So excited . I downloaded Stellarium . Now I will be able to find and name all the interesting objects I photo in the Night Sky. Thank You again , John
Thanks again for watching. I have been wanting to go through this process for a while. I have done it before but it's good to keep going over these things. Really appreciate the comment.
Great to follow along on your latest adventure Richard. Just to say that you do a fantastic job of "encouraging and helping", providing me with the tools to create my first proper nightscape image. I'm really pleased with how it's turned out, all thanks to you. Cheers mate 👍 .
Valuable lesson here...it's helpful to see just how much pre-planning you do before the actual shoot. That's why you are so successful at this and many of us are not....can't just jump in the car with a camera and expect to come away with images like you capture! Note to self, have a plan! :) Thanks again Richard for all the time & effort you put into these excellent videos!
ah mate what a little beauty this was so good we are spoiled here for stuff to capture we never get tired of your effort to bring this stuff to us no matter what you ars still ASTROMAN to me i am improving slowly because of you and wont give up cheers an beers mate bobby j.
Another fantastic video. Taking your advice from you last video comments I took a trip today of about 200 miles to find possible foreground images. I found a few. Need to wait until it gets a little warmer before I brave the outdoors. Temps in the valleys about 0 C, of course much colder in the mountains Utah, USA Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks for another great video. Starting to plan for my first Milky Way session this year with my new Sony A7iii, supposed to have clear skies early Thursday morning, can't wait!
I am leaning towards the milky way on the left as well. Thank you again Richard for a very informative video. It's still too cloudy up here in N.S.W at the moment, lots of rain.
Hello dear sir,how are you and your family? Sir again great educative and informative video,each and everytime you show us the beauty of the night.Sir I really learn from you something new and this time it was the beautiful capture of the fence and the tree complimenting each orther in the most sweet minimalist way.Sir so simple is your capturing such lovely serene pictures and equally simple is your teaching method.I wait and hope everyday to take lessons from you in the field and someday become like you an beautiful nightscape photographer just waiting till that day comes.Cheers looking forward to another educative and informative video and to learn from you.Buddha bless you and your sweet family always🙏🙂❤❤❤
Another great nightscape video as always very informative as well. So sad about all the bushfires that have happened in Australia. i was there when ash Wednesday happened there was no night just a red glow for weeks. How have you managed to take great night shots with all this going on around Victoria. Looking forward to more great nightscape sessions
I really appreciate you taking the time to comment. Yes the fires have been very serious but thankfully the worst is now over. Still some smoke around in some areas but clear here. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for sharing the process. Clearly you put a lot of effort into creating your images and it shows in the final product. Outstanding work! Cheers ! Marty
Terrific video Richard. Perfect tips for astrophotography. That location was a awesome too with that tree. I don’t think people realise just how much scouting, planning and hard work goes into your images. This video though perfectly demonstrates that from start to finish. Great images mate well done 👍🙏
wau .. videos and shots are TOP ... I love these videos .... for light the tree and foreground have you used LED Lenser P7.2 torch? ... Thank you again
Another really good video. Lots of good information. I'm due for my first clear night in 6+ weeks next week so will be using your information and be heading out.
Here I am again seated in the first row for another amazing video..I didn´t know about the Clear Outside app and I must tell you the forecast fully match with the local sky conditions at this moment..brilliant. Big hug from South Portugal PS - I am missing at the end of episode the usual cup of tee..lol
Milkyway on the left is my favorite. There is something about seeing more the fence's leading line and the tree leading to the MW that is amazing. Great video and explanation about planning your shot.
Glad you liked it Gerard. I don't always go to that much trouble when going out for a shoot because I have a fairly good knowledge of the conditions first. I'd imagine you go through a fair bit of research for your adventures in the rugged Tassie high country as well.
