Light painting your foreground - Astrophotograpy
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- This week I show you how I light paint the foreground in my Astrophotography photos. This will really make your astrophotography better and get you shooting great night sky photos. When I want to take better milkyway photos, this is what I do.
With a few torches and even your smartphone light, you can light the foregrounds in your astrophotography photos to get more interesting photos.
If you want to take better astrophotography photos, or improve night photography photos, this is the video for you.
I always light paint my foregrounds with a small light and it makes my photos look so much better.....with a bit of experimentation, you can do this too to make your photos so much better.
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This is one of my favourite things to do when out taking astrophotography shots!! You can add so much drama to the landscape. 👍
thank you, good advice 👍
Amazing Video. Finally some simple options that work 🙌🏼
Thanks very much! It's best to work with what you have...I tend to forget any torches, so a headlamp or the light on my phone work really well once I get the amount of light needed right.
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Hi Mike...!!! This is a very good video about the subject...It is exactly what I was looking for..
Your not only answered all my questions but you provide me also additionally valuable information..!
Thanks a lot dude..!
Very clear and didactic..!
Great to hear it has helped Carlos! Light painting is a great skill to learn and is a lot of fun as well!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Thank you sir!
Thank you for watching! A lot more to come so keep coming back! 😁👍
Very helpful !! thank you so much !!
Excellent! Glad you got something from it!😁👍
@@mikesphotography Carrying the lesson I learned from you, I went out last night and captured the Milky way. It took me several experimentation, angle of lighting, distance of light source and duration of lighting before I got the shot that I wanted. I was stunned on how well the photo turned out ! Nice and easy lesson, Thanks again 😁👌
That’s great Ged!! Astrophotography is definitely an experimental art.
I’ve got a load more astrophotography tutorials planned this year so hopefully they’ll help as well!! 😁👍
Thanks for the great tips. Quick question for you, how are you not blurry in the shot of you with your headlamp pointed up in the sky? Do you just stand as still as possible thru the long exposure? Thanks!
I hope they help! 😁👍
You got it, I stay as still as possible whilst the shutter is open....it sometimes seems like you’re waiting for ages for that shutter click!
Thanks!! On the past new moon I was experimenting with the phone and got good results. Light painting is not going to interfere on getting the best background or I doesn't affect it? Keep them coming 💪
No worries, that’s cool. As long as there not too much dust in the air the light won’t catch it......and as long as you don’t shine the light back into the camera....all about experimentation....👍👍👍
Do you light paint for every frame, or do you do a few and then stack those in during post-processing?
It all depends on the environment, the amount of ambient light and amount of atmosphere in the air.
I've been in one location where I had about 25% moon light shining on the landscape, but the air was so clear and there was very little manmade light pollution that I got a great shot and the moonlight lit the ground perfectly.
In another location, there was a lot of haze in the air, it was a bortle 2 location with no moonlight, so then I stacked for the sky and lightpainted the foreground.
So it's all about reading the location conditions you are in and then capturing it in the right way. 👍
@@mikesphotography Thank you, Mike
Hey mike.. Awesome videos man.. Learned a lot from your videos.
One quick question.. Can you please suggest a good tripod for sony a7iii..
Thank you
Thanks so much! Glad you’re learning from them!! 👍
With a tripod, I’ve got the manfrotto 055 with is big and sturdy but it’s clunky and awkward. I also have an old 1990’s camcorder tripod that is solid and works really well....I use the old one more then the manfrotto!
You basically don’t want a cheap one, spend at least $150/£100 on a good one, make sure the legs will go flat so you can get low when needed, and I prefer twist leg extenders instead of leavers.
I’ll send you some links to some good ones later today, I’m out shooting at the mo so have only a little time whilst I wait for the sun to come up! 😁 👍
@@mikesphotography Much appreciated.. Please do send the links.. 👍
No worries. 👍
Hey Sunny,
These are a few I've heard are good:
K&F Concept 62"
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Manfrotto Befree
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K&F Concept 72"
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Lots of people are getting the K&F's and are raving about them and then the manfrotto's are solid tripods. The three above all fold down quite small but if you want a big sturdy tripod and you have a decent budget, go for a gitzo amzn.eu/d/ggTU2i1 ......an amazing tripod but pretty expensive.
I hope that helps 👍
Thanks mate
how do you hide your own image in front of your camera while light painting when the exposure is in progress
As long as you are darker than the light painting that you are doing and you don't stay in one place for too long, you won't appear in the image...its like doing long exposure of places where there are people walking through the shot...if they walk fast enough, you won't see them, especially if they are a little darker than what is in the image behind them.
The best bet is to go out at night when you have lots of time and experiment. I'll have quite a few dud shots before I work out what will work well for the composition.
I hope that helps. 😁👍
@@mikesphotography what about the output point of light source and the rays radiating through object will they be visible?
As long as you don’t point the light towards the camera, it should be ok. I normally stand to the side and slightly behind my camera to avoid this problem...45 degrees’ish works well for me.