Another great video, Mike. Question though. At the point where you where healing away the duplicate sky, could you have instead maybe even threw in a little skewing or rotating a tad to prevent the patterns? Great vid though, probably the best blend video I've seen that seemed approachable for those of us without master degrees in Luminosity Masks. :D
I played around with skewing and rotating in my test before creating the video. The foreground from the sky was showing up when I positioned the Milky Way in a spot that I liked. I also wanted to show people how to blend more sky into their pictures in case they can't rotate, skew, or enlarge the picture into the position they want. Two things I constantly tell people in my tutorials is.. it's personal preference and there's usually multiple ways to achieve something in photoshop and lightroom. Glad you enjoyed the video!
I have watched a few of your videos and found you to be thorough and have an approach that I can understand. Your tutorials have allowed me to start placing pieces of this extensive jigsaw that is called 'photoshop' together and bring the best out of my images - thanks!
Lol, thanks for watching. I understand the learning curve of photoshop, but is a powerful tool for photographers and once you figure out the jigsaw it will help you do some amazing things!
I have watched almost every video of milky way mike. They are quite easy to follow along ❤️. I would ask you to teach us how to do Low Light and camera setting, the technique of how you shoot the clear and clean foreground of milky way on field. Cheers
Thank you so much for taking the time to post this great tutorial. It helped me immensely in being able to combine two images without it looking so "fake"
awesome video Mike. It really helped me bring together some of visions especially as it relates to Milky Way Images. Very thorough and well delivered. One of best videos on the subject I have seen.
I really might have to start doing this. I really can hardly go out and drive 2 hours on that night thats no moon + clear sky to get that awesome foreground when I have a young family so, I might start shooting twlight foregrounds and milkyway backgrounds and collecting them while I get good at doing this !
Yeah, it is a great alternative if you are pressed for time or the weather is not cooperating. If I fly out somewhere in the weather is not working, I might not revisit that place for years so their are times I have no choice but to composite the sky in after.
Man, I been going over all your videos these past few days. I'll be shooting the Milky way this next weekend, taking with my a D810 with a 14mm f/2.8 Rokinon. I'm very worry about the noise level on my images. I'm thinking about purchasing the Starry Landscape Stacker.
For the price and what it does, it's totally worth it. Just take 5 - 15 consecutive photos and run it in the program and you're good to go. So much easier than photoshopping images together.
I use this technique sometimes, but here is whats going on now. Has me completely baffled. Any help you might offer would be appreciated. I have been doing this successfully for about a year. I don't use Lightroom. I am in no way a beginner. Here is what I normally do. I open the two images in PS that need to be merged ad open "scripts" then load images to stack. The two images create a new file with each image as a layer. I am simplifying now, but I put the Milky way on top and add a mask to that layer. It is then a simple task to paint with black to remove the parts of the image on top and see the parts of the image in the second layer I want. Again I am simplifying the technique. For some some reason when I do this now, the only part of the lower layer that shows up is where I first begin to paint with my brush (just the initial circle the exact same size of my brush). Thats it, although the mask shows that I have painted in black elsewhere, nothing shows through except the initial brush mark !? What is going on? Just updated PS. Anyone else experiencing this ? Has something been reset in the update that I'm not aware of? Thanks
i watch so many tutorals to learn how to blend and for years of trying im no luck i know now why you all youtubers using ideal images , the milky way has nog objects in front . that ai dont have here in my country . high threes and so on so i cant blend you see Always something from the blended images together in one frame
Franky-B I’ve blend hard and easy photos... it takes time and practice. Trees are usually more difficult... I recommend using stacking software for trees like sequator or starry landscape stacker
@@Milkywaymike I use a tracker. And I use sequator you can't put a foreground image in sequator to blend it I try that. I can't use my tracker anymore due to no go for blending complex images. I know how to blend easy images like you do and others in tutorials but that is no real world. I like to blend my mikkyway images, with the foreground where the mikkyway was on the horizon and that is not possible.
Franky-B not real world lol... literally every photo was taken in the “real world” so that statement is disingenuous. again sometimes it’s hard and sometimes it’s not as hard. This is where skill, patience and practice comes into play.
lol.... It has EVERYTHING to do with photography. If you sell night images then you would understand the importance of this technique and the requirements needed for cleaner night image to get accepted as a stock photo. This technique is one of a few different ways to achieve those requirements. You may not like photo manipulation but it still is a part of photography regardless of your personal feelings. Thanks for sharing your opinion.
@@Milkywaymike You got me wrong. Blending is acceptable if you are trying to improve dynamic range, due to the dslr device imperfection. But moving background over the foreground, copying and pasting part of image due to the composition fault? Sorry sir.
Awesome Mike. Just a superb video. Very thorough and delivered. Really helped me bring together some of my Milky Way photo vision. One of the best on the subject I have seen. Way to go.
Another great video, Mike. Question though. At the point where you where healing away the duplicate sky, could you have instead maybe even threw in a little skewing or rotating a tad to prevent the patterns? Great vid though, probably the best blend video I've seen that seemed approachable for those of us without master degrees in Luminosity Masks. :D
I played around with skewing and rotating in my test before creating the video. The foreground from the sky was showing up when I positioned the Milky Way in a spot that I liked. I also wanted to show people how to blend more sky into their pictures in case they can't rotate, skew, or enlarge the picture into the position they want. Two things I constantly tell people in my tutorials is.. it's personal preference and there's usually multiple ways to achieve something in photoshop and lightroom. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I’ve learned something new.