Hey, stumbled upon you channel recently, and then WOW. Great tutorials. I wanting to start doing nightscapes my self. Now I have all the basics I'm confident to get out there and try my hand at it.On a side note, have you looked at Photopils for setting up where and when etc (same as what you do with Stellarium). Thank you
As usual, very informative. I have been having trouble with Gmail, not been receiving notifications, changed my email address on google, so I hope I don't miss any notifications in the future, thanks for sharing. All the best...........Peter.
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Excellent video Richard, I always used photopills but never stellarium, very cool app, would you be able to elaborate on your settings you use in it? Eg, brightness of milkyway, what perspective you use etc definitely adding this to my planning, thank you!
Thanks heaps for watching my friend. I've used different settings in the past. I usually like to make the milky way a bit more prominent as far as brightness level. I just use the default green grass setting for the landscape. I do like to enable the ground and also the compass marks and longtitude and latitude lines. I usually disable constellation names as they tend to make the screen too busy for my liking.
Another great video. Why a shutter speed of 10 seconds? Using the 500 rule 25 seconds could be used. I use 400 when calculating my shutter speed and with 20mm, 20 seconds could be used. Thanks in advance, I just wondered.
That's a really good question Trevor. You are correct about the 500 rule but I never use that. I can and sometimes do shoot at 20 seconds, often 15 seconds with the 20mm. But when I'm stacking multiple images together for noise reduction I like to keep the interval from first to last shot as short as I possibly can .. hence the shorter shutter speed. I have stacked 15 sec exposures without any bother as well so I guess it's up to the individual shooter. Have a look at the more recent "NPF" Rule for shooting nightscapes. It says 13 seconds for no star trailing.
In Romania Milky Way is visible in April, so i can t wait to try every trick i learned from you. Great work, and fantastic pictures. Kind regards from Romania!
Well I'm always keen to include as much foreground interest as possible. The only way to get more sky would be to shoot in portrait mode . .or perhaps a panorama .. but then I'd loose the ability to do the fine art light painting method.
I was using "Windy.com" to check on cloud condition. It has the map of the place as overlay. But Clear Outside seems less complicated. Thanks for highlighting.
Hi Richard! Thank you for all the informative and very enjoyable videos! A quick question, what sky quality or Bortle class should we seek for milky way photography?
Love the images you create, enough to try and imitate your techniques this summer on an 8 night milky way shooting spree I have planed for myself in Crete. Started planning the shoot locations 3 weeks ago as soon as the flights were booked using a combination of Planit Pro, Google Maps in satellite/terrain and 360 mode along with travel videos about the area i'm heading to. I do have a question though on the light painting technique, Do you light the subject for the full 10 seconds of an exposure or at this stage have you figured out how much time you need to spend on an area so that you get enough light and don't over expose. I going to get out on any clear night we get here between how and the summer to practice, irrespective of the milky way being out or not just to try an get the light painting technique before I go as a couple of the Crete locations are really suited to it. Really jealous of people that live where the milky way gets so high in the sky, in the west of Ireland at best the core center will only get to 7 degrees above the horizon and light pollution and or mist will obscure even higher than that. Finally have you tried light painting a much bigger area where they not be a more intimate subject that stands out ie lenght of beach etc. Thanks again for the most informative videos and look forward to your work in the future.
Thanks heaps for watching the videos and for commenting. I usually don't have to light paint for the whole duration of the shot but it depends on lots of factors. How close to subject, brightness of light source, ambient light levels etc. I have lit quite large areas but of coarse it's harder to be precise with the light and it's more hit and miss. Obviously the area closer to the light source will be brighter.
Thanks for watching Bruce. Those Orion shots with the 600mm will be great. Yes I have looked at the D780 and it looks like a great camera .. but .. way too expensive.
Another great video. Can give me the link to the Stellarium version that you use. I went online and there appears to be a plethora of different versions.
Hi Richard, mission accomplished. I don't know what I did wrong last time when I googled it but this time a complete load of different options came up. I just to spend some time getting used to using it.
Lovely stuff, hey you seen those hats you can get with corks on hahaha. I live in the UK and every time there is something good in the sky it's cloudy!!
