I would say these are the best instructional tutorials on capturing and editing the night sky. Your style is warm, clear and uncomplicated, and the enthusiasm is infectious. Thanks a million for another excellent video.
Thanks! At 71 years old I finally learned how to stack and merge images together. Can't wait for clear skies to apply my newly learned skills. Your presentation was spot on and easy to follow. This video is packed full with a lot of great information!
Thanks heaps for watching Jake. I love using these longer focal length lenses for nightscapes. In fact I'm doing a couple of videos now about using different focal length lenses on the channel. Really appreciate your comments.
You are absolutely right, "Simplicity is the ultimate of sophistication". Richard thanks for sharing another good one. I can see the passion on your tutorial.
Absolutely loved this. I have done a couple of astro shots but nothing like this. I love the way you take a complicated idea and make it simple for us. Your explanation of the post processing is superb too. Thanks Richard.
I'm so pleased you got to watch the video Chris and even more pleased that you took the time to comment. ... really appreciated. Always happy to help you along on your nightscape journey.
Hello Richard, thank you so much for sharing your workflow. I’m going to go back to some of my old MW photos and make some adjustments. Have a great day!
Thank you . I've been going through a total loss of photo mojo for at least the last two years . I'm finding inspiration via great tutorials on youtube. So onwards and upwards .
@@martinnightingale6033 Yes it can certainly be like that Martin. Once you get a taste for nightscape photography it might just get you up and running again. Keep in touch, I'll be keen to see how you go.
What a brilliantly made film. Your instruction is absolutely wonderful. I've yet to process a single image, so I find myself glued watching every second of this. I am certain to return several times. So glad you included camera setting as well. Thanks ever so much Nightscape Images.
Thanks again Richard for another superb video! I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us. I especially enjoyed the post processing piece. All the best to you sir, and I look forward to more of your videos.
You have me so excited to take my first Milky Way panoramas at the end of the month - I've got two nights in a Bortle 2 sky that I plan to make the most of. Deep Sky Object photography with my Redcat 51 and Nikon D7500 for the first part of the night, then it's all Milky Way until the morning. Thanks for a great video not only telling me but showing me how you take the four shots, and then how you post process them. Clear skies!
I've only shot astro once before. it was just a few single exposure shots. I've been itching to do a panorama ever since. this looks easy to follow and simple. Will be giving this a go soon! Thanks!
Awesome; Thank you so much for sharing, you have inspired this retired sole into experimenting with my Nikon D600. I'm in a location where night photography has lots of potential. Desert and subject are abundant. Light room and Photoshop are also going to be a challenge but with your tutorials I have a chance with creating something worthy. Again, Thank you very much.
A Uniqball ball head, allows you to level the horizon and lock it place, whilst separately allowing up/down and side to side movement, idea for this kind of panorama where you want to quickly reposition the camera and not have to repeatedly re-level the horizon.
I really wish we had better conditions over here in the UK for this kind of photography Richard, it is something I would love to add to my repertoire. Fantastically explained as usual, you always produce top video's. All the best Ben
@@nightscapeimages.richard No worries! I just can't get over how well presented they are, honestly I could binge on your tutorials all day. Looking forward to your future videos :)
This makes me want to go back to reshoot my first attempts at nightscapes using a longer focal length; but of course I need to experiment with simple setups first before trying something like this. I think I’m ready to try this next step, as I’m happy with what I managed to get in my first 2 outings. Now all I have to do is convince my wife we need another holiday to Nora Head Lighthouse; won’t be hard, as she loved it there and wants to go back in whale season.
Fantastic video with great explanations. I'm very jealous of the milky way you guys are able to see and capture. Here in Norway we only get the tail of the milky way which in comparison is quite underwhelming. Then again we have Northern Lights, so I guess it evens out 😅
I use a Bogen gear drive tripod head, which lets me easily rotate in any direction for multi image panoramas. I found with a ball head, I had trouble rotating vertical, leveling, etc between shots.
Very good video. I’m planning a trip, for which I will use my crop-sensor Fuji with both my 12mm f2, and perhaps as with this video, my 23mm f1.4, which is roughly equivalent to 35mm FF FoV.
hi richard. great work and well presented. i really enjoyed your simple approach, as you said. i was so inspired i checked your website for workshops only to find they're all sold out for this year!
