To anyone who is starting out in astrophotography and are learning the post processing aspect, save this video. It will be a go to guide that will help you immensely.
I am just starting out on astrophotography and this is the best video for dslr nebula processing. The first time around I thought it was too involved, but I now appreciate the effort and the results obtained. Thank you!
I have to say Walt, you and Nico from Nebula Photos are the 2 that i follow and watch almost daily.. Nico is great with reviews and equipment and explaining principles. He does ok with processing, but you....your videos are the ones i watch for processing. They are absolutely the best, easy to follow procedures on processing data, especially using lenses. I especially liked your top 10 equipment video, it really gave me a goal list. I think the big names on youtube each cater to specific areas of astrophotography. You are the best at processing, Nico is great at budget equipment reviews and explaining theory, Trevor from Astrobackyard is excellent with the higher end and higher level astrophotography, and Rory is great as budget and entertainment. Helena is basically a combination of Trevor and Nico, and there is a brunette girl, i cant remember her name - age is killing my memory - but she also has some entertaining walkthroughs. Edit: The brunette is SarahMaths on youtube.
Walt, your method of teaching is infectious. Thank you so much. I plan to use my 75-300 kit lens this winter to photograph the Witch head and this will come in very handy.
You can get some great data on the Witch with that lens! Consider getting a bahtinov mask for it so you can nail focus. If you can get two to three hours on it you should have good results! Good luck and clear skies!
@@deltaastrophotography thank you. I do have a Bahtinov mask. But to hold it steady on the lens hood is a challenge in in itself. Lol. What was your focal length at? 100mm on the kit lens? Would you recommend a 135mm prime for this or it’ll get too tight? And also what f-stop would you recommend? Thanks.
I most certainly need to re-visit my Witch Head data. Whilst I always use Starnet v.2, I have once again learned so much here again. I particularly like your use of star masks in the early stages when you apply curves, to avoid bloating and exposing too many stars. I also love the way you identified the ‘blackness’ of the ‘witch’ and concentrated the curve stretch on that alone. The result was very clever. Thank you once again for sharing what you do Walt 🤝
Blows my mind watching you do this Walt. Keep up the great work! I don't shoot much astro personally, but I'm mesmerized by the content you put out on the subject and sure do enjoy watching.
Hello Walt just getting started with astrophotography been gathering the equipment together canon 70d move shoot move Z mount various lens all bought off Ebay (can be an expensive hobby) only thing I can't buy is a clear night I live in Liverpool England can I buy a filter to reduce light light pollution and can you recommend a good one?.
Damn, have watched this like 4 or 5 times , so good. so much to learn and the ability to suck out that detail is insane . Now I need to lock it all into memory and go back to so many old data sets and have another go at them . Thank you so much for this , you are a legend. Keep up the great work.
I've enjoyed your videos and I've learned a lot from you. I hit the subscribe button today because I appreciate the simplicity of your tutorials. I'm new to this astro stuff but I've had some success on the milky way, orion nebula, pleiades, and andromeda with my star adventurer and my canon 5D III and 100-400 lens. The witch head is my next target and your processing tutorial has given me some more motivation. Thanks and stay spacey!
So needed. I absolutely loathe processing the Witchhead. I won’t let it beat me this year. 😂 I’m going to send you the autosave and outsource. Thinking of purchasing Star shrink from RC.
I was view number 280! I am just starting the video, but I appreciate your videos on the post processing. That is my HUGE weakness. I'll be back to edit this comment on how well the video is. EDIT: Absolutely amazing! You went through everything thoroughly and showed a few options in simple to follow instructions. This is definitely being add to my Astrophotography Post Processing folder. It is going to be my go-to for when I start doing post processing.
Thank u so much. U really help me with the prosessing. I live i n a bortle 1, but not so good at prosessing. You help me to make my photos go from 4 to 10! All the dust! Oh my. This will be so good to print and hang on my astroroom. Just order a Redcat, and the gti startracker, so i will now have a very nice wintert incoming. (use just a 135mm samyang and my star tracker) Thank you for your learning and god bless.
Hey Walt. Are you gonna try to image some of the lunar eclipse on Tuesday? Are you in EST, or CST? I probably won't get to see the end of totality, but I will see the beginning so I'm gonna get some images of that. I'm probably gonna be up all night anyway, because of how excited I am to vote. I got loads of images of the eclipse back in May, so if I don't get a lot this time, I won't be too upset.
