I don't know how stunning shots you could take if you were in my place at Himalayas in Nepal. I work as a trekking guide and I have found most of the Westerners being surprised to see stars from here since here is absolute 0% light pollution. Lets not talk about the mountains. There are lots and lots of snow peaks towering over 20,000 ft. If you ever come to Nepal, please let me know. I can inform or take you to some of the most amazings corners of the earth, no charges. I am a big fan of your videos. Thank you so much for uploading them.
Most impressive dolman i have been longing to see you demonstrate photographing them as that is what i spend mot of my time shooting here in Brittany. (i am a retired archaeologists) The milky way was my favourite, have never tried light painting i prefer harsh weather conditions for the atmosphere so would love to see more of your images of megaliths and fog etc. as you are the best exponent of fogy and misty images i seen on RUclips.
They didn’t really consider photographers when they were building this dolman. Guess they had bigger issues to deal with 5000 years ago. Interesting image to finish with. Thanks for sharing again Mads.
Wow. What a photo. That is absolutely amazing. I think the one with the milkyway is better. It fills the bit of negative space at the top of the rocks. Absolutely stunning
Fantastic images and wonderfully informative tutorial. Many thanks. I cannot choose between the two images. They are so different. The Milky Way image would usually be my image of choice but the second image is so perfect, and different, that it has to be up there too.
I prefer with the Milky Way! Especially with Saturn and Jupiter shining on the left in a close encounter that will get closer and closer until they look as they're one "star". This won't happen again for a very long time. :-)
Try the foolography unleashed bt trigger. It allows for full phone control and can do bulb mode time lapse with the camera ramping based on the histogram. I leave it plugged in all the time to my z7. I really like this composite. It looks like you put a lot of effort into the blending. Beautiful work. I like the milky way work but both are really good. Thanks so much
Well, I'm not a big proponent of montage photos as I prefer representational photography. But, you certainly got a nice composite of all the photos and it certainly is an art picture. The size you mentioned was staggering. One can't have too many of those sitting about. Thanks for including us in the process.
You are welcome, Erich, and no, we do not have many of this size, however, I do think we have registered no less than 30000 grave mounds in Denmark and many of them have dolmens on them.
Neolithic Danish stone circle makers certainly knew how to scribe a circle unlike their British counterparts. Great video - have to be careful getting the torch head in the image when doing composites.
As a piece of art Mads I'd go for the Milky Way composite but as a photograph I'd go for the one without (but cropped a little to remove a bit of the negative space at the top) as I'm not a great fan of compositing different images from different locations. It's a big subject for debate I know and don't really want to open that can of worms BUT at least you clearly made it know it was a composited image rather than some photographers who try to pass them off as single location shots so on that basis I'm fine with it. Maybe because I live in the UK it didn't jangle with me the way that one you did of the Milky Way over Stonehenge did as it's close to where I live so I know it so much better. Anyway, thanks for the tips on light painting, I bought a Move Shoot Move star tracker earlier this year but didn't get to use it yet - hopefully less 'mingling' than yours lol. Must try over the next few months so I'm ready for Milky Way core season next year. keep up the good work Mads.
Such a splendid shot of milky way core. Funny enough, going to shoot one myself today :) although, moon is not really my friend tonight, so maybe will end up with startrails. Let's see. Cheers Mads, great tutorial!
Great video and final photograph. Thank you! Why did you decide to light paint this scene instead of taking a longer, low-ISO foreground image during blue hour?
Couple of tips. Inverse square law applies when lighting the scene, so if you have a low light source just go closer to whatever you light. When walking around you can easily hide the lamp itself behind your body or in the sleeve of your jacket, so you won't get the light streaks from it in the shot. If you use manual lenses you can easily switch lens and tripod mid exposure to get multiple scenes in the same shot. Also enables you to switch aperture mid exposure so can easily adjust that to whatever you are exposing at the moment. Which leads to the last point that true lightpainters usually try to do everything in a single exposure and don't touch it with PS at all ;) (which is entirely possible with this scene too)
@@ReversusLaxus For example set focus for one lens to the stones and paint them with that. Then switch to one you pre focused on the milky way to get that in. Manual lenses don't reset focus when you take them off the camera, so whatever you set them to stays.