Hi Murray, thanks so much for watching. Yes the workshops are going so well, lots of them were sold out from the end of last year. If you like you could send me a contact form inquiry from my workshops page on the website and then I can email you some details.
Great video. I worked out that using this technique with a 35mm lens (on a full frame body) in landscape view its approximately the same as image coverage as a 16mm in portrait view, so if your careful with overlaps you should be able to print on standard ratio paper, great for those of us with canon printers in my case a pro 1000 which won't let you print panoramas the full width of the printer ie a nice full A2 print.
@@nightscapeimages.richard unfortunately here in Northern Ireland we don't get the weather or have as many dark sky areas as you do, clouds and light pollution isn't a good combination.
Thanks for posting this. It helps a lot. One question I do haves, If I took multiple photos. ( say 6 ) does it matter if I start from the left or the right? as well if I took 2 rows of photos does it mater if I started from the left or right, top or bottom?
I like your videos; they are very instructive. I think I am so far way down the knowledge scale that I’ll be happy with finding the milky way. I have a Fujifilm XT4 with an 8-16 mm f2.8. I use photopills to see the milky way, do far nothing; I have tried different light settings to the point where the sky looks as if it is morning; what am I doing wrong?
Thanks so much for watching. It sounds like you are shooting in a light polluted sky and that's why the sky is blowing out. If that's the case you have to lower the iso to get a good exposure.
Another wonderful lesson and end result. Could you have gotten the "S Curve" using the Tone Curve feature in Lightroom? Not suggesting......just wondering. Thanks for this video.
Very helpful informative video. Thank you. Just one point. Would it not have been faster and easier to use a tilt-pan tripod head? No need to level between shots and easier to do combined horizontal and vertical panoramas.
Thanks for watching Phil. Yes a pan/tilt tripod head would make it easier for this .. but nothing else is easier with them .. believe me, I've used them before. The other difficulty with them is that you need an excellent level base or else they run crooked. With a ball head you can adjust easily on the fly, especially with a simple 4 shot pano like this one.
I recently got a Star Guider Pro and so far got some pretty good wide angle shots (14mm) the first time out. I was taking exposures at f2.8 for about 2 minutes. At that long of exposure time, would it still be possible to stitch a series together for a panorama or would the stars more too much to allow that to work? ( I would take a separate foreground picture to use in post processing as the SG Pro, while keeping the stars nice and sharp, also blurry the foreground). Have you ever done pano's while taking longer exposures with a tracker?
Thanks heaps for watching. Yes that would work although I don't use the tracker to do panoramas. Eric Benedetti does fantastic work using a tracker and longer focal length lenses for panos. Check his work here: www.ericbenedettiphotography.com/Stars-and-Nature/
Der - I should've known it was the same time of year that it's visible in the northern hemisphere - it being upside down confused me... the Milky Way's core is highest in the nighttime sky in April/May/June/July/August, because in the other months the sun is visually closer to the galactic core, which is why the 2012 Mayan Calendar thing was a thing... Thanks for the reply! @@nightscapeimages.richard
You've inspired me to finally commit to buying Lightroom - and I got one of the only standalone versions left - just in time! Thanks again for the tutorial, very articulate and straight to the point.
Yes you certainly can do panoramas in photoshop Gerd. Most people use the Adobe Camera Raw plug in for photoshop first which is basically very much like Lightroom.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thank you for your answer, yes I know the panorama goes with Photoshop, at least with pictures that are taken next to each other, but I don't know whether it also goes vertically with pictures, that was my question :-) Greeting Gerd
Well it's very difficult Rob because the camera is moving between shots. You could shoot multiple frames in each camera position but that would be very tedious and time consuming.
Mate you need to write a small flip card booklet so I can keep on me in the field 😂 such excellent produced videos mate with some excellent trips and step by step 👍
Haha ... thanks mate. I actually do have a cheat sheet of settings I give to all my workshop participants. But these videos are a little more detailed than what's possible on a card.
Very well explayned, now I have to wait Italy milky way season to try :-) I have one question, if I have understood in panoramas it's impossible use sequator for noise reduction, cause of the movement of the milky way may be too high for proper stitching, it's right? Love your channel, kind regards!
Thanks so much for watching. Well you can do stacked panoramas but they take a lot of time and you do have to be careful to keep the shutter speeds fairly quick. You may have time for about 4 images per panel with a wide angle lens.
