I forgot to mention in the video that my settings for the forground light painted shots were: f5 15 sec exposures iso500 Also I re-focused the camera on the car to make sure it was sharp.
Thanks for watching MJE. The Led Lenser P7.2 is about 400 lumens on it's brightest setting but I often light paint with it dimmed down a bit ... depending on my camera settings.
@@ronbeltran2229 Yes Ron it does move ever so slightly and I tend to hide that by leaving a darker edge on one side so it looks like it's meant to be there. This comes down to how I light the scene.
I love photography, but haven't done much in so long. After watching almost all your youtube videos back to back today, you've inspired me to get back behind the Lens. I've wanted to get into Nightscape photography for a few years now, and after finding and watching your channel, i now feel like i can. Your work is so inspiring and beautiful! Thanks for you all do to help us learn, and please keep it coming!
Hi Nick, that's so encouraging of you to say. It's the reason I put these videos up because I love being out under the night sky and capturing the beauty of the landscape after dark. Please keep in touch, I'd love to know how you go.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thanks Richard! I will share my first attempts with you, will likely be in a few months at least, but i'll continue to subscribe and follow you work to keep me energised and excited to start! I'm in the UK, do you have and tips or advise for me photographing the milky way in this part of the world? Or any sites/mobile apps I can use to help me work out where it'll be and at what time of year? I know you use that PhotoPills app...?
Explain what you mean by taking black images to reduce noise .Please. Your night shoots a second to none are the best i have seen, please keep them coming.
Thanks for watching. Simply put it is similar to what happens when you enable long exposure noise reduction in camera. But when you take multiple dark frames it gives better results.
I have watched several of your excellent videos recently and what I take away from them is the impression that Australia seems to be full of random junk strewn all over the countryside. Junk that proves to be a goldmine for the photographer with the right eye!
Haha ... thanks for watching Matt. Yes I suppose I do give that impression .. I do seek out the junk and highlight it that's for sure. More junk coming in the next video ...!!!
Love how you clearly explain each step by step of the process. Especially with the editing as I have no issues with capturing the shots it’s always the editing that holds me back. Looking forward to putting all this to use, and creating some amazing images. Thank you
Nightscape Images I’ve been contemplating, after a few years of finding out how photography is now a great passion of mine, replacing my D5500 with the Z6, and these amazing images show a whole new level of art, that motivates me to do more and grow, once again awesome shots, such UNIQUE skills.
Do not get me wrong I am green noobster. I love Ozark, Young Pope and T-Detective and here in the end we have lost all the shadows in stock, I no longer see the riddles in this old unfortunate and now also the naked car. With it i love what happens with the foreground 14:30 :)
Thanks for the video. It has motivated me to go out tonight and to try out your own technique. well, i need some more exercise. many greetings from northern Germany.
Richard, awesome as usual thank you so much for starting to share your workflow that’s very helpful. I’m looking forward to seeing the nuances of your Light paint techniques in upcoming videos. Please let us all know you’re giving workshops you’ll get a big crowd no doubt and I will be there In the USA. I will be there! Scott
Hello Richard, such, I like night photography like you, I have the Nikon D750 and a good angle in addition to the led lens P7 and other accessories, I am from the south of Spain and the light pollution is not much problem, the only problem I have to do night photography is the difficult access to the locations .. Sometimes I find people very suspicious, congratulations for their work.
Hi Richard never tired to see your videos again and again and catch every bit of information and wisdom you kindly share with our community..I am sure you are the "guilty" to motivate so many people to go outside chasing the stars and the Milk way..me included. Thanks a lot for the motivation and inspiration you deliver with every video.. Highly appreciated. Best regards from Portugal
If you group them then convert to a smart object, it will shrink your file size. Then if you want to reedit it later just double click on the smart object and it will open up the group in a new project just like it had always been there complete with edits. Love the photo by the way.
@@nightscapeimages.richard A question for you and maybe a topic to cover in a video, how do choose the ISO. I always seem to be too high and have too much noise or too low and not enough stars.
Superb mate , very in depth tutorial , good to see the full editing process also , i am inspired now to get out there and practice this , many thanks and keep up the good work .
