A series of "star tracks" from Don Pettit

        




American NASA astronaut and part-time still photographer Donald Roy Pettit (Don Pettit) are the envy of many. He not only studied meteorites in Antarctica and has visited twice in the open space during the last mission to orbit an astronaut has made a series of stunning, really space photos of our planet, immersed in a myriad of bright lights, sparks and flares. "Star tracks" (Star Trails), so named this series of images don Pettit.



The astronaut is not the first photographer who photographs the earth from space. In the end, we often admire such scenery, taken from orbit by satellites launched by NASA specifically for this purpose, however, thanks to the creativity of the author of the photographs, a series of Star Trails is a very special, fascinating and attractive. Psychedelic light spots and lines, iridescence and shining contours in the pictures is the lights of the big cities, the storm lightning in the sky, the Northern lights, the fires and fireworks, the trajectory of stars and other bright objects shot using long exposure.





Don Pettit tells about the secrets to creating amazing shots. Since e-comoderator allows modern cameras to set the shutter speed no more than 30 seconds, the photographer has to do to 15-20 photographs of the same plot. Combining them in a graphic editor, don Pettit and gets pictures with an exposure of 10 to 15 minutes, transforming a space panorama in surreal landscapes, Star Trails, breathtaking. This method is used by many fans of star photography, as it allows you to get those stunning photos, which show the entangled spiral stellar tracks, and the night sky is painted with bright stripes of stargazing.





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