Astrophotography EDITING - all you need to know - get stunning photos in Lightroom!
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- Today I'll show you how to edit your astrophotography shots to make them look stunning in lightroom. I go through the steps I take every-time I bring a RAW photo of the night sky into lightroom, to make the colours pop and to make the milkyway stand out!
It is easy to edit your photos once you know how and I show you how to make the good ones better and the average photos good!!
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Hey glad you found the white balance saturation trick useful! Great video bud :D
Hey Alyn, thanks very much! 👍
It's such a good technique, I use it all the time dude...thought I'd pass on your wisdome and try and send a few subs your way at the same time. 😁👍
I really like your way of making these tutorials. You don't say that "my way is the best" and so on. As you say at 2:00 "this is my way and hopefully you can learn from it". Being 67 I still have a lot to learn and videos like this is so interesting to follow and there is always new ideas to grab. Greetings from Norway!
Thanks so much Jens, great to hear you like it. There are so many ways to get the same result and all the tools we have nowadays are amazing!
You're never too old to learn...my dad is 81 and he makes sure he picks new things up all the time! 😁
Thanks for watching 👍
Thanks for making such a great tutorial. It is long, but every second contains useful information.
Thanks so much!! It is quite the subject to cover!! 😁👍
Great video Mike...Learnt a lot thanks..One thing tho, can you please show us how you added your Samyang lens in User presets? I just bought it and used it tonight, so great timing with this tutorial..Cheers
No worries Sam, I might just do a short monday video on that soon. 😁
Thanks for watching 👍
Thank you for the detailed explanations and reasons for each modified slider. Great shots!
Thanks so much Ruben!! 😁👍
Thanks for the video. Followed along on Lightroom Mobile and it worked great. Nice tip about the white balance with the max vivid and saturation. Have you ever done some work on deep sky objects, like for example galaxies, nebulas?
Most informative video I've found to date on editing mily way images. I'm a massive fan of AW, but Mike explains several different techniques of achieving similar results in a simple but unpatronising way.
As a newbie, I'm uncertain if my processing skills are to blame for failing to capture Pro "colourful" milky way images, but I now see it is mostly because I am not in dark enough skies.
Most helpful vid, keep up the good work, and hope for clear skies.
Thanks so much Daren! You've hit the nail on the head there...by far the best way to get great astrophotography images is to find darker locations where you can see more of the night sky!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Awesome video. Direct to the point. I was looking for something this simple. Loved the 2nd picture of the bridge. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks so much, I'm glad you liked it!! I've been meaning to do this one for a while so it was good to get it out for you guys to hopefully learn from. 👍
You’re killing it mike! Keep up the good work and great videos. This is my fave photography account. 👌🏻
Thanks so much Tom! I really do enjoy making these and I have a lot more to come! Great to hear my channel is your favourite! 😁👍
this was excellent. I use Luninar 4.3 and was able to follow along with no issues.
That's great to hear! Thanks for letting me know. 😁👍
Great, Mike. Thanks a lot
Glad you liked it Jose! 😁👍
great tutorial on a difficult topic!
Thanks so much Paolo!! It was a long one but good to do. I just hoe the lockdown lifts soon so I can get out under the stars again! 😁👍
Thanks so much Mike ..I am learning Astro and RAW Conversions but use P Shop CC but I recognise the sliders ..this is awesome
Thanks so much Peter! Photoshop is such a powerful program. 😁👍
Excellent video
I’m
Processing fort on siril and I save them a tif but LR does not open my pictures
Any idea ?
Wonderful video, Mike. You are greatly talented. I have been wanting to at least try a Milky Way picture at some point this Summer. I am in the middle of the rainy season though. Once it ends I plan to hike a mountain and try to get away from the city lights. Stay safe.
Great editing tutorial, Mike. I had bot seen that white balance technique, but it worked pretty well on some of my images. I really liked your shot with the road leading to the Milky Way. I hope you and yours are well.
Thanks so much dude. It really is a great little technique isn't it! It works much better on some images than others but great to know about.
That image was deep into the desert here in the UAE. It's great as it's one of the few roads without lights on it and it's nice and straight.
We're good...playing the waiting game for borders to open now...then we're moving countries!! So from September, the content will probably be in a more lush, green environment. 😁
I hope all is good with you guys. 👍
Working a night shift tonight and really wanna save this video to watch then.... but here I am, watching it now 😂🤦🏻♂️
Haha!! I hope I didn't make you late for work! 😁👍
Thanks for the video. Couple of tips, u can use the pipette for white balance, and you can use hsl sliders to adjust colours. I normally use tone curve, but I might adjust exposure, then reduce highlights, like you did
Thanks for the tips Andy. The pipette is definitely a great little device...I normally use this for my landscape shots...and the HSL sliders are fantastic as well. SO many different tools all packed into lightroom!!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Great video! I'm waiting for darker nights here in Sweden. / BabinskiPhoto
Thanks so much Karol!
That white balance trick! I have passed from totally avoiding WB to loving it 👍
Thanks so much Isaac...the credit must go to Alyn Wallace for that...it's a gem of a tip isn't it! 😁👍
@@mikesphotography Testing a lot with hard sunlight and the auto white balance never quite hits the mood, having control makes a whole difference!
Another great clear tutorial thanks Mike 👌. Another possible topic sometime - I have challenges with reducing halos in Lightroom. Any tips on that would be great.
