Star Minimization for a cleaner Milky Way Image

In this Star Minimization for a cleaner Milky Way Image video I go over my simple star reduction technique to remove stars from the image resulting in nearly noise free landscape photos. This video is meant to help you understand layer blending and why you should treat your foreground and background layers separately.
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[@caseydavisimagery]

Good info but a 30-second version would be nice. Thanks

[@user-nf1pm8lo6q]

Steven. This video helps me become a better photographer. thank u so much

[@NeilGates]

Hi. It's Neil Gates from Facebook, thank you very much for this video!

[@stevenjmagner]

Thanks Neil!

[@suckslip]

this was a great tutorial. Thanks for the info man!

[@stevenjmagner]

Absolutely dude!

[@dannywayy77]

Great tutorial man! Definitely giving me some stuff to think about and try out

[@stevenjmagner]

Thanks Daniel! Let me know if you have any questions

[@dannywayy77]

stevenjmagner thanks man!

[@dannywayy77]

Oh and definitely would love a long exposure foreground noise reduction video!

[@nicodemus_ss]

Great tutorial!

[@stevenjmagner]

Thanks Nico!

[@PowellGuide]

Great tutorial, thanks for sharing your method

[@lizbenek3246]

Just in time for cherry springs park! Thank you!!!!

[@wickedsensationphotography]

Excellent technique!

[@akandes]

Great video - very useful!

[@inefekt]

I used to do something very similar for a little while but zoomed in to 100% one day and was horrified to see the core looking like a finger painting. I thought this slightly different technique might not have that same effect but it does. Try it, zoom in to 100% and see thousands of dots! It looks great zoomed out though but probably not what you want for your images. If you limit the minimum filter to a radius of 0.3, maybe 0.4 at the max, then it minimizes the effect somewhat.

[@TheWingnut58]

I agree, while I like the technique, it's kinda like whiskey.....ya gotta know when to quit. This was akin to shooting nudes of a gorgeous model then 'shoping her tits away....

[@rudyserrano1027]

Definitely going to try that out buddy! Grate tutorial

[@jstnhn]

HI there, I would love to know the result differences between using Photoshop and something like Starry Landscape Stacker to stack images. Photoshop always seems to be not as accurate as I would like it to be with aligning my images, or is it the same as Starry Landscape Stacker? Thanks!

[@madtgibson7617]

Very helpful thanks a lot!

[@Zenderful]

Nice tutorial, what about the green/yellow part just under the stars , where is that coming from ?

[@bradashbrook3943]

The green airglow is a natural phenomenon that happens from time to time.

[@stevenjmagner]

Thanks Brad! Exactly. I could go in and use the saturation sliders in photoshop and remove those colors, but I love the airglow

[@mrinmaynayek4796]

Great tutorial, want to know about the timelaps

[@birjupatel7159]

What’s ur exposure triangle for 13 stacked star images? It looks awesome

[@parthasarkar986]

Please make a tutorial on how to edit and pop out milky way brightness and natural color.

[@AlexSpaeth]

If only this could be applied to timelapses!

[@stevenjmagner]

What? Now you want me to make a video on how you CAN apply this to a timelapse easily?

[@AlexSpaeth]

stevenjmagner I mean, I’d give that video a thumbs up, at the very least. I’m just curious if it can even be done. Dust/scratches and noise reduction in Premiere/After Effects?

[@Gjerde77]

I guess u could make a action u can run on every frame. Reimport all frames to lightroom and then run the holygrail metode i lrtimelaps