Personally prefer to use 35-70 mm for panoramas and thus make additional shots to the right and to the left of the centre. İ.e. if İ want a 3 shots vertical panorama, İ make 9 shots - really helps to deal with distortion and cropping. Guess it's not going to work with the night sky though.
Good points aliskandari. You can use any lens really but of course milky way images are more difficult due to the movement of the stars. There are always plenty of creative options available to us.
Fantastic video! Is there any particular reason you took the file to Photoshop? Couldn't have used the curves in Lightroom to do the same thing? Thanks
Thanks a lot for watching Patrick. Yes I could have done the editing in Lightroom. Often I prefer the curves in photoshop because you can be more selective with the adjustments by using layer masks, which you can't do in Lightroom.
Hi Richard, great video. I am a newbie into photography and just bought myself a Nikon D7500 and kit. I am looking at getting the Nikon AF-S 50mm f/1.8G prime lens, is this good for astrophotography? Thanks!
Hi Rod, the Nikon 50mm f1.8G is a great lens but you'll find it a little limited for nightscapes if you want to capture foreground subjects .. it's a little on the long side. Most people prefer something between 14mm and 24mm
Hi Richard. I'm new to this astrophotography. For this, did you focus on the stars first and then tilt back down to tree and then tilt up for the 4? Hope my question makes sense. Love your channel
Thanks for watching. Yes all the images are at infinity focus. When I shoot panoramas I start at one end and go through to the other. In a vertical pano such as this I usually start at the ground and tilt up for the rest of the images.
Excellent and motivating!
Thanks so much for watching Tony, always appreciated.
Absolutely LOVE your tutorials!!!
Cannot say thank you enough !!!!!!!!!
You're very welcome my friend.
I would say these are the best instructional tutorials on capturing and editing the night sky. Your style is warm, clear and uncomplicated, and the enthusiasm is infectious. Thanks a million for another excellent video.
Your comments are greatly valued Simon, I really appreciate the encouragement.
I agree with you. He has a great teaching "presence" and style.
Thanks! At 71 years old I finally learned how to stack and merge images together. Can't wait for clear skies to apply my newly learned skills. Your presentation was spot on and easy to follow. This video is packed full with a lot of great information!
Really appreciate you watching Nick
@@nightscapeimages.richard Took you long enough like this reply ;) lol......
@@strider00111 I have a lot of replies to get through, sometimes they slip through the cracks.
Excellent video. I thought my 35mm would be too close but now I am excited! Thanks a bunch!
Thanks heaps for watching Jake. I love using these longer focal length lenses for nightscapes. In fact I'm doing a couple of videos now about using different focal length lenses on the channel. Really appreciate your comments.
Always so interesting, easy to understand, masterpiece picture, genuine kindness. Luv ya! ♥️♥️♥️
Thank you so much Carole, your encouragement is so appreciated.
Hey Richard...Just catching up with your older vids...and I am enjoying all of them! (thank you again for the apps suggestions)
I'm glad you're enjoying them Marc, thanks mate.
I can't stop watching your videos!! I'm learning so much more than all the other editing tutorials. Very cool shots!!
Thanks very much for your kind words of encouragement John, it means a lot my friend.
You are absolutely right, "Simplicity is the ultimate of sophistication". Richard thanks for sharing another good one. I can see the passion on your tutorial.
Many thanks indeed, I really appreciate you watching.
Beautiful image & great info & tips 👍🙏🇮🇪
Many thanks Vivian
Just amazing I will test it with my Nikon Z6 and the 28mm F1.8 lens
I'll be keen to see how you go Torsten. Thanks for watching.
Looks so easy. Wow
Maybe not easy but certainly doable. Thanks for watching.
God it makes me happy seeing an Aussie make this. And with a BA wagon. Good stuff mate
Thanks heaps for the comments mate, really appreciated.
Many thanks for your generosity and congratulations for your amazing pics
You're very welcome Doume
This is by far the easiest way someone explained astrophotography. Immediately subbed. Thank you heaps for making such fantastic tutorials.
Thanks so much Chaitanya, really appreciate that.
OUTSTANDING simple approach. I can try this. Thanks for posting
Thanks very much for watching Al, really appreciated.