Thanks Mark! and thanks for the suggestion...halos are a nightmare at the best of time...the best way I've found is to take a series of shots with bracketing and then either picking the ones with the lower exposure or blending them. 👍
Gained a little bit more knowledge from this.Thanks a lot.
Glad to hear that! 😁👍
Any recommendation on how to spot the comet NEOWISE ? :) I'm not sure if from Singapore it's visible. I guess Dubai would be similar ?
Hi Laurent,
It looks like we wont have much luck. We've had very dusty skies here recently and it is only visible at about 4am, just before the dawn light starts to bleach it out. We have one more day before it disappears from our skies here in the middle east.
I found this info "Comet NEOWISE is best viewed between 4 and 4:15 a.m. low in the northeastern sky. Venus is due East and should act as a reference point as the comet will be at about the same height. It's currently in the constellation Auriga, its brighter star Capella will also be in the northeast, above the location of the comet."
So in theory, if you use skyview or stellarium, you can use this info, find venus, and if it is in your sky, you can then see if it will be there before the day breaks.
I hope that helps. 👍
@@mikesphotography Hi Mike ! Thank you for the reply. I found the perfect solution. The new Stellarium+ mobile app has the comet loaded in (maybe an idea for a next video?) in Singapore is during the evening time but over the past few day it was really cloudy and really near to the horizon, so i guess it will be quite hard here as well.
Thanks--I do a lot of Milky Way shots, and I you have brought out several points that I found very helpful--I like your strategy with the whites, blacks, highlights, and also the tip on boosting sharpness then masking it, and being quite moderate with the luminance. I agree with you that applying clarity with a local brush can make the photo look unnnatural, but I find that works pretty well when I use a soft brush, around 35% flow and go easy on it. It can really make a difference. Also, I find that dehaze works well on MW shots. You don't use it? Thanks again--nice clear video, and I have found your flash tutorials most helpful also.
Thanks Neil! Great to hear some of the tips helped. I probably should have used the dehaze on the last image to get it to pop a little more. I'll have to try the local adjustments you suggested to see if they work for me and my editing...and that's the great thing with all of these tools we have...lots of different ways to get a great image.
Thanks for your thoughts!! 😁👍
Out of curiosity, can I leave it on auto iso while in manual mode to speed things up a bit?
Not really. As it's so dark, your camera will probably ramp up the iso more than you need, making it a lot more noisy than you'd want it to be.
“Stellar” post, Mike. (Pun intended). Good you had ample supply of “round to its”. 😁 WB tip super technique - useable elsewhere? By sharpening before noise reduction, aren’t you “sharpening” noise? Thought it was good practice to reduce noise first.
Haha! Always delivering the puns!! 😁 Thanks Paul.
The main thing with sharpening is the mask. In refining the mask, this will reduce the amount of noise you sharpen. 😁👍
Hi, I really like your channel, its simple and straight forward. Ive just recently started using Lightroom cc, when I previously used lr 3. Cc is more challenging to use. It doesn't import pictures in order of capture, so I cant put a pano together as everything has been messed up on adobe, I need help big time
There should be a tag where you can get them in different orders...and one of them should be to put them in chronological order.
Go into your library module, and then in the bottom right hand corner of the main viewer, it should have a little triangle you can click on for your view modes. Make sure you're in the multiple image library view (where you can see lots of slides in this main viewer), click on this triangle and make sure sorting is checked. Now it should have "sort" in the bottom of the main viewer. click on the little up/down arrow next to this and select "capture time" ... now it should be in the right order for you. 👍
@@mikesphotography thanks Mike, will give that a bash, do I need to highlight them 1st
No, it will just get them all in that order. 👍
My lens correction has no Samyang entry. Can I install it somehow?
Hi Trevor,
It does seem as though Adobe have removed Samyang from the list.
The best thing to do is to take a photograph of a grid, or something with straight lines in it. Then in lightroom, adjust it manually until all the lines are as straight as you can get them, and the vignette has been lessened. Then save it as a preset.
Before I broke my samyang, this is what I did and it worked quite well.
I am looking to do some more astrophotography soon, so I might have to do a video on this very subject.
Thanks for watching 👍
What about nebulae . Milky way is really straight forward I find...
Super
Thanks so much Chetan!
Very good, I do not edit, I feel like a liar; but at the same time I see the edition like another type of art that star with a Picture and that is the thing I try to do, a picture. Thanks Mr. Mike
No worries...it all comes down to your personal preference. I don't mind editing as it brings out the best in the shot...after all...when the camera produces an image, there are certain things it will add to it, like sharpening, colour changes, etc. before giving you the jpeg.
Also...if you shoot a long exposure, this would be like adding more light than you can see with the naked eye...🤔...and if you edit it too much, just call it art!! 😆😆😆
Thanks for watching and commenting Luis, much appreciated! 😁👍
Whats your thoughts on the new canon r5 and r6?
It has sent my G.A.S. into overdrive as to the possibilities!! 😆
What is that you say about types of locations?
The better the bortle classification, the better the photo.
Aha! Thanks. Forgot to say, again a great tutorial! Going to give it a shot on a clear night.
By the way, I noticed that in some videos you mention the 500 rule and sometimes the 600 rule. Can that difference be explained in any way?
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Getting in there!! 😁👍