Richard - your videos are absolutely brilliant. Thanks for sharing your techniques and inspiring others. I am discovering the night sky after seeing your videos, I am excited to try and emulate your awesome shots. Come visit New Zealand and I'll show you around the South Island!!
Brilliant as always. For me its not about science or art..... It's all about fun. Getting the shoot wrong can be just as much fun as getting it right 😉
It s me to thank you! You re my best teacher actually and i feel a nice, kind human in yourself, so give me more intersting in your videos. Hope to do similar pictures like you! Tanks for all!💗
I'm going to have to watch your video again from the start. The reason why is I was mesmerized with your the production values shooting this video. I love the slow pan back and forth while you're talking. Your imperceptible movement to stay offset on the rule of thirds line is so good. It really draws you into what you're speaking about, but gives life to your art in the background. Brilliantly done.
Thanks for another great video. I've recently started following you posts and I'm really glad that I did. There are very few photographers out there who are as passionate as you are. I'll be going out to Oz early 2020, hopefully I'll be able to catch up with you on one of your workshops.
Richard, you are a gifted teacher and I love the way that you look the camera in the eye when you are talking to us and not, obviously, reading from a script somewhere near the camera. Thank you.
It was nice to see the printed images at those sizes in the video. Illustrates the use of the lights very well and shows how nice the photos are. There is both science and art to this stuff.
The "Tattipedia" is on the road again... You just summarize in a brilliant way - as usually - what your Science/Art for nighscape is all about. Keep following your outstanding work and wisdom and improving every night my workflow. Thanks a lot to keep my motivation to go "under the stars" at it´s highest levels.
Fantastic video. I'm going to need to re-watch several times to absorb all of the info. Please keep them coming. I can't begin to tell you how much I learn from every one of your videos.
While I love your outdoor under the stars tutorials, I have to say this is my favorite video you have made to date. Your attention to details, the insets illustrating your descriptions, and the technical aspects of the lighting make this video very special. I'll watch this video more than a few times. Thanks Richard.
Hi Richard. Using your techniques, I have scouted locations and sought permission from landholders, managed to get a 14mm 1.8 sigma lens, got a zoomable LED torch. Could you now do a video on how to talk the missus into getting the rest of the lighting, gels and being allowed to go and play photographer all night. Your videos have helped me finally find my photography genre. Thanks, and I look forward to seeing more. Regards Dave
Thanks heaps for watching Dave. Unfortunately I can only advise on the photography side of things. The rest you'll have to negotiate yourself. Good luck.
Another great video Richard, many thanks. I don't think I have ever seen a RUclips video covering this topic, it tends to get lost in all the detail of the photography. I'm a scientist and must say, without doubt, it's an artform ! I think you hit the nail on the head.
I loved your demonstrations of hard and soft light. Also the shape and textures of light from different directions. One thing about the distance of light source to subject: farther not only means that less light falls on the subject, farther also makes the light source appear smaller, making the light harder.
Thanks again for an excellent video and excellent explanations! I might finally go outdoors to try nightscape photography with your tricks since evenings and nights are getting darker here in Finland after the bright summer season. It's also one of the best times to see milky way in our region.
Many, many thanks for this video Richard! I see that all your experience comes from your previous jobs from the past which gave the knowledge you are now sharing. I didn`t know that a small light source throughs a much harder shadow than a bigger one - very interesting!!! Please continue with this kind of information. SUPER!!!
Thanks Richard. I really enjoy your videos and always refer back to them for guidance on a Nightscape shot I want to achieve. I used low level lighting on a panoramic shot of Split Point Lighthouse in Victoria with the Milky Way and what a difference it made. Keep up the great work.
Thanks so much for your videos. You are truly inspiring! I went out for the first time to shoot the Milky Way this last weekend thanks to the new moon. Very much looking forward to my next trip!
Richard: After uttering numerous "expletives" at those beautiful first images, this video winds its way into an INCREDIBLY USEFUL set of lessons!!! It's hot now with mosquito infested nights here in Mississippi, USA, but I can't wait for cooler weather to try some of these terrific techniques!!! Yeah, there's a learning curve, but ESPECIALLY THIS VIDEO will make it a bit easier!!!! MANY THANKS!!!