@@DennisRyu I actually bought a fully manual prime to try this method, still not had chance to give it a go, and i'll be honest i thought i had come up with an original idea ha ha. Although knowing someone has done it makes me feel better about the money i spent on the lens. cheers!!
@@deathstarHQ manual lenses don't need to cost much. Plenty of old analogue lenses out there that work amazing ;) It is a well established technique in the lightpainting scene that plenty of people use. If you want to see examples search for example for Tim Gamble, Chris Thompson or me (Ryu's Lightworks). Takes a bit of practice to get the alignment right and being able to swap lenses in the dark but opens up tons of possibilities!
Love the Milky Way shot and the workflow, thank you Mads ! It's very hard to get a good Milky Way shot because of the light pollution in my area ..... maybe one day in another country.
Personally, I like the version without the Milky Way better. It brings the focus to just the (light-painted) Dolmen, and the light in them gives it something of a mystery -- however, in the version with the Milky Way, the light in the Dolmen distracts, in my opinion, and is actually too strong in comparison. And because there is the Milky Way over it, suddenly it doesn't look like a mystery anymore. I think that for the version with the Milky Way, the photo would have looked better if if there was less light coming from the Dolmen. They would probably have remained more of a mystery-element in the photo, and less dominating. The light there is too bring and out of balance with the Milky Way, which implies a really dark night... I hope you see what I'm getting at. (In my own experiments with light painting on night photos I found the same issue: the lit-up areas dominated the photo too much).
Nice video and image Mads. But for me, the lightpainting, in the foreground, ist too strong and colorfull.... ;-) If I do those shoots, i shoot the milkyway first and then the foreground. Then you have the advantage, that you not have to wait, the long time, for darkness and you can be sure, that your composition, meets your expactations. In addition you have full control of the surrounding light.
Hi Mads, I would strongly recommend you look at Richard Tatti's "Nightscape Images" youtube channel. He is an amazing Astrophotographer, and has lots of good tips for light painting. Love the final image btw.
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Love it photo with Milky Way, awesome 👌
I don't know how stunning shots you could take if you were in my place at Himalayas in Nepal. I work as a trekking guide and I have found most of the Westerners being surprised to see stars from here since here is absolute 0% light pollution.
Lets not talk about the mountains. There are lots and lots of snow peaks towering over 20,000 ft.
If you ever come to Nepal, please let me know. I can inform or take you to some of the most amazings corners of the earth, no charges. I am a big fan of your videos. Thank you so much for uploading them.
AWESOME WORK AND BOTH PHOTOS LOOK FANTASTIC, GREAT...
the Milky Way and you did a great job light painting
Most impressive dolman i have been longing to see you demonstrate photographing them as that is what i spend mot of my time shooting here in Brittany. (i am a retired archaeologists) The milky way was my favourite, have never tried light painting i prefer harsh weather conditions for the atmosphere so would love to see more of your images of megaliths and fog etc. as you are the best exponent of fogy and misty images i seen on RUclips.
Thank you so much, Melvyn! 🙏
Stunning!
They didn’t really consider photographers when they were building this dolman.
Guess they had bigger issues to deal with 5000 years ago.
Interesting image to finish with.
Thanks for sharing again Mads.
Nah, they probably didn't ;)
Fantastic. Love your passion friend.
Amazing photos! I prefer the shot including the Milky Way, but both are great.
Wow. What a photo. That is absolutely amazing. I think the one with the milkyway is better. It fills the bit of negative space at the top of the rocks. Absolutely stunning
Thank you so much, Stewie!
