Milky Way Panoramas
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In this final installment in the current Workshops Online series we take a look at Milky Way Panoramas. These can be as simple as we like or they can be very complex, however the principles remain the same. We visit some locations where I've shot various panoramas and we explore my mindset regarding composition and settings for those.
After that we'll actually edit 2 different panoramas so hopefully this will explain my process a little better than simply talking about it. Don't forget to download the free Raw files via the link above.
Thank you so much for your wonderful support and encouragement during this series. I've been absolutely blown away by your comments and financial contribution to this project. I really hope you got something out of the series and I'm always happy to hear from you moving forward. Thanks again.
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Another excellent workshop episode. Thanks so much Richard!
I'm pleased you like it Tony, thanks for watching.
Hi Richard. Got this series completed with notes. Great Job. Now to go back over all videos and check my notes .Then get back to having fun in the cold air and see what I can photo. I am having fun along with you. Thank You again
You're doing really well John. Thanks for your support my friend.
Hi Richard, I look forward to your wonderful workshop videos every week and thank you very much. Your video is a boxed with treasure raw rocks. I want to practice and develop skills to make a real treasure.
Thanks so much for watching Toru, I really appreciate it.
After watching your videos Everytime it clears my mind and gives new ideas. Your advise make me to think more about the subject. Importantly about think and explore more instead of thinking and doing what others does. I have good experience about what you said. Everyone has their own Creativity and it comes automatically when you deep dive. 👌 Really happy to watch your videos without forwarding. Thanks Rick for your guidance. 🙏🏻
Thanks again for watching and commenting, really appreciated.
Great stuff, always a pleasure to watch and learn from you Richard.
I'm so pleased you like the videos Francis
Hi Richard, thanks again for making your Workshops Online series available to us on RUclips. I still have to get my head around everything, but it is great to try something and then refer back to the video lessons & hope to learn from your mistakes and apply next time what you have learnt. I am looking forward to the time i do have some "muscle memory" as your videos are always so informative and easy to understand but out there in the dark it always seems harder to remember. I bet you are now looking forward to getting out to do something creative for yourself and look forward to your new videos
Thanks as always David. Your comments and encouragement is very much appreciated.
Really appreciate all the hard work you put in to creating all your videos but especially this series Richard, i Have really enjoyed every one. Now we all just need these lockdowns to get lifted so we can all get out to practice!! Thanks again
Yes you're right about the lockdowns. Thanks so much for watching.
Thank you so much, Richard, for this series on nightscape photography. I've benefited from your wisdom on the subject.
I'm really pleased you liked it John, really appreciate you watching.
Hallo Richard,
thanks a lot for your work shop series.
8 great episodes. The only bad thing about it is: they are over.
Never done panos so far, but I will give them a try very soon I guess.
Thanks for your passion and inspiration.
Thanks to you I photographed already quite a few great light painted nightscapes.
Keep up your great work.
I hope you are allowed to start your real life workshops very soon.
Greetings Steffen
Thanks so much Steffen. Yes I'm starting my workshops in person this month. We'll see how it all goes.
Hello Richard, Awesome information on how to do panoramas. I can't believe 8 weeks of tutorials has gone by already, you have done a fantastic job informing use on how to do night photography. Thank you for your hard work and I'm looking forward to watch your next adventures.
Thanks a lot Gary, I really appreciate you dropping in to watch the videos.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and time. Your approach is informative and educational with a genuinely kind and humble attitude.
Thanks so much Chris, I'm really pleased you like the content.
Thanks so much for this wonderful workshop. You do a great job every week educating us on nightscape shooting and post processing.
I really appreciate your wonderful comments and encouragement Don, thanks for watching.
You're working harder than ever thanks Richard 👍👍👍
Thanks a lot Brian, yes I certainly feel like I've been working very hard these last weeks.
Thanks Richard for your Series of nightscapes, your enthusiasm inspires me, hope they open the borders soon!
Thanks a lot Dave, it looks like things are slowly getting back to some kind of normal.
Hello Richard.
Thank you for the great series on Nightscape Photography.