Haha ... thanks Nellie. There were plenty of rabbits and I am sorry to report that a few didn't survive. On one of my previous videos there were large kangaroos crossing in front of the car. You can see why I have the bullbar mounted on the front ...!! Appreciate you watching.
I have to try star trails still. I guess I just point to the north star first to make sure I get the circle. I've got to give it a go with just a basic 10 exposure shot sometime.
I just found your channel! I love it. I’ve always wanted to learn light painting, and I’m learning a lot from you! Thanks from Michigan, USA. I can’t wait until June to see the Milky Way again and use your tips!
Mate what an excellent tutorial! From field to wall IMO. Love it and some awesome tips in there too for good field practises to achieve final images. You're tempting me to swing by Bendigo, pick you up, and head to Mungo NP for some astro!
Hi Richard, new to your channel and fairly new to the Astrophotography world. I found you work very creative and inspirational. There is a subject i wonder if you can cover, i think that is mostly for newbies like myself but can be useful for everybody, And that is the intervalometer how to. Thank you and keep up with the good work. Erick. greetings from the U.S.
Another excellent video, Richard. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and experience. I've ordered a LED Lenser and I've been scouting (today) for some suitable subjects to light paint....all thanks to you. Thanks again. Great job, and a superb channel.
Great video as usual. Thanks to this video and your guide I did my first ever star trails photo a couple of nights ago and I can not be happier with the result (if I ignore my house roof of course). Thank you so much.
Thanks for your very informative and clear tutorial which is easy to understand. I suppose in my case of not having a cordless remote, I will just have to come back to the camera for each light painting exposure to set it off by remote intervalometer? And I think fewer star trail exposures will be fine as well.
Nice work. Excellent presentation. I'm wondering why some of the trails, particularly on the right, appear like dashed lines. Example...the dimmer trail just above the brightest trail lower right.
Another very impressive image Richard. Can't wait for it to warm up here in the North Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada, so I can get out and do some of these images!
@@nightscapeimages.richard It is a rather expensive tape used in electronics. Very high voltage insulating capability. Also used in pcb manufacturing because it can cover board parts and withstand the heat of a liquid solder bath without melting. Just FYI. Love your videos!
Great video !!! Learnt a lot!! I have been dying to learn this .... until I found YOU. Thank you once again, for doing this. Hopefully I would be able to try my hands on this on an upcoming trip.
Great video. Thanks for sharing. What are the pros or cons of shooting star trails with 3 minute exposures as opposed to shooting as I do sometimes when I can get away from the light pollution here in Southeastern Virginia on the East coast of the US. of 15 second exposures generally depending on conditions and shooting hundreds of exposures? I have a crop sensor camera a Nikon D5100 with a built in interverlometer I use StarStax and Lightroom but have recently switched to Luminar 3 because it has layers. Just curious about your very well presented method and videos. Just awesome! Great information. Thank you so very much! If this has already been answered my apologies kind sir.
Hi Charlie, thanks so much for watching. I prefer a longer shutter speed for a couple of reasons. Firstly you can lower the iso for a cleaner image, secondly with lesser amount of layers it's easier for the computer to manage all the files. There are also some advantages to using lots of short exposures. For example you can use each frame to make a timelapse or even use each shot as an individual image. As well as that I'm not sure you can use the inbuilt intervalometer with these longer exposures either.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thank you Richard for your reply. That was most helpful. I/we who watch really appreciate all the time and effort you go into in presenting these videos. You are by far the best presenter of this type of subject I have seen. Thank you so much for sharing what is clearly your passion. I have dreamed of coming to Australia and would love to go shooting with you. You have inspired me greatly and I intend to go out and do some more night photography. I live in a great location but sadly with a lot of light pollution. My bride is from South Dakota here in the USA and has family in Northwestern Minnesota both places with awesome dark skies especially using Google's Dark Sky map. Would love to see you do some tutorials more in depth of using Photo Pills a great app I use too. Thank you again. Cheers!
