Brilliant as usual, love the daylight review/setup. Loved the satellite cross in the first of the single tree images Richard. I would love to see an image showing your camera on the Skywatcher mini sometime if you could Richard. Either in a video or PM
Wondeful images and location. As always I enjoy very much your videos of most everything about astro images, how you planned as well how you took it plus post production and final product. Result is simple.."The best nightscape channel all around."
Another nugget of information Richard. I continue to think of your earlier training video on how our brains are wired, technical vs creative. This video once again helps to see that creative aspect. PS, no snakes here in the 24 cm of snow.
Haha, well I didn't see any snakes either Rob. Yes that concept about understanding how we are wired makes a lot of difference to our ability to learn photography. Appreciate your comments.
Another great video, Richard. I gotta try for some panos and multiple exposures blending, etc. I gotta get out of the funk, of trying to do all in a single exposures.
Fabulous video, Richard, as always, and yes, I certainly did get something out of it. This summer (here in the UK), I intend to follow your guidance and use my tracker for some Milky Way shots, including having a go at tracked panoramas. Thanks as always for the inspiration and motivation.
It is always great your videos Richard, simple words and explanations, amazing photos results, no problems with two differents places a few meters apart for shot foreground and sky, I also use this method with the tracker is more correct for better results expecially behind the branches and leaves. Compliments. Greetings from Italy 😊
Excellent narrative of the outing, a bit different from other videos but I liked it. You did not mention or I may have missed it if you did, the next to the last photo you shared at the end around 12:57 to the lower right of a tree it appears to be a meteor and a satellite that form a cross, interesting capture with a bit of luck.
Thanks again for watching Mike. Yes indeed that's a satellite or maybe two criss crossing each other. There are so many satellites up there now that every photo has at least one in it.
As always, very beautiful images ❤! I REALLY need to go to Australia, Dear, as your Galactic Core is so much more appealing than ours here … or it might be that my post processing needs to be updated! 😆
Great video as always Richard. Can't believe the water level is still so high, been a while since I've been out there. Colours and tonality you are getting out of your tracked shots are really stunning.
Thanks heaps Dominic. Yes the water is still very high. I do enjoy the H-alpha mod and I think it's working well with the single frames I'm shooting these days.
Really lovely images Richard . Beauty in simplicity. Really enjoyed this video. The panorama was incredible and definitely worth the effort you put into it. Very inspiring.
Pleasure to watch and listen to your astro adventures. And absolutely stunning pictures, I can't imagine how great it would be to get such results with only a single tracked sky shot! In my opinion there is nothing wrong with shooting your sky a couple of meters away in the same direction on the same night. Especially if you're making sure it matches the composition as it was then and there. I use the same technique all the time. Also great storytelling to just go back to the spot another day and show what it was all about (although video on the shooting night is even better ofcourse). I have so much nights where I was out shooting and just couldn't or didn't feel like vlogging. Might steal that idea every now and again ;-).
Great video Richard! I got one of those skytrackers the other week, still to test it, can't wait. I tried using your codes and links, but some I couldn't as it went to US and not Aus - but for as many items as I could that I was getting I tried to use the link. Got a lens warmer, new remote timer, tripod.... I saw on FB that you are not going to WA this year? I am planning a wee road trip from Melbourne across for the eclipse, I think it is gonna be crazy busy in Exmouth, I will have my swag but I'm thinking will maybe free camp near Coral Bay. I'll say this though, and it might sound a bit crazy, and I've traveled all the way around Australia and up and down the middle (except Tas) but some of the best skys are in NSW - They Hay Plains and some of those regions, up in the no mans land near Hillston - mind boggling how big the sky feels. It starts at the bottom, as I like to say. Anyways, superb video again and great pictures.
Thanks for your great support. Yes unfortunately the Amazon Australia links make no money at all . .it's better for me on the US site .. it seems hardly anyone in Australia uses my links. Yes I think there are plenty of really dark skies up in that region of NSW. For me, it's all about chasing foregrounds . ..and they can be found all over the place.
