Orion Rising (in Warp Factor mode) - "Take 2"

Following one of my recent star trail adventures on Orion, and getting weird results ( Orion in Warp Factor Mode ), I gave it a go again tonight to see if, somehow, I could replicate the nature of the trails. The following is the result about 10 minutes ago:



(Details: ISO400, Tamron 28mm lens at F11, 600 seconds, altered in 5 different 120 second steps, Canon 350D)

I didn't quite get a tapering of the trails towards the right-side as extreme like the last time, but it has come through again all the same. I also included the Winter riangle stars (Sirius, bottom, and Procyon, upper-left).

No processing, resized in Photoshop.

Seanie.

Hey nice one Seanie,if you have iris open your image up then go geometry:fisheye, and play about a bit for a bit of warp effect

Hey Seanie...take a look at this picture of Orion i took last week. You may find it familiar.

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Hey nice one Seanie,if you have iris open your image up then go geometry:fisheye, and play about a bit for a bit of warp effect

Hi dogstar,
thanks for the feedback. The thing with my accidental warp effect was that, with no trickery, processing, or gimicks, it just turned out that way. I am not actually seeking the effect here, more so just doing a comparison from the first one to see IF the same effect would come out again.

Hey Seanie...take a look at this picture of Orion i took last week. You may find it familiar.

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Similar in what way, all you have there are short faint trails.

And all you have is long bright trails. See it's all relative.

I was referring to the "warp factor" effect.

Well i think they look similar.

They are really sinking towards the west Seanie, I think it's a nice effect, it reminds me of looking at the winter stars last night after 11pm, and they were heading towardss the west, it was nice to see the spring stars for a change.

Speaking of warp factor, here's a mad ! and accedental shot I took with film a few years ago, my zoom lens slipped back during exposure of M35. I think it's really cool though....

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