@@deltaastrophotography I know I am a little ways away from you, here in NC, but it seems to me that there have been very very few nights worth trying to image. Is it just me or are you having the same issue? I mean, around here, it is usually clearer at night, once the sun goes down and the temperature with it. But lately, and by lately I mean the last 5-6 months, it seems to be clear during the day and THEN, the clouds pop up at night. I'm used to evening thunderstorms during the summer, but it used to clear up shorty after the thunderstorm rolls thru. I hope winter clears up.
Definitely caught my attention when I heard Mississippi on one of your videos the other day! We're from around Holly Springs. Got a 500-600 acre secret spot for photos bortle 2 tops if you're ever up this way give us a shout!
I know! If you could only buy one it would be GradientXTerminator. The rest you can find ways to achieve the same thing for free. If I ever find a free alternative to GXT, I'll make that a big part of my tutorials.
@@deltaastrophotography I guess you could use SIRIL to help with gradients another free software but the problem with that is you'll be going back & forth between different programs to achieve the same result.
A very in depth tutorial especially helpful for beginners. I processed my own version of this. If you could give me your email i would gladly send it :)
To anyone who is starting out in astrophotography and are learning the post processing aspect, save this video. It will be a go to guide that will help you immensely.
I am just starting out on astrophotography and this is the best video for dslr nebula processing. The first time around I thought it was too involved, but I now appreciate the effort and the results obtained. Thank you!
Seems like months I've been waiting for this video. Only kidding......Thanks much. Stay safe and healthy.
I have to say Walt, you and Nico from Nebula Photos are the 2 that i follow and watch almost daily.. Nico is great with reviews and equipment and explaining principles. He does ok with processing, but you....your videos are the ones i watch for processing. They are absolutely the best, easy to follow procedures on processing data, especially using lenses. I especially liked your top 10 equipment video, it really gave me a goal list. I think the big names on youtube each cater to specific areas of astrophotography. You are the best at processing, Nico is great at budget equipment reviews and explaining theory, Trevor from Astrobackyard is excellent with the higher end and higher level astrophotography, and Rory is great as budget and entertainment. Helena is basically a combination of Trevor and Nico, and there is a brunette girl, i cant remember her name - age is killing my memory - but she also has some entertaining walkthroughs.
Edit: The brunette is SarahMaths on youtube.
Walt, your method of teaching is infectious. Thank you so much. I plan to use my 75-300 kit lens this winter to photograph the Witch head and this will come in very handy.
You can get some great data on the Witch with that lens! Consider getting a bahtinov mask for it so you can nail focus. If you can get two to three hours on it you should have good results! Good luck and clear skies!
@@deltaastrophotography thank you. I do have a Bahtinov mask. But to hold it steady on the lens hood is a challenge in in itself. Lol. What was your focal length at? 100mm on the kit lens? Would you recommend a 135mm prime for this or it’ll get too tight? And also what f-stop would you recommend? Thanks.
Best editing tut yet from you Walt👌
Clear Skye's. Thanx
It helps me a lot on processing my Witch Head, thanks man, clear skies! From Cambodia !
I don't even have a camera but I found this fascinating, Thanks.
Very well done, thank you so much. Video saved ! 😊
Your tutorials really help me process my images, i am still learning and you help a lot. Thanks!
Really Great Job on explaining this stuff to a new guy. Thanks Walt!
I don't usually comment UA-cam-videos, but this time I'll make an exception. This was GREAT! I learned so much. Thank you Sir!
I most certainly need to re-visit my Witch Head data. Whilst I always use Starnet v.2, I have once again learned so much here again. I particularly like your use of star masks in the early stages when you apply curves, to avoid bloating and exposing too many stars. I also love the way you identified the ‘blackness’ of the ‘witch’ and concentrated the curve stretch on that alone. The result was very clever. Thank you once again for sharing what you do Walt 🤝
Great job and tutorial! Just getting into the hobby and you are a cheat code!
Another quality upload Walt! Thanks for taking the time to share with us! ~Clear Skies
Blows my mind watching you do this Walt. Keep up the great work! I don't shoot much astro personally, but I'm mesmerized by the content you put out on the subject and sure do enjoy watching.
Thank you Sensei! I learned a lot on this video.
Awesome tutorial! Love your content and delivery. Thanks for putting in the hard work to make these informative and entertaining videos.
