Made a star trails image last night down on the river behind my house.
It was a bit frustrating for me. I gathered the gear in a backpack, hiked down the trail behind my house to the bank, grabbed a chair that the neighbors had by their firepit, set up and composed the shot, took a few test shots, set the intervalometer for 240 shots, with a 2 second interval, turned the camera loose and sat down. After a few moments I realized the camera had stopped making exposures.
I started it again, and watched carefully, and after 47 shots the camera stopped, and displayed a message about being finished.
So I bumped it up to 2,000 shots, and a 10 second interval, and let it take another run.
It ran about 70 more shots, then said it was done.
By then I realized 1600 ISO might not be fast enough, so before cutting it loose again, I bumped it up to 3200.
It kept running until it said the memory card was full, and the camera refused to start saving on the other card.
It was about 1 AM, and although I wanted to take a few shots of the Milky Way too, I decided to bag it and hike back up to the house and head for bed.
So here is the result of an awesome, albeit frustrating, night on the river.
The first test shot:
The sky had a light glow around the horizon, long after sunset.
An HDR from the first three test shots:
I tried to light paint the nearby trees and the riverbank on the opposite side.
The final output, 197 images, 30 seconds each, stacked with StarStaX, processed in Photoshop, in two versions.
K-1, Vivitar 13mm f2.8 Fisheye