Astrophotography for Beginners Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- This is such a highly requested video from you guys so I'm so excited I got the chance to film this while in beautiful Yosemite National Park. I show you how I take astro photography landscapes AND night time portraits with the landscape as well. I hope you enjoy!!
Camera body: Sony A7III
Lenses I used: Canon 35mm f1.4 II and Sony 28mm f2
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VLOG CAMERA SETUP //
Sony a7s mkii + Sigma 24mm f1.4
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Canon 5dmkiii
Sigma 24mm f1.4
Canon 35mm f1.4
Canon 50mm f1.2
Canon 85mm f1.2
Canon 135mm f2
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Thank you so much for watching! xx
Don't push the focus to infinity it can be inaccurate bcs of more things ....use live mode push the iso and zoom the brightest star and manually focus and u r ready to go!
I usually zoom in on a bright star and use autofocus and then adjust it manually and very carefully so it's sharper. If you're shooting on canon, it will do something called "exposure simulation" which will bring up the ISO for the preview only so you can adjust your framing, focus, etc
I'm worried the camera would fall the whole video!
3:22 - if it's pitch black, you can actually focus on a bright star - or preferentially a planet like Jupiter if it's visible. Most cameras have no problem focusing if you only use the central focus point and position the star right in the middle. Then _carefully_ switch to manual focus and reframe without touching the focus ring.
Unreal!!!! I just watched like 10 videos and everyone just sat there explaining things without shooting or showing picture results. your video was the only one that made sense.
Good tip on using the features that most cameras have, even phones, such as the self timer. It can save a shot from blur and vibration
The photos are perfect, but LR edit are too bright you lose the magic of the night. I prefer use a low power led over the people and keep the sky black with star. But is a good point to start (settings). Thanks Julia, always nice videos!! By the way Julia, check "Expedition Happiness" on Netflix. Your trip, look like this documental.
Just what I was thinking about the edit! Glad to know I wasn't the only one
@pvcollectives lead? I write "LED" if you don't know what is, go to Google.
@pvcollectives Sorry!! English are not my first language. I try my best .
@@specialized41 What a dick comment. What's so hard about writing "it's a type of light"? Don't be a douche.
the sky cant be black
New practice of techique in taking astrophotography
There is a very cool and useful setting in the Sony which is made exactly for astro photography. It is called "bright monitoring" check it out ;). You can focus zooming on a star or foreground... It can help a lot not to test a couple of times until you get the focus right.
I wanted to keep this video as simple as possible so anyone with any DSLR could follow and be able to achieve results! With the Sony I normally just bump up my iso as high as it goes and it’s usually bright enough to be able to focus that way haha can’t do that on any camera though 😊
@@juliatrotti true :)
@@juliatrotti true! can't do that on my canon. thanks for keeping it simple
I really want to try this now✨
Btw I prefer the unedited ones❤️💫
As always a brilliant video, very enjoyable. I especially liked the portraits of you and Dan and there was definitely a story there. The last time I did any astrophotography was so long ago I’m not sure half the stars even existed then.
Never knew how much I wanted to try this until I saw your video. Awesome Julia
Great tutorial! It's hard enough to get the exposures right for night skies without all the cars driving by. That's a problem with most prime locations though. Once you find a really dark site you can get some amazing photos after just a few trial shots. Focus is the biggest issue on my Canon. At 18mm, even when I use the 10x magnify to focus it's still trial and error because the screen is so grainy in the dark. 1600 ISO seems to provide the best compromise between exposure speed and noise. For those who want to get a little more serious about night sky photos you can get a reasonably priced Astro Tracker that mounts to a tripod and will track the stars so you can use longer exposures or stack multiple exposures.
Agree to some mentioning the editing. The best part of that location in Yosemite was that you could see the climber lights and stars. It's like the lights are going up the mountain to join the sky... Quite poetic. But bumping the exposure just took that magic detail away of otherwise a very photographed location.
OMG, amazing photos!
Is there anyone watching because of her tutorial and her accent. Her accent is so cute
Thank you! Very helpful and great shots!
Just a tip for shooting people at night :) try to shoot at higher iso and in burst mode. For example 1/20-1/30s shutter speed or at least not lower than 1/10 - that way the model will stay sharp much easier. The burst is because if you stitch for example 10 frames at 25600ISO the noise levels after stitching them together will be better than one shot at approximately 1600ISO and longer exposure time. And the A7III can take 10 frames in 1 sec which will freeze most of the stuff in the frame than one exposure at more than a second. Plus 10 frames at 1/10 will have many times less noise than one shot at 1sec.
