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1. Landscape Astrophotography Tutorial - First Night Out
1 year ago
Beginners guide for your first night out shooting stars. Or, at least, this is how I do it.
I made this video to give a visual reference to the various tips, techniques, and lessons that you will want to know if you want to go out and try shooting stars.
There are many more techniques, and much more to learn and know, but that will be saved for future tutorials.
Please let me know what you think, if this helped, or what you still want to know about. Leave comments below, or you can email me your ideas and reactions to Ben@theStarTrail.com
I have made this free, and viewable by anyone because I want to help excite and inspire people to go see the stars and take pictures of it. If it's helped you, and you'd like to give back as a thanks- the link below will lead to a page you can make a donation via Paypal.
Seriously, any little bit helps for gas money for me to get out more often to shoot stars and make some new tutorials. Five, ten, twenty bucks- it all goes to gas money :-) Thanks!
paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=3A37CC8SNMFFL
See more of my work on my website
theStarTrail.com
I made this video to give a visual reference to the various tips, techniques, and lessons that you will want to know if you want to go out and try shooting stars.
There are many more techniques, and much more to learn and know, but that will be saved for future tutorials.
Please let me know what you think, if this helped, or what you still want to know about. Leave comments below, or you can email me your ideas and reactions to Ben@theStarTrail.com
I have made this free, and viewable by anyone because I want to help excite and inspire people to go see the stars and take pictures of it. If it's helped you, and you'd like to give back as a thanks- the link below will lead to a page you can make a donation via Paypal.
Seriously, any little bit helps for gas money for me to get out more often to shoot stars and make some new tutorials. Five, ten, twenty bucks- it all goes to gas money :-) Thanks!
paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=3A37CC8SNMFFL
See more of my work on my website
theStarTrail.com
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I've found with my 10mm wide angle that anything over 45 seconds will streak though. (Shooting with a crop sensor).
I shoot with a Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 but always under 25 seconds. Whenever I check my pictures even the slightest trace of oval stars makes me mad Hahaha
Ben, I recommend checking Clear Dark Sky for anybody in the Americas! It has all the information you'll need before heading it. It was definitely the one thing that kept me from giving up on Astrophotography as I never went out and ended up being let down!
you shoot with a crop sensor? So, yeah, like Ted said, seems like a crop sensor should be divided by 400
Nice work you guys!
Got to say that I was moved when you said "take 20 minutes ... to completely get lost looking up at the sky". That's how I know we're brothers of the night.
Steven, yeah, definitely need a foam cover for the mic...
as for the end part about looking up at the sky, I edited me out saying something similar about 4 other times in the video! I wanted it in there, but I think it added up to 4 more minutes of me saying that again and again! *:-)
Brothers of the Night for sure.
Keep 'em comin'!
We need that more and less light pollution!?
:)
@Jeremy- hey man! happy to see you in this pond here. Yeah, more people need to know the fun and ease of shooting at night. Dude, the 5d Markii is a nasty beast. If we're ever in the same zipcode, you're welcome to try it
I'd imagine this would help for single still shots, but when shooting a timelapse it would cause issues due to the doubling of the processing time for each shot.
2 reasons:
1, I'm not very impressed with Canon's noise reduction on the 5d Mark ii, I haven't seen much difference with it on.
2, it is time intensive, so it's worth it to me to do it later at home, rather than using time in the field.
But, 2 big exceptions to this:
1, I hear Nikon has a great noise reduction. So, that may be worth it.
2, On a crop sensor camera, you will get hot pixels (pixels burnt out from the long 30 sec exposures) so, for those cameras, I believe it is worth it to run noise reduction for the camera to cancel the hot pixels and better the noise that is more significant on crop sensors.
For timelapse- it will DEFINITELY cause issues for the flow of the timelapse. I'd recommend noise reduction in post
Great to hear :-)
Let me know if you go out and how the results are!
Where are you at that's so cold?
GREAT job
As for your question with the cold temps and stars- to my understanding, colder air cannot hold as much humidity as hot air. Less atmospheric humidity equal greater visual clarity through our air layers.
So, yes, the stars should be more visible in the winter months. But, on the flip side, the Milky Way lays sideways low on the horizon in the winter. In the summer, due to orbital changes, the bright parts of the Milky Way arcs high overhead
So, plus and minus to both.
Thanks again for the feedback!
I trust I'll be able to pick up some tips to make my star images even better. Thanks for your openness to sharing your knowledge.
I noticed that the image with the house looked as if there may have been some light painting done on the inside; if so is there anyway we could get a small video on light painting technique balanced with the time frame of the star exposures?
Fantastic :-) Let me know what you think when you get a chance to watch it. It's more so geared to those that have never gone out doing star shots, but I tried to make it helpful for all.
Blue Ridge Parkway...is that Virginia?
Yes! Just the situation I was hoping to help :-)
It is intimidating wondering where/how to start. Hope I can answer some basic stuff and get you started.
As for the house- yes, there is lighting inside.
A light painting tutorial is certainly a consideration.
The topic that is up next is how I process my star shots in post editing
I had a blast with some light painting last October (and the fall foliage in the daytime) as well as nailing the Milky Way and some foreground stuff.
Thanks for sharing this.
Let me know how your night out goes
I had made a few photos about night sky and I was looking into some flickr groups and find you.
I really have to say this: your work is very inspiring.
This morning I was talking with my girlfriend about your photos and the possibility to buy a tent. :-)
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Thanks!
reddit.com/r/photography/comments/i8p0d/brilliant_video_tutorial_on_how_to_shoot_pics_of/
btw, you and your girlfriend are so cute
I've certainly been sharing this video around the net. Really impressed!
Your website looks awesome and simply rocks the stars man !
may i ask what settings you used for the Nat.Geo image ? i.e. uso, speed, f, NDs ?, postprocessing: did you masked the sky to balance with now ?
as far as for NR, do you really do postprocessing NR and also do you apply dark frame subtraction ?
Would be great to do a tutorial on postprocessing teqnique.
regareds and keep shooting !