Great vid. I had too laugh when you mentioned the weather - how do you know how it will be ? You're in Australia, it is always perfect ! I just read that in March the new 20mm f1.8 Z lens should be available - I can't wait, it should be super for such shots ( only drawback, it will be about 1200$ )
Great video Richard, just a question probably I miss, when you took a single shot for your composition did you focus on stars or on the tree? How to, and where to focus properly in the dark has been always quite confusing for me.. Thank you, is always a pleasure to follow you!!!
Thanks so much for watching Gabriele. I focused on the stars but it's quite possible that the tree would also be in focus at that distance. See this video: ruclips.net/video/lqYf2w_BAQ8/видео.html
Thanks a lot for watching Josh. To be honest I hardly ever use the 14mm for these types of shots these days. I think I may have to force myself to do so soon.
I noticed your camera settings on back of camera there Richard. It's a jpg image, so are you shooting a RAW and a JPG image? And then working on the RAW images to stack etc in photoshop?? BTW, love this back to basic video, I was searching your very early work trying to find this !! ;) Thanks
Really appreciate you watching Scott. I think you'll find that the rear screen previews are always jpeg, but to answer your question .. yes I do shoot RAW & Jpeg. Mainly so I can quickly view my images on the computer without having to go to the trouble of opening a raw converter.
Hey Matt I buy it from CC's Light and Sound in Port Melbourne. It comes in a sheet for about $15 Part number 205. Are you in Australia ...??? www.ccslightsound.com.au/?rf=kw&kw=205+gel
Nice work 👌 straight to the point love it. I really need to get back out there 👍 I'm thinking of getting a small video light that you can change the brightness and kelvin. Would this be enough to light the foreground instead of light painting?
Thanks a lot Keith. Yes you can use an led light panel but I prefer the zoomable torch for the precise light painting. The panels are ideal for Low Level Lighting where you leave the light in place for the full duration of the shot .. which you could do with a tree like this.
Bom dia, ai vc se preocupa com os Cangurus, em Mato Grosso no Pantanal onde o céu no inverno é maravilhoso a gente se preocupa com as Onças, no inverno costuma embaçar as lentes por causa da umidade, vc usa algum acessório para não embaçar.
Hi Richard, The info added to the finished photos said "foreground x 5". What does the "x 5" stand for? I think "stacked", but on the other hand I can see problems there, concerning moving foliage and tree leafs, resulting in not sharp foreground interest. Am I missing something?
Thanks so much for watching. The foreground images are not stacked .. they are blended. So I use the lighten blend mode in photoshop and it uses the lit parts of each image and the dark areas are not visible. I have quite a few videos on this topic. See here: ruclips.net/video/zy3GY019jI4/видео.html
Hey Bruce, if your on a desktop if you hover the mouse on the lower left side of the screen you'll see a number of menus appear. The third one down shows the Sky and Viewing Options menu .. you can adjust the milky way brightness in there. On the mobile app you'll see a menu consisting of 6 white squares on the lower left of the screen. Tap on that and then you'll see 3 horizontal white bars .. tap on that also. Go to Advanced, and from there you can adjust the milky way brightness. Hope that helps.
Great video, probably the best night sky start to finish tutorial I've seen on RUclips. Cheers
I'm really pleased you like it my friend. Means a lot.
What ... No Cup of Tea and a biscuit in this video. :) Great work Richard showing the behind the scenes.
Haha, well this was one of those rare occasions where I ran out of time and as it was very late I went home to bed. Next time …!!!
Very good again! And the pictures are pieces of art .... 😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩
Thank you so much as always Carole.
So excited . I downloaded Stellarium . Now I will be able to find and name all the interesting objects I photo in the Night Sky. Thank You again , John
It's so handy.
Really a nice instrucctive and inspirational video..thank you very much.
Thanks so much Luis, as always I appreciate your comments.
Awesome!!! Thank you!!!
Thank you very much for watching.
Great stuff Rich.
Thanks so much for your support, really appreciate the comments.
Magnificent! Another amazing video, thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for watching.