I have learnt a so much from this series, and now look to getting out there and trying to put your knowledge and information to use.
Thanks so much for watching Robert, it is very much appreciated.
I’m listening again, to a bunch of your videos to realize that I’ve missed some of them 😱😱😱😱😱. How awful 😢! I’ll do a marathon to keep it up.
You’re the BEST. Luv ya my Dearest! ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Well you'll be occupied for quite a while I'd say Carole. Appreciate your support.
Thanks for your efforts, Richard. Hope your channel will grow much further in the future.
I really do appreciate you watching Ken, thank you.
Great series Richard. There is still so much to learn.
Thanks Al, yes there sure is.
Hi Richard. Many thanks for presenting such a great online video series - all were thoroughly enjoyable & in my case very educational. Cheers mate & Best Wishes.
I really appreciate all your comments and support Michael, thank you.
Thanks for an amazing series Richard!
I really appreciate you watching Susan, thanks so much.
This is the one that I have been waiting for,. Thanks Richard another superb video/tutorial.
I'm so pleased you liked the video Bill, really appreciate you watching.
Once again.....informative. Thank you!
Thanks a lot for watching Guy, really appreciated.
Fantastic video, and a really excellent series of tutorials. There really is nothing to beat them, anywhere. I can't believe it's been 8 weeks, but the series has certainly helped to calm any lockdown fever I may have experienced!!
I tried a Milky Way panorama the other night, so now I understand what I was doing wrong, so thanks for this. I'm looking forward to having another go.
Thanks again, Richard, for your excellent content and inspiring presentation of some tricky concepts. Everything is delivered in manageable and easily understandable chunks that I can understand. I always look forward to your videos.
I'm really pleased you like the videos Simon and I certainly always appreciate your very encouraging comments. Thank you.
Thank you for you time another great video your a natural at teaching
Now to watch all 8 again ,well done mate
Thanks so much Phillip, really appreciated my friend.
Wow so much great info here Richard. Another excellent video! Love seeing your post processing workflow as well.
Thanks so much Mike & Chris, I always very much appreciate your support.
Thank you so much for making these videos. Excellent!
I'm so pleased you enjoyed the series my friend, thanks so much for watching.
Richard, thanks again for this excellent online version of your workshop. This is a true Reference Series that will hopefully be available here for years and years. Not sure if I'll ever get to Australia, but this also gives me a good sense of the countryside in Victoria. Combine this with Matt Irwin's channel and his focus on Melbourne, I feel like I'm getting to know your home state fairly well. Please accept my thanks via PayPal.
I'm so pleased you enjoy the channel Bob and I certainly appreciate your generous support. Yes I follow Matt, he has awesome content also.
Beautiful work. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
I'm really pleased you like it Kevin
Thanks again Richard, not only for making this content available online but also affordable. I enjoyed watching the series and having access to the raw files adds another dimension compared to your regular tutorials. I hope that you are rewarded down the road with new subscribers and a greater demand for your on-site workshops. Personally, I’m even more eager to attend a workshop on location now - not because the online version isn’t good, it’s great, but because I’ve learnt that it’s not always as simple as it looks on video! There is simply no substitute for a hands-on exchange. I also feel better prepared to get more out of a workshop now having gone through the online course. Anyway, let’s see how things go, looks like it’s still going to be a while before I can travel back home to Oz. Good luck.
Thanks so much for your kind words Frankie. I've been really pleased with the response to my online workshop series and my on location workshops are slowly returning this month .. so I'll have a bit on my plate moving forward. Thanks again.
These are awesome. My favorite channel. Always excited when a new video pops up.
Thanks Bruce, your support and encouragement is very important to me.
Boy am I glad I discovered this channel. Just in the planning stages of photographing Devils Tower in Wyoming and thought a pano was the best way to capture the grandeur of the tower and the milky way. Starting in this tutorial series backward, but will be checking out the others in the coming days. Great job and thanks for sharing.
You're very welcome Rory, I hope you get some awesome shots at Devils Tower.