Thanks Richard. Lovely images. I also have a Star Adventurer, but have had trouble aligning it with the SCP (in SE Qld). Do you have a video where you show the details of how you do this? Thanks.
As always great Friday entertainment 😁 inspirational videos that keeps me motivated and give me ideas to apply on my own milkyway chase 🙏 I have an idea. It would be nice to se a video regarding milkyway photos in bortle 4. Many of us don't have the luxury of bortle 1-2😁 I would love to se hove you edit and the outcome. My self liv in bortle 4 and have bortle 3 in 1h drive. Just love your videos. Best regard Andreas
I totoally understand you have to move the tripod when shooting tracked sky and so do I. As long as it is pretty much in the same location with the foreground so it should not bother anyone who understand why we have to do that. The only issue will be when we send this photo to some the Astro photo competition and it can be unqualified..... Hope you can show how you do track pano in the future tutotial. I could see how you are going to explain things nicely and simply as always. Thanks
Incredible Images, Richard! The hydrogen alpha filter on your camera, was that a screw on filter or did you have to get the internal sensor filter modified? Absolutely love your videos - I look forward to seeing the notification a new one has been uploaded!!
Thanks so much for watching Gary. I had the internal filter changed to one that enables H-alpha and visible light through. I don't use any clip on filters at all.
I am relatively new to your channel. I love the workshop episodes. I would love to get your insight on getting an image off the screen and onto my wall. Are home printers an option? There are a bazooka of sites that that will do that. Which ones do you respect? Do they take raw photos, tiff or jpeg? What is preferred. What instructions do you give a lab. I hope this makes sense. If you have addressed this already. Please point me to the appropriate episodes. Thanks and clear skies. Bill
Thanks so much for watching Bill. I have no experience with home printers but I'd assume a lab will give better results in the majority of cases. I usually deliver Jpeg large files to the lab but you can send tiff files as well. As my images are shot at night in low light I usually brighten them up a bit before sending off for printing . .many prints come back dark otherwise. I don't give them any instructions but I have tested a number of printers and worked out the one's that give good results with my kind of work. Having said all of this, I don't consider myself an expert regarding printing and I don't really have any videos on the subject.
I always enjoy watching your videos, and love the way you go about composing and compiling the images. You may have already answered this and I just missed it, but what is your reason for shooting at 2.8 with the 20mm 1.8? Why not 1.8?
Thanks for watching. As a general rule any lens will perform better stopped down a bit. Wide open at f1.8 this lens as well as most others does have a bit more vignette, so especially when stitching panoramas I like a cleaner image across the frame.
Hey Richard! Great vid...ps, how about that cross in the bottom right of the vertical tree?!! I wonder what made that? Or perhaps God showing Himself?? Love it.. Ps, is the water still up to the top of the bridge??
Thanks a lot Carmel. Those are criss crossing satellites .. there are thousands of them up there now . .(Thanks Mr Musk). I don't get any images there days without satellite trails. I reckon the water would be 15 feet over the top of the old railway bridge at present.
All of your nightscape images are simply amazing! I know you said your tracked sky was a single shot and they are stunning. I do have a question about multiple exposure tracked panorama. Would you have to level your camera after each extended exposure as the tracker is going to move considerably if you are taking multiple minute exposures? I would think eventually your camera is going to be way off the mark if not leveled. Does that make sense? Love your work Richard! Alway look forward to your very informative videos! Cheers from middle Tennessee!
Thanks for your very kind words of support Carl. Yes I do try to level the camera for each of the shots .. and that's why I use the V mount under the ball head on the tracker. You are correct in assuming the panorama will be skewed if the tracker is allowed to continue it's roatation.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a new torch for light painting? I had a ledlenser P7 but the battery has since died. Apparently it is a very cheap torch because you can't take it apart without breaking it.
