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Time-Lapse Techniques — Creating Star Trails
The stars wheel above the Cretaceous-age sediments of Dinosaur Provincial Park. One of the most powerful techniques in the nightscape photographer’s arsenal is to stack lots of short-exposure images...
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Swirling Stars at a Star Party
The stars of the northern sky swirl in circles around the North Star. This is admittedly a fanciful effect but an attractive one. The above image records the rotating night sky as it spins around the...
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Table Mountain Time-Lapses
I present a set of short time-lapse videos shot at the Table Mountain Star Party. At the star party in Washington state last week I shot about a 3-hour-long set of images each night for assembly into...
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Nightscapes at Double Arch
The iconic Double Arch looks great under dark skies, moonlight, or painted with artificial light. Last night, I returned to the Double Arch at Arches National Park, to capture a star trail series,...
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The Red Aurora of May 10
A strange red arc of aurora moved slowly across the sky on May 10. All indicators looked favourable early in the evening on May 10 for a good auroral display later that night, and sure enough we got...
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Moonlight on the Prairie
I present a short time-lapse vignette of scenes shot under moonlight on the Alberta prairie. The movie linked below features sequences shot July 29 and 30, 2015 on beautifully clear moonlit nights at...
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10 Steps to Processing Nightscapes & Time-Lapses
In a “10 Steps” tutorial I review my tips for going from “raw to rave” in processing a nightscape or time-lapse sequence. NOTE: Click on any of the screen shots below for a full-res version that will...
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The Moving Stars of the Southern Hemisphere
Nothing amazes even the most inveterate skywatcher more than traveling to another hemisphere and seeing sky move. It moves the wrong way! Whether you are from the southern hemisphere traveling north,...
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Winter Stars over the Badlands
The clouds cleared to present a magical night under the Moon in the Badlands of southern Alberta. At last, a break in the incessant clouds of November, to provide me with a fine night of photography...
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Shooting Moonstrikes at Dinosaur Park
It was a magical night as the rising Moon lit the Badlands with a golden glow. When doing nightscape photography it’s often best not to fight the Moon, but to embrace it and use it as your light...
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