{"id":178,"date":"2013-12-13T00:10:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T07:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2013-12-13T00:33:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T07:33:20","slug":"crazy-stacking-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Crazy stacking experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would it look like if you shot 250 frames over about 8 hours, starting at night and continuing until just after dawn, and then stacked them using star stacking software (which retains the brightness pixel across the stack)?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/jila24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/jila24.jpg\" alt=\"jila24\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/jila24.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/jila24-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/jila24-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you answered &#8220;it would look weird!&#8221; you&#8217;d be right. That&#8217;s the Moon you can see in the extreme upper right. However with the right scene &#8211; maybe ideally with no clouds &#8211; there could be potential for some interesting images with this technique.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: once one gets into the spirit, interesting images are not so hard to find. Here&#8217;s a stack made from the time lapse I shot in Rocky Mountain Park the other night. No night to dawn transition here, but the clouds rolling through result in some hallucinogenic sky effects&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/manyparks_stack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/manyparks_stack.jpg\" alt=\"manyparks_stack\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/manyparks_stack.jpg 800w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/manyparks_stack-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/manyparks_stack-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would it look like if you shot 250 frames over about 8 hours, starting at night and continuing until just after dawn, and then stacked them using star stacking software (which retains the brightness pixel across the stack)? If &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/?p=178\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philarmitage.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}