There are lots of torches on the market but what I look for would be something that has a high and low setting without any strobe function. (That drives me silly). Also the ability to zoom in tight or have a wide beam. The other thing is not to have hot spots in the beam. A nice soft edge is preferable.
1 tracked sky image is totally fine for me if we are the dark location. The 1 image is quite clean already as we use very low iso. Multiple tracked sky and stacking them does not make a lot of difference in term of Milky Way image imo.
I bet not having your video equipment with you was a little annoying at 1sts, but then a bit liberating, because then you could just enjoy the photography under the stars with no extra pressure
I watch your channel every time but not everyone is going to purchase a tracker . It is getting a tad stale. Leave the tracker in the car and go back to basics for a change Richard
Great photos Richard, I particularly liked the first one
Thanks as always for tuning in David.
Brilliant as usual, love the daylight review/setup. Loved the satellite cross in the first of the single tree images Richard. I would love to see an image showing your camera on the Skywatcher mini sometime if you could Richard. Either in a video or PM
Yes that crossed satellite was amazing Les. I'll see what I can do about showing the camera mou ted on the mini.
G'day Richard. Lovely work, beautiful images. Thanks mate...keep safe.
Thanks as always for your comments John. Much appreciated.
I like your optimism, "hopefully, they will scram" 🤣 Great post!
Haha, well you have to look on the bright side sometimes Walter .. !!! Thanks for watching.
As always, wonderful work of art!
Thanks so much for your kind comments Vivien.
Nightscape Images Najlepszy kanał o astro :) Pozdrowienia z Polski.
Thanks for watching.
Very nice, as usual. A pleasure to watch and learn. Thanks, Richard.
Thanks so much for your comments Rodrigo.
Wondeful images and location.
As always I enjoy very much your videos of most everything about astro images, how you planned as well how you took it plus post production and final product.
Result is simple.."The best nightscape channel all around."
You are very kind indeed Luis. Thanks so much.
Another awesome video Richard and stunning shots, love them👌
Thanks as always for watching Dennis.
Thanks Richard for another video, it's nice to see how you plan your photos, great job Richard, Tks.
As always I appreciate your comments Mario.
Awesome as always! Beautiful images!
Simple is great!
Thanks again for watching Calvin.
Always a please to watch you work and how you are planning the shot.
I'm glad you liked it my friend.
Wonderful video Richard, thanks for sharing!
Thanks as always for watching Todd
Thanks for making the effort to walk me through the steps in creating the photo! I am with you Richard I am keeping it simple these days ...LOL
I appreciate you watching the video, thanks for commenting.
Really amazing and work, greetings friend.
Thanks a lot for watching, really appreciated.
Some more nice ones, as usual.
Thanks as always for watching.
Another nugget of information Richard. I continue to think of your earlier training video on how our brains are wired, technical vs creative. This video once again helps to see that creative aspect. PS, no snakes here in the 24 cm of snow.
Haha, well I didn't see any snakes either Rob. Yes that concept about understanding how we are wired makes a lot of difference to our ability to learn photography. Appreciate your comments.
Love the pano and the 1st tree image the best great work as usual Richard
Thank you as always Suzie. Hope you're going well.
Beautiful results as usual Richard and a great explanation as to how you got the images, good to see the location in daylight 👌🌌
Thanks so much Garry. Yes I think it helps to get an idea of what these scenes look like in daylight.
Another great video, Richard.
I gotta try for some panos and multiple exposures blending, etc. I gotta get out of the funk, of trying to do all in a single exposures.
Yes it does take extra effort but the results are well worth it. Thanks for watching.
Fabulous video, Richard, as always, and yes, I certainly did get something out of it. This summer (here in the UK), I intend to follow your guidance and use my tracker for some Milky Way shots, including having a go at tracked panoramas. Thanks as always for the inspiration and motivation.
Thanks as always for your kind comments Simon. Always appreciated.
Ричард - это супер 👏!!!
You're very kind as always my friend.
Very nice compositions mate yet again!!!!
