Excellent tutorial. I just practiced using the warp tool and the crop tool to extend the sky region. I used the warp tool to take out some trees so I could do the sky replacement to show the entire Milky Way. Many thanks!
I really wish I could get to darker skies for wide photos like this. Where I live the sky gradient is just so strong. You are getting some great results. I was out in Colrodo last October and had only one part of a night that was clear. Bortle 1 sky was so fantastic. I saw your Cannon R5 vs the Em1.3 and this time the Cannon video did look a lot better. I would say they both seam to give you similar quality. The autofocus on the cannon seamed to stick to your face better though. I hope JIP fixes and improves the face lock on focusing with Oly cameras.
I am pretty lucky here. Thanks for the comment about the r5 vs em1. I still haven't officially made my mind up. I do know the Canon had a lot nicer quality in the shadows
@@chasingluminance I would say given the cost of the Cannon it sounds like it is not worth it. It more than twice as much. I would rather have to cameras than one.
Great stuff Alex! Even though I'm pretty proficient in PS - I still learn from you. I never thought of doing "content aware" to add sky to a cropped image so I can then add my own sky to the whole image. 🧐 🤯 You are awesome at explaining things. Very thorough! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Very helpful. I'd have liked to see how you combined the quick select and sky replacement techniques, but that might have made things too long, perhaps. Music was occasionally oppressively loud. I learned a lot. Thanks.
A very useful video. It was great for us that you showed us more than one blend technique. Which technique do you think is better to use, especially when blending on a difficult ground with trees, branches and leaves on the ground, my friend?
Thx for the video Alex! Great Job. I started to photograph the Milkyway this year. Just by taking single shots or stacked shots, which i put together in sequator to reduce the noise. Now, i want to buy a msm nomad for tracking the Milkyway to get better results and more detail of the Milkyway. The Skyreplacement-Tool ist really cool. Just a question for tracking the sky. Is it better to stack and track with the nomad, for example 20-30 shots of about a minute ( and when doing this, how can i get those pictures together? Also with Photoshop? Using another Programm/Tool for doing this? ) or just takin one image of about 2-3 minutes? Thx for ur time and sharing your knowledge and sorry for my bad english. Hope you can understand what i am asking. Greets from Palatina Forest, Germany Rico
You do a great job with your tutorials and you are obviously knowledgeable about the subject. Hey, can you do us a favor? Drop the volume of the background music by about 50% Thanks :-)
This is hugely helpful for a new photographer like myself, but I also feel like you could put the Milky Way behind any mountain photo now. Even if the photo wasn't take in the correct direction. HA
@@chasingluminance That was the perfect response to my comment. Thank you for all of the help. I need to look thru my manual on the Olympus EM1 Mark III and figure out what all of the live composite settings do. This camera is much more complicated than the EM10 mark III that I had before.
Very good demonstration Alex! Thanks for sharing!
11:33 - Content-Aware fill! Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!
I was happy when I figured it out
Thanks for the interesting und helpful video!
Dude, this is awesome, Thank You!!!
Excellent tutorial. Thanks for taking the time. I'll need to get out there with my MSM and get shooting!!
Get out there! Hopefully it's not too cold where you are
Outstanding video. You have made a very complex topic look easy!!
😁😁 so glad it helped. I think I only make it look easy because I've struggled with it for so long... leaned a few tricks
Compact and bijou, Alex. Great video and good practical hints. Thank you.
Fantastic tutorial! Thank you.
EXCELLENT!!!!!! Thank you..love the Andromeda one...love your work!!! Keep sharing....please!!
Awesome, glad you enjoyed
This is great! I've wanted to know this for a few years.
So glad it helped
Wow! A lot to learn in the editing…..a course in itself. Thanks
Excellent tutorial. I just practiced using the warp tool and the crop tool to extend the sky region. I used the warp tool to take out some trees so I could do the sky replacement to show the entire Milky Way. Many thanks!
AWESOME! Glad it helped
Great tutorial. Thanks so much.
Great tutorial! Thanks, Alex!
Another great video. Thanks.
Appreciate it
So helpful, love the video!
2nd video from you i followed. And again "wow". Its great. Thnx (music improved a bit ;-) )
Happy to hear that!
The lower left "pretty nebula thingys" are the Heart Nebula & Soul Nebula. The 2 bluish/white lights to the right of them are the Double Clusters.