It's your video and you may have how much favorite images you want! Hahaha! Thank you for sharing your experience and enthusiasm as a nightscaper photographer with us! Best Wishes from Brazil!
Thank you a good learing lession!! I work with ligthing things under the stars, and try to get it nice. And then to listen to your experimens and ligth juse, i get more idees and understandings.
What terrific information in this video. Thanks so much for all you do in your many videos. I've been doing a lot of Milky Way photography, but not so much with light painting. I'm ready to now! Thanks!
What a great video, learned so much...what I have learned above all from this is Plan your shot-but do not overthing your shot. Thank you for all the usefull tips on all your videos
I feel Art is subjective. Right now in the northern hemisphere we have began the slow creep into fall. The light has a peculiar quality during these months. The great writer William Faulkner spoke of this. I think some of the best nightscapes and Astro shots aren’t when they are cookie cutter examples but different angles, different takes...everyone gets tired of seeing textbook examples of the Andromeda galaxy. I saw this photo a chap did in an Astrophotography forum where he clipped a tree into the shot and everyone agreed he had made something truly amazing. Photography at the core means, “light etching.” It’s a hybridization if science and art.
Great job explaining lighting and light painting. Just a side note that part of the planning process should include checking if the location has any regulations on light painting or low level lighting. In the US, some national parks prohibit all artificial lighting, some allow low level constant lighting only, and some have no restrictions what so ever.
Thankyou for another great tutorial Richard, you are such an inspiration. I had a go at my first light painting last night, but after watching this I realised I had lit most of the subject from the from the same angle as the camera, now after watching this video, I’ll be much more aware of this in the future. Keep up the great work. 😀👍
Another awesome instructional video Richard. These have become my favourite photography training videos. In our travels through Victoria & now SA I find I am planning our destinations based on where we will be for the next new moon 😳. Thanks again.
Another great video, Richard. I love the full and illustrated explanation. I was definitely ready for that tutorial, and going forward, these instructional sessions will complement your field sessions perfectly. Just brilliant! Thank you so much.
Excellent video as always, and an interesting subject. What you do is basically to carefully sculpt and stage an artwork, something that looks slightly surreal and very beautiful, something we recognise is not as we see it in real life, but idealised through careful craftsmanship. There are a number of great art photographers who take great care to build up a scene and even digitally composite an image to make an artwork, the latter which to me is completely valid as long as it is not misrepresented as a single shot; a lot of work goes into the preparation as well with lighting setups, wind machines, and staged setups of models to create a piece. And that is art, as much as the captured moment of a street photographer of a real fleeting scene. In the early days if photography, they staged tableaus to photographs like a painting to imitate the style, and photographers tried hard to be accepted as artists as much as painters, but struggled getting that level of respect. There was a discussion recently if compositing a different sky into an Art photography landscape is “cheating”, something that comes up now and again with various photographers and photoshopping. The key there is of course disclosure; if you are honest about it being a composite and don’t misrepresent it any different. Dropping in a different sky from elsewhere, possibly even a stock image, which some pro photographers have been caught out doing, is dishonest if they claim it to be a straight photo. Some nightscape photographers have been caught out with obviously cloned sections of the Milky Way, which unless you represent a fantasy scape rather than our actual night sky, is misrepresentation. So where is the line? An interesting topic.
Hi Richard...great vid....I learnt about shadows and large lighting!! Hey, not sure if you realised but the links you spoke about with your other tutorials didnt come up????
Hi Richard, Great video and a good discussion with thorough explanations all the way through. Picked up a lot of information from this need to plan a night under the stars soon!....well one without the moon.
I like to use a really bright LED lantern placed inside a brown paper grocery bag and then put it inside a car interior I’m filming at night. I even use the lantern in a brown paper bag trick to add some soft warmer accent light to a subject as well. I love using low-tech tricks!
That was excellent, helpful and very different - big thumbs up. I reckon getting into photography in the early days (years) is predominantly scientific - it has to be to understand how the camera works. Over time it becomes 90% artistic and only 10% scientific, which is why great photographers can "chart" their development along a timeline and this is reflected in their work which just gets more & more interesting and indeed jaw-dropping.