Hi richard, first let me say love your work and chanel. I have a question, I do quite a bit of nightscape photography but I live in an area very close to the flight path to Manchester Airport, UK, in fact I'm pretty sure there is nowhere in the UK you can escape a flightpath lol. I was wondering if you have ever had to deal with the airplane light trail problem and if so how do you go about getting rid of them. I find myself having to go thorough a great deal of images manualy erasing them in lightroom before stacking them to get clear star trails, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks so much for watching. I am fairly close to the Melbourne airport flight path but I'm sure that's not as busy as Manchester. I usually remove them in photoshop. That's also another good reason to shoot less exposures ... less work on plane trails. No easy way around it I'm afraid.
Impressive nightscape image. 👏 A great and easy to understand tutorial. 👍 Thank you so much.🙏 Hopefully this summer I will be able to try nightscape photography. Best regards from frigid Canada. 🤗
Thanks for watching Gery. I never throw any shots out as that creates gaps in the trails. It's pretty easy to clone out the star trails as they are usually only on a single exposure, sometimes 2 shots. I do this in photoshop
Thanks for sharing all these fantastic pics with us and the explanation, how to get them! I‘m so envious of your great clear nights, here in Bremen, Germany, we‘ve got so much light pollution. The first video of yours I saw, puzzled me: why is Orion up in the sky and the guy is wearing a t-Shirt instead of warm clothes? And why is the nebula above the belt stars? Then I realized you must be from Down-Under! Thanks again, keep going and take care!
Hi Richard, very nice video as usual. I got some questions - when you refocus on the foreground for light painting, the object will move even if you are not moving the camera or tripod. How do you compensate that? Also what are your own workflow for processing startrail individual frames, cause I get some many planes in my shots that it gets boring trying to rub them out.
Thanks again Avijit. Yes there is always a little focus breathing when framing up the foreground, however I've not found this to be a massive problem as the background "shadow" is actually dark and usually blends in quite well with the background. Yes planes can be a real problem but that's another good reason to have longer exposures for these star trails as the planes are usually only on one frame and therefore a little less time consuming to remove.
I really like your videos. Thank you! I have a question. How could focus be set on anything else but infinity? Maybe it is obvious to everybody else but not to me.
Thank you for watching. It's really easy to focus on items close to the camera and therefore not be at infinity. When you use your camera during normal daytime use, it will often be focused away from infinity.
Very good video! Not sure exactly what camera settings for light painting and stars are, and if you could do a video on how you masked the six images that would be great. Thanks.
Nightscape Images I believe I found it. Going to keep on watching though for now. Hopefully when the weather is is better I'll be able to get out there and try everything. Thanks a lot, and you do very nice work for sure!!
Love your work, Richard. Wish I lived "out in the sticks" somewhere, so much light polution in the UK!! I don`t recall seeing you mention it in any of your videos, but I take it you turn off the noise reduction feature in your cameras?
I just discovered your channel. I love how you explain everything thoughtfully. I got an ultra-wideangle (but f4 lens) and a 55mm (but 1.8) lens. Could you do a video on how to shoot astrophotography with a telephoto lens? cheers John
Nice video as always. thanks for the detailed explanations. I did not get your point on why you do not use start stack ? I am using starstax on Mac and I also enable to reduce the noise by using dark images. Cheers from France
Thanks David. A couple of reasons I don't use starstax ... Firstly it only reads jpeg or tiff files so I have to do a conversion of all the files to load into it. Secondly and more importantly, you can't do layer masks in Starstax, so for the light painted layers I shot separately I can't get rid of the stars that would show as dots. Other than that I think Starstax is a brilliant software .. .and free.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thanks for . the reply. Would it be possible to stack the outcome of starstax (the sky) with the foreground with photoshop. (sorry for my stupid questions) cheers
I forgot to mention in the video that my settings for the forground light painted shots were: f5 15 sec exposures iso500 Also I re-focused the camera on the car to make sure it was sharp.
Excellent video... informative and inspirational! Quick question, what was the brightness of the torch (flashlight) you used to paint the car?
Thanks for watching MJE. The Led Lenser P7.2 is about 400 lumens on it's brightest setting but I often light paint with it dimmed down a bit ... depending on my camera settings.
for zoom lens, does the image move a bit due to focus breathing when you refocus? how do you correct that?
