A Night to Remember: Unforgettable Nightscape Photography
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- After lots of clouds, failed compositions and running around, I get the final opportunity to do some proper landscape astrophotography on vacation in Spain. I scout the beautiful landscape of Extremadura during the day and make a plan for the night. When darkness falls I know exactly what to do and really take my time to enjoy the experience of being under a dark starry night sky. I use a variety of night photography techniques like single exposure, stacking and star tracking. I shoot the Cassiopeia and Cygnus region of the milky way above a caste with the beautiful North America Nebula, Heart & Sould nebulae and the Andromeda galaxy. Besides that I find a cork oak tree which is typical for the landscape and photograph the core of the milky way there.
I enjoyed this night a lot. I hope it shows and gets you enthusiastic to get out there yourself and try some nightscape photography!
I use an astro modified Canon 6D with the Canon 50mm f/1.8 and Sigma 14-24mm f/2.8 Art lens. I also shoot with a Fuji X-T2 and Samyang/Rokinon 12mm f/2 lens. Tracked shots are done on a Skywatcher Star Adventurer star tracker.
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I loved the wave goodbye to the missus... Im off shooting the milkyway 😂, im sure she understands the passion for the hobby lol, great photography loved the castle shot.
Thanks Steve! And yeah, she knows how much I love it and that I just 'need' to go out from time to time haha. She on the other hand had a fantastic day at the pool without my jibberish! 😄
Wow!! Very nice! My favourite shot by far is Cygnus and Cassiopeia above the castle! Very well done. Thanks for letting us partake! 🙏🙏
Thanks for letting me know Jan! I think that shot might also be my favorite from this adventure. Although the feeling when you get a decent shot from a simple stack only also just does something to me you know 😀.
Cygnus and Andromeda is great, really 👍
Thank you Siegfried! Also really looking forward to Cygnus getting lower on the horizon again.
All great shots, but my favourite is the Castillo de las Torres. I knew nothing about it until seeing this video, but being as I live 120 kms southwest of it's location, I think it deserves a photo excursion.
Thanks! Such a treat to live there! I really love finding some compositions which I haven't seen before while on location. I think this one isn't well known because it doesn't line up well with the core of the milky way but with the 'other side'. All the more reasons to shoot it, right? Looking forward to your take on it!
@@StarScaperPhoto Yes, if you had access to the northern side of that castle, I imagine the lights of Sevilla would have a negative effect on the galactic core. I do like your photo looking north, not something I do very often and it's great to see Andromeda in the shot.
I really like the castle shot! It looks like you had a great holiday in Spain 👌🏻
Thanks Mark! We definately had a good time. Although I'm happy the last day I could slow down and do a 'proper' day and night of astro 😁
Another super enjoyable video :D and its nice to see how happy you were. Its hard to say which one I like the most, but I gotta compliment the tree shot... No idea how you were able to maks it out so great.
Thanks again so much for your comment Matej, always looking forward to those! 😀. Was really happy I FINALLY found a separated tree after days of keeping an eye out haha. The masking was not too difficult to be honest. A combination of Photoshops sky replacement mask with a bit of additional tweaking using the overlay brush which I've learned from the recent excellent video from Alyn Wallace on how to blend sky and foreground.
Love the landscape shot of the castle!
Thanks Ruslan!
Part II is out 🎉
Sounds like a great vacation in Spain, I like the castle shot.
Thank you Kevin! I loved the castle also. So quintessential Spain in my opinion!
@@StarScaperPhoto you're right it shows really the history of Spain
Hi Jeroen. Glad the last part of your vacation worked out so well !! My favourite shot is the tracked castle image. I also love the tree image as well ! Many thanks for sharing.
Thanks Tim! Lots of people seem to prefer the tracked castle shot indeed.
Prachtig Jeroen!! 😊
Dankjewel!
Thanks for the vid. You churn them out like crazy! Hard to pick which photo is the best. I like them all! The one with the Castle is great, but the one with that tree is too!
Thanks Martin! Call it passion and hyperfocus in combination with having the ability to spend a lot of my free time on astrophotography 😅
@@StarScaperPhoto Passion I have. Free time not so much. Hyperfocus... what is that? I keep watching others RUclips videos instead of working on my own.
Man! Your channel should have many times more subscribers! Truly inspiring!
Thanks so much man! Spread the word! 😉
Love the tracked and stacked shot!
Thanks! Combining tracking with stacking definately gets out the most clean detail.
Awesome video again man! Eventful holiday you had! It’s funny as us astrophotographers have ruined relaxing on holiday as we’re always looking at the weather for nighttime 😂
Thank you man, and yes! That is the truth. I love it and I hate it when I'm at dinner with my wife and spot blue skies through the window you know 😅
Love your work my friend! Love the way you process your images. Clean and sharp, nice colour not overdone. What I have difficulty doing sometimes unless I have a very sharp line between my sky and foreground is blending images together. A stacked sky and a longer exposure foreground for example.. When trees are involved its always tricky to get a nice blend.. So what I'm wondering is if you could do a video on your processing and include how to blend skies with foreground including a tree to get those amazing results! Thanks again and keep up the amazing work. Looking forward to the next video!😊
Thanks so much Tony! Always looking for the balance between natural and epic here haha. I have actually done a tutorial already where I show how I blend my tracked sky with a separate foreground using the Photoshop Sky Replacement algorithm for the mask (How to edit a Milky Way...). Most of the time this works ok. I've learned to tweak the mask with an overlay brush lately through an Alyn Wallace video. If you shoot everything in one frame without tracking, software like Sequator does the job pretty well, even with trees in my experience.
@@StarScaperPhoto Awesome!! I will go hunting your channel for that video then. Thanks for the reply I really appreciate it and Alan Wallace is amazing also. I have learnt a lot from him and also Richard Tatti. Would be sweet to do a workshop one day with these guys. 🌌❤️
Very nice one!
How did you boost that H-Alpha? Did you use your filter?
Thanks! Didn't have to boost anything in this one. Just a very dark sky in combination with the astro modified camera.
Great video, Jeroen! My favourite was the tracked stacked castle shot - such a great part of the sky and definitely more detail when using the tracker (thank you for encouraging me not to be lazy!). Looks like you had a great vacation and glad you finally got “the night” while you were there after several frustrating foggy ones!
Thanks Paul! We just have to keep trying until these best nights come along again, right? 😀
@@StarScaperPhoto 💯
So glad you finished your hols on an astro high. The castle is my definitely my favourite, not many of those to shoot in Australia 😅
Thanks! I love ruins 😊. In Australia though you get all these abandoned objects spreaded around in bortle 1 locations which I'm jealous of!
@@StarScaperPhoto That is true, we do seem to have a habit of abandoning things like old cars in the middle of nowhere - probably a reflection of how high the towing fees are out there 🤣
@@GrowPhotography hahaha, if you say so 😄
Such a great and interesting video. It's really cool to see e.g. at 4:15 min when you are still in the planning phase how you imagine the final composite in your head already.. elevated foreground object, checking the milkyway position beforehand (3:39 which app are you using. by the way?) etc. I also like very much that you are mentioning your image settings etc. I'm doing deep-sky & planetary imaging at the moment and just experimented with some milkyway shooting earlier...(also don't really have such beautiful pitch black nightsky).. but I want to experiment with such kind of imaging as well more often in the future. You are using an astro-modified camera, right? - Beautiful & awesome pictures! Keep up the amazing work you do. Clear skies
Hi Tully. Thanks again for your comment! I use Photopills for the planning and indeed an astromodified camera (ha+visible). Good luck and have fun with milky way shooting!
@@StarScaperPhoto Thanks very much! :)