Photography is a technical art, astrophotography even more so, but the choices you make on light intensity, colour, position, etc are like a painter choosing different brushes, colours and strokes to convey what they want the viewer to experience. Even when we do LRGB or narrow-band astrophotography we make some choices to get pretty pictures of almost assuredly no scientific value (how many amateur-produced images of the Orion Nebula are going to be used when you can image it with Hubble or Webb?), and we do it just for fun
@@nightscapeimages.richard question! My nightscape images look great on the screen, but dark when printed. Wondering if you could do an episode on printing - your prints are bright and phenomenal!
A great informative video of your style of photography. I think art and science complete one another. The science and physics enhances the photographers' abilities and allows them to show their own narrative of the subject. The more understanding one has of the science, then the more effective it can be in creating the narrative we want to tell.
Nice information and really well explained 👍 I would love to see a video on foregrounds without the use of light eg a subject like a beach where you can't light paint but you can use long exposures of a minute or more and stack them.
Hi Richard, I haven't long been following you and love what you do. I have recently got a Nikon Z6 as an addition to me gear and only have the 24-70 f4 lens. What are your thoughts on maybe trying a sigma 14-24 f2.8 art lens?
@@nightscapeimages.richard I think I found it in early 2020, because I wanted to focus on panoramas that year, then covid happened and I didn't get many, been following you ever since, love your channel, you do make me smile and chuckle
oh ASTROMAN i am no techno but just loved how you explain things for NIGHTSCAPES keeps me focused (sorry no pun) and your fav shots i would be proud of them we all try and do our best and you show the way mate i guess you are our little treasure from downunder just be yourself mate i still cant wait to the new yeer have just said to my wife I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT and she said ITS ABOUT TIME why would she say that anyway mate just great cheers an beers bobby j.
Lots of science in it, but you're a genuine artist Richard. I hope people are buying the rights to many of your images.
Thanks a lot Dale. Really appreciate that
The longer the video, the longer the pleasure. Thanks Richard.!!!
Very kind of you Andreas
This is 1 of my favourite videos about explaning lighting techniques & the difference it makes 👍👏❤️🇮🇪
Yes it's an interesting subject matter and discussion.
VERY USEFULL MR.TATTY .THANKS
You're very welcome Pablo, appreciate you watching.
Thank you for your videos! Instructional and equally inspirational.
Really appreciate you watching David, thanks so much.
Thank you for sharing your extensive experience and knowledge. Your passion is contagious.
My pleasure Mark, I really appreciate you watching.
Richard - your videos are absolutely brilliant. Thanks for sharing your techniques and inspiring others. I am discovering the night sky after seeing your videos, I am excited to try and emulate your awesome shots. Come visit New Zealand and I'll show you around the South Island!!
Fantastic Brent. I'm glad you like the videos. I'll actually be in New Zealand during March and April with a group of photographers.
Brilliant as always.
For me its not about science or art..... It's all about fun. Getting the shoot wrong can be just as much fun as getting it right 😉
Really appreciate you watching, thanks for the comments.
Very explicative! As usual! 👍 help us a lot!👏..thanks!
I'm glad you like it Chris, thanks a lot for watching.
It s me to thank you! You re my best teacher actually and i feel a nice, kind human in yourself, so give me more intersting in your videos. Hope to do similar pictures like you! Tanks for all!💗
A very well explained educational video Richard. Top job mate 👍🏻
Thanks so much for your comments, really appreciated.
I'm going to have to watch your video again from the start. The reason why is I was mesmerized with your the production values shooting this video. I love the slow pan back and forth while you're talking. Your imperceptible movement to stay offset on the rule of thirds line is so good. It really draws you into what you're speaking about, but gives life to your art in the background. Brilliantly done.
You are very kind my friend .. thanks so much for the comments.
Great video, topic and explanation with great detail and really helpful tips like, Thank you very much, Excellent Video! Love the photograph's.
Once again, I really appreciate your comments.
This one is easily one of my favourites. Science or art? Absolutely both.
Thanks heaps Dominic ... I agree.
This video is exceptional!
Thanks so much for watching Brian, really appreciated.
Thanks for another great video. I've recently started following you posts and I'm really glad that I did. There are very few photographers out there who are as passionate as you are. I'll be going out to Oz early 2020, hopefully I'll be able to catch up with you on one of your workshops.