@Peter La Fontaine Thanks so much Peter
@@ronbeltran2229 Yes Ron it does move ever so slightly and I tend to hide that by leaving a darker edge on one side so it looks like it's meant to be there. This comes down to how I light the scene.
Outstanding.
Thanks so much John
I love photography, but haven't done much in so long. After watching almost all your youtube videos back to back today, you've inspired me to get back behind the Lens. I've wanted to get into Nightscape photography for a few years now, and after finding and watching your channel, i now feel like i can. Your work is so inspiring and beautiful! Thanks for you all do to help us learn, and please keep it coming!
Hi Nick, that's so encouraging of you to say. It's the reason I put these videos up because I love being out under the night sky and capturing the beauty of the landscape after dark. Please keep in touch, I'd love to know how you go.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thanks Richard! I will share my first attempts with you, will likely be in a few months at least, but i'll continue to subscribe and follow you work to keep me energised and excited to start! I'm in the UK, do you have and tips or advise for me photographing the milky way in this part of the world? Or any sites/mobile apps I can use to help me work out where it'll be and at what time of year? I know you use that PhotoPills app...?
Very informative video Richard, great image
Wow, you're going back a bit with this one Suzanne . ..!!!!
@@nightscapeimages.richard well I watched your latest sa video, and cast it to the TV, that one just followed in the playlist
@@andysuzierawlins5462 It's funny how youtube mixes them up.
Looks great!!!
Thank you Robbie
Nicely created. 👍
Many thanks Nildo
Thanks for great info.
I'm really pleased you like it Wirinhar
excellent video thanks
Thanks a lot Stephen
Fantastic mate... learning so much great stuff from you. Much appreciated....
You're very welcome Tim, appreciate you watching and leaving a comment.
Explain what you mean by taking black images to reduce noise .Please. Your night shoots a second to none are the best i have seen, please keep them coming.
Thanks for watching. Simply put it is similar to what happens when you enable long exposure noise reduction in camera. But when you take multiple dark frames it gives better results.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Newbie what do you mean by dark frames , put lens cover on and take some pics or what
@@wellwhatthen10101 Yes that's exactly it. The exposures need to be exactly the same settings as the normal shots.
I have watched several of your excellent videos recently and what I take away from them is the impression that Australia seems to be full of random junk strewn all over the countryside.
Junk that proves to be a goldmine for the photographer with the right eye!
Haha ... thanks for watching Matt. Yes I suppose I do give that impression .. I do seek out the junk and highlight it that's for sure. More junk coming in the next video ...!!!
Thanks for another lovely video!!!!
Appreciate the comment Milorad
Thanks Richard. This is pure inspiration as I wait for clear skies here in winter Sweden.
Thank you so much for watching ... means a lot.
Incredible
Thanks for watching Kevin, really appreciate that
Love how you clearly explain each step by step of the process. Especially with the editing as I have no issues with capturing the shots it’s always the editing that holds me back. Looking forward to putting all this to use, and creating some amazing images. Thank you
You're very welcome Mat. I appreciate you watching.
What a good job you are doing. You teach well
Really appreciate your support fUGiMan, thanks for watching.
That first image shown @ 10:37, by itself with the light in the front has a great night story deep focus feel, that alone is pretty sweet!
Thanks very much for your comment. Yes it's very moody and that's what I like about light painting.
Nightscape Images I’ve been contemplating, after a few years of finding out how photography is now a great passion of mine, replacing my D5500 with the Z6, and these amazing images show a whole new level of art, that motivates me to do more and grow, once again awesome shots, such UNIQUE skills.
Hi Richard, really great work. Appreciate it
I'm really pleased you like it aasish .. many thanks.
Awesome work!
Really appreciate that Motty
very good work I learn something with every video I watch
Thanks Rick, appreciate your comments
Another great video and WOW again. Love you videos and finial image
Thanks again Greg, really appreciated
I showed some friends and they were blown away. So want me to try different techniques with light painting
@@glenseeney Thats really good Glen
Very inspiring work and highly instructive video. There is a lot I can take away here. Thank you …❤
Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it.
Do not get me wrong I am green noobster. I love Ozark, Young Pope and T-Detective and here in the end we have lost all the shadows in stock, I no longer see the riddles in this old unfortunate and now also the naked car.