Once again Richard a splendid video explaining all there is to know with Panos, man that 22 shot pano of the farm was awesome beaut of an image mate. Thanks for keeping us entertained and interested in this last eight weeks couldn't have done it without you ;)
Thanks heaps Carl, I've really appreciated your encouragement along the way.
Fantastic videos thanks for sharing with us.
I'm very pleased you liked the videos Tyrone, thanks for watching.
Loved the online tutorial series Richard. Thanks so much for the sample files ... just the thing I need to dip my toe into the waters of nightscape panoramas. Look forward to doing another on-location workshop at some stage down the track. Hopefully you have been getting a couple of my astro photography colleagues visiting your amazing channel.
Thanks as always Jeff. I have had quite a few people visiting. Appreciate your support.
It's been a great series Richard. Thanks for all the hard work and effort you put into the videos. They have been really helpful and informative. Much appreciated 🙏👏👏👏
Thanks so much for watching the videos Ian, I really do appreciate your comments.
Thank you so much for these workshop videos. They have been so informative and helpful! I am looking forward to your next videos on locations!!!
Thanks so much Gary, I very much appreciate your comments.
Dear Richard, This online workshop series is really great and I have learned a lot and got plenty of ideas now to try out here in my region around Geneva in Europe. I look forward to travel once to Australia and see you and follow a workshop with you over there. Keep going like this it is really great. Klaus
Thank you so much Klaus for your kind words of encouragement.
Thank you Richard, it's been a great series, can't wait for more content from you. I was out doing a night shoot on Thursday, someone else who was in the same location said they were struggling with long exposure of foreground, so I passed on your tip of turning aperture up and iso down and doing light painting, he said he would consider it
Well there you go .. you'll be the master sooner than you think ..!! Thanks again my friend.
Great channel with lots of information
Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it.
Well done sir, an excellent 8 weeks indeed.
Thank you so much for watching.
Absolutely stunning work thankyou for sharing your knowledge and passion ive throughly enjoyed all of them ,all the best Phill
Good on you Phill, I've really enjoyed your comments and support.
Awesome, well explained thank you for all the hard work you have put in....😊👍🏻
I'm really pleased you like the video James, thanks so much for watching.
Thank you great series, stunning images . Try to get some images once out of lock down myself.
Thanks a lot for watching Martyn, I really appreciate it.
Perfect timing Richard. What to watch on a Saturday night? Hey! A new episode just arrived.....wine glass full...and lets go.......
....and done. Great job Richard. Please let me know when you are starting your workshops again, and count me in.
Thanks heaps for watching David, really appreciate that.
Well the workshops look like they might be re-commencing next month but I have an enormous backlog of people to catch up on .. not sure how I'm going to do that in the short term.
Once again a great video Richard. Something I look forward to every week so I can learn more and more about how you get such amazing images of the night skies. Keep it up mate :)
Thanks so much for watching, really appreciated.
I just re-watched the entire series and what a blessing. Thank you so much for making this available. I am sure that I will go back in the future and watch it again. It's that great.
I really appreciate you watching, thanks so much for commenting my friend.
As with all these tutorials, and indeed with all your content, Another highly informative and entertaining Video.
Thanks so much Dave, I certainly appreciate your comments.
Thanks Richard for sharing the pictures. They can be very handy for practising on editing night scape images. It is not that easy to shoot something similar here in Norway (too much light now) and the Milky Way core is never visible, but we'll try to get some decent images when the days are shorter in September/October if it's not too windy, cloudy and cold and close to new moon (I think I can start praying now for these conditions to happen at the same time from now...). Impressive shots, by the way, as always !!
Thank you so much for watching Josep, really appreciated.
Well done Richard, really appreciate the effort you have gone to to present this series.
And I very much appreciate you taking the time to have a look Andrew, thanks heaps.
Brilliant video Richard - you've created some amazing panoramas in this video. I love using that inbuilt level on the Nikons especially for panos, so handy to have. Learnt a lot in this video. Isn't photography great, we're always learning new things every day. Great tutorial mate, enjoyed watching your techniques, thank you for sharing 👍🙏
Good on you Adrian, really appreciate you watching and your great comments.