Thanks heaps for watching.
I haven’t had a chance to catch up on your activities for a while. It’s great to see your work again!
I very much appreciate your support Michael
amzing technique, I don't think I am able to reach this level of skills. really delighted to watch your videos. thank you.
Thanks for your encouragement Ambrose. With practice this is something you could do my friend.
It is always great your videos Richard, simple words and explanations, amazing photos results, no problems with two differents places a few meters apart for shot foreground and sky, I also use this method with the tracker is more correct for better results expecially behind the branches and leaves. Compliments. Greetings from Italy 😊
Thank you so much for your comments Sergio
Great shots Richard. Hug.
Thanks again for watching Jorge
Hermosas capturas 🙌🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thanks so much Javier
Great video as always! Thank you for sharing
You're very welcome Dom, thank you.
Excellent narrative of the outing, a bit different from other videos but I liked it. You did not mention or I may have missed it if you did, the next to the last photo you shared at the end around 12:57 to the lower right of a tree it appears to be a meteor and a satellite that form a cross, interesting capture with a bit of luck.
Thanks again for watching Mike. Yes indeed that's a satellite or maybe two criss crossing each other. There are so many satellites up there now that every photo has at least one in it.
Another great video Richard 🖖
Thanks so much for watching Gavin.
Very enjoyable video
Thanks for watching Phillip.
Great video Richard, well explained and thought out shots. That pano was a ripper! Cheers mate.
Thanks as always for checking it out Adrian.
Great results with these images Richard. The tracked skies are impressive and setting a high standard. 😎👍😁
Thanks Geoff. I don't do a lot of tracked panos but I'll see what eventuates this year.
As always, very beautiful images ❤! I REALLY need to go to Australia, Dear, as your Galactic Core is so much more appealing than ours here … or it might be that my post processing needs to be updated! 😆
Thanks so much Carole. Yes the milky way is big and bright down here . .and quite high in the sky as well.
Stunning images from the lake, the pano looked great Richard, and the singles too lighting especially.👍
Thanks as always for your kind words Carl.
Great video as always Richard. Can't believe the water level is still so high, been a while since I've been out there. Colours and tonality you are getting out of your tracked shots are really stunning.
Thanks heaps Dominic. Yes the water is still very high. I do enjoy the H-alpha mod and I think it's working well with the single frames I'm shooting these days.
Really lovely images Richard . Beauty in simplicity. Really enjoyed this video. The panorama was incredible and definitely worth the effort you put into it. Very inspiring.
I very much appreciate your comments Mark, thank you.
Nice pictures!
Thanks for watching my friend.
Masterful pictures! I wish I can do Milky Way panorama like this! Thanks Richard! Beautiful++
Thanks so much for watching Bill.
Phenomenal capture’s my friend!! Thank you for sharing with us Richard! 🙏🏻
You're very welcome John. Thanks for watching.
Thank you.
Thanks so much for watching Robert
Amazing as ever, both your approach and results. Incredible work Richard, enjoy the remainder of the long weekend 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks so much Izzy. Really appreciate your comments mate.
Excelent.
Thanks so much Rogerio
Pleasure to watch and listen to your astro adventures. And absolutely stunning pictures, I can't imagine how great it would be to get such results with only a single tracked sky shot! In my opinion there is nothing wrong with shooting your sky a couple of meters away in the same direction on the same night. Especially if you're making sure it matches the composition as it was then and there. I use the same technique all the time. Also great storytelling to just go back to the spot another day and show what it was all about (although video on the shooting night is even better ofcourse). I have so much nights where I was out shooting and just couldn't or didn't feel like vlogging. Might steal that idea every now and again ;-).
I always appreciate your comments my friend. I do like to show the location in more detail which is easier to do in daylight.
