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Botshabelo Missionary church

Taken at a recent workshop that I attended. It’s my first attempt at star trails as well as painting with light.
The exposure time is 30min.

5 Opinions have been expressed on “Botshabelo Missionary church”. What is your opinion?

  1. Ben Broughton commented:
    24 April 2010 at 1:38 pm

    Great image Johan. I have never tried this myself. Just a pity about the bright light in the lower right corner. With long exposures one must be carefull of any ambient light.

    • Johan commented:
      24 April 2010 at 3:43 pm

      There was a couple of us with torches, doing the painting. Some of the torches were brighter than others which made it difficult to get it nice and even.

  2. Adrie commented:
    24 April 2010 at 4:00 pm

    Well done Johan. I believe that by now you know how star trials eats a battery. You will have your best success on slide film with a 4 hour exposure and then scan it in. Get as high as you can, point your camera 100% South and you will clearly get the axis where the stars form a complete circle.

  3. Pikkie commented:
    25 April 2010 at 9:08 pm

    This is a very good shot, Johan. I do agree with Ben that the brightly lit area in the bottom right is actually distractive. The light on the rest of the church is excellent and I love the way in which the light frames the leafy edges in the top right.

  4. Ruth commented:
    26 May 2010 at 2:31 pm

    Aww the light at the bottom rhs is not soooo bad guys…given that there were light from fellow togs, I think Johan did exceptionally well here and hopefully one day I can submit some star trail images