Hi, I loved this very thorough vid, You have introduced me into a different world, Cant wait to give it a try..Thanks again
I very much appreciate you taking the time to comment Ricky. Thanks for watching.
This series has been nothing but an amazing, knowledgeable series that has helped me gain knowledge on my hobby of nightscape photography! Well done Richard this series was definitely what i wanted. Not only me but everyone wants this series to continue so please don't stop! Keep it up
Thanks so much for watching Arhan, I really appreciate your support.
Much appreciate the tips Richard
Richard, thank you for taking the time to explain how you do everything. You make it seem so easy. Your work is amazing. I tried a verticle pano this weekend. Need to process it now! Conditions weren't the best but it was good to practice everything you have taught us.
Hey Jules, you're very welcome and I hope your pano works out. I'd love to see how you go with it.
I first saw your light painted images a couple of years ago and have revisited them now ! I find them an inspirations and my hunger to get out and involve myself has become voracious Thank you for some great video's
Thanks a lot for your comments Mike, I really appreciate you watching the videos.
Fantastic lesson! Thanks!
Thanks so much for watching Bret
Hi Richard, as you said, time has flown by. The last video in your series was great, it's an area I haven't much explored. Personally I have never had much success stiching nightscapes with photoshop ( although it may now be better ). For anyone having problems, I would recommend trying Microsoft'S ICE program - for me it always seemed to work better.
I look forward to the return to your normal videos and to see what you have lined up for us.
Thanks again for your efforts to help bridge the gap, for all of us, all over the world.
I'm very pleased you liked the videos David. Your insight and comments are always very much appreciated. Thank you.
Thanks again Richard for everything that you have done , hell of lot of work , really appreciated . i had the same question as Gilson Tristan ,and that has been answered . i went on a personal shoot last week but tried doing some panos with each frame being light painted , but from the back of the camera , first one didn't make the cut , but the second one did . If only episode 8 was a week earlier HA Ha . Thanks again mate.
Thanks a lot Erny, well you can always go out again.
Wow Richard stunning work. Over the past 8 weeks you have put in a massive effort to bring us awesome content and teach us all you know about night photography and I thank you for that , it has been brilliant to watch and to have a go at editing your images I have really loved and enjoyed it all, I look forward to seeing what you bring next. Thanks for your help.
It's been my pleasure Brad, thanks for your great comments and support along the way.
Absoluty a great video.. Huge best workshop series ever in You Tube. Richard you are the best my friend. Wil be a great idea if everyvody here share your channel & Instagram and Facebook page to encouraged to follow you. I just done that to everyone who love nightscape photography. Thank uou Richard for those videos.
I'm really pleased you liked the videos Luis and your support is greatly appreciated my friend.
Great video series Richard!
Thanks so much for watching Wayne
This has been a superb series with some amazing advice and instruction on photographing nightscapes. Coupled with your attention to detail and quality video productions, they are content to be extremely proud of and I have enjoyed bumbling along with you in my own fashion. All the best you and hopefully things will pick up and get back to a more sensible way of life in the no to distant future.
Thanks so much my friend. I really appreciate your constant support and the encouraging words. Take care also.
Clear and thorough as always, and of course beautiful work! This has been a great series; thank you for all the hard work!
I'm so pleased you liked the series, thanks for watching.
Thanks again Richard
I really appreciate your support Spence, thank you.
Thank You Richard
Thank you very much for watching Peter.
ah mate this has been a learning curve for me and i have loved the journey thanks for keeping us interested but there is more to come thanks again mate cheers an beers bobby j.
Thanks so much again Bob, really do appreciate your comments.
I'm a bit late but thank you for another brilliant episode. You've done an amazing job and this series has been fantastic. Thanks again.
Better late than never Kerry. Thanks so much for your encouragement .. it means a lot.
Beautiful locations and shots. You really inspire me. I'm going to try and take my first night scape image. Clear night here in Whangarei NZ. 👍👍Thank you Richard👍👍👍👍
I'm really pleased you're enjoying the videos Finn, I hope you get some awesome shots.