Hey Dereck I'm really pleased to hear you feel inspired by my work. Thanks so much for watching. All the very best for 2020.
Richard, you are a gifted teacher and I love the way that you look the camera in the eye when you are talking to us and not, obviously, reading from a script somewhere near the camera. Thank you.
Very kind of you to say Col.Thanks so much for watching
It was nice to see the printed images at those sizes in the video. Illustrates the use of the lights very well and shows how nice the photos are. There is both science and art to this stuff.
Very true Tony. Equal proportions of both required. Thanks so much for watching.
So good. Excellent instructions Richard
Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate that.
I agree. Very detailed that gives us a lot to think about & play with.
Thanks Ted
Really like the subtlety of the slow pan you used while you are talking to the camera, adding movement to another wise fixed headshot.
Thanks for noticing Shane
Today, I attended the Australian Geo, Nature & Landscape photography exhibition, here in Adelaide. Your superb images deserve to be here
Thanks so much for your kind comments. Really appreciated
The "Tattipedia" is on the road again...
You just summarize in a brilliant way - as usually - what your Science/Art for nighscape is all about. Keep following your outstanding work and wisdom and improving every night my workflow.
Thanks a lot to keep my motivation to go "under the stars" at it´s highest levels.
Really appreciate that Zarcos. Thanks again
Another brilliant vlog Richard. Some very good info about lighting sources.
Many thanks Shaan
Fantastic video. I'm going to need to re-watch several times to absorb all of the info. Please keep them coming. I can't begin to tell you how much I learn from every one of your videos.
Thanks so much Steve I'm really pleased you like them
While I love your outdoor under the stars tutorials, I have to say this is my favorite video you have made to date. Your attention to details, the insets illustrating your descriptions, and the technical aspects of the lighting make this video very special. I'll watch this video more than a few times. Thanks Richard.
Very kind of you to say Shastapaul, really appreciated
Hi Richard.
Using your techniques, I have scouted locations and sought permission from landholders, managed to get a 14mm 1.8 sigma lens, got a zoomable LED torch. Could you now do a video on how to talk the missus into getting the rest of the lighting, gels and being allowed to go and play photographer all night.
Your videos have helped me finally find my photography genre. Thanks, and I look forward to seeing more.
Regards
Dave
Thanks heaps for watching Dave. Unfortunately I can only advise on the photography side of things. The rest you'll have to negotiate yourself. Good luck.
Another great tutorial Richard. So easy to understand,
Thanks so much Gary
I loved your video! Light painting is fantastic. Thank you!
I appreciate you watching Ricardo
Fantastic video, as always. Fantástico vídeo, como siempre. Gracias.
Thanks so much for watching
Great educational video! You inspire me to do more nightscapes! Thanks!
Really appreciate you watching Al. I'm really pleased you're getting inspired.
Another great video Richard, many thanks. I don't think I have ever seen a RUclips video covering this topic, it tends to get lost in all the detail of the photography. I'm a scientist and must say, without doubt, it's an artform ! I think you hit the nail on the head.
Thanks again David. There is always a delicate balance with photography that's for sure
Richard, it's definitely an art in your case. You have a great 'eye' for composition and your light painting techniques are amazing!
Many thanks indeed Walter, really appreciated
Fantastic light masterclass!
Really appreciate that Josep
I loved your demonstrations of hard and soft light. Also the shape and textures of light from different directions. One thing about the distance of light source to subject: farther not only means that less light falls on the subject, farther also makes the light source appear smaller, making the light harder.
Very good observation Ron, thanks so much for watching.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Very helpful!
You're very welcome Oriana, thanks for watching.
Thanks again for an excellent video and excellent explanations! I might finally go outdoors to try nightscape photography with your tricks since evenings and nights are getting darker here in Finland after the bright summer season. It's also one of the best times to see milky way in our region.
Really appreciate that Kimmo. I hope you get something great.
Many, many thanks for this video Richard! I see that all your experience comes from your previous jobs from the past which gave the knowledge you are now sharing. I didn`t know that a small light source throughs a much harder shadow than a bigger one - very interesting!!! Please continue with this kind of information. SUPER!!!
Thanks very much for your comments, really appreciate it.
Excellent video Richard! Loved the explanation and the demonstration. Keep up the great work!