Absolutely loved this. I have done a couple of astro shots but nothing like this. I love the way you take a complicated idea and make it simple for us. Your explanation of the post processing is superb too. Thanks Richard.
I'm so pleased you got to watch the video Chris and even more pleased that you took the time to comment. ... really appreciated. Always happy to help you along on your nightscape journey.
Thanks for all your tips and ideas. I feel like make an attempt . Thanks
Always very pleased to help.
Hello Richard, thank you so much for sharing your workflow. I’m going to go back to some of my old MW photos and make some adjustments. Have a great day!
Good on you Terry ... thanks again
Thanks for the informative, easy-to-follow four shot pano method. I love your final image!
I'm really pleased you liked it Claudia, thanks for watching.
Great Tutorial . I'm aiming to have a go at Nightscape / Milkyway photography this year in the UK .
Fantastic Martin, that's great. I hope you find clear skies and good conditions.
Thank you .
I've been going through a total loss of photo mojo for at least the last two years .
I'm finding inspiration via great tutorials on youtube.
So onwards and upwards .
@@martinnightingale6033 Yes it can certainly be like that Martin. Once you get a taste for nightscape photography it might just get you up and running again. Keep in touch, I'll be keen to see how you go.
Nightscape Images Thank you .
Love your videos. Really appreciate your detail description of the steps you use to produce whatever shot you are describing.
Thanks a lot Bret, really appreciate you watching.
I just found your channel and I literally have watched 90% of your videos. Thank you for the inspiration
You're very welcome, thanks for watching Walter
What a brilliantly made film. Your instruction is absolutely wonderful. I've yet to process a single image, so I find myself glued watching every second of this. I am certain to return several times. So glad you included camera setting as well. Thanks ever so much Nightscape Images.
Really appreciate your comments Charles .. thank you
Thanks again Richard for another superb video! I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us. I especially enjoyed the post processing piece. All the best to you sir, and I look forward to more of your videos.
Many thanks indeed Mike .... appreciate you watching
Great of you to share your knowledge Richard, very well explained. Cheers mate.
Thanks a lot Michael, really appreciate you watching
You have me so excited to take my first Milky Way panoramas at the end of the month - I've got two nights in a Bortle 2 sky that I plan to make the most of. Deep Sky Object photography with my Redcat 51 and Nikon D7500 for the first part of the night, then it's all Milky Way until the morning. Thanks for a great video not only telling me but showing me how you take the four shots, and then how you post process them. Clear skies!
You're very welcome Cheryl. Thanks so much for watching. I hope you get some wonderful images.
This is an absolutely helpful tutorial on the milky way panorama. I hope to be able to apply it in my next shoots.
Thanks a lot for watching, I really appreciate it.
Thank you Richard, fantastic video, as usual.
Very kind of you to say so Fabio
I've only shot astro once before. it was just a few single exposure shots. I've been itching to do a panorama ever since.
this looks easy to follow and simple. Will be giving this a go soon! Thanks!
Really appreciate you making the comments .. thanks.
Awesome; Thank you so much for sharing, you have inspired this retired sole into experimenting with my Nikon D600. I'm in a location where night photography has lots of potential. Desert and subject are abundant. Light room and Photoshop are also going to be a challenge but with your tutorials I have a chance with creating something worthy. Again, Thank you very much.
Thanks so much for watching and for leaving a comment Ron. I'm sure you'll get some wonderful images with a bit of practice.
Brilliant tutorial
Love the way you explane how you create these images. Gives me the fibe to go out an shoot footage myself. Thx again for sharing
Really appreciate the comment, thanks for watching
Great educational video. Thank you Mr.Richard!!!!!!!
Thanks so much Milorad
Amazing tutorial! Thanks!
Thanks very much for watching Diulio, really appreciate it.
The super ultimate bestest. Cheers man 🙏
Thanks so much for having a look Osama, all the best my friend.
A Uniqball ball head, allows you to level the horizon and lock it place, whilst separately allowing up/down and side to side movement, idea for this kind of panorama where you want to quickly reposition the camera and not have to repeatedly re-level the horizon.
Thanks for watching Alan, really appreciate your insights.
I really wish we had better conditions over here in the UK for this kind of photography Richard, it is something I would love to add to my repertoire. Fantastically explained as usual, you always produce top video's. All the best Ben
Thanks so much Ben ... one thing we do have here in this part of the world are beautiful night skies
Thank you, NI for a great instr video. The absence of music is music to my ear, so to speak! Strength 10.