Panorama is my aim for this year, and I've started light painting my foreground, gives the image more pop! Thank you for all you have taught me so far. I tried shooting vertoramas from a different (higher) vantage point as an experiment, but I think I prefer the lower vantage point, like you do. Will put them on my Instagram when done
Thanks a lot for watching Suzanne, I really appreciate you watching.
I've really enjoyed the series, and picked up quite a few tips. Am going to miss anticipating what you are going to teach next. thank you for all your hard work and effort you have put into this! It's been great to have your cheerful and friendly expertise for the last 8 weeks. Keep well and enjoy your tea and rumble's, lol
fantastic video 😊
Thanks so much for watching Greg
Hi Richard, I have really enjoyed watching this series. Thank you so much for your efforts and hard work. Perhaps not so much for astro, but a longer lens is great for pannos because the images contain greater detail and data than a wide lens. Once you couple the images with panno overlapping, the final result is data-rich image which gives one more scope for post production.
Thanks a lot for watching again Ivan. I very much appreciate your insight.
Excellent series, Richard. Thought provoking video about panoramic images. I liked your encouragement to be detailed, consistent and let muscle memory kick in when dark. All the more reason to be a bit more regimented when producing a panorama.
My understanding is that every lens has a potential parallax issue if it is being rotated. The greater the focal length the greater the potential for error. Why the concern? Stitching errors emerge in areas beyond the capacity of software to create a seamless stitch. We see it in our images and vids illustration.
Acceptable to use cloning corrections and other compensation means? Ideal? Maybe not.
Definitively solving the parallax issue, quantifying image percentage overlap and minimal number of images with either lateral and vertical rotation of the camera can be planned out to eliminate stitch related artifacts. We desire simplicity and minimizing financial impact. Fortunately, there are pieces of equipment that help solve the parallax issue, allow seamless stitching and overall cleaner panorama (or mosaic) images. Worth the cost? Always a personal choice.
Would love to see video on Nodal Ninja use or other means that improves predictability, smooths capture process and ups quality of final image.
TY again for an excellent series.
Thanks a lot for watching Blame. I think the paralax issues are worse when objects are closer to the camera. I don't generally shoot panos with close foreground. The nodal pano heads do help in that regard. Lots of overlap between shots helps with stitching also.
wow have i learnt so much the last 8 weeks i have gone out to buy more equipment would love to do the course with you when this c virus has passed Cheers Grant Murray
Good on you Grant, I certainly appreciate your support.
Brilliant Richard!!
Still, I am using my (old) full version of Lightroom (no updates anymore) which is the version BEFORE they started to swaped to a monthy subscription, only.
Though I would love to use Photoshop too (and I see how much it helps you) I am still reluctand to go for a monthly subscription... but again, great work Richard.
Thanks very much for watching, I really do appreciate that.
Hi Richard I have been following you for a long time now. I hope that running this online workshop has worked out for you. Regarding the Parallax error. you could purchase a nodel slide which will allow you to align the camera sensor with the centre of the tripod thus eliminating the error. Your passion for this genre of photography has always shown through along with your genuine quest to help, . Infact that is what lead me to subscribe to your channel , the only photography channel on youtube i subscribe to,Keep up the vlogging, its always a joy to watch. May I ask what paper type you prefer for your nightscape images. Paul
Thanks very much Paul, I feel very honoured that you'd choose to subscribe to my channel. I like to use a semi gloss Ilford paper, 200 gsm.
Thank goodness RUclips suggested your channel to me, some really high quality content for the average joe. I went out tonight and employed the techniques from this and some of your other videos and am relatively happy with the outcome (even though it was a full moon, was more practicing really). I am wondering however if you have any suggestions for sharpening the focus of the foreground when I have the focus set for perfect stars? I'm a photography and photoshop novice for context.
Thanks a lot for watching Black Sheep. You'll notice in most of my videos I shoot separate images of the foreground and when I do that I'll stop down the aperture and lower the iso to get sharper and cleaner images. If the foreground subject isn't very close then I'll leave the lens at infinity focus as the focus plane broadens when stopping down the aperture. Hope that helps.