😆 thank you! I could leave looked it up. But this was easier
I really wish I could get to darker skies for wide photos like this. Where I live the sky gradient is just so strong. You are getting some great results. I was out in Colrodo last October and had only one part of a night that was clear. Bortle 1 sky was so fantastic.
I saw your Cannon R5 vs the Em1.3 and this time the Cannon video did look a lot better. I would say they both seam to give you similar quality. The autofocus on the cannon seamed to stick to your face better though. I hope JIP fixes and improves the face lock on focusing with Oly cameras.
I am pretty lucky here. Thanks for the comment about the r5 vs em1. I still haven't officially made my mind up. I do know the Canon had a lot nicer quality in the shadows
@@chasingluminance I would say given the cost of the Cannon it sounds like it is not worth it. It more than twice as much. I would rather have to cameras than one.
@@TheNarrowbandChannel truth. The canon does amazing work with still photos... but the oly looks so great with video
@@chasingluminance With the five year gap between those sensors that is expected. Playing field should even out when Oly comes out with a new sensor.
Great stuff Alex! Even though I'm pretty proficient in PS - I still learn from you. I never thought of doing "content aware" to add sky to a cropped image so I can then add my own sky to the whole image. 🧐 🤯 You are awesome at explaining things. Very thorough! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you! I'm glad it helps
Brilliant video, and truly excellent tips. Thank you very much!! :-)
Do glad you enjoyed!
Very helpful. I'd have liked to see how you combined the quick select and sky replacement techniques, but that might have made things too long, perhaps. Music was occasionally oppressively loud. I learned a lot. Thanks.
A very useful video. It was great for us that you showed us more than one blend technique. Which technique do you think is better to use, especially when blending on a difficult ground with trees, branches and leaves on the ground, my friend?
Thank you!! Leaves and trees are rough.. but I've had some really good success with the sky replacement tool
But the color selection works really well to when you have those more complicated foregrounds
@@chasingluminance Thank you for information
Thx for the video Alex! Great Job. I started to photograph the Milkyway this year. Just by taking single shots or stacked shots, which i put together in sequator to reduce the noise.
Now, i want to buy a msm nomad for tracking the Milkyway to get better results and more detail of the Milkyway. The Skyreplacement-Tool ist really cool.
Just a question for tracking the sky. Is it better to stack and track with the nomad, for example 20-30 shots of about a minute ( and when doing this, how can i get those pictures together? Also with Photoshop? Using another Programm/Tool for doing this? ) or just takin one image of about 2-3 minutes?
Thx for ur time and sharing your knowledge and sorry for my bad english. Hope you can understand what i am asking.
Greets from Palatina Forest, Germany
Rico
I do like tracking and stacking. Maybe 5 2-4 minute exposures is nice. I usually stack em in photoshop or maybe starry sky stacker
Thx Alex. Then Sequator for Windows should be as good as starry sky tracker...
Have a nice day.
Greets Rico
@rsrs7880 yeah, that works for sure
Hate when no phone calls when not busy then a ton when I start doing something lol
Nice demo. At what point is it no longer "a photograph", and more of a custom "graphic design"?
That is debatable. For me, if the sky is in a natural alignment I consider it a photograph... if the sky is totally unnatural then it's a composite
You do a great job with your tutorials and you are obviously knowledgeable about the subject. Hey, can you do us a favor? Drop the volume of the background music by about 50% Thanks :-)
Perhaps that cold happen... sound is hard
With these long tracked exposures, are you shooting at iso 100 and just increasing the exposure time or are you up around 800 (iso invariant point) ?
It varies... but usually 800-1600
This is hugely helpful for a new photographer like myself, but I also feel like you could put the Milky Way behind any mountain photo now. Even if the photo wasn't take in the correct direction. HA
With great power comes great responsibility
@@chasingluminance That was the perfect response to my comment. Thank you for all of the help. I need to look thru my manual on the Olympus EM1 Mark III and figure out what all of the live composite settings do. This camera is much more complicated than the EM10 mark III that I had before.
The em 1 is such a great camera. Live composite for star trails is amazing
Can you do a tutorial on this using Affinity Photo ?
I’ve never messed with it, but i should try
how can i delete background clear when i have trees on first plan? 🤣
yeah, its hard. I think luminosity masks are the best for trees.... but its hard
Sorry i never know when the best time to call is...
Not calling is always safe
The sky apparently was not shot from the same location as the landscape, perhaps not even on the same night?
Hunh? They're all from the same spot on the same night