Beaytiful once again Richard . Love your work as always 👍❤️👏👏
Thanks again Vivian
Excellent as always and your videos have given me the bug to try more and more nightscape shooting. Atb
Thanks heaps mate for watching again. You would see some gorgeous night skies out there in the highlands I'm sure ..!!!
Hi Richard, Keep them coming. Your videos are awesome
I'm so pleased you like them Ivan, thanks so much for watching.
Fantastic video , great to see what goes into the planning .
Really appreciate you watching and leaving a comment.
Thanks one's again Richard for another great video you keep me inspired to get out there and create my own nightsky images
Good on you Steve, appreciate the comments.
Sensacional.
Thanks so much for watching Rogerio
Thanks for next great video Richard.
This is one of those channels, that I can give thumb up right after start of the video 😉
I'm really pleased you like it .. thanks for the comments.
I am looking forward to Milky Way time again. Great tutorial, thank you!
You are very welcome Veronica, thanks again for watching.
Thumbs up Richard
Really appreciate you watching again Spence. Thanks heaps.
Great to see how other people plan for and shoot astro!
Good on you mate, thanks for watching.
Great video Richard, and awesome images produced from it. :)
Really appreciate that Maz, thanks heaps.
Thank you for creating and sharing these wonderfully informative videos. As a beginner it’s amazing to watch these to learn and be inspired.
I'm really pleased you've taken the time to have a look at my videos. Always happy to help wherever I can.
Thanks so very much to share all those great information.and I need to share this on my FB and hope you don't mind. :)
I'm really pleased you like it. Happy for you to share to your group.
these images are Magical....
I'm really pleased you like them, thanks so much.
Awesome Richard. You told me you would do this through an email, very informative. Thanks again.
Thanks again for watching. I have been wanting to go through this process for a while. I have done it before but it's good to keep going over these things. Really appreciate the comment.
Nice one Richard! 😀👍🥰
Thanks heaps Nash, really appreciate that mate.
Nightscape Images I going to get that rode wireless microphone setup from your link! 👍🥰😀
@@nashhall694 Thanks heaps Nash. It's a good system especially when you are in relatively close proximity.
Awesome very well explained....😊👍🏻
Thanks heaps James, I'm really pleased you like it.
This video was really helpful, thanks so much. Now I'm about ready to try my hand at nightscape shooting.
Thanks a lot for watching Michael, I hope it all goes well.
Great to follow along on your latest adventure Richard. Just to say that you do a fantastic job of "encouraging and helping", providing me with the tools to create my first proper nightscape image. I'm really pleased with how it's turned out, all thanks to you. Cheers mate 👍 .
I'm really pleased to hear that Paul. I certainly appreciate you following the channel.
Valuable lesson here...it's helpful to see just how much pre-planning you do before the actual shoot. That's why you are so successful at this and many of us are not....can't just jump in the car with a camera and expect to come away with images like you capture! Note to self, have a plan! :) Thanks again Richard for all the time & effort you put into these excellent videos!
You are very kind indeed Paula. Yes there is a lot of planning but it does get easier the more you do it. Thanks so much for your support.
ah mate what a little beauty this was so good we are spoiled here for stuff to capture we never get tired of your effort to bring this stuff to us no matter what you ars still ASTROMAN to me i am improving slowly because of you and wont give up cheers an beers mate bobby j.
Good man Bob, as always I appreciate your comments.
Great work and great insight 👌 just waiting for some clear skies on the east coast to get back out
Good on you Daniel, really appreciate you watching.
Thank you for this detailed video. Great and well done. Will try it here in Gernany.
Really appreciate you watching KinniGS
I miss Australia.Great work and thanks Richard.
Thanks so much for having a look Hendri
Amazing video and photos as usual. I wonder how you managed to focus in the darkness. Thanks again.
Thanks Ivo. I use live view screen to focus on the stars and I shine a torch on the foreground and focus on it the same way.