Nice shot with the Milky Way. Might have been cool as well if you were standing on top of the rock. I prefer the one with the Milky Way.
Fantastic images and wonderfully informative tutorial. Many thanks. I cannot choose between the two images. They are so different. The Milky Way image would usually be my image of choice but the second image is so perfect, and different, that it has to be up there too.
Definitely the milky way version was my favourite. Loved how you combined the subject with the milky way Mads to create such a stunning final image
I prefer with the Milky Way! Especially with Saturn and Jupiter shining on the left in a close encounter that will get closer and closer until they look as they're one "star". This won't happen again for a very long time. :-)
A huge amount of work but the result is amazing! Thanks Mads for another great video and tutorial!
Thanks a lot and yes, so much work went into it! :)
Like your video, Mads. My favourite photo is the second one without the milky way.
Try the foolography unleashed bt trigger. It allows for full phone control and can do bulb mode time lapse with the camera ramping based on the histogram. I leave it plugged in all the time to my z7. I really like this composite. It looks like you put a lot of effort into the blending. Beautiful work. I like the milky way work but both are really good. Thanks so much
Well, I'm not a big proponent of montage photos as I prefer representational photography. But, you certainly got a nice composite of all the photos and it certainly is an art picture. The size you mentioned was staggering. One can't have too many of those sitting about. Thanks for including us in the process.
You are welcome, Erich, and no, we do not have many of this size, however, I do think we have registered no less than 30000 grave mounds in Denmark and many of them have dolmens on them.
@@MadsPeterIversen I think that he meant the size of the Photoshop PSD file perhaps, at 8GB? :)
Nice vid and very useful as your technique on lightpainting is concerned. Personally, I don't like the Milkyway thing. The clean shot... superb!
One of my favourite photos from this year was a Milky Way shot where I did some light painting with colored LED batons.
Neolithic Danish stone circle makers certainly knew how to scribe a circle unlike their British counterparts. Great video - have to be careful getting the torch head in the image when doing composites.
Really enjoyed this video Mads, it would also be good to learn a bit more about your techniques for shooting the stars.
brilliant video Mads :)
Love a good Milky Way photo, those dolmen are very interesting! :)
Outstanding composition as always Mads, many thanks for sharing this with us. 👍👍👍
Thank you so much, Stephen!
As a piece of art Mads I'd go for the Milky Way composite but as a photograph I'd go for the one without (but cropped a little to remove a bit of the negative space at the top) as I'm not a great fan of compositing different images from different locations. It's a big subject for debate I know and don't really want to open that can of worms BUT at least you clearly made it know it was a composited image rather than some photographers who try to pass them off as single location shots so on that basis I'm fine with it. Maybe because I live in the UK it didn't jangle with me the way that one you did of the Milky Way over Stonehenge did as it's close to where I live so I know it so much better. Anyway, thanks for the tips on light painting, I bought a Move Shoot Move star tracker earlier this year but didn't get to use it yet - hopefully less 'mingling' than yours lol. Must try over the next few months so I'm ready for Milky Way core season next year. keep up the good work Mads.
I love it
awesome. Some day I will do this.
Always inspiring to watch your videos, cheers
Awesome. Great work, Mads 👊🏻
Such a splendid shot of milky way core. Funny enough, going to shoot one myself today :) although, moon is not really my friend tonight, so maybe will end up with startrails. Let's see. Cheers Mads, great tutorial!
This is so cool. Very atmospheric.
great photo mads, definitely with.
Great video and final photograph. Thank you! Why did you decide to light paint this scene instead of taking a longer, low-ISO foreground image during blue hour?
Something as simple as, I wanted to ;) Maybe also to give the foreground a bit more depth and life :)
Couple of tips. Inverse square law applies when lighting the scene, so if you have a low light source just go closer to whatever you light. When walking around you can easily hide the lamp itself behind your body or in the sleeve of your jacket, so you won't get the light streaks from it in the shot.
