Thank you Alyn for all your videos and your awesome shared knowledge that help many of us embrace the night sky photography journey...

He doesn’t mention it early on but make sure you take at least two photos of your background or target first. One with it underexposed so that the lighting looks exactly how you want it, and another a bit more exposed to see the details in the target. Then you can mask them over each other and add all the star trail frames

Watching for instruction/inspiration in 2024. Miss you, Alyn! Great to hear your voice again. Rest in peace ❤

Well timed tutorial Alyn, a lot of us trying timelapses from the garden!

Thanks Alyn for doing this tutorial, you make it look so easy, just need clear skies now, looks like we'll have to wait a few days. So inspiring Alyn.

I just found this tutorial and tried my hand at it last night. Thank you, thank you for a great explanation of the basics of star trails. I'm hooked now!

Great tutorial! Covers just what I need, I've been going over old files and now I have a new project!

I've spent way too much time googling how to make a composite like you did (switch foreground), and here you show it in so few and simple steps. None of the guides I found mentioned "refine edges" for example. Thank you!

This is great, thank you. It's very straightforward, simple to understand and covers a lot of what I've read in huge articles. Brilliant. I spent an hour out last night getting the shots, let's see what it turns out like....

This has been so useful Alyn! Especially what you did in Photoshop, I didn't know I could easily remove satellites etc with the spot healing tool and you showed me a much easier way swap out the foreground, thank you!

Yet another fact packed, easy to follow tutorial. Inspirational.

Amazingly stunning! Thank you for this beautiful video!

Alan, I really appreciate your tutorials Alan. Concise, no nonsense, spot on. Well done mate

Your tutorial videos are quick and amazing. I can’t thank you enough. Cheers!

I found the instructions on the internal intervalometer to be very useful and timely! Heading into my backyard tonight to shoot star trails. Thanks Alyn!

Really good tutorial. Thank you. I have wanted to try shooting star trails for ages - I can’t wait to try this out.

That was great Alyn, easy to follow too. Thanks for sharing 👍

Thanks a lot for going into details for every step of the process!

Although I have been photographing star trails since many years, I did pick up some very useful tips. Shows, that learning never stops. Thanks for a lovely tutorial !

Concise and to the point. Showing each specific step is quite helpful.

Super helpful tut! Thanks for the StarStax plug!

Was waiting for a video like this. Been taking loads of pictures but a totally new to photography and editing and had no idea where to start. Thanks.

Really helpful. Enjoyed it immensely. Looking forward to trying it out.

Excellent! As usual I learned something new! Thank you!

You make it look so easy. Amazing!!

Thanks Alyn, excellent tutorial, more relevant info than most and some good tips. Looking forward to your premium tutorial.

Super interesting ! Now I know how to blend with photoshop. There are a lot of tutorials about it but yours is much easier to understand. Thanks!

Great info as always. Thanks Alyn !

Excellent Tutorial! Thank you!

Awesome !.. Thank you Alyn...

Very useful .. Thank you Alyn .

Can't wait to try this........ Tanks, Alyn

Best star trail tutorial I’ve watched !! Thanks !!

awesome content of course very instructive as your tutorials are mate clear skies always mate

You are an inspiration, love your work !

Nice one Alyn.... something new for me to try. Thanks again.

Really great video... I had been wanting to try this for a while now so the timing and content are great! thanks Alyn :-)

Your tutorials are super, thanks Alyn. I am on my way now. The lessons I needed.

Thanks for the PS, LR and StarStaX tips. I might finally try using more than one layer in my workflow.

I live in a heavily light polluted city and usually only get to see the brightest stars but over the course of the lockdowns the skies have cleared up due to less pollution and i can see sooo many other stars which i would never get to see. I've been shooting pics of the skies just because these skies may never return again. Awesome video keep it up 🤘🏻 and Clear Skies!

Just awesome! Very easy to understand!

Excellent video Alyn . Thank you.