Another fantastic video. Taking your advice from you last video comments I took a trip today of about 200 miles to find possible foreground images. I found a few. Need to wait until it gets a little warmer before I brave the outdoors. Temps in the valleys about 0 C, of course much colder in the mountains Utah, USA Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Wow that's quite a journey but I'm sure it was well worth it. Thanks heaps for watching.
Thanks for another great video. Starting to plan for my first Milky Way session this year with my new Sony A7iii, supposed to have clear skies early Thursday morning, can't wait!
Thanks a lot for watching Nick, I hope your milky way trip goes really well.
Another great video. I particularly liked the photo with the MW core on the left with the fence and tyre that you light painted.
Yeah that's my favourite as well Michael, thanks heaps for watching.
I use Ventusky, and it does have dew point and weather as well
I am leaning towards the milky way on the left as well. Thank you again Richard for a very informative video. It's still too cloudy up here in N.S.W at the moment, lots of rain.
Really appreciate you having a look Suzanne, thanks so much.
Hello dear sir,how are you and your family? Sir again great educative and informative video,each and everytime you show us the beauty of the night.Sir I really learn from you something new and this time it was the beautiful capture of the fence and the tree complimenting each orther in the most sweet minimalist way.Sir so simple is your capturing such lovely serene pictures and equally simple is your teaching method.I wait and hope everyday to take lessons from you in the field and someday become like you an beautiful nightscape photographer just waiting till that day comes.Cheers looking forward to another educative and informative video and to learn from you.Buddha bless you and your sweet family always🙏🙂❤❤❤
Thank you once again Aditya
Another great nightscape video as always very informative as well. So sad about all the bushfires that have happened in Australia. i was there when ash Wednesday happened there was no night just a red glow for weeks. How have you managed to take great night shots with all this going on around Victoria. Looking forward to more great nightscape sessions
I really appreciate you taking the time to comment. Yes the fires have been very serious but thankfully the worst is now over. Still some smoke around in some areas but clear here. Thanks for watching.
Fantastic video Richard love the images.
Really appreciated Brad, thanks heaps mate.
Anoither great video with tons of easy to follow information Phill
Thanks again for the support Phill, means a lot.
@@nightscapeimages.richard your really welcome Richard i look forward to your videos every week
Thanks for sharing the process. Clearly you put a lot of effort into creating your images and it shows in the final product. Outstanding work!
Cheers !
Marty
Thanks so much for the comments and support Marty.
Love these videos. Binge watching! Thank you for this Richard
I'm really glad you like them David, thanks so much for watching.
Love it!!!!
Really appreciate you watching Guy.
Stunning images. As always you make it look very simple. THU
Thanks heaps for watching again mate, really appreciated.
Terrific video Richard. Perfect tips for astrophotography. That location was a awesome too with that tree. I don’t think people realise just how much scouting, planning and hard work goes into your images. This video though perfectly demonstrates that from start to finish. Great images mate well done 👍🙏
As always I really appreciate your insight and experienced eye for photography Adrian. Thanks heaps for your support mate.
wau .. videos and shots are TOP ... I love these videos .... for light the tree and foreground have you used LED Lenser P7.2 torch? ... Thank you again
Thanks so much for watching Massimiliano. Yes I did use the LED Lenser P7.2 torch to light this shot.
Another great video!
Thanks very much Gordon
Great insight into your way of working to produce some great images as usual.
Thanks so much for the comment mate, as always I appreciate it.
Another really good video. Lots of good information. I'm due for my first clear night in 6+ weeks next week so will be using your information and be heading out.
Thanks so much for the comments Lawrence, I hope you get some good stuff on your nightscape adventure.
Outstanding Richard, pity you’re not up here in NSW 😊
Thanks so much for checking out the video Paul … well Victoria isn't that far away …!!
Here I am again seated in the first row for another amazing video..I didn´t know about the Clear Outside app and I must tell you the forecast fully match with the local sky conditions at this moment..brilliant.
Big hug from South Portugal
PS - I am missing at the end of episode the usual cup of tee..lol
Thanks so much Zarcos .. It was a bit too late for the cup of tea .. .but it will return very soon, I promise.