Thanks once again Mike
Highlight of my RUclips week is here again 😁
Thanks so much for tuning in again Torbjorn. Really appreciate it.
Thanks Richard. I really enjoy your videos and always refer back to them for guidance on a Nightscape shot I want to achieve. I used low level lighting on a panoramic shot of Split Point Lighthouse in Victoria with the Milky Way and what a difference it made. Keep up the great work.
Thanks so much for watching I really appreciate your support.
Great info mate!!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Thanks so much David
Thanks so much for your videos. You are truly inspiring! I went out for the first time to shoot the Milky Way this last weekend thanks to the new moon. Very much looking forward to my next trip!
I'm really pleased you're getting out there under the stars. Thanks for watching
Richard, I have been hoping you would do a video like this. Well done. So informative. Thank you!
Really appreciate you watching Bruce thank you
Fantastic video. As much light painting as I have done, I never realized the shadows were blurring. I learned something new. Thanks Richard!
Thanks so much Terry. Really appreciate you watching
I just recently started following your channel. Glad I found it as I’m really enjoying it!
Thanks so much for watching, really appreciated
Art every time, your channel is great, ordina, original and sensibly informative, thankful
Thanks Chris really appreciate you watching.
Once again an excellent explanation of your work, thank you very much!
Many thanks Tom
Great vlog Richard it was like being in the classroom with you even though you are 9000 thousand miles away 👍👍👍
Many thanks indeed Brian ... 9000 is only a number ...!!!
Another outstanding video Richard, thank you. Your art is inspiring, and so are your explanations of technique - and passion. Thanks again!
Really appreciate you watching and commenting
Richard: After uttering numerous "expletives" at those beautiful first images, this video winds its way into an INCREDIBLY USEFUL set of lessons!!! It's hot now with mosquito infested nights here in Mississippi, USA, but I can't wait for cooler weather to try some of these terrific techniques!!! Yeah, there's a learning curve, but ESPECIALLY THIS VIDEO will make it a bit easier!!!! MANY THANKS!!!
Thanks so much for watching Burt. I'm really pleased it's been helpful.
These are the types of videos I hope you can continue with in the summer instead of just resting.😎 I did learn something in the light source part.
Really appreciate you watching Bruce
I learn at least a little something new with each of your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Really appreciate you watching my friend
Brilliant video Richard, reconfirming everything that you discussed in your workshop 👍
Thanks so much Maz. I'm glad it made sense again.
Thank you my Friend for another great lesson.
Really appreciate you watching Michal. Thanks so much
Excellent explanation! So much to learn from your videos.
Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate your comments.
Thank you very much for this explanation of light painting. I've shared this one too with the local photography facebook page.
Really appreciate your support Theresa, thank you
It's your video and you may have how much favorite images you want! Hahaha!
Thank you for sharing your experience and enthusiasm as a nightscaper photographer with us!
Best Wishes from Brazil!
Thanks so much Rafael, really appreciated
thanks for another great instructional video. Your techniques are helping me create images that are unique to that moment.
Really appreciate your comments Steve. Very encouraging...!!!
Packed full of information and interest.... "Totally hooked on your nightscape uploads, Richard.
Thanks very much my friend.
Absolutely fantastic!
Thanks so much Jeff
Very inspirational video Richard, thank you for sharing your knowledge with us all... Look forward to trying out these techniques.... 👍
Thanks as always Royston. It means a lot that you think my videos are somewhat helpful.
Thank you a good learing lession!! I work with ligthing things under the stars, and try to get it nice. And then to listen to your experimens and ligth juse, i get more idees and understandings.
Many thanks for watching Tom
What terrific information in this video. Thanks so much for all you do in your many videos. I've been doing a lot of Milky Way photography, but not so much with light painting. I'm ready to now! Thanks!
Always very much appreciate your comments Bret. Thanks so much for watching
Another great video... Awesome !
Really appreciate that Rakesh
What a great video, learned so much...what I have learned above all from this is Plan your shot-but do not overthing your shot. Thank you for all the usefull tips on all your videos
Really pleased you like it my friend.