With it i love what happens with the foreground 14:30 :)
Thanks for watching Mike. The good thing is that the creator has the ability to leave some more of the shadows in if they so desire.
Absolutely brilliant video, brilliantly explained stacking, brilliant photo and subject, Thank you.
Thanks so much for watching, really appreciated.
Thanks for the video. It has motivated me to go out tonight and to try out your own technique. well, i need some more exercise. many greetings from northern Germany.
Thank you so much for watching Frank. I'd be keen to see how you go.
Another great video. These type of shots I have been really interested in ever since I went to ‘the dish’.
The dish is awesome ... thanks for watching.
Richard, awesome as usual thank you so much for starting to share your workflow that’s very helpful. I’m looking forward to seeing the nuances of your Light paint techniques in upcoming videos. Please let us all know you’re giving workshops you’ll get a big crowd no doubt and I will be there
In the USA. I will be there!
Scott
Really appreciate your support Scott. I do lots of workshops in Australia but not yet made it to the US
Well get going on the USA!!@@nightscapeimages.richardLots of great places!
Yes I can imagine Scott
Great work, thank you!
Thanks for watching
Nice one, great info Richard.
Thanks so much Paul
Once again, very informative, very interesting, looking fwd to your next video!
Thanks a lot Cliff
Great video Richard! Amazing star trails in this one. Really like how you experiment with different techniques!
Really appreciate your comments Mike. I think it's important to try new things as it's really easy to get a bit stuck in a rut otherwise.
Hello Richard, such, I like night photography like you, I have the Nikon D750 and a good angle in addition to the led lens P7 and other accessories, I am from the south of Spain and the light pollution is not much problem, the only problem I have to do night photography is the difficult access to the locations .. Sometimes I find people very suspicious, congratulations for their work.
Really appreciate you watching. Maybe take someone with you to keep you company and to make sure you are safe.
Great job - as always! Really catchy and educational!
Thanks so much
@@nightscapeimages.richard No, Sir... Thank YOU! :)
Nice result! Thanks from Canada...
Really appreciate you watching
beautiful
Thank you Musaab
pleasure is all mine
Good stuff as always!
Thanks for watching Gordon
Great video (as usual) Richard. I really look forward to them. Especially like the editing detail you went into here. Thanks again - fantastic work!
Thanks so much for your support Glen, means a lot.
Your videos are always so good and amazing quality. Thank you
Thank you so much for the lovely comments
Only 13k subs? Damm whats wrong with youtube? Amazing job congrats!
Thanks for watching, really appreciate it.
Inspirational. Thank you so much
Thanks so much for watching Royston
Excellent video , I just started watching your channel as well , great content.
Really appreciate you watching Malcolm.
Hi Richard never tired to see your videos again and again and catch every bit of information and wisdom you kindly share with our community..I am sure you are the "guilty" to motivate so many people to go outside chasing the stars and the Milk way..me included.
Thanks a lot for the motivation and inspiration you deliver with every video..
Highly appreciated. Best regards from Portugal
You are indeed very kind Zarcos. I really appreciate you watching and am always happy to motivate people to get out under the stars ...!!!
Love your work! You explain everything so simple and fun. You're kinda like the Bob Ross of photography
Thanks very much for watching ... i don't know Bob Ross but I'm sure he's a great bloke ...!!!
Good tutorial, like all you've done. Regards
Thanks so much Rodolfo
This is fascinating and to use your words 'a beautiful image'
Really appreciated
Thanks for sharing Richard..lovely image and great insight into your technique ..
Many thanks Martin
If you group them then convert to a smart object, it will shrink your file size. Then if you want to reedit it later just double click on the smart object and it will open up the group in a new project just like it had always been there complete with edits. Love the photo by the way.
Thanks my friend ... good to know
Looking forward to giving this ago once the snow stops falling and the nights become clear again.
Thanks a lot lez76
@@nightscapeimages.richard A question for you and maybe a topic to cover in a video, how do choose the ISO. I always seem to be too high and have too much noise or too low and not enough stars.
@@masterthelens A very good question .. I'll discuss it in the future.
Another great image, your videos are easy to follow along and are packed with useful information. Good job!