Ripper mate ..Ripper mate ..
Really appreciate that Tim
Milkyway on the left is my favorite. There is something about seeing more the fence's leading line and the tree leading to the MW that is amazing. Great video and explanation about planning your shot.
Very much appreciate you watching Walter and for the comments.
Great video Richard, cloudy sky’s in northern Canada, been really frustrating.
Really appreciate you watching Rene Aurora. I hope the sky clears for you soon.
Nightscape Images yup planning on going out to get the early morning Milky Way myself!👍
Cheers that was awesome Richard, I learnt so much. Its great to see the insight behind one of your shoots!
Glad you liked it Gerard. I don't always go to that much trouble when going out for a shoot because I have a fairly good knowledge of the conditions first. I'd imagine you go through a fair bit of research for your adventures in the rugged Tassie high country as well.
Hey, stumbled upon you channel recently, and then WOW. Great tutorials. I wanting to start doing nightscapes my self. Now I have all the basics I'm confident to get out there and try my hand at it.On a side note, have you looked at Photopils for setting up where and when etc (same as what you do with Stellarium). Thank you
Thank you so much for watching, I really appreciate it. I don't usually use the planning tools in Photopills but I do use Google maps.
As usual, very informative. I have been having trouble with Gmail, not been receiving notifications, changed my email address on google, so I hope I don't miss any notifications in the future, thanks for sharing.
All the best...........Peter.
Thanks again for watching Peter. You can always just check here .. there's usually a new one every Sunday.
If you haven't already, be sure to click the bell next to the subscribe button. For some reason the subscribe button is just hit and miss whereas the bell is for always making sure you get the notifications.
Thanks for uploading Richard will watch when I get home with a cuppa ,( still raining in the UK ☹️ )
Good on you Brian, hope you like it.
Excellent video as always Richard, really enjoying the tutorials 👍🏻
Thanks a lot my friend.
Excellent video Richard, I always used photopills but never stellarium, very cool app, would you be able to elaborate on your settings you use in it? Eg, brightness of milkyway, what perspective you use etc definitely adding this to my planning, thank you!
Thanks heaps for watching my friend. I've used different settings in the past. I usually like to make the milky way a bit more prominent as far as brightness level. I just use the default green grass setting for the landscape. I do like to enable the ground and also the compass marks and longtitude and latitude lines. I usually disable constellation names as they tend to make the screen too busy for my liking.
Another great video. Why a shutter speed of 10 seconds? Using the 500 rule 25 seconds could be used.
I use 400 when calculating my shutter speed and with 20mm, 20 seconds could be used. Thanks in advance, I just wondered.
That's a really good question Trevor. You are correct about the 500 rule but I never use that. I can and sometimes do shoot at 20 seconds, often 15 seconds with the 20mm. But when I'm stacking multiple images together for noise reduction I like to keep the interval from first to last shot as short as I possibly can .. hence the shorter shutter speed. I have stacked 15 sec exposures without any bother as well so I guess it's up to the individual shooter. Have a look at the more recent "NPF" Rule for shooting nightscapes. It says 13 seconds for no star trailing.
In Romania Milky Way is visible in April, so i can t wait to try every trick i learned from you. Great work, and fantastic pictures. Kind regards from Romania!
Many thanks indeed for watching my friend, really appreciated.
My saturday Highlight on YT 🙂
Well I'm really pleased you like them my friend, thank you.
Hi Richard. Your horiszon is very high in the sky. Any way of bringing it down so you don't waste so much sky spoace?
Well I'm always keen to include as much foreground interest as possible. The only way to get more sky would be to shoot in portrait mode . .or perhaps a panorama .. but then I'd loose the ability to do the fine art light painting method.
beautiful as always :)
Thanks so much, very much appreciated as always.
Hi Richard, thank you for your ongoing videos. I use them as tuition. Can you please tell me what compass app you use. So many about.....