Excellent Job!!! I actually didn't know about that star trail program...

This is so good!! Thank you so much! Hopefully going out this winter to get some shots!!

Thanks Alyn, great video, will give this a try, been looking for a video about star trails.

Brilliant , a nice and easy tutorial to follow

I just want to say thank you for this video. I never leave comments but I created my first star trail and it is SO cool!

excellent informative video Alyn, thank you very much for sharing!

Great timing , am planning on trying some trails tonight !

Great vid, very helpful.

Thanks - love the advice/lesson on how to do this properly

Excellent. Really useful. I've made notes and will report back once I've put these tips into practice on a clear night

Alan, thank you for very detail Star Trail Photo tutuorial!

Very helpful! Thanks Alyn!

Excellent video. Very interesting indeed

Thanks for the tips Alyn. Some great advice

Brilliant tutorial...thank you

Fantastic tutorial! I'm inspired now....

Subscribed. Absolutely brilliant!

Brilliant video! I am so excited to begin this journey into photographing the night sky! Thank you for providing inspiration during this stressful time!

Super helpful! Thanks

That's a great tip about saving as a tiff in StarStax Alyn thanks.

I am new to star trails photography and this looks like an excellent introduction. Thank you very much.

Another excellent video as usual thank you

Good stuff Alyn!

Great tutorial! Thanks.😀

Thank you so much for the tutorial! Thank you for giving me clarity now lets see if i can do this star trail now its a dream shot of mine

This one's really helpful! Gonna try it soon.

Useful tips 👍 Re-watching this to brush up on my star trail editing 🙂

That's so good many many thanks for sharing brilliant 👌👌👌

Thanks Alan, The tutorial was very helpful for a beginner in star trails.

Really good information ,looking forward to watching some more of your Vlogs etc Thank you

This was really helpful as I am a newbie at this and photoshop (just been using Lightroom). I did have some trouble with spot removal as I had to make the change on the original layer and not the "spot removal" layer I added. The shift+click did made it so much quicker.

Well made tutorial !!!

Awesome job, again. Thanks man!

Wow! Thank you for an actually useful tutorial!

Perfect tutorial!

Thank you Alyn! Though I thought to be a some-way mature astro photographer, I always find something new and interesting in you videos

Thanks for the tutorial. Really enjoyed it as a newbie to astrophotography!

This is very helpful. Thanks Alyn

Super helpful video!

Very helpful. Took a million pictures trying to capture some Lyrids Meteors. Your tutorial will help with the startrail work.

Great information, thanks

it is very use full thanks Alyn

This is very helpful thank you 🙏

Melhor canal de astrofotografia! Abraço aqui do brasil 🇧🇷

It's a great tutorial, thank you for making it! I had an issue with weird patterns in my star trail shots and your remark about turning off lens correction turned out to be the issue. Cheers mate!

Excellent Alyn had a go last week, you have now helped to clarify a few things especially on the editing side, I now know what Tiff files are lol

that was really helpful. detailed video. thank you

Very informative!

Thank for a great tutorial!.

great video Alyn, very usefu.

Thanks a lot, Alyn. This helped a lot to clean up my star trail image. Very much appreciated.

Thanks, Alyn. Going out to try tomorrow night in Kanab, UT / Arizona state border area. Thanks for the 500 rule clarification for crop sensor. Much appreciated.

The tip for manual option to remove chromatic aberration was well worth watching the video! Very well put together. I believe star trails photography is easier than deep sky objects where you take a lot of stills, dark framse, light frames and flat frames etc..

Thank you so much From this this video I’ve learned my first star trail ❤

Really useful staff！Just wanna say thank ya！

I found the video extremely useful. Thanks for sharing

I'm here because of the PhotoPils stream. Subscribed and hit notifications. Great tutorial Alyn!

thank you Alyn, I am about to process my pictures from Big Bend National Park... your video is so helpful. I am one of your Patreon supporters too!