Great video Richard! I got one of those skytrackers the other week, still to test it, can't wait. I tried using your codes and links, but some I couldn't as it went to US and not Aus - but for as many items as I could that I was getting I tried to use the link. Got a lens warmer, new remote timer, tripod.... I saw on FB that you are not going to WA this year? I am planning a wee road trip from Melbourne across for the eclipse, I think it is gonna be crazy busy in Exmouth, I will have my swag but I'm thinking will maybe free camp near Coral Bay.
I'll say this though, and it might sound a bit crazy, and I've traveled all the way around Australia and up and down the middle (except Tas) but some of the best skys are in NSW - They Hay Plains and some of those regions, up in the no mans land near Hillston - mind boggling how big the sky feels. It starts at the bottom, as I like to say.
Anyways, superb video again and great pictures.
Thanks for your great support. Yes unfortunately the Amazon Australia links make no money at all . .it's better for me on the US site .. it seems hardly anyone in Australia uses my links. Yes I think there are plenty of really dark skies up in that region of NSW. For me, it's all about chasing foregrounds . ..and they can be found all over the place.
Very nice work and video. Like your galactic post process. Do you have videos about that? Best
Thanks so much. Yes I have lots of videos about post processing. See here: th-cam.com/play/PLAYKmqkUeSM9eXVRj3boNPWRTSgYIShUh.html
@@nightscapeimages.richard thanks for your quick response. I will watch!!
Thanks Richard. Lovely images. I also have a Star Adventurer, but have had trouble aligning it with the SCP (in SE Qld). Do you have a video where you show the details of how you do this? Thanks.
Thanks for watching Rodney. Yes I sure do . .see here: th-cam.com/video/_5YdzcEIhks/w-d-xo.html
As always great Friday entertainment 😁 inspirational videos that keeps me motivated and give me ideas to apply on my own milkyway chase 🙏
I have an idea. It would be nice to se a video regarding milkyway photos in bortle 4. Many of us don't have the luxury of bortle 1-2😁 I would love to se hove you edit and the outcome. My self liv in bortle 4 and have bortle 3 in 1h drive.
Just love your videos.
Best regard
Andreas
Thanks so much for watching Andreas. I'll have a think about that.
Always stunning Richard, would you recommend a little tracker like a vixen polarie or something? that fits in my bag
Yes that would be fine, lots of people use them.
Nice shots. In October am I gonna be able to see weather permitting an arch of the milky way? Thanks Richard.
Yes indeed Jeff. The arch in October would be to the west .. the same as my previous trip to this spot.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Picnic point boat Ramp.
@@PentaxLife Yes that's exactly the spot . .well done Jeff.
I totoally understand you have to move the tripod when shooting tracked sky and so do I.
As long as it is pretty much in the same location with the foreground so it should not bother anyone who understand why we have to do that.
The only issue will be when we send this photo to some the Astro photo competition and it can be unqualified.....
Hope you can show how you do track pano in the future tutotial.
I could see how you are going to explain things nicely and simply as always.
Thanks
Thanks as always for watching my friend. I'm not too much interested in competitions.
Incredible Images, Richard! The hydrogen alpha filter on your camera, was that a screw on filter or did you have to get the internal sensor filter modified? Absolutely love your videos - I look forward to seeing the notification a new one has been uploaded!!
Thanks so much for watching Gary. I had the internal filter changed to one that enables H-alpha and visible light through. I don't use any clip on filters at all.
Great video, where abouts was this taken
Thanks Tony. That's Cairn Curran reservoir.
I am relatively new to your channel. I love the workshop episodes. I would love to get your insight on getting an image off the screen and onto my wall. Are home printers an option? There are a bazooka of sites that that will do that. Which ones do you respect? Do they take raw photos, tiff or jpeg? What is preferred. What instructions do you give a lab. I hope this makes sense. If you have addressed this already. Please point me to the appropriate episodes. Thanks and clear skies. Bill
Thanks so much for watching Bill. I have no experience with home printers but I'd assume a lab will give better results in the majority of cases. I usually deliver Jpeg large files to the lab but you can send tiff files as well.