I feel Art is subjective. Right now in the northern hemisphere we have began the slow creep into fall. The light has a peculiar quality during these months. The great writer William Faulkner spoke of this. I think some of the best nightscapes and Astro shots aren’t when they are cookie cutter examples but different angles, different takes...everyone gets tired of seeing textbook examples of the Andromeda galaxy. I saw this photo a chap did in an Astrophotography forum where he clipped a tree into the shot and everyone agreed he had made something truly amazing.
Photography at the core means, “light etching.” It’s a hybridization if science and art.
Really good comments Josh, thanks for watching
Great job explaining lighting and light painting. Just a side note that part of the planning process should include checking if the location has any regulations on light painting or low level lighting. In the US, some national parks prohibit all artificial lighting, some allow low level constant lighting only, and some have no restrictions what so ever.
Very good point Jeffery. Here in Australia we don't have those restrictions.
Thankyou for another great tutorial Richard, you are such an inspiration. I had a go at my first light painting last night, but after watching this I realised I had lit most of the subject from the from the same angle as the camera, now after watching this video, I’ll be much more aware of this in the future. Keep up the great work. 😀👍
Thanks heaps Nash. There's always new stuff to try. Appreciate you watching
Another awesome instructional video Richard. These have become my favourite photography training videos. In our travels through Victoria & now SA I find I am planning our destinations based on where we will be for the next new moon 😳. Thanks again.
Thanks so much for watching Peter, really appreciate your support.
thank you dear ! you have answered a lot of my doubts in this subject. this is very useful indeed.
Thanks very much Noreen I'm glad you like it
Very helpful info..thank you very much
Really appreciate that William.. thank you
Another great one Richard. This one was very informative, thank you for that.
Really appreciate you watching Matt
Another great video, Richard. I love the full and illustrated explanation. I was definitely ready for that tutorial, and going forward, these instructional sessions will complement your field sessions perfectly. Just brilliant! Thank you so much.
Many thanks indeed Simon as per usual
How enlighting, thanks for taking the time to explain,
Cto gels now to get some, without the other colours
Very interesting video
Thanks so much Phillip once again
It'll be great if you done more of these types of videos , explaining techniques that can be used.
Thanks a lot for watching Malcolm. Appreciate your comments
This was the night gallery episode, thank you for the videos.
Thanks for watching Frank
Wow what a awesome demonstration Richard, some tips and tricks to try the next time I head out.
Great work mate.
Really appreciate that Brad
Mate, your videos continue to just get better and better excellent tips!
Really pleased you like it Cliff
Thank you , great info!
Thank you Michael
Excellent video as always, and an interesting subject. What you do is basically to carefully sculpt and stage an artwork, something that looks slightly surreal and very beautiful, something we recognise is not as we see it in real life, but idealised through careful craftsmanship. There are a number of great art photographers who take great care to build up a scene and even digitally composite an image to make an artwork, the latter which to me is completely valid as long as it is not misrepresented as a single shot; a lot of work goes into the preparation as well with lighting setups, wind machines, and staged setups of models to create a piece. And that is art, as much as the captured moment of a street photographer of a real fleeting scene. In the early days if photography, they staged tableaus to photographs like a painting to imitate the style, and photographers tried hard to be accepted as artists as much as painters, but struggled getting that level of respect. There was a discussion recently if compositing a different sky into an Art photography landscape is “cheating”, something that comes up now and again with various photographers and photoshopping. The key there is of course disclosure; if you are honest about it being a composite and don’t misrepresent it any different. Dropping in a different sky from elsewhere, possibly even a stock image, which some pro photographers have been caught out doing, is dishonest if they claim it to be a straight photo. Some nightscape photographers have been caught out with obviously cloned sections of the Milky Way, which unless you represent a fantasy scape rather than our actual night sky, is misrepresentation. So where is the line? An interesting topic.
Thanks so much for your insight Martin really good to reflect on everything you've said. Really appreciate you watching.
just come across you by mistake , how lucky was that, great video, love the photo's and the talk,
Thanks a lot for watching Matthew. Really pleased you found the channel.
As always Richard Great value in your videos. Cheers from Tokoroa NZ.
Thanks so much Frank. Really appreciate that
Excellent video
Thanks Brian
Mais um excelente vídeo!! Parabéns pelo seu belo trabalho amigo, forte abraço de um telespectador brasileiro!!