Afternoon Richard, another great video, love the series, question, you used the in built level to level the camera when doing a pano, when you do a vertical pano you leveled the base image then tilted the lens up, do you re level each shift of the lens or just rely on the software to pick it up?
Thanks a lot Gary. I do exactly the same with the built in level for portrait shots, or when doing a vertical pano.
Hi Richard...wow those eight weeks have certainly flown by!! I would like some clarification on the panno's...I'm suprised you didn't mention it, unless I'm completely wrong!! I have found that when I start the light painting, I have to be really quick, such as a quick on and off on the subject...due to the fact that we're using high ISO, otherwise it gets blown out...do you find this as well???
Looking forward to seeing you out in the field one day mate...
Thanks a lot Carmel, yes you are correct that you usually only need a very quick flash of light when shooting at high iso's. Yes it will be good to be out again.
Richard, thank you . Your such an inspiration and your images are absolutely beautiful. I have only taken one shot of the Milky Way a real newbie here. I'm watching the series through before going out again. I'm confused about the rows of shots you mentioned. Do you move the camera up to take the next row of images?
Yes that's correct Cris. You move the camera up and make sure you overlap each shot by about 50%
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thank you for your timely reply. I appreciate your knowledge.
Thank you Richard well done!!
Could you try the Gimp software On a one shot night image for us that do not have L/P thanks .
Thanks for watching again Jeff. I've not tried Gimp .. I'll check it out sometime.
Hi Richard. Excellent as always. I have two questions: when yo create a panorama stacking either the background and the foreground with several shots how you deal with the Star movement due the time it takes among all the sky shots? Is that something Starry landscape stacker solves?The second question is: in the second panorama you edited in the video the light we can see with the trees and the house is from the Moon? Or artificial light ? Or you did some light painting? Thank you again Richard. See you mate.
Thanks for watching Mario. I don't typically stack separate foregrounds when doing panoramas. The panorama software deals with the movement between shots . .I don't know the science but it works. I did light painting for every shot to keep it consistent, there was no moonlight at all.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thank you Richard
Richard thank you so much for this series truely inspirational. I have one question around shooting in moonlight which you mentioned in this video. I went out a couple of nights ago to shoot an old barn in Somerset UK when the moon was a narrow cresent at 37% luminosity. In my first few images the sky was totally washed out by the moonlight and I couldn't find a set of camera settings that would allow the barn to be shot illuminated but then the sky dark enough to see the stars - even with exposure blending. When the moon set I was able to get some great material of the Milky Way and light painted Barn that has produced an image I'm really happy with, but what advice would you offer for shooting in moonlight - is it as simple as 37% moon is too bright?
Thanks a lot for watching Stephen. I find moonlight to be variable and quite tricky to judge correctly. Depending on the time of year the moon is either higher or lower in the sky. So a 37% moon when higher in the sky will wash out the stars more than when it's lower. I don't usually like shooting when there is more than about 30% moon for the very reason you've described.
Hier Richard, Thank you very much also from me for a wonderful series of videos. I have a question on the files you provided us for download alongside the Panorama lesson. My Lightroom 6 has problems stitching the frames properly. It always end up straightening the tree and tilting as well as curving the ground. Unfortunately, I don't have Photoshop and my Microsoft ICE only saves the TIFF file at a 1.2MB size... Any suggestion? Thank you so much again. Andy
*the beginning should be "Dear Richard" :-) Auto-correction is sometimes ...weird.
Thanks Andy. I'm using the latest version of the Adobe software and it's a lot better than the earlier ones. I didn't try it in ICE but I'm not too sure about the small size tiff. That's not something I've struck before. To be honest I hardly ever use ICE these days.
Hello Richard and all.Thank you for professional series and your explanation.I am looking forward to using your skills,instructions and advices.For a few weeks i changed my old D90 for D850.I hope i will eally use this "university" in my photography.Take care and one more big thanks. P.S.i will send you small refund for your teaching.