As my images are shot at night in low light I usually brighten them up a bit before sending off for printing . .many prints come back dark otherwise. I don't give them any instructions but I have tested a number of printers and worked out the one's that give good results with my kind of work.
Having said all of this, I don't consider myself an expert regarding printing and I don't really have any videos on the subject.
@@nightscapeimages.richard thanks for the reply.
I always enjoy watching your videos, and love the way you go about composing and compiling the images. You may have already answered this and I just missed it, but what is your reason for shooting at 2.8 with the 20mm 1.8? Why not 1.8?
Thanks for watching. As a general rule any lens will perform better stopped down a bit. Wide open at f1.8 this lens as well as most others does have a bit more vignette, so especially when stitching panoramas I like a cleaner image across the frame.
@@nightscapeimages.richard makes perfect sense, thanks for the explanation!
Hey Richard! Great vid...ps, how about that cross in the bottom right of the vertical tree?!! I wonder what made that? Or perhaps God showing Himself??
Love it..
Ps, is the water still up to the top of the bridge??
Thanks a lot Carmel. Those are criss crossing satellites .. there are thousands of them up there now . .(Thanks Mr Musk). I don't get any images there days without satellite trails.
I reckon the water would be 15 feet over the top of the old railway bridge at present.
All of your nightscape images are simply amazing! I know you said your tracked sky was a single shot and they are stunning. I do have a question about multiple exposure tracked panorama. Would you have to level your camera after each extended exposure as the tracker is going to move considerably if you are taking multiple minute exposures? I would think eventually your camera is going to be way off the mark if not leveled. Does that make sense? Love your work Richard! Alway look forward to your very informative videos! Cheers from middle Tennessee!
Thanks for your very kind words of support Carl. Yes I do try to level the camera for each of the shots .. and that's why I use the V mount under the ball head on the tracker. You are correct in assuming the panorama will be skewed if the tracker is allowed to continue it's roatation.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thank you Richard!
Totally off topic question and not being very snake aware I'm wondering if those boots are high enough to give protection if the worst happens?
Well possibly not but they are solid and I was also rock scrambling in that location. Snakes don't generally bother me.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a new torch for light painting? I had a ledlenser P7 but the battery has since died. Apparently it is a very cheap torch because you can't take it apart without breaking it.
There are lots of torches on the market but what I look for would be something that has a high and low setting without any strobe function. (That drives me silly). Also the ability to zoom in tight or have a wide beam. The other thing is not to have hot spots in the beam. A nice soft edge is preferable.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thank you. I will do some looking around.
@@RusskiCommieBot Always happy to help.
Dear Richard, Tell me, will you be testing sony 14mm 1.8 gm and nikon z in the near future?
I would like to do that test .. . but I need to find a Sony 14mm f1.8 lens.
Hi Richard, was it a full moon night? If there was a moon then how you have managed such a clear Milky Way?
No there was no moonlight at all. I don't shoot the milky way with a full moon in the sky.
1 tracked sky image is totally fine for me if we are the dark location. The 1 image is quite clean already as we use very low iso.
Multiple tracked sky and stacking them does not make a lot of difference in term of Milky Way image imo.
Yes I agree for wide field astro landscape shooting.
why not use the 1.8 aperture?
Sometimes I'll shoot wide open at f1.8 but often I like to stop down a bit to get a cleaner image . .especially in the corners.
thanks. After asking I shot at my lightbox at various apertures and the vignetting was quite clear at 1.8@@nightscapeimages.richard
Do all Australians mention "snakes" so casually every time? 😂
Yes, snakes don't worry us very much.
I bet not having your video equipment with you was a little annoying at 1sts, but then a bit liberating, because then you could just enjoy the photography under the stars with no extra pressure
Yes and also save a whole lot of time ...!!!!
I watch your channel every time but not everyone is going to purchase a tracker . It is getting a tad stale. Leave the tracker in the car and go back to basics for a change Richard
I appreciate your support my friend.