Thanks for the video. I’ll be staying at the Lodge for the June ‘24 new moon and solo shooting the MW in the wee hours. Sounds like Cape Royal is better than the Point. Right?
Thanks for that kind response to the video, Mario! I am happy to hear of your gratitude! Hope you will keep coming back to the channel for more content and let me know anytime if you have a topic request for what you would like to learn! Always love to adjust to what people are really needing to learn right now, so let me know! Thanks again! -Aaron
Nice presentation Aaron - well done. I'm going through and organizing MW images to stack right now... it would be really helpful if there was a mode that displayed time difference from the previous image. Maybe tack it next to the exposure information. Bonus points if it would consider the exposure time so it was actually displaying the time between "shutter presses".
Thanks! It's fun to squeeze the most you can out of a short timelapse with an edit that reuses the clip in different zooms to get the most out of it. And the Milky Way as a subject is cheat mode and too easy to get something cool looking! :D -Aaron
Thanks for sharing the video, I’m trying to blend a lightened foreground image. I.e. so the foreground was in focus and lighter throughout the video. I’ve searched everywhere and no success. Any ideas would really be appreciated.
Are you wanting to have the foreground be a SINGLE IMAGE that was taken to be more bright and in focus that acts as you foreground for the timelapse? If you are, the biggest challenge with that is the STATIC nature of your foreground and how that will typically be very obvious in your timelapse that the foreground isn't a dynamic timelapse with live action. It looks still and lifeless while your sky is moving and alive. I don't recommend it because of that reason, BUT when you decide to do it either way the best way to create it is simply add the single image foreground of your choosing to the Photoshop edit you are doing for the timelapse. After you import the sequence of photos that make up the sky timelapse, they will be a layer in your Photoshop document. You CAN add other layers still. So import the static Foreground image you want as another layer, make sure that the sky portion of that image has been removed so that it doesn't block vision of any layer under it and place that layer at the top of all layers. If you have the sky cut out and if the foreground image matches up perfectly with the timelapse scene in the layers below it, it will cover the darker foreground and allow space for the timelapsed sky to be seen and when you export out your final edited timelapse movie from Photoshop it will include the foreground layer along with the sky timelapse and make a movie showing what you are looking for. It's hard to explain all this in words alone so I am sure I have lost you somewhere along the way or poorly described something somewhere, so please let me know what you understand and what questions you still have and I can try and help further. :D -Aaron
@ thanks for taking the time to reply, I think it makes sense - especially the fact it wouldn’t look right- explains why I’ve thought some Timelapse’s look composite 😄😄 Cheers and thanks again
Thanks but I use Corel Paint Shop Pro 2020. Thanks for helping folks. I am trying to get out Friday for some wildflowers, followed by Pons Brooks kissing Jupiter and top it off with a milky way. Is the milky way still from 3am to sunrise>? Take care.
Heya Angelo! The Milky Way in the northern hemisphere can be summarized simply and roughly like this: JAN at Astro dawn. FEB at 3-4am. MAR at 2-3am. APR 1-2am MAY 12-1am. It of course varies by day and some nights will be even earlier than this but it can be seen as pretty much inching an hour earlier every month until It is there all night long by June. Good luck with your comet photo!! That will be really cool with it in conjunction with Jupiter! Will be looking at it too from New Mexico! 😃 -Aaron
@@PhotogAdventures Thank you. Looks like it is comet to MW an all nighter lol. I got the comet a couple times already but no tail with just a camera and lens...no stacking. No tracker. Maybe darker skies on Friday will help if it is not too low on the horizon. Take care.
If you are working to get a timelapse edited in Adobe Photoshop using iPhone images won't be what you are doing. The iPhone's Timelapse feature creates the video for you so you don't even need Photoshop to work the edit for you. On top of that, the iPhone doesn't take timelapses at night well at all, it is simply black. Do you have camera generated photos that are in a sequence that could be edited in Photoshop? Because if you do not, you are missing the first step required to use what I recommend here in this tutorial. -Aaron
Hey Greg! Sorry for the delay in responding to your question. It sounds like you are trying to hit Spacebar in Photoshop to PLAY the timelapse. It's hard to know what other things could be going on that is making your spacebar press not turn into the "Play" button as expected without more information, but is there a chance that you do not have the "Timeline" window open? I don't believe spacebar will be the play button if you aren't in the Timeline window. Can you try that and give me some more context for where you are at in Photoshop so I might be able to guess why your spacebar isn't working as a play button? -Aaron
@PhotogAdventures Thank you. I found out my issue and forgot I posted this. It turns out that Photoshop couldn't read the files as a sequence because the camera used numbers in the file name. Once I changed the file names, it allowed me to upload as a sequence. Thank you for responding.
You are welcome and I agree with you. It was too nuanced and case by case basis to muddy the instruction with a long - actually said but edited out of the final - discourse on how it does look choppy sometimes. Depends on the scene and exposure. But when you want to get the longest stretch out of your timelapse going half speed or 12fps is a great option. Thanks for commenting and really appreciate you watching my channel! 😃 - Aaron
Thanks Aaron! Finally a way to use my existing software and not have to buy a separate time lapse software program!
Exactly! I want to make sure everyone can create awesome stuff, no matter the budget! :D -Aaron
Thanks for the video. I’ll be staying at the Lodge for the June ‘24 new moon and solo shooting the MW in the wee hours. Sounds like Cape Royal is better than the Point. Right?
Fantastic Aaron. Thanks for the review, I needed that. Video AND PDF file. Yahoo.
