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Comment by tanguera:
To answer Lev's question, yes, the camera was rotated for 6 minutes. During that time, it made one entire rotation, which is why there's a single line of stars (except where I switched fingers, which created the individual stars).

I did not move the camera for this particular star shot (I did for other frames but they didn't turn out as well). The tree and foreground are completely blurred out of the image and only appear as very faint smudges, so no, they don't obscure the star trails at all. It's like light painting, where you can't see the person because they're moving.

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Comment by Barroness:
Congratulations Johanna, this is outstanding, pretty amazing and beautiful photography.

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Comment by LevT:
Very cool, Johanna, congrats on your red! I still didn't quite Understand how you got star trails in just a few minutes, did you rotate the camera quickly? But what about the foreground, wouldn't it obscure some of the stars it you rotate your camera?

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Comment by PennyStreet:
Stunning. I bet this was really fun!

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Comment by PennyStreet:
Such a cool image (composite I'm guessing?). I'm kind of hoping for info. Bump

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Comment by Barroness:
Oh my goodness, beautiful photography.

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Comment by MaryO:
Well done!

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Comment by bobnospum:
Very cool. Great use of a foreground element and the path. Not sure that having the tree bullseye with the top of the tree works. Maybe having the but lead to the Milky Way center. But given it was several hours to see what the composition looks like, kudos!

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Comment by kichu:
wow :O

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Comment by Barroness:
This is a beautiful ray of light on these stones and a beautiful star lit night.