If you use manual lenses you can easily switch lens and tripod mid exposure to get multiple scenes in the same shot. Also enables you to switch aperture mid exposure so can easily adjust that to whatever you are exposing at the moment. Which leads to the last point that true lightpainters usually try to do everything in a single exposure and don't touch it with PS at all ;) (which is entirely possible with this scene too)
How is it still one sharp picture if I change lenses midway through exposure?
@@ReversusLaxus For example set focus for one lens to the stones and paint them with that. Then switch to one you pre focused on the milky way to get that in. Manual lenses don't reset focus when you take them off the camera, so whatever you set them to stays.
@@DennisRyu I actually bought a fully manual prime to try this method, still not had chance to give it a go, and i'll be honest i thought i had come up with an original idea ha ha. Although knowing someone has done it makes me feel better about the money i spent on the lens. cheers!!
@@deathstarHQ manual lenses don't need to cost much. Plenty of old analogue lenses out there that work amazing ;)
It is a well established technique in the lightpainting scene that plenty of people use. If you want to see examples search for example for Tim Gamble, Chris Thompson or me (Ryu's Lightworks). Takes a bit of practice to get the alignment right and being able to swap lenses in the dark but opens up tons of possibilities!
Love the Milky Way shot and the workflow, thank you Mads !
It's very hard to get a good Milky Way shot because of the light pollution in my area ..... maybe one day in another country.
Oh yes, I can imagine that Belgium is hard to work with. Luckily you're closer to the Alps than me ;)
Poskær Stenhus. Topstenens anden halvdel, der er 19 ton tung ligger omkring to kilometer der fra lidt, nordvest for Agri.
Sweet.
With the milky way.
My neighbors wonder what I'm doing in garden with torch lights,I'm practicing this technique and always surprised.
Good hunting.
Is amazing photo contratación
Is milkyway photography worth photographing this time of year through the winter?
It depends from where you photograph it. The further north on planet Earth you get the less you can see of the bright part.
Nice
As photos are subjective I will call it a draw.
Personally, I like the version without the Milky Way better.
It brings the focus to just the (light-painted) Dolmen, and the light in them gives it something of a mystery -- however, in the version with the Milky Way, the light in the Dolmen distracts, in my opinion, and is actually too strong in comparison. And because there is the Milky Way over it, suddenly it doesn't look like a mystery anymore.
I think that for the version with the Milky Way, the photo would have looked better if if there was less light coming from the Dolmen. They would probably have remained more of a mystery-element in the photo, and less dominating. The light there is too bring and out of balance with the Milky Way, which implies a really dark night...
I hope you see what I'm getting at.
(In my own experiments with light painting on night photos I found the same issue: the lit-up areas dominated the photo too much).
Lots of work but great final image
Thanks, man! :)
La formation PS est elle traduite en français?
Nice video and image Mads. But for me, the lightpainting, in the foreground, ist too strong and colorfull.... ;-)
If I do those shoots, i shoot the milkyway first and then the foreground. Then you have the advantage, that you not have to wait, the long time, for darkness and you can be sure, that your composition, meets your expactations. In addition you have full control of the surrounding light.
Yes, Mads… come to the dark side!
(I myself am an astrophotographer first, landscape photographer second.)
Haha, I am doing a bit more astro these days ;)
Hi Mads, I would strongly recommend you look at Richard Tatti's "Nightscape Images" youtube channel. He is an amazing Astrophotographer, and has lots of good tips for light painting. Love the final image btw.
Thanks a lot, Peter. Yes, he indeed have a lot of gorgeous photos!
Nice shot but a bit much composing going on for my taste
Thank you for your video Have watched your channel and enjoy your videos. Check out "Nightscape Images" on You Tube with Richard Tatti
Why don't you attach a light on your drone ?
I'm not allowed to fly it during night ;)