Shooting a series of star shots for a stack

- In a previous Practicing Photographer,…you saw me do the necessary groundwork…to come out here to the middle of nowhere…to shoot star trails, long-exposure shots of the sky…that are gonna give me nice, smearing,…streaking stars circling around overhead.…With all of that done, I know that I've chosen…a good location and that I'm not gonna have a moon…and that I've got clear weather.…I've actually come out here,…and I'm ready to get started.…I've found that there's a colony of…14 million frogs nearby, so I'm going to be…hearing that the whole time.…

I don't think that's actually gonna impact the shot.…When we got here, it was actually light,…so that's something to think about.…Do you want to frame your shot ahead of time…when you can still see,…or do you want to wrestle with it in total darkness.…You can do it either way.…Getting a shot set up while it's still light…does make things quite a bit easier…because you can actually see your viewfinder,…or see through your viewfinder…and more accurately frame a shot.…If you can't get to your location until after dark,…