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Dial down (slow) the shutter speed to 60 seconds, then you keep turning it to find Bulb, Live Time, and finally, Live Composite. Having figured out the exact exposure settings for a single capture as explained in point 4), then we can now turn on the Live Composite mode. The shot below is an example of the single frame taken before replicating the exposure settings for Live Composite.
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For the Crawley Edge Boatshed at Mounts Bay Road scene as shown in the opening image, I did some trial and error using Manual shooting mode, and figured out that a single frame capture of exposure settings ISO200, 5 seconds shutter speed and F2.8 aperture were needed for a balanced shot. To start, shoot the scene with a normal exposure.
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If you have Olympus PRO lenses (12-100mm, 12-40mm, 7-14mm, etc) pull down the focusing ring, and set the focusing mark to the infinity symbol. We are shooting landscape (if you are doing portrait photography then skip this step), so the focusing should be set to infinity. With this setting turned on, you may even see some visible stars in the sky, and you can clearly see the foreground (trees, structures, etc). Go to Menu -> Gear/Cogs Icon -> D tab -> Scroll down to Live View Boost -> Live Composite/Live Time -> On 2. To enable easy framing using the LCD screen in the dark, switch on the Live View Boost 2 feature.
The last thing that you want to happen is battery dying off in the middle of an almost successful star trail shooting, losing a chunk of precious time and have to restart the process again. You may think that propping the camera against the rock or your backpack will work, but trust me, if you want to get into the photography game, do yourself a favor and get a sturdy tripod.
You will need a tripod, there is no going around this.
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HOW TO CAPTURE STAR TRAIL USING OLYMPUS LIVE COMPOSITE
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When shooting Live Composite, Olympus gives you not only the ease of capturing one frame with full composite result, all done in camera, but also the ability to preview the star trailing effect as it happens right in front of your eyes.
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Traditionally, to get a star trail image, hundreds of images were taken subsequently and then composited via software processing on a computer. The beauty of using Olympus' Live Composite was the convenience of having compositing feature already built into the camera, generating results at the press of just a few buttons. I thought why not do an article about this, and maybe share some tips to those who may want to explore this feature with their cameras? Recently, I made a trip to Perth, Australia and did some star trail shooting with Olympus Live Composite. Furthermore, due to tropical weather, we typically get thunderstorms or lousy cloudy skies at night. Living in the metropolitan Kuala Lumpur, light pollution negated the possibility of shooting night sky. While this Live Composite is not a new feature, I have rarely used it. As a bonus, as the blending happens (for example, trailing of light due to slow shutter), you can view it occurring live on the camera's LCD screen, hence the name Live Composite. The compositing process only selectively and additively blends in brighter parts of the subsequent frames onto the previous image. To illustrate this, instead of capturing a single 60 minutes exposure image which will certainly cause overblown outcome, Live Composite stacks 60 images (all taken at 1 minute exposure each) subsequently and continuously. The exposure settings are fixed on first frame, set on a shorter exposure duration and are the same for subsequent shots. To prevent overexposure, Olympus' Live Composite basically stacks multiple images of similar exposure over a long duration of time while maintaining balanced exposure from the first frame. Typically, an ordinary single frame of long exposure image will capture too much light if the shutter is left open for too long. Live Composite allows extremely long exposure shooting without overexposing the image. Live Composite is a unique and useful image stacking feature built into Olympus cameras that has been introduced since 2014 in Olympus OM-D E-M10 (first generation).