Milky Way panoramas on a star tracker - FULL EDITING BREAKDOWN - Milky Way editing in Photoshop
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- This is the part 2 of my videos about Milky w Milky Way panoramas on a star tracker like e.g. Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer. In this part I show the complete editing breakdown from initial edits in Adobe Lightroom, through panorama stitching in PTGui to Milky Way editing in Photoshop to merge everything together and make final adjustments.
In case you missed PART 1 here's the link:
► • How to shoot a MILKY W...
GEAR I USED TO CAPTURE THE IMAGE:
► (Amazon) geni.us/BIlNzVk - Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer tracking mount
► (Amazon) geni.us/VhjUIE - LAWOA 15mm f/4 MACRO lens
► (Amazon) geni.us/ZHZHUX - Canon EOS R full frame mirrorless camera
► (Amazon) geni.us/sqHuNd0 - LED light I used to illuminate myself in the shot
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
0:23 This video is part 2 of a series
0:55 Initial edits in Lightroom
4:30 Stitching the sky exposures
10:11 Stitching the ground shots
11:26 Merging into one in Photoshop
18:50 Filling in missing corners
21:17 Final touches in Photoshop
28:00 Outro
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PANORAMA STITCHING SOFTWARE:
► www.ptgui.com/- PTGui - what I use, powerful but not free
► hugin.sourceforge.net - Hugin - free alternative
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OTHER GEAR THAT I USE AND RECOMMEND (links affiliated):
► (Amazon) geni.us/6XnpwVq - Benro IB0 ballhead (I used two of them for this shot)
► (Amazon) geni.us/crFki - Canon RF 35mm f/1.8 MACRO STM (my go-to lens for RUclips videos, astrophotography and more!)
► (Amazon) geni.us/D8nwS - Canon EF 24mm f/2.8 IS USM (underrated but excellent wide prime for vlogging and street or landscape photos)
► (Amazon) geni.us/JV3H - Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS USM (excellent lens for moon photos, landscapes and deep sky astrophotography)
► (Amazon) geni.us/oJnDn3 - Gorillapod 3K PRO (best gorillapod ever - with aluminum sockets that don't break!)
► (Amazon) geni.us/0NuB - Aputure MC (the best every tiny RGB LED video light with build-in battery
► (Amazon) geni.us/AX3KABz - DJI Mavic 2 Pro (legend in drones - foldable, reliable, produces a beautiful image)
► (Amazon) geni.us/p9CINIu - Samsung T5 (excellent blazing fast, durable and tiny external SSD drive that I edit on)
► (Amazon) geni.us/vxB6 - Pixel TC-252 external interval timer (best bang for your buck!)
► (Amazon) geni.us/9u4y - Peli Air 1525 Pelican Case - MOST DURABLE CASE EVER for any camera gear
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OTHER VIDEOS OF MINE:
► • BLENDING STAR TRACKER ... - Best way to BLEND SKY exposure with GROUND shot for star tracker nightscapes (advanced - with Lumenzia plugin)
► • Photoshop tips for BLE... - VERY EASY way to BLEND SKY exposure with GROUND shot
► • How to edit MILKY WAY ... - How to EDIT IMAGES of the Milky Way - FULL WORKFLOW
► • ULTIMATE SETUP GUIDE f... - The ultimate guide on how to properly set up and polar align SKY-WATCHER STAR ADVENTURER
► • Best way to remove lig... - The EASIEST way to REMOVE LIGHT POLLUTION on night sky images
► • Sky-Watcher STAR ADVEN... - Sky-Watcher STAR ADVENTURER 2i review - is it worth the upgrade?
► • THE SECRET TO LESS NOI... - Why STAR TRACKERS are such a game changer for astrophotography
► • How to FIND and PHOTOG... - How to find M31 - Andromeda Galaxy in the sky and how to pick the right camera settings
► • POLAR ALIGN without lo... - Best ways to coarsely POLAR ALIGN an astro tracker without even looking through the scope
► • PHOTOGRAPHING THE MILK... - Photographing the Milky Way with a star tracker - FULL VLOG IN THE FIELD
► • Correct POLAR ALIGNMEN... - Polar alignment corrections WITH ROTATED RETICLE when already pointed at the target
► • NIGHT SKY photo TIPS o... - 4 useful TIPS to get the best out of a STAR TRACKER for deep sky astrophotography
► • FIND DEEP SKY OBJECTS ... - How to find DEEP SKY OBJECTS in the night sky and frame them up using a star tracker
► • CARRYING CASE for Sky-... - Awesome CARRYING CASE for SKY-WATCHER STAR ADVENTURER
► • How to photograph the ... - How to photograph the night sky and Milky Way - ALL CAMERA SETTINGS explained
► • Milky Way photography ... - How to photograph the Milky Way - all you need to know to get started: equipment, planning etc.
► • Get NATURAL COLORS OF ... - How to process images of the night sky to get the best COLOR ACCURACY
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These are by far the best astrophotography videos on RUclips. You explain so well, step-by-step for those of us who are new to this field of photography. Thank you!!