Thanks once again for watching John, always appreciate your comments.
Really amazing work and tutorial. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Really appreciate you watching Leomar and for the comment.
I love the style on how you record your videos, keep it up! This channel is inspiring me to go out at night and take some great night shots.
Thanks so much for watching. Really appreciated.
@@nightscapeimages.richard No worries! I just can't get over how well presented they are, honestly I could binge on your tutorials all day. Looking forward to your future videos :)
@@hunterkillerii1483 Really appreciate that.
Very inspirational. I was just about to buy a wider angle lens but I think I'll have a go at this method instead!
Thanks heaps for watching Carol. Happy to help anytime with recommendations.
This makes me want to go back to reshoot my first attempts at nightscapes using a longer focal length; but of course I need to experiment with simple setups first before trying something like this. I think I’m ready to try this next step, as I’m happy with what I managed to get in my first 2 outings. Now all I have to do is convince my wife we need another holiday to Nora Head Lighthouse; won’t be hard, as she loved it there and wants to go back in whale season.
Fantastic Martin, really appreciate you watching.
A very nice tutorial, Richard. I like the way you explained the process. 👍
Thanks again Ivo
Thank you. I like the way you edited.
Thanks a lot James, really appreciate it.
You sound like the Bob Ross of nightscape photography! Keep it up with the good work!
Thanks a lot for watching Adi
Great instructional video. Some of your methods will help me out big time. Thanks!
Good on you Mike, glad you like it.
Great pictures and I will definitely give it a go..thanks for sharing the video...so well presented and informative. All the best.
Thanks so much Jo, appreciate you watching and for the comment
Fantastic video with great explanations. I'm very jealous of the milky way you guys are able to see and capture. Here in Norway we only get the tail of the milky way which in comparison is quite underwhelming. Then again we have Northern Lights, so I guess it evens out 😅
Yes I suppose you are right. There are always trade offs where ever we live. Appreciate you watching.
Imagine having milky way core with northern lights, that would be awesome!
@@wesleyanismlucas8816 It's a bit hard in the Northern Hemisphere. It can happen in the Southern Hemisphere though.
Awesome explanation, no filler and very detailed. Subbed!
Thanks so much for watching, really appreciated.
Another great video, thanks for sharing. Both informative and inspiring, job done ✌️
Thanks very much for watching.
Awesome image and tremendous step-by-step teaching. Thank you, I cannot wait to engage your instruction in my next nightscape image.
Thanks so much for watching really appreciated it.
Marvelous video..!! Loved the step by step explanation of the whole process.. 👏🏻👏🏻
I'm pleased you liked it Chetan
Pretty nice work
Thanks so much Bruno.
I use a Bogen gear drive tripod head, which lets me easily rotate in any direction for multi image panoramas. I found with a ball head, I had trouble rotating vertical, leveling, etc between shots.
Yes lots of people have that problem, I guess it's all a matter of what works best for us. Thanks Robert
crazy how strong the milky way is visible even with that light pollution from the town.
Thanks a lot for watching Mike. Yes it's quite bright here. Although the town in the distance isn't huge.
Very good video. I’m planning a trip, for which I will use my crop-sensor Fuji with both my 12mm f2, and perhaps as with this video, my 23mm f1.4, which is roughly equivalent to 35mm FF FoV.
Thanks Martin. Both those lens combinations will be wonderful on your Fuji.
Awesome content Richard; Thank you.
Thanks heaps for watching Steve, really appreciated.
Superb richard really enjoyed that and getting great tips, im not very good at editing but with content like yours i will improve 👍
Thanks a lot Craig ... I really appreciate your support
Beautiful!
Thanks again Veronica
Thanks - terrific teaching
Thanks so much for having a look Penny
Congratulations for the excellent photographic work. I'm learning a lot from your videos ...
Thanks!
Thank you very much for watching Lutero
Very very educational and great video, as always.
Really appreciate that Orjan
@@nightscapeimages.richard dark season is upon us here in north of norway ,soon i must bring ur tips and tricks with me and start shooting outside .
hi richard. great work and well presented. i really enjoyed your simple approach, as you said. i was so inspired i checked your website for workshops only to find they're all sold out for this year!
