A 'Portal' to a Star Trail (Louis Leroux)

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A 'Portal' to a Star Trail

Last April, the weather in northern France allowed me to take a circumpolar image lasting around 5 hours. This year, the weather here was particularly complicated, and it was very hard to get 5 hours of cloudless weather in a row. This is my main criterion for a good star trail. All it takes is one cloudy passage to miss a long streak of stars. The star trail shows the colors of the stars (blue, orange and yellow), while the red and pink colors are the Hydrogen Alpha nebulae in the Milky Way.

Mont-Saint-Eloi Abbey was built around the 10th century on a hill overlooking the town of Arras in the north of France. During the First World War, a large part of the abbey was destroyed. Only the facade was not destroyed. The monument was later classified as a "historic monument" in 1921.

To keep the monument alive through the decades, I wanted to give the place a touch of modernity : I chose lightpainting for this. As I'm passionate about the video game "Portal", I tried to recreate things about this game by creating light painted portals. These portals allow you to teleport from position A to position B. In the foreground, one of my friends passes through the orange portal to teleport into the blue portal, on the monument.

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- Canon EOS 6D Astrodon
- Samyang 14mm f/2.4 XP
- Lightpainting tubes from Tube tribe
- 555*30s ISO1000 f/2.8
- Portals : 2*3s ISO3200 f/2.8
- 4h45 of rotation
- PS & LR

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