With the help of Father Adrian Sisnaros, I took this image of the San Francisco de Asis church in Golden a couple nights ago. Father S was nice enough to come out during the early stages of my shoot and help me. He turned off some of the outside lighting and opened the doors and put some low level lights on inside which really added to the picture.
I then spent the night there (ever spend the night in the dark - by yourself - in a cemetery?
) to get some star trail images behind the church (actually it's around 1000 separate exposures all blended together to form the trails). I was really bummed when I got home and discovered all the star images were badly out of focus. Somehow, after I set sharp focus on the stars, the focus ring must have gotten bumped because the stars in all the images were out of focus. Nevertheless, I blended the star images to give this result of "fat" star trails. I'm going to go out and try a re-do to get properly focused stars, but I thought the end result of my mistake was still kinda cool.
OK, I messed up - but I think the result was still kinda cool. With the help of Father Adrian Sisnaros, I took this image of the San Francisco de Asis church in Golden a couple nights ago. Father S was nice enough to come out during the early stages of my shoot and help me. He turned off some of the outside lighting and opened the doors and put some low level lights on inside which really added to the picture.
I then spent the night there (ever spend the night in the dark - by yourself - in a cemetery?
) to get some star trail images behind the church (actually it's around 1000 separate exposures all blended together to form the trails). I was really bummed when I got home and discovered all the star images were badly out of focus. Somehow, after I set sharp focus on the stars, the focus ring must have gotten bumped because the stars in all the images were out of focus. Nevertheless, I blended the star images to give this result of "fat" star trails. I'm going to go out and try a re-do to get properly focused stars, but I thought the end result of my mistake was still kinda cool.