Really appreciate your kind words Raymond
Thank you, good video enjoy your work
Thanks so much Phillip
Just, amazing
Great edit video!
Thanks Tiaan
All i can say us wow, and the tutorial is very helpful
Many thanks
Superb mate , very in depth tutorial , good to see the full editing process also , i am inspired now to get out there and practice this , many thanks and keep up the good work .
Thanks so much Garry, really appreciate your comments
I will definitely give this a go!!! Love your work mate. Keep them coming.
Many thanks
Another great one 👍👍 thanks for sharing Richard
Thanks Brian
Stunning ………. !!!!! , Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, USA !!!
Thanks very much for watching
The final image is fantastic great effort and very interesting video, thanks Richard.
Thanks very much Peter, really appreciated
Was waiting for the wallaby to cross the road in front of your car... lucky! 😉Very helpful and interesting video!
Haha ... thanks Nellie. There were plenty of rabbits and I am sorry to report that a few didn't survive. On one of my previous videos there were large kangaroos crossing in front of the car. You can see why I have the bullbar mounted on the front ...!! Appreciate you watching.
I have to try star trails still. I guess I just point to the north star first to make sure I get the circle. I've got to give it a go with just a basic 10 exposure shot sometime.
I'll be doing another video regarding star trails soon. A very simple way of shooting them.
I don't even have a "real" camera, yet, and I'm fascinated by tutorials like these. I like your style of instruction so I subbed.
Thanks heaps.
Your photos are gorgeous! Excited to try to use some of these techniques! You gained a subscriber and ig follower from me! Keep up the great work!
Wonderful David, glad you like it.
great video Richard, also glad to see your sub numbers taking off, you deserve it!
Thanks so much. It seems people are discovering the channel on the back of some recent videos.
Brilliant work Richard. Thanks for keeping these videos coming...
Really appreciate your support Colin
Thanks Richard another really helpful edit video. 👍👍
No worries michael
I just found your channel! I love it. I’ve always wanted to learn light painting, and I’m learning a lot from you! Thanks from Michigan, USA. I can’t wait until June to see the Milky Way again and use your tips!
Really appreciate you tuning in
Thanks for sharing this with us, Richard! Grear photo!
Thank you so much for watching
Love it! I bumped my tripod two nights ago. What a nightmare. Great video.
Yes it wasn't good Terry
You’ve inspired me to do this!!
I'm really pleased that you're inspired John, thanks so much for watching.
Mate what an excellent tutorial! From field to wall IMO. Love it and some awesome tips in there too for good field practises to achieve final images. You're tempting me to swing by Bendigo, pick you up, and head to Mungo NP for some astro!
Hey thanks Andrew .... Mungo NP ey ... very tempting. Not exactly on the way but hey .. who cares ..!!!
what an image! wow! awesome editing too!
Thanks so much
Hi Richard, new to your channel and fairly new to the Astrophotography world. I found you work very creative and inspirational.
There is a subject i wonder if you can cover, i think that is mostly for newbies like myself but can be useful for everybody, And that is the intervalometer how to.
Thank you and keep up with the good work. Erick. greetings from the U.S.
Thanks so much for watching Erick. I'll put the intervalometer etc on my list of future videos ... really appreciate your comments.
Awesome, thank you for consider it.
Another excellent video, Richard. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and experience. I've ordered a LED Lenser and I've been scouting (today) for some suitable subjects to light paint....all thanks to you. Thanks again. Great job, and a superb channel.
Really appreciate your support Simon
Great video as usual. Thanks to this video and your guide I did my first ever star trails photo a couple of nights ago and I can not be happier with the result (if I ignore my house roof of course). Thank you so much.
I'm really pleased to hear that ... well done
Thanks for your very informative and clear tutorial which is easy to understand. I suppose in my case of not having a cordless remote, I will just have to come back to the camera for each light painting exposure to set it off by remote intervalometer? And I think fewer star trail exposures will be fine as well.
Thanks so much for watching Johan, yes you can certainly do that. I appreciate your comments.
I have learnt so much more from you in your channel with your clear, sharp to the point instructions. If I can double subscribe, I will.