Thanks so much for watching Ian. I use Field Compass Plus for Android. play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chartcross.fieldcompassplus&hl=en_AU
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thanks Richard.
Good video Richard, let's see how you edit these photos in photoshop next week! Can't wait ...........
Hey Andre, thanks for watching. I did a whole series on how I edit these images. See here: ruclips.net/p/PLAYKmqkUeSM_ovfT8k7ifk26X4zjeqJWb
I was using "Windy.com" to check on cloud condition. It has the map of the place as overlay. But Clear Outside seems less complicated. Thanks for highlighting.
Thanks a lot Raymond. I've used Windy as well but far prefer Clear Outside
I use windows 10 weather app, storm radar app from the weather channel and skippy sky all at once. I like weather maps...
@@Nate6571 Fantastic Nate
Is your camera astromodded or any plans to get it modified..? Great video as always thanks
No my cameras are all very standard .. I'm not considering astro modding them at this stage.
Hi Richard! Thank you for all the informative and very enjoyable videos! A quick question, what sky quality or Bortle class should we seek for milky way photography?
Thanks a lot for watching. I often shoot in Bortle 2 - 3 skies and it does make a difference to what details you can capture in the milky way.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thanks so much!!
Love the images you create, enough to try and imitate your techniques this summer on an 8 night milky way shooting spree I have planed for myself in Crete.
Started planning the shoot locations 3 weeks ago as soon as the flights were booked using a combination of Planit Pro, Google Maps in satellite/terrain and 360 mode along with travel videos about the area i'm heading to. I do have a question though on the light painting technique, Do you light the subject for the full 10 seconds of an exposure or at this stage have you figured out how much time you need to spend on an area so that you get enough light and don't over expose.
I going to get out on any clear night we get here between how and the summer to practice, irrespective of the milky way being out or not just to try an get the light painting technique before I go as a couple of the Crete locations are really suited to it.
Really jealous of people that live where the milky way gets so high in the sky, in the west of Ireland at best the core center will only get to 7 degrees above the horizon and light pollution and or mist will obscure even higher than that.
Finally have you tried light painting a much bigger area where they not be a more intimate subject that stands out ie lenght of beach etc. Thanks again for the most informative videos and look forward to your work in the future.
Thanks heaps for watching the videos and for commenting. I usually don't have to light paint for the whole duration of the shot but it depends on lots of factors. How close to subject, brightness of light source, ambient light levels etc. I have lit quite large areas but of coarse it's harder to be precise with the light and it's more hit and miss. Obviously the area closer to the light source will be brighter.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thanks for the heads up, If the storms ever stop coming here ill get out and get some practice in.
Got a few shots of Orion with the tracker and 600mm. Waiting on the milky way to show back up. Have you been looking at the D780?
Thanks for watching Bruce. Those Orion shots with the 600mm will be great. Yes I have looked at the D780 and it looks like a great camera .. but .. way too expensive.
@@nightscapeimages.richard may be looking into adding the Z6 this year.
Another great video. Can give me the link to the Stellarium version that you use. I went online and there appears to be a plethora of different versions.
That's interesting Bill. As far as I can tell I'm using the latest version of Stellarium.
@@nightscapeimages.richard I will try again and let you know how I get on. Thanks for the prompt replyl
Hi Richard, mission accomplished. I don't know what I did wrong last time when I googled it but this time a complete load of different options came up. I just to spend some time getting used to using it.
Lovely stuff, hey you seen those hats you can get with corks on hahaha.
I live in the UK and every time there is something good in the sky it's cloudy!!
Thanks for watching. One of the advantages of living in Australia .. plenty of clear nights here. The flies are a disadvantage however .. !!!
Great vid. I had too laugh when you mentioned the weather - how do you know how it will be ? You're in Australia, it is always perfect ! I just read that in March the new 20mm f1.8 Z lens should be available - I can't wait, it should be super for such shots ( only drawback, it will be about 1200$ )
Thanks David. Yes I'm looking forward to that 20mm f1.8S that's for sure.