Your missing the point mate. She needed a long exposure to get the stars In the shot. Your method would result in a portrait with a black sky and no stars.
@@andysmith5221 Well maybe I did not explained well enough :).The exposure must be the same because you will increase the ISO but the noise will stay low because you are stitching multiple shots. Therefore the stars will be there it is just that the model will not stay still for a couple of seconds but only for 1sec.
@@simeonkolev1231 did you know photoshop and lots of other programs have something called mask? so you can stitch a sharp night portrait in a correctly exposed sky photo (which clearly cant be at 25600 iso cause of reduced gamma , dark signal, chip signal). its called basic portrait retouching, pretty much everyone does it
@@quiky9065 I know you can do that but why bother simulating the night light on the model when you can do it on location. Yes you can shoot everything separately and assemble it together in post but it is more work and most of the times it looks like a cartoon because the background and the model do not match in terms of color, exposure and even grain... Personally me - I prefer to make thing look more natural and I hate those softbox light portraits that are trying to convince us that as we walk the earth we are all lightened by a personal softbox who is overpowering the sun or other unnatural situation ... :). When we walk the earth we are lightened by the sun or its reflections. At night it is the moon or some artificial lights in the city, but never a softbox. That is why I also hate the look of a overexposed milky way. The milky way never looks like most of its shots online... are we photographers or painters with wild imagination...
@@simeonkolev1231 i disagree with you, modern astrophotography is the only way we know of portraiting sky objects. basic rules of astroprocessing tells that a milky way shots cant be underexposed if u want to catch every detail possible in that sky, of course its a rapresentation and the editing differs from ever photographer. human eyes are not that powerful and thats why we use cameras, to increase every possibility and make hours of integration to catch the real beauty of far objects under human-polluted skies.
without that we couldnt have the incredible deep sky shots we have today, so this is the way to go. i personally had some shots of milky way and always regretted when under- exsposed.
so back to night model, using a led spotlight and masking is thecnically the correct way of shooting, so you can have good sharp and illuminated model foreground with low iso (which is a must for portraits) and mask to the correctly exposed milky way, the shot will benefit and the image will look better. if this is not a natural way for you, and you prefer to be a shooter like most of wildlife photographers, then you can use the light of a passing car or the ones of a hut so you will not put a "fake" light just for the photo
Thank you Julia for this wonderful astrophotography tutorial... I really like the simple explanations and the way you have shown the settings of all of your settings on the screen ... 😀⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Thanks so much 💛
A good tip to save some time is to zoom in digitally in liveview and manual focus on a bright star or planet or even a distant source of light! Also cant believe that intro shot!!
That's a really good tip! Haha I also couldn't believe the intro shot when Dan showed me, it was practically pitch black outside 😂
Your tips were very helpful. I am novice in photography and eagerly wanted to know the settings of astrophotography.
Your tips were very easy to understand and apply. Today, I applied your approach and was successfully able to take stargaze photo.. A big Thank You!!!
Loved this! I would love to see a video about how many photos you usually get on average out of each shoot you do/if that varies depending on the type of shoot, etc.
Julia, my friend and I also took a photo like this while star gazing in mammoth lakes. Thank you for all the tips and tricks. We shall try again next time. And yes it was super cold.
Ooh that would have been a beautiful place for night time photos!! 💛
Thanks Trevor. I watch several of your vid’s before I made my first purchase. Your vid’s are very helpful thanks.
On the new Canon cameras (probably as well other brands), you can also use your phone as a remote with Canon's app so you don't move the camera when pressing the shutter
For some reason, I am getting MUCH better results at ISO 100 using A7C and 20mm f/1.8 lens. The same 15 seconds exposure at f/1.8. Very sharp images/stars.
This is a great walk through and practice guide. Thank you so much
Julia, you made such a great tutorial. I am just starting to do Astro Photography and I thought it was really complicated. You made it really understandable and I look forward to trying it out tonight or this weekend. Thank you for providing this great video!
You have an A7III, use your custom buttons and use bright monitoring and focus magnifier rather than taking loads of test shots. Bright monitoring makes it so you can see your surroundings in the dark on your display, making it much easier to compose. Focus magnifier lets you zoom in on the point you want to focus on to make sure it's sharp, more effective than just guessing
Yes, when I take star photos I have my own process and I definitely make the most of having an A7III. This tutorial I was keeping in mind back when I had a much more beginner DSLR that wasn't great in low light so anyone with any DSLR can follow the steps!
Another awesome video Julia. Loved the photos of you and Dan together
Just a tip: I love to photograph my models outside the sky-photo.