Very kind of you Raymond
Nice work. Excellent presentation. I'm wondering why some of the trails, particularly on the right, appear like dashed lines. Example...the dimmer trail just above the brightest trail lower right.
Thanks Gary. It is often caused by light cloud as the clouds are in front of the stars so the gaps are caused.
Fantastic! I don't know Photoshop at all, so this is great.
I'm so glad you like it Theresa
Another very impressive image Richard. Can't wait for it to warm up here in the North Okanagan region of British Columbia, Canada, so I can get out and do some of these images!
Thanks Dale much appreciated
Color of that CTO gel looks almost exactly the same as Kapton tape. Might be an option... I don't know.
Thanks for watching John. I'm not very familiar with Kapton tape .. but you never know.
@@nightscapeimages.richard It is a rather expensive tape used in electronics. Very high voltage insulating capability. Also used in pcb manufacturing because it can cover board parts and withstand the heat of a liquid solder bath without melting. Just FYI. Love your videos!
I'll have to try these setting. Thank you.
Thanks a lot Pol
Another great tutorial sir.
Best regards from norway
Really pleased you like it
Nice video. What is your camera setting for light painting of the car of all frames you took. Thanks
Thank you. The light painted layers are f5 10 sec iso500
Great video !!! Learnt a lot!! I have been dying to learn this .... until I found YOU. Thank you once again, for doing this. Hopefully I would be able to try my hands on this on an upcoming trip.
Thanks again Noreen. Really appreciated
I've just come across your site and work this week......Marvelous. Love the way you explain every step you do! Thanks..... a new follower.
Really pleased you like the videos Bret .. .thanks so much.
Great video. Thanks for sharing. What are the pros or cons of shooting star trails with 3 minute exposures as opposed to shooting as I do sometimes when I can get away from the light pollution here in Southeastern Virginia on the East coast of the US. of 15 second exposures generally depending on conditions and shooting hundreds of exposures? I have a crop sensor camera a Nikon D5100 with a built in interverlometer I use StarStax and Lightroom but have recently switched to Luminar 3 because it has layers. Just curious about your very well presented method and videos. Just awesome! Great information. Thank you so very much! If this has already been answered my apologies kind sir.
Hi Charlie, thanks so much for watching. I prefer a longer shutter speed for a couple of reasons. Firstly you can lower the iso for a cleaner image, secondly with lesser amount of layers it's easier for the computer to manage all the files. There are also some advantages to using lots of short exposures. For example you can use each frame to make a timelapse or even use each shot as an individual image. As well as that I'm not sure you can use the inbuilt intervalometer with these longer exposures either.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thank you Richard for your reply. That was most helpful. I/we who watch really appreciate all the time and effort you go into in presenting these videos. You are by far the best presenter of this type of subject I have seen. Thank you so much for sharing what is clearly your passion. I have dreamed of coming to Australia and would love to go shooting with you. You have inspired me greatly and I intend to go out and do some more night photography. I live in a great location but sadly with a lot of light pollution. My bride is from South Dakota here in the USA and has family in Northwestern Minnesota both places with awesome dark skies especially using Google's Dark Sky map. Would love to see you do some tutorials more in depth of using Photo Pills a great app I use too. Thank you again. Cheers!
@@charliesquish Your encouragement is very much appreciated Charlie ... thank you.
Just came across your channel and glad I have, super helpful video - thank you :-)
Just saw your comment Simon ... really appreciate you watching.
Hi richard, first let me say love your work and chanel. I have a question, I do quite a bit of nightscape photography but I live in an area very close to the flight path to Manchester Airport, UK, in fact I'm pretty sure there is nowhere in the UK you can escape a flightpath lol. I was wondering if you have ever had to deal with the airplane light trail problem and if so how do you go about getting rid of them. I find myself having to go thorough a great deal of images manualy erasing them in lightroom before stacking them to get clear star trails, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks so much for watching. I am fairly close to the Melbourne airport flight path but I'm sure that's not as busy as Manchester. I usually remove them in photoshop. That's also another good reason to shoot less exposures ... less work on plane trails. No easy way around it I'm afraid.
I didn't think so lol, just hoping I missed something to make my editing a little easier. Thanks for the quick reply. Keep up the great work you do.