Hello Walt just getting started with astrophotography been gathering the equipment together canon 70d move shoot move Z mount various lens all bought off Ebay (can be an expensive hobby) only thing I can't buy is a clear night I live in Liverpool England can I buy a filter to reduce light light pollution and can you recommend a good one?.
Damn, have watched this like 4 or 5 times , so good. so much to learn and the ability to suck out that detail is insane . Now I need to lock it all into memory and go back to so many old data sets and have another go at them . Thank you so much for this , you are a legend. Keep up the great work.
Great work Walt - one for my archive!
I've enjoyed your videos and I've learned a lot from you. I hit the subscribe button today because I appreciate the simplicity of your tutorials. I'm new to this astro stuff but I've had some success on the milky way, orion nebula, pleiades, and andromeda with my star adventurer and my canon 5D III and 100-400 lens. The witch head is my next target and your processing tutorial has given me some more motivation. Thanks and stay spacey!
So needed. I absolutely loathe processing the Witchhead. I won’t let it beat me this year. 😂 I’m going to send you the autosave and outsource. Thinking of purchasing Star shrink from RC.
I was view number 280! I am just starting the video, but I appreciate your videos on the post processing. That is my HUGE weakness. I'll be back to edit this comment on how well the video is.
EDIT: Absolutely amazing! You went through everything thoroughly and showed a few options in simple to follow instructions. This is definitely being add to my Astrophotography Post Processing folder. It is going to be my go-to for when I start doing post processing.
Great video!!! Thanks for the file thank you for your lesson!
Thanks for the video I learn a lot what bortle was this picture taken in ?
Always fun and inspiring to watch other ppls process. Looking forward for the ASIAir stuff, I've got so many problems with mine, ha ha!
Thank u so much. U really help me with the prosessing. I live i n a bortle 1, but not so good at prosessing. You help me to make my photos go from 4 to 10! All the dust! Oh my. This will be so good to print and hang on my astroroom. Just order a Redcat, and the gti startracker, so i will now have a very nice wintert incoming. (use just a 135mm samyang and my star tracker) Thank you for your learning and god bless.
Great Tutorial, thanks. best wishes from Germany
Brilliant video I enjoy all your vids
Well done, keep up the good work.
I think taking a hammer to that lens, like you played with in another video, is the best plan of action to get better astrophotos.
Can I still use a star tracker if i live near the equator?
Hey Walt. Are you gonna try to image some of the lunar eclipse on Tuesday? Are you in EST, or CST? I probably won't get to see the end of totality, but I will see the beginning so I'm gonna get some images of that. I'm probably gonna be up all night anyway, because of how excited I am to vote. I got loads of images of the eclipse back in May, so if I don't get a lot this time, I won't be too upset.
I've checked the Weather and it's going to be cloudy! 😭
@@deltaastrophotography I know I am a little ways away from you, here in NC, but it seems to me that there have been very very few nights worth trying to image. Is it just me or are you having the same issue? I mean, around here, it is usually clearer at night, once the sun goes down and the temperature with it. But lately, and by lately I mean the last 5-6 months, it seems to be clear during the day and THEN, the clouds pop up at night. I'm used to evening thunderstorms during the summer, but it used to clear up shorty after the thunderstorm rolls thru. I hope winter clears up.
Definitely caught my attention when I heard Mississippi on one of your videos the other day! We're from around Holly Springs. Got a 500-600 acre secret spot for photos bortle 2 tops if you're ever up this way give us a shout!
No way! That's amazing! Feel free to look up my Instagram and shoot me a message!
Not sure why it's not showing my reply. I don't have Instagram. I sent ya a request and msg on Facebook.
I really like that! I think I am not far from you. Would love to get together!!
Wait a minute... NoiseXterminator as a PS Pluggin???
Oh yeah!!
@@deltaastrophotography desire to know more intensifies...
@@MazzifLOL I just got it, so I'm still learning it. I'll post more about it when I'm comfortable with it!
Great tutorial! Too bad lots of paid add-ons used that I don’t own 😢
I know! If you could only buy one it would be GradientXTerminator. The rest you can find ways to achieve the same thing for free. If I ever find a free alternative to GXT, I'll make that a big part of my tutorials.
@@deltaastrophotography I guess you could use SIRIL to help with gradients another free software but the problem with that is you'll be going back & forth between different programs to achieve the same result.
You lost me at PS and paid plugin - I need cheap.
A very in depth tutorial especially helpful for beginners. I processed my own version of this. If you could give me your email i would gladly send it :)