Hi. Nice photo and edit. It certainly demands a lot of work and you were very sincere to make not a very long video. Seriously, this could have been hours. Thanks for the great share. 👏
Thanks, I appreciate that!
Very precise information ! gonna try it out when the curfew will end :D Keep up the good work !!!
Good job Kamil ! Great result. Thanks for tips
You’re welcome!
Świetny film. Dzięki za poradnik, bardzo dobrze zrobiony, na pewno nie raz do niego wrócę
Owesome mate, thanks for the tips!
좋은 강의 감사드립니다. ^^
An excellent video. In the past i had used Tamron 15-30 on Nikon D850 and it is good. One of the things that i am looking at is using the Zeiss 12 mm on APSC camera and this lens is also awesome. The post processing is cool . The panorama is good. Nice work ...
Really good video mate. Only part I do not like to do with panos is filling in corners, because it's just fake stars isn't it. But easily fixed to get you out of a situation if you didn't take enough frames etc.
Yeah I mentioned that it was unfortunate - I wasn’t planning for it but that’s the solution if you wanna salvage the photo. Next time I will shoot a larger margin for sure!
@@kamilkp yeah its amazing how many extra you need to cover corners
Hi Kamil, two great videos. I really appreciated the tips on increasing the contrast in the camera to get a better idea of what you're looking at. Have you compared panoramas from fish-eye to rectilinear images? Do you have an opinion on which is best?
Thanks Mike! I actually do not own a fisheye lens so I haven’t tried it but I think the final image would look even more distorted. I might rent one to try it out though - thanks for the idea.
Thanks Kamil, some great information in this series. I have a request for a third installment along the lines of 'composition tips for tracking and blending'. I can nail the foreground. I can get a good tracking shot, but... I find that I'm shooting several tracked shots and getting to much rotation from the tracker and usually almost over the top of my foreground object to get good stars. So, when I go to blend I'm missing good stars from the horizon line to the top of the object on each side of the object. I guess what I'm saying is I need some tips in the compositional use of a tracker for use with a blended foreground. In some locations there isn't a good opportunity to shoot a clear tracked sky devoid of a foreground to the composite in a foreground, and I'd just as soon shoot the sky and the foreground from one set up, yet allow for tracker rotation and blending in post. Reset to level between each tracked shot or ...?
Yeah I believe you could reset the RA axis position to be level with relation to the horizon before each shot. PTGui should be able to stitch it
Hi, as I live in Scotland, having a higher latitude, and using a 35mm lens, I would need to do at least 2 rows, perhaps even 3 rows of portrait style frames to get the full arc in to then edit. Should I start from the top left to right on the top row, then right to left in the middle row, before finishing with left to right on the bottom row so I get the galactic core in the bottom right of the frame?
You should always start from the part that will be sinking into the horizon the soonest. So if I remember correctly that’s the bottom-right frame on the northern hemisphere
@@kamilkp many thanks.
I more thing if that’s ok, with ptgui, is it worth going for the pro version or the normal version?
Kamil, Excellent tutorial....I just bought a tracker to go try out the pano, as per your instructions. As you are shooting the pano, to do disengage the clutch, and manually align the camera with the horizon again for the next panel. I assume as time goes on the camera will be pointing more and more up, and soon you wont be able to see the horizon in the phone. So do you manually adjust the camera down, before shooting each panel??
Typically readjusting that once per panorama row is enough
Thanks for the processing tips, is Lumenzia a free tool for photoshop?
It is not free but it’s very powerful!
Do you use a guide scope with your star adventurer?
I’m not but I’m planning on getting one soon
Getting yourself in this means you can show all your family and friends and feel soo good! These two parts are so nice to learn and then it's my time next year which I'm planning. This video is my future reference. It's all thanks to your star tracker and I hope you had fun! Yes Mars is bright in the night sky while Jupiter and Saturn are low down setting earlier now. Hopefully next year will be better for us all as right now cases of this virus are so high. To let you know I've got the coowoo lens warmer you recently uploaded video on it and I'm glad I've got it. No more fogged up lenses and no fogged up telescope lens as I don't need to worry now. I hope you do more videos with your star adventurer as that would be great! Stay safe my friend!
Thanks, I’m very glad you like them. Staying safe, avoing the crowds and staring at the sky - as always! Stay safe too!
Turn on subtitles. Thank you
I don't know why, but I've experienced that if I enable profile corrections, LR is unable to stitch together a panorama. When I disable the corrections, no problem.
After you spend days masterfully blending a bunch of photos, do people try to replicate it by holding their phone and pointing it at the night sky and wonder why theirs doesn't look like yours?
Cool technique but a bit too much sci-fi for my taste. The content aware fill for the corners ruined it. Half of the image you end up with, is not ...real.
Yeah like I said I wasn’t happy about it either but you can learn from my mistake and get more coverage when shooting so you don’t need to „fill” anything