Great video Richard, just a question probably I miss, when you took a single shot for your composition did you focus on stars or on the tree? How to, and where to focus properly in the dark has been always quite confusing for me..
Thank you, is always a pleasure to follow you!!!
Thanks so much for watching Gabriele. I focused on the stars but it's quite possible that the tree would also be in focus at that distance. See this video: ruclips.net/video/lqYf2w_BAQ8/видео.html
I’m counting the days down to that March session. I know you are big advocate of the 20mm but you ever just a 14mm?
Thanks a lot for watching Josh. To be honest I hardly ever use the 14mm for these types of shots these days. I think I may have to force myself to do so soon.
HiRichard, is Sequota available for Mac?
Hey David, no unfortunately they don't make Sequator for mac. But you can buy Starry Landscape Stacker for Mac and it will do the same job.
I noticed your camera settings on back of camera there Richard. It's a jpg image, so are you shooting a RAW and a JPG image? And then working on the RAW images to stack etc in photoshop?? BTW, love this back to basic video, I was searching your very early work trying to find this !! ;) Thanks
Really appreciate you watching Scott. I think you'll find that the rear screen previews are always jpeg, but to answer your question .. yes I do shoot RAW & Jpeg. Mainly so I can quickly view my images on the computer without having to go to the trouble of opening a raw converter.
Nightscape Images excellent thanks mate. I thought that be the case 👌👌
Hey Richard, where do you purchase the gel for your torches? I can’t find any in my area. Thanks!
Hey Matt I buy it from CC's Light and Sound in Port Melbourne. It comes in a sheet for about $15 Part number 205. Are you in Australia ...??? www.ccslightsound.com.au/?rf=kw&kw=205+gel
I am in Australia, thank you very much!
@@mattpickford8597 No worries Matt. Let me know if you have any problems.
Nice work 👌 straight to the point love it. I really need to get back out there 👍 I'm thinking of getting a small video light that you can change the brightness and kelvin. Would this be enough to light the foreground instead of light painting?
Thanks a lot Keith. Yes you can use an led light panel but I prefer the zoomable torch for the precise light painting. The panels are ideal for Low Level Lighting where you leave the light in place for the full duration of the shot .. which you could do with a tree like this.
I noticed on your camera screen you were shooting in sRGB. Do you shoot all your nightscape images in sRGB? Do you ever shoot in RAW?
Hi Ron, no I always shoot in RAW. You'll notice that listed under the sRGB shown on screen.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thanks, that is what I thought!
Bom dia, ai vc se preocupa com os Cangurus, em Mato Grosso no Pantanal onde o céu no inverno é maravilhoso a gente se preocupa com as Onças, no inverno costuma embaçar as lentes por causa da umidade, vc usa algum acessório para não embaçar.
Yes I use lens warmers which are battery operated to keep the lens from fogging up. See this video: ruclips.net/video/SAIg6p1o_Qc/видео.html
Hi Richard,
The info added to the finished photos said "foreground x 5".
What does the "x 5" stand for?
I think "stacked", but on the other hand I can see problems there, concerning moving foliage and tree leafs, resulting in not sharp foreground interest.
Am I missing something?
Thanks so much for watching. The foreground images are not stacked .. they are blended. So I use the lighten blend mode in photoshop and it uses the lit parts of each image and the dark areas are not visible. I have quite a few videos on this topic. See here: ruclips.net/video/zy3GY019jI4/видео.html
Dumb question.... how do I turn on the Milky Way in Stellarium?
Hey Bruce, if your on a desktop if you hover the mouse on the lower left side of the screen you'll see a number of menus appear. The third one down shows the Sky and Viewing Options menu .. you can adjust the milky way brightness in there. On the mobile app you'll see a menu consisting of 6 white squares on the lower left of the screen. Tap on that and then you'll see 3 horizontal white bars .. tap on that also. Go to Advanced, and from there you can adjust the milky way brightness. Hope that helps.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thanks for that! It's a hidden (slide out) menu, so not totally obvious. Got it now.... ;-)