Since I usually like the trails and stuff, I have exposures of a minute or two. People can't stand still that long. Even 6 seconds is really rellay good. I also love shooting as wide open as possible with and ISO around 100-400 max.
This adds up to the shutter speed as well. So, I love to shoot the people with an external light (most of the time my phone light). Two to ten shots and different parts of the body lighted which I stack on top to have one fully lighted person which I then stack on top of my astro-photo ^^
(basically I just need to add the exposures together. No more work around that one. No 'fakes' if you consider having like 5 1/250 and like 60 1min exposures stacked in the same location without camera movement as kinda real 😅)
Makes me wanna go out at night. Thanks a lot Julia!
That is an amazing video. Thank you for all those tips. I’m going to head out one night and see what I can get.
Thank you for the nice tips! ^_^
I got these tips from an astrophotographer friend of mine:
I use about 10-11 sec shutter sp. and a bit higher ISO. 15 sec may look sharp on the back screen but there's always a tiny bit of MB.
Focusing: Use MF, live view...focus on the sharpest star...make the dot as small as possible...compose...shoot. :)
Something I came up with: I like to show cities with the night sky, and I focus on the city lights in the distance...those are in infinity too anyway, so if the lights are sharp, the stars and everything on the sky will also be sharp.
These are some great tips! Thanks for sharing 😊
I loved this video. I am going to try this out myself. Thanks Julia.
Have you considered getting a star-tracker for your tripod? They’re not too pricey and allow you shoot longer exposures (1-2 min) with way more detail without trailing. Also, look into a bahtinov focusing mask to help with night time focusing.
I'll have a look into it! I only do these kinds of photos very rarely though and just for fun :)
Love the simple steps u provided. Clear instructions. Thanks!
Thank you!
Very nice and easy for an amateur like myself who doesn't want to go all out for a shoot. This gives me something to try for which I'd actually leave the comfort of my couch ;) As always, thx a bunch for the inspiration!
Thank you!
That was definitely an informative video. Love your content.
Awesome, I love your videos.... there very educational and fun to watch. I feel so relaxed and eased into what I'm learning from you from moment to moment!!! Thank you so much!
Aw thank you, this is the best comment!! 💛
Oi Julia, não sei se você vai entender o que eu escrevi, mas mesmo assim, eu gostaria muito de agradecer pelos seus vídeos. Eles são excelentes e eles tem me ajudado muito. Eu comprei dois presets seu como forma de agradecimento por tudo que aprendi com você.
Parabéns pelo seu trabalho fotográfico e parabéns pelo seu trabalho no RUclips!!!
Kisses from Brazil! Thank you for all!!! 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
Thank you so much, I really appreciate your support!! 💛
I am not sure where to ask this but I thought this would be as good a place as any because of the look of the self portrait with you and Dan, although maybe your friend was taking it. BUT, I was wondering if you have attempted self portraits with the A7iii yet, I am frustrated in my research for a good app to allow for controlling focus, etc when doing self portraits seeing that the play memories app is limited in it's use. Thanks for your input! Love the videos and your photographic style ;)
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As someone completely new to astrophotography, what's the problem with fast apertures for night photography? Surely the depth of field is less of an issue since you're almost entirely focused to infinity, and the main benefit is more light? Or am I missing something? Great video
So cool, I’m definitely going to give this a try!
Brilliant photos Julia! I need to try this out now!
Thank you and have fun!
Thanks for the great video! Which bland of the tripod are you using?
Very good photo
This is a great beginner tutorial. Thank you!
ive never tried it..but im gonna give it a go... Yosemite looks amazing
It's a very beautiful place.
Great video! P.s. those climbers are scaling El Capitan, not the half dome 😊
amazing. one question. what mic youre using. the audio is crystal clear
Interesting video. I use on my canon 5dmk2 the old lens canon 24mm 2.8 . The infinity mark is perfect so i don't lose time with focusing on the stars.
that bye made my heart skip a beat
I think you can blend photos of different exposure in post.
Just what I was hoping for! I've been wanting to try this out for some time but had no idea how to get started. Thanks for the EXTREMELY informative and easy-to-follow video!
Thanks so much!
ok I know this video is a bit older but having been to Yosemite over 60 times I thought i would point out the fact that all those "stars" you see on the face of El Capitan are in fact Rock climbers perch on it!
I was just at tunnel view doing night photography last weekend. After midnight and the cars and light from the valley is a lot less.
It was too cold this time around! Haha
Great tutorial, Thanks !!!! oh, and, you are Adorable......