Hi Murray, thanks so much for watching. Yes the workshops are going so well, lots of them were sold out from the end of last year. If you like you could send me a contact form inquiry from my workshops page on the website and then I can email you some details.
Great video. I worked out that using this technique with a 35mm lens (on a full frame body) in landscape view its approximately the same as image coverage as a 16mm in portrait view, so if your careful with overlaps you should be able to print on standard ratio paper, great for those of us with canon printers in my case a pro 1000 which won't let you print panoramas the full width of the printer ie a nice full A2 print.
Fantastic, I'm sure you;ll get some awesome prints. Thanks for watching.
@@nightscapeimages.richard unfortunately here in Northern Ireland we don't get the weather or have as many dark sky areas as you do, clouds and light pollution isn't a good combination.
@@612morrison Very true .. I saw that first hand when I visited recently.
Learning from the old man, Im certainly going to practice this!
Fantastic Dennis
Thank you so much for the great tutorial! Found this extremely helpful! Keep up the great work!
Really pleased you like it, thanks for watching.
Great video, nice and simple yet informative 👍🏻 Nice to see your workflow, and that image really does pop by the end of it. Awesome.
Thanks Craig. I've always liked this tree and was very happy to capture the milky way behind it earlier in the year
Very helpful, thanks so much!
I'm really pleased you liked it Bojan, thanks so much for watching.
That was a fantastic video. Thank you so much.
Really appreciate you watching Al
Excellent video....
Thanks very much for watching Nilotpal
Nice video and great tutorial. You have a real knack for this, hopin mine come out near as good lol
Really appreciate you watching.
Great video,Thankyou.
Many thanks indeed John.
excellent!! thanks for sharing your technique!!
Really pleased you like it De W. Thank you.
Thanks for posting this. It helps a lot. One question I do haves, If I took multiple photos. ( say 6 ) does it matter if I start from the left or the right? as well if I took 2 rows of photos does it mater if I started from the left or right, top or bottom?
Thanks a lot Dave. From my experience it doesn't matter where you start and finish.
Thanks for the great instructions.
Really appreciate the comments, thank you.
Very nice picture. 👍
Thanks so much really appreciated
I like your videos; they are very instructive. I think I am so far way down the knowledge scale that I’ll be happy with finding the milky way. I have a Fujifilm XT4 with an 8-16 mm f2.8. I use photopills to see the milky way, do far nothing; I have tried different light settings to the point where the sky looks as if it is morning; what am I doing wrong?
Thanks so much for watching. It sounds like you are shooting in a light polluted sky and that's why the sky is blowing out. If that's the case you have to lower the iso to get a good exposure.
Another wonderful lesson and end result. Could you have gotten the "S Curve" using the Tone Curve feature in Lightroom? Not suggesting......just wondering. Thanks for this video.
Thanks for watching Old400. Yes maybe you could use the S curve in Lightroom. I like using both Lightroom and Photoshop .. both amazing tools.
Thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you for watching.
amazing content loved your work
Really appreciate you watching Aman
You are amazing!!!
Thanks for watching. I'm really pleased you like it.
Very helpful informative video. Thank you. Just one point. Would it not have been faster and easier to use a tilt-pan tripod head? No need to level between shots and easier to do combined horizontal and vertical panoramas.
Thanks for watching Phil. Yes a pan/tilt tripod head would make it easier for this .. but nothing else is easier with them .. believe me, I've used them before. The other difficulty with them is that you need an excellent level base or else they run crooked. With a ball head you can adjust easily on the fly, especially with a simple 4 shot pano like this one.
I recently got a Star Guider Pro and so far got some pretty good wide angle shots (14mm) the first time out. I was taking exposures at f2.8 for about 2 minutes. At that long of exposure time, would it still be possible to stitch a series together for a panorama or would the stars more too much to allow that to work? ( I would take a separate foreground picture to use in post processing as the SG Pro, while keeping the stars nice and sharp, also blurry the foreground). Have you ever done pano's while taking longer exposures with a tracker?
Thanks heaps for watching. Yes that would work although I don't use the tracker to do panoramas. Eric Benedetti does fantastic work using a tracker and longer focal length lenses for panos. Check his work here: www.ericbenedettiphotography.com/Stars-and-Nature/
Beautiful
Thanks very much
it's a trip to see the Milky Way 'upside down' in the sky... What season were the images at 7:00 shot?