Excellent!!! Happy to help
Very useful info on manipulating the masks to get realistic blending at the horizon line. Thanks!
I have watched a few of your videos and found you to be thorough and have an approach that I can understand. Your tutorials have allowed me to start placing pieces of this extensive jigsaw that is called 'photoshop' together and bring the best out of my images - thanks!
Lol, thanks for watching. I understand the learning curve of photoshop, but is a powerful tool for photographers and once you figure out the jigsaw it will help you do some amazing things!
Perfect. Thank you so much for this tutorial. I’ve learned something new.
I have watched almost every video of milky way mike. They are quite easy to follow along ❤️. I would ask you to teach us how to do Low Light and camera setting, the technique of how you shoot the clear and clean foreground of milky way on field. Cheers
Thank you so much for taking the time to post this great tutorial. It helped me immensely in being able to combine two images without it looking so "fake"
Thanks!
Awesome Vid Mike! - you have a way of simplifying this technique, starting to get my head around Blending....Cheers
Thanks! Appreciate the support!
awesome video Mike. It really helped me bring together some of visions especially as it relates to Milky Way Images. Very thorough and well delivered. One of best videos on the subject I have seen.
I really might have to start doing this. I really can hardly go out and drive 2 hours on that night thats no moon + clear sky to get that awesome foreground when I have a young family so, I might start shooting twlight foregrounds and milkyway backgrounds and collecting them while I get good at doing this !
Yeah, it is a great alternative if you are pressed for time or the weather is not cooperating. If I fly out somewhere in the weather is not working, I might not revisit that place for years so their are times I have no choice but to composite the sky in after.
@@Milkywaymike When you post photos like that, and photoshopped isnt it frowned upon in landscape photographers world?
Mike, thanks for the great video! Finally I found a video that was very easy follow and understand. Keep up the great work!
Glad I could help!! Happy shooting!
Great video. Thanks for putting this together for us. By far the best on how to and why. thanks so much.
Appreciate it! Thanks for watching and I hope it helps you out!
Amazing Video Mike!!!
Thanks!
Man, I been going over all your videos these past few days. I'll be shooting the Milky way this next weekend, taking with my a D810 with a 14mm f/2.8 Rokinon. I'm very worry about the noise level on my images. I'm thinking about purchasing the Starry Landscape Stacker.
For the price and what it does, it's totally worth it. Just take 5 - 15 consecutive photos and run it in the program and you're good to go. So much easier than photoshopping images together.
thanks a lot man! greatly appreciate your guidance!
Thanks a lot! This really helped me :)
Awesome!!
When I do the select and mask portion, I end of with some shadow like edges in between where I blended
I use this technique sometimes, but here is whats going on now. Has me completely baffled. Any help you might offer would be appreciated. I have been doing this successfully for about a year. I don't use Lightroom. I am in no way a beginner. Here is what I normally do. I open the two images in PS that need to be merged ad open "scripts" then load images to stack. The two images create a new file with each image as a layer. I am simplifying now, but I put the Milky way on top and add a mask to that layer. It is then a simple task to paint with black to remove the parts of the image on top and see the parts of the image in the second layer I want. Again I am simplifying the technique. For some some reason when I do this now, the only part of the lower layer that shows up is where I first begin to paint with my brush (just the initial circle the exact same size of my brush). Thats it, although the mask shows that I have painted in black elsewhere, nothing shows through except the initial brush mark !? What is going on? Just updated PS. Anyone else experiencing this ? Has something been reset in the update that I'm not aware of? Thanks
Hey Mike, thanks! Next time upload your videos at its best quality :)
It's in 4k, you just have to wait for youtube to catch up with the uploading process.
Yeah! As you said. Sizes have been updated. Keep the good work.
i watch so many tutorals to learn how to blend and for years of trying im no luck i know now why you all youtubers using ideal images , the milky way has nog objects in front . that ai dont have here in my country . high threes and so on so i cant blend you see Always something from the blended images together in one frame
Franky-B I’ve blend hard and easy photos... it takes time and practice. Trees are usually more difficult... I recommend using stacking software for trees like sequator or starry landscape stacker
@@Milkywaymike I use a tracker. And I use sequator you can't put a foreground image in sequator to blend it I try that. I can't use my tracker anymore due to no go for blending complex images. I know how to blend easy images like you do and others in tutorials but that is no real world. I like to blend my mikkyway images, with the foreground where the mikkyway was on the horizon and that is not possible.
Franky-B not real world lol... literally every photo was taken in the “real world” so that statement is disingenuous. again sometimes it’s hard and sometimes it’s not as hard. This is where skill, patience and practice comes into play.
Franky-B send me the foreground you’re having trouble with and I can make a video on it
@@Milkywaymike oket cool I send you tomorrow the image
Closed the video after sky positioning manipulations. This is nothing to do with photography. Some technics were usefull.
lol.... It has EVERYTHING to do with photography. If you sell night images then you would understand the importance of this technique and the requirements needed for cleaner night image to get accepted as a stock photo. This technique is one of a few different ways to achieve those requirements. You may not like photo manipulation but it still is a part of photography regardless of your personal feelings. Thanks for sharing your opinion.
@@Milkywaymike You got me wrong. Blending is acceptable if you are trying to improve dynamic range, due to the dslr device imperfection. But moving background over the foreground, copying and pasting part of image due to the composition fault? Sorry sir.
Awesome Mike. Just a superb video. Very thorough and delivered. Really helped me bring together some of my Milky Way photo vision. One of the best on the subject I have seen. Way to go.
bluedog4203 glad it helped!! Thanks for watching