What an Awesome ASTOPHOTROTTI! :)
😂 love it!
this is sooo helpful and you explain it very well and easy for me to understand thanksss
Astrophotography for begginers..............cover pic, advanced level romance!!
wow.wow.wow..i was waiting for this tutrial..Thank you
i want to try astro in the beach😍😍
I am beginning to do some Astro and really appreciate all of your great info. 👍🏻📷
Take your focal length and divide it by 500 that gives you your shutter speed , adjust your iso to get more or less light on the sensor , then use live view to zoom
In and see if the star your focusing on is a sharp ball instead of bokeh cheers
great vid will try for some shots in the next week or so
Hi Julia! Loved watching your video, great job! As a ultrasound technician our physics will affect other settings for example higher probe frequency, higher resolution, but less penetration. Lower probe frequency, lower resolution, but increased penetration. As a beginner do you have a quick guide to assist with astrophotography like my example? ISO, F#, exposure length?
Thank you!
Thank you Julia, That was just Great !!! I use an 80d with an 18-55mm kit @ 18mm, and I've started using a 24mm lens. Ive only tried shooting the stars a few time with not a lot of good shots,, but now after your video ??? who knows !! LOve you Channel
Good luck, I hope you get some beautiful photos!! 💛
To each their own.
YESS!! I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG!
Yayyy hope you liked it!
I know you say that autofocus doesn't work in this situation, but what if you turned on the AF illuminator? Wouldn't the camera assume infinity focus?
i’ve been waiting for this for so long!!!! Thanks Julia!
Yay thank you, hope you liked it :D
Oh wow I accidentally saw this video and thank God I clicked it. Super nice content as usual, Julia! 💖
Gotta say this is a really great tutorial:)
Also is it worth trying this on a phone ? (Samsung s10) as i don't have an dslr and not thinking of buying one soon
Try the manual settings just don't wait for the result of a dslr. Sure you can get something good for social networks but up there. And don't forget to have your cellphone on a stand or tripod.
These are awesome tips! Can’t wait to try this in Joshua Tree Next month!
Have u thought about getting a semi remote for the camera so you dont have to touch the camera. Usually about $30 Australian
love this! I have always wanted to get some astrophotography images so thank you for making it sound so easy!! Can't wait to try someday!!
Yay I hope you get some good pictures 😄
Great video 👍. Thanks for the advice !
Thank you!
Hi Julia. Can I ask how close you guys were to the camera? Im wanting to do star/milky way photos with people in the foreground. but im concerned they will be out of focus.Any suggestions?
beautiful shots and such a cool video!!!!!!
Thank you!
How to focus in nikon d3500 because there is no mark of infinity please tell me I am struggling very much
Do you think the new 50gm would work for Astro?♥️☁️
Great tutorial.. Have a nice day😊
Congrats for this video! Amazing way to teach us how to improve photography.
i definitely need to try astro now! where in yosemite were these photos taken?
It was a very good video! I have a little (probably stupid) question, every video kinda says that you should have the lowest F-stops as possible for astrophotography so you should get a lot of light into the photo without too much noise coming from ISO for example. But at the same time, a very small F-stops is also used to get a good portrait in the daylight for example, blurring a lot the background of the subject.
So this is (for me) a little bit confusing because if my focus is on the stars and they're VERY far away, they should be...blurred (?)
I mean, I can basically use a small F-stops for portraits (blurring a lot the background) and also to get a very long depth of field? Is there a formula or something to know how much space I can get in focus?
Very nice tutorial. Although I knew almost everything covered in this tutorial it was very nice and easy for beginners. Btw you needed a coffee as well. 😉😎
So cool! 👌🏼🙌🏼
Thanks George! 😄
Awsome. Just starting with this. Using the Nikon P1000. Hope they will be as awsome pics as yours. Cheers from Sweden.
Very cool, I hope I get the chance to do some astrophotography as well. Though, I must say I think I prefer moving streak!
Love this!!! All of your videos have been so helpful!!! If I’m traveling to England in a few months time what would you say is the ideal lens to be carrying?
Thanks a lot this really helped!
Thanks, it helped me a lot! 💙
these are pretty good Julia .... :)
That focusing tip though! That's the thing missing from my shots, thank youu!
Love the video and photos! Please keep up with your great work, learning a lot here :-) Greetings from Brazil! 🇧🇷
Awesome video 😁 will have to try this
Why do you say its' a "big no no" to set the camera to F1.4? I always thought you wanted the Fstop to be as low as possible to get the most light from the stars as possible.
That's a really cool tutorial for beginners, thank you for that! Please tell me, did you also use manual focus for portraits?
Thank you and yep! I asked Dan to get into position, adjusted the focus then ran into the shot for the photo :)
I really love your chanel =)