Impressive nightscape image. 👏 A great and easy to understand tutorial. 👍 Thank you so much.🙏 Hopefully this summer I will be able to try nightscape photography. Best regards from frigid Canada. 🤗
Thanks so much for watching Maryla
Thanks for the video. I need to go try it. What do you do if you have a few shots with plane trails? Throw those out or edit the plane trails out?
Thanks for watching Gery. I never throw any shots out as that creates gaps in the trails. It's pretty easy to clone out the star trails as they are usually only on a single exposure, sometimes 2 shots. I do this in photoshop
Awesome videos mate, very informative
Thanks a lot John
Thanks so much for this tutorial!!!
You are very welcome
Thanks for sharing all these fantastic pics with us and the explanation, how to get them! I‘m so envious of your great clear nights, here in Bremen, Germany, we‘ve got so much light pollution. The first video of yours I saw, puzzled me: why is Orion up in the sky and the guy is wearing a t-Shirt instead of warm clothes? And why is the nebula above the belt stars? Then I realized you must be from Down-Under!
Thanks again, keep going and take care!
Yes we are truly blessed with clear night skies. Really appreciate your comments.
Hi Richard, very nice video as usual. I got some questions - when you refocus on the foreground for light painting, the object will move even if you are not moving the camera or tripod. How do you compensate that? Also what are your own workflow for processing startrail individual frames, cause I get some many planes in my shots that it gets boring trying to rub them out.
Thanks again Avijit. Yes there is always a little focus breathing when framing up the foreground, however I've not found this to be a massive problem as the background "shadow" is actually dark and usually blends in quite well with the background. Yes planes can be a real problem but that's another good reason to have longer exposures for these star trails as the planes are usually only on one frame and therefore a little less time consuming to remove.
Curious if there is an "easy" way to remove plane lights? Superb work as always, thanks for sharing!
Not really an easy way but the fewer layers you have the shorter time it takes. I use the clone stamp in photoshop for that.
I really like your videos. Thank you! I have a question. How could focus be set on anything else but infinity? Maybe it is obvious to everybody else but not to me.
Thank you for watching. It's really easy to focus on items close to the camera and therefore not be at infinity. When you use your camera during normal daytime use, it will often be focused away from infinity.
Very good video! Not sure exactly what camera settings for light painting and stars are, and if you could do a video on how you masked the six images that would be great. Thanks.
Thanks for watching Jeffry. I do demonstrate this process in some of my other videos as well.
Nightscape Images I believe I found it. Going to keep on watching though for now. Hopefully when the weather is is better I'll be able to get out there and try everything. Thanks a lot, and you do very nice work for sure!!
Love your work, Richard. Wish I lived "out in the sticks" somewhere, so much light polution in the UK!! I don`t recall seeing you mention it in any of your videos, but I take it you turn off the noise reduction feature in your cameras?
Thanks Jeff. Very blessed here in Australia to have lots of dark sky areas. Yes I always turn off long exposure noise reduction in camera.
I just discovered your channel. I love how you explain everything thoughtfully. I got an ultra-wideangle (but f4 lens) and a 55mm (but 1.8) lens. Could you do a video on how to shoot astrophotography with a telephoto lens? cheers John
Thank for watching John. Yes I will put that onto the list of subject matter for sure.
Nice video as always. thanks for the detailed explanations. I did not get your point on why you do not use start stack ? I am using starstax on Mac and I also enable to reduce the noise by using dark images. Cheers from France
Thanks David. A couple of reasons I don't use starstax ... Firstly it only reads jpeg or tiff files so I have to do a conversion of all the files to load into it. Secondly and more importantly, you can't do layer masks in Starstax, so for the light painted layers I shot separately I can't get rid of the stars that would show as dots. Other than that I think Starstax is a brilliant software .. .and free.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thanks for . the reply. Would it be possible to stack the outcome of starstax (the sky) with the foreground with photoshop. (sorry for my stupid questions) cheers
@@boukydu28 Yes it absolutely would be David ... good idea. I love the comet trails that you can get in Starstax also.
@@nightscapeimages.richard thanks a lot. I'll give it a try when it will be warmer in France :D