Very kind of you to support my work Peter and thanks so much for your encouraging comments.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Hi again,I have send you 20 AUD from my daughter´s account Vanda Hajkova,Czech republic.Thank you very much Richard.Have a good light!Peter Hajek
Hi Richard great video thank you ! Quick question how do you manage moving the tri-pod head during panorama's and light painting at the same time?
Thanks for looking Marco. I move as quick as possible. The built in spirit level helps and I use a wireless shutter release.
Hi, another great tutorial! if I can I have two maybe stupid questions:
When you take pano, you disable the noise reduction in camera to save time?
if you want to do a pano, but also stack images to reduce noice, how did you work? first stack the single areas and then stich the pano?
I always have Long Exposure Noise Reduction turned off . .for all of my shots. Yes if you stack panos you stack the single areas first then stitch the pano.
Hi Richard
Thank you for brilliant a video.
Wow stunning images.
I have a question regarding image processing and using a laptop with colour accuracy with photoshop and light room do you have any preference or recommendation what will be best to use please Richard.
Thanks again for watching David. I haven't found a laptop screen that has good accurate colour. I use an external monitor for my editing. There are a few good ones. I'm using the Asus 24 inch which is a few years old now but good. The SW270C monitor from BenQ is highly rated as well.
Thanks Richard that is really helpful, over here in the UK we are still in lockdown that means no trips out at the moment but I am going to be creative in the garden very soon just waiting on some camera filters to arrive.
How you doing in Australia what a fantastic country and so much open space and beautiful night skies.
I can't thank you enough Richard for all your help with astrophotography and nightscape photography your a true professional and so inspiring, keep up the fantastic work it's so nice and your videos are the best on RUclips.
Thanks again Richard
@@GOTOHOBBIES I really appreciate that David. We are going quite well here in Australia. Virtually no covid . .except for a few returned travellers.
Another great tutorial. I'm wondering about one thing. When doing a panorama with so many shots where the total shooting time works out to about 5 minutes or more, how does the sky match up since the stars are moving?
Thanks Darrien. That's one of the magic benefits of panorama software . .it just works it out and aligns all the stars.
@@nightscapeimages.richard ah! I see. So then I really don't need to worry about it! Thank you.
Hello Richard, thank you for a very comprehensive tutorial! Quick question: did you have to routinely "fix" noise in Lightroom for D750 files?
Thanks for watching David. Yes I always apply noise reduction when editing. Pretty much any camera will display a fair amount of noise when shooting long exposures at high iso's.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thank you for the reply Richard. Would you still apply noise reduction if you were going to stack?
No if I'm going to stack I won't generally apply noise reduction.
Thanks Richard for this fantastic workshop, I really appreciate all the information you brought during the last 8 weeks. Regarding the panoramas I would like to understand about the process of light painting and returning to the camera to change the position for the next shot. It seems it takes additional seconds for each shot but the skies are continuing moving, so the time between the first and the last shot will be longer and the stars in different position. Does this affect the final result? In the example of the 22 shots panorama, with 15 seconds of exposition time, considering you are able to return to the camera and change the position in 5 seconds, the last shot will be around 7 minutes later than the first. How do you manage the movement of the skies in the panorama? Thanks again for all your efforts in sharing your knowledge in this subject.
Thanks very much for watching Gilson. I use a remote shutter release which does help the process but you are correct that the stars move considerably. The panorama software somehow just works it out .. it never seems to be a problem.
Check out PTassembler by Max Lyons. Sophisticated stitching program and much more. There is a learning curve but well worth the effort and time.
Thanks for that info, appreciate you watching.,
Richard hi id love your opinion D780 or D850 as far as nightscapes go
Hey Shane, both excellent cameras but if it's just for nightscapes I'd go D780 or Z6.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Richard what would be the downside to the D850
@@MrShanereich Well it's an expensive camera, quite large and heavy. Great camera though.
@@nightscapeimages.richardRichard is pixel noise a problem in low light nightscapes with the d850
@@MrShanereich Not that I've seen. There are plenty of really nice images of nightscapes taken with the D850