Nice tutorial. Easy to understand. It definitely makes for a more dramatic image and illustrates how the meteors radiate from an area in the sky. Getting ready for the Persieds meteor shower here in Maine.
Awesome tutorial! I had seen this photo on Instagram and wondered 'how did he do that???' but this explains it all. Yes this works well for north facing images as much of the image rotates close to distortionless around the north but f.e. to the south the rotation would not work so well at all, but then possibly fair enough to get a consistent radiant. That's all that matters. Thanks a lot, now I have something to work with!
Thank you so much for this! Exactly what I needed this morning. Did Quadrantids last night, 10 sec exposures for ~120 minutes and got 5 bright meteors. Not bad for the suburbs I guess!
Great tutorial, Just a thought, Instead of guessing where each meteor is and then brushing, couldn't you reduce the opacity of the bottom (background) layer which would then reveal the meteor in the layer you are editing?
That is tutorial i've been looking for days! Glad i've found it just in time, getting ready for tonight, hope i'll get some bolid in there:) Thanks very much.Greetings from Slovakia:)
To allign, you can also use your desired background, then use the same procedure, but instead set the layer blending mode to differential to see the disallignment easier
Nice tutorial! I'm going to try this soon. Quick question: How many pictures total did you take in order to select these few? And what was the time duration between the images. Like did you take all these pictures one after the other or you waited for a few minutes/hours in between some frames.
Can you please do a tutorial like this on how to stack photos using Lightroom? Photoshop is way too expensive, I use Lightroom and Aperture. Love your work and all you give back to other photographers. Thanks!
How do you find out where the perseids are gonna fall from? THe radiant or whatever you called it.. Wish I had watched this video a few days ago when there was this Perseid shower.
Hi David, i love the way this came out! Last I photographed the Geminid shower, but my meteors didn’t come out as pronounced and dramatic as yours. Yours look like rockets flying through the air, but mine are just white lines. My exposure was at 20 seconds, f stop at 5.6 and ISO at 51200. Could you recommend any adjustments to my settings so that next time I can get more dramatic looking meteors?
Thanks for the great tutorial! Just want to ask, if I don't have the origin around which the stars rotate in the frame, am I still able to complete this? I am currently trying to figure out the origin by trial and error and it isn't working out well.
Great tutorial. Thank you for sharing your process. Dynamic photos like yours tells so much more of a story for me.
Nice tutorial. Easy to understand. It definitely makes for a more dramatic image and illustrates how the meteors radiate from an area in the sky. Getting ready for the Persieds meteor shower here in Maine.
Excellent tutorial and very well prepared.
Keep up your wonderful work.
You're a legend thank you
Awesome tutorial! I had seen this photo on Instagram and wondered 'how did he do that???' but this explains it all. Yes this works well for north facing images as much of the image rotates close to distortionless around the north but f.e. to the south the rotation would not work so well at all, but then possibly fair enough to get a consistent radiant. That's all that matters. Thanks a lot, now I have something to work with!
Awesome photo indeed!! Thank you for the tutorial, keep shooting more great images.
Thank you so much for this! Exactly what I needed this morning. Did Quadrantids last night, 10 sec exposures for ~120 minutes and got 5 bright meteors. Not bad for the suburbs I guess!
Great tutorial, Just a thought, Instead of guessing where each meteor is and then brushing, couldn't you reduce the opacity of the bottom (background) layer which would then reveal the meteor in the layer you are editing?
This was very helpful. Thank you so much for uploading this!
Awesome video! Gonna try this for the first time with tomorrow's Geminids!
Great tutorial! Thank You.
That is tutorial i've been looking for days! Glad i've found it just in time, getting ready for tonight, hope i'll get some bolid in there:) Thanks very much.Greetings from Slovakia:)
To allign, you can also use your desired background, then use the same procedure, but instead set the layer blending mode to differential to see the disallignment easier
Great video David!
Nice tutorial! I'm going to try this soon. Quick question: How many pictures total did you take in order to select these few? And what was the time duration between the images. Like did you take all these pictures one after the other or you waited for a few minutes/hours in between some frames.
That is incredible ! How did you get the foreground and mountain so bright?
Can you please do a tutorial like this on how to stack photos using Lightroom? Photoshop is way too expensive, I use Lightroom and Aperture. Love your work and all you give back to other photographers. Thanks!
LR can not do layers.
How do you find out where the perseids are gonna fall from? THe radiant or whatever you called it.. Wish I had watched this video a few days ago when there was this Perseid shower.
Great stuff - where is this foreground located? Looks great.
Wow. Thank you for that.
Hi David, i love the way this came out! Last I photographed the Geminid shower, but my meteors didn’t come out as pronounced and dramatic as yours. Yours look like rockets flying through the air, but mine are just white lines. My exposure was at 20 seconds, f stop at 5.6 and ISO at 51200. Could you recommend any adjustments to my settings so that next time I can get more dramatic looking meteors?
Hey there, I think your ISO is way too high for the exposure.
Thanks for the great tutorial! Just want to ask, if I don't have the origin around which the stars rotate in the frame, am I still able to complete this? I am currently trying to figure out the origin by trial and error and it isn't working out well.
***** Ah I see. I guess the problem I have with my shot is that I've got flat star trails and I seem to have 2 points around which they rotate.
Thanks for this info.
thanks for the tutorial :)