You are welcome, John! Yeah I am glad you love the PDF too because I really need to make more of those to go with my new videos. -Aaron
Thanks Aaron King, timelapse video with simple editing with Lightroom and Ps, really cool👏👏👏👍🙏
Thanks for that kind response to the video, Mario! I am happy to hear of your gratitude! Hope you will keep coming back to the channel for more content and let me know anytime if you have a topic request for what you would like to learn! Always love to adjust to what people are really needing to learn right now, so let me know! Thanks again! -Aaron
Nice presentation Aaron - well done.
I'm going through and organizing MW images to stack right now... it would be really helpful if there was a mode that displayed time difference from the previous image. Maybe tack it next to the exposure information. Bonus points if it would consider the exposure time so it was actually displaying the time between "shutter presses".
I really, really liked that awesome audio clip... It was kind of mesmerizing watching the video with it. TY.
Thanks! It's fun to squeeze the most you can out of a short timelapse with an edit that reuses the clip in different zooms to get the most out of it. And the Milky Way as a subject is cheat mode and too easy to get something cool looking! :D -Aaron
Very Nice!!
Thanks for sharing the video, I’m trying to blend a lightened foreground image. I.e. so the foreground was in focus and lighter throughout the video. I’ve searched everywhere and no success. Any ideas would really be appreciated.
Are you wanting to have the foreground be a SINGLE IMAGE that was taken to be more bright and in focus that acts as you foreground for the timelapse? If you are, the biggest challenge with that is the STATIC nature of your foreground and how that will typically be very obvious in your timelapse that the foreground isn't a dynamic timelapse with live action. It looks still and lifeless while your sky is moving and alive. I don't recommend it because of that reason, BUT when you decide to do it either way the best way to create it is simply add the single image foreground of your choosing to the Photoshop edit you are doing for the timelapse. After you import the sequence of photos that make up the sky timelapse, they will be a layer in your Photoshop document. You CAN add other layers still. So import the static Foreground image you want as another layer, make sure that the sky portion of that image has been removed so that it doesn't block vision of any layer under it and place that layer at the top of all layers. If you have the sky cut out and if the foreground image matches up perfectly with the timelapse scene in the layers below it, it will cover the darker foreground and allow space for the timelapsed sky to be seen and when you export out your final edited timelapse movie from Photoshop it will include the foreground layer along with the sky timelapse and make a movie showing what you are looking for.
It's hard to explain all this in words alone so I am sure I have lost you somewhere along the way or poorly described something somewhere, so please let me know what you understand and what questions you still have and I can try and help further. :D -Aaron
@ thanks for taking the time to reply,
I think it makes sense - especially the fact it wouldn’t look right- explains why I’ve thought some Timelapse’s look composite 😄😄
Cheers and thanks again
Thanks but I use Corel Paint Shop Pro 2020. Thanks for helping folks. I am trying to get out Friday for some wildflowers, followed by Pons Brooks kissing Jupiter and top it off with a milky way. Is the milky way still from 3am to sunrise>? Take care.
Heya Angelo! The Milky Way in the northern hemisphere can be summarized simply and roughly like this: JAN at Astro dawn. FEB at 3-4am. MAR at 2-3am. APR 1-2am MAY 12-1am. It of course varies by day and some nights will be even earlier than this but it can be seen as pretty much inching an hour earlier every month until It is there all night long by June. Good luck with your comet photo!! That will be really cool with it in conjunction with Jupiter! Will be looking at it too from New Mexico! 😃 -Aaron
@@PhotogAdventures Thank you. Looks like it is comet to MW an all nighter lol. I got the comet a couple times already but no tail with just a camera and lens...no stacking. No tracker. Maybe darker skies on Friday will help if it is not too low on the horizon. Take care.
Where was this timelapse shot? Looks a bit like Zion NP in Utah.
This is a location just outside the border of Zion. Really cool pancake, chimney rocks! Love this area! :D -Aaron
Deflick video edit possible?
Video code does not support phone ,ig etc. Pity
If you are working to get a timelapse edited in Adobe Photoshop using iPhone images won't be what you are doing. The iPhone's Timelapse feature creates the video for you so you don't even need Photoshop to work the edit for you. On top of that, the iPhone doesn't take timelapses at night well at all, it is simply black. Do you have camera generated photos that are in a sequence that could be edited in Photoshop? Because if you do not, you are missing the first step required to use what I recommend here in this tutorial. -Aaron
I followed all your steps, but when I hit spacebar nothing happens. Any tips?
Hey Greg! Sorry for the delay in responding to your question. It sounds like you are trying to hit Spacebar in Photoshop to PLAY the timelapse. It's hard to know what other things could be going on that is making your spacebar press not turn into the "Play" button as expected without more information, but is there a chance that you do not have the "Timeline" window open? I don't believe spacebar will be the play button if you aren't in the Timeline window. Can you try that and give me some more context for where you are at in Photoshop so I might be able to guess why your spacebar isn't working as a play button? -Aaron
@PhotogAdventures Thank you. I found out my issue and forgot I posted this. It turns out that Photoshop couldn't read the files as a sequence because the camera used numbers in the file name. Once I changed the file names, it allowed me to upload as a sequence. Thank you for responding.
12fps looks way too choppy in my opinion, but great work on teaching us a quick and easy way to generate timelapse videos with photoshop :)
You are welcome and I agree with you. It was too nuanced and case by case basis to muddy the instruction with a long - actually said but edited out of the final - discourse on how it does look choppy sometimes. Depends on the scene and exposure. But when you want to get the longest stretch out of your timelapse going half speed or 12fps is a great option. Thanks for commenting and really appreciate you watching my channel! 😃 - Aaron