Those were shot in May here in Australia
Der - I should've known it was the same time of year that it's visible in the northern hemisphere - it being upside down confused me... the Milky Way's core is highest in the nighttime sky in April/May/June/July/August, because in the other months the sun is visually closer to the galactic core, which is why the 2012 Mayan Calendar thing was a thing...
Thanks for the reply! @@nightscapeimages.richard
Brilliant
Thanks a lot Jim, really appreciated.
You've inspired me to finally commit to buying Lightroom - and I got one of the only standalone versions left - just in time! Thanks again for the tutorial, very articulate and straight to the point.
@@jimslater3574 Good stuff Jim .. enjoy it.
great picture and video, unfortunately I only have Photoshop, can you create this portrait panorama in Photoshop? greetings Gerd
Yes you certainly can do panoramas in photoshop Gerd. Most people use the Adobe Camera Raw plug in for photoshop first which is basically very much like Lightroom.
@@nightscapeimages.richard
Thank you for your answer, yes I know the panorama goes with Photoshop, at least with pictures that are taken next to each other, but I don't know whether it also goes vertically with pictures, that was my question :-) Greeting Gerd
Yes no problem with vertical
So the stars were aligned automatically in panorama?
Thank you so much for this tutorial.
Yes they are Maddy, that's what Panorama software does.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thank you 🙌
Hey Richard great tutorial! Is there away to blend light painted frames in the panoramas ! Kind regards Rob
Well it's very difficult Rob because the camera is moving between shots. You could shoot multiple frames in each camera position but that would be very tedious and time consuming.
@@nightscapeimages.richard yea thought so but would thought id ask ! Thanks heaps mate 👍
Mate you need to write a small flip card booklet so I can keep on me in the field 😂 such excellent produced videos mate with some excellent trips and step by step 👍
Haha ... thanks mate. I actually do have a cheat sheet of settings I give to all my workshop participants. But these videos are a little more detailed than what's possible on a card.
Thank you for your input
Thank you so much Frank
Very well explayned, now I have to wait Italy milky way season to try :-) I have one question, if I have understood in panoramas it's impossible use sequator for noise reduction, cause of the movement of the milky way may be too high for proper stitching, it's right? Love your channel, kind regards!
Thanks so much for watching. Well you can do stacked panoramas but they take a lot of time and you do have to be careful to keep the shutter speeds fairly quick. You may have time for about 4 images per panel with a wide angle lens.
Personally prefer to use 35-70 mm for panoramas and thus make additional shots to the right and to the left of the centre. İ.e. if İ want a 3 shots vertical panorama, İ make 9 shots - really helps to deal with distortion and cropping. Guess it's not going to work with the night sky though.
Good points aliskandari. You can use any lens really but of course milky way images are more difficult due to the movement of the stars. There are always plenty of creative options available to us.
Fantastic video! Is there any particular reason you took the file to Photoshop? Couldn't have used the curves in Lightroom to do the same thing? Thanks
Thanks a lot for watching Patrick. Yes I could have done the editing in Lightroom. Often I prefer the curves in photoshop because you can be more selective with the adjustments by using layer masks, which you can't do in Lightroom.
Hi Richard, great video. I am a newbie into photography and just bought myself a Nikon D7500 and kit. I am looking at getting the Nikon AF-S 50mm f/1.8G prime lens, is this good for astrophotography? Thanks!
Hi Rod, the Nikon 50mm f1.8G is a great lens but you'll find it a little limited for nightscapes if you want to capture foreground subjects .. it's a little on the long side. Most people prefer something between 14mm and 24mm
Great job! Do you use long expo nois reduction in camera settings? Thanks
No I don't use in camera Long Exposure Noise Reduction. Especially when shooting panoramas as it takes too long to get through the sequence.
great video mate.
Thanks heaps for watching mate
THANKYOU...
Thanks for watching.
Hi Richard. I'm new to this astrophotography. For this, did you focus on the stars first and then tilt back down to tree and then tilt up for the 4? Hope my question makes sense. Love your channel
Thanks for watching. Yes all the images are at infinity focus. When I shoot panoramas I start at one end and go through to the other. In a vertical pano such as this I usually start at the ground and tilt up for the rest of the images.