Thanks so much for watching Gustavo
Hi Richard...great vid....I learnt about shadows and large lighting!! Hey, not sure if you realised but the links you spoke about with your other tutorials didnt come up????
Thanks a lot Carmel. It's possible I forgot to add those links. I'm away for a few weeks so I'll fix it later.
Great info thx
Thanks so much for watching
Hi Richard,
Great video and a good discussion with thorough explanations all the way through. Picked up a lot of information from this need to plan a night under the stars soon!....well one without the moon.
Thanks heaps Carl. Really appreciate you watching.
I like to use a really bright LED lantern placed inside a brown paper grocery bag and then put it inside a car interior I’m filming at night. I even use the lantern in a brown paper bag trick to add some soft warmer accent light to a subject as well. I love using low-tech tricks!
Great ideas Christopher
Great video! Thanks for the thorough explanation :)
Really appreciate you watching Marcel
That was excellent, helpful and very different - big thumbs up. I reckon getting into photography in the early days (years) is predominantly scientific - it has to be to understand how the camera works. Over time it becomes 90% artistic and only 10% scientific, which is why great photographers can "chart" their development along a timeline and this is reflected in their work which just gets more & more interesting and indeed jaw-dropping.
Thanks so much for watching again mate, really appreciated as always.
Photography is a technical art, astrophotography even more so, but the choices you make on light intensity, colour, position, etc are like a painter choosing different brushes, colours and strokes to convey what they want the viewer to experience.
Even when we do LRGB or narrow-band astrophotography we make some choices to get pretty pictures of almost assuredly no scientific value (how many amateur-produced images of the Orion Nebula are going to be used when you can image it with Hubble or Webb?), and we do it just for fun
Yes very good thoughts Antonio. Appreciate your insights.
@ I thank YOU for your channel. I’ve been learning a lot from you
You have answered a lot of questions I would have like to have asked. Now my shopping list has got longer haha.
Thanks so much Lawrence .. yes thats always a problem...!!!
Fantastic - as always!
Thanks so much Chris
@@nightscapeimages.richard question! My nightscape images look great on the screen, but dark when printed. Wondering if you could do an episode on printing - your prints are bright and phenomenal!
I think that's a common problem with nightscapes Chris. I'd suggest simply brightening the entire image.
A great informative video of your style of photography. I think art and science complete one another. The science and physics enhances the photographers' abilities and allows them to show their own narrative of the subject. The more understanding one has of the science, then the more effective it can be in creating the narrative we want to tell.
Very well said Three phase
Nice information and really well explained 👍
I would love to see a video on foregrounds without the use of light eg a subject like a beach where you can't light paint but you can use long exposures of a minute or more and stack them.
Thanks so much Keith. Yes I do that from time to time.
Hi Richard, I haven't long been following you and love what you do. I have recently got a Nikon Z6 as an addition to me gear and only have the 24-70 f4 lens. What are your thoughts on maybe trying a sigma 14-24 f2.8 art lens?
Thanks so much for watching. The Sigma 14-24 art lens is fantastic. I know a few who have it and love it.
Your night shots are fantastic. What did you print the lighthouse photo on? Was this a metal print? What was the backing? Thanks!
Hey Bob appreciate you watching. It's glossy photo paper with a laminated surface. This will be mounted on foamcore for display.
That pano episode got me onto your channel
That's a while ago Suzanne ..!!!
@@nightscapeimages.richard I think I found it in early 2020, because I wanted to focus on panoramas that year, then covid happened and I didn't get many, been following you ever since, love your channel, you do make me smile and chuckle
oh ASTROMAN i am no techno but just loved how you explain things for NIGHTSCAPES keeps me focused (sorry no pun) and your fav shots i would be proud of them we all try and do our best and you show the way mate i guess you are our little treasure from downunder just be yourself
mate i still cant wait to the new yeer have just said to my wife I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT and she said ITS ABOUT TIME why would she say that anyway mate just great cheers an beers bobby j.
Haha, thanks my friend. Never doubt the good wife ...!!!!
This is really helpful information. Okay will you come take my pictures for me now?
Haha, thanks a lit for watching Danny
i think you illustrate the Science of making Art perfectly. Why don't I get the same photos from my identical combo?
Really appreciate you watching. There are many factors that influence our final images thats for sure.