I have no earthly idea why 4 idiots might hit dislike on this fine art video!. Richard, thank you so much for this and other tutorials, I can’t express enough my sincere appreciation and admiration of your work. I follow tens of professional astro and nightscape photographers and you have simply helped and inspired me the most. Thank you 🙏
I thought I had seen all your videos and on one occasion I asked you to show how you lit the foreground and now I see it in this video that I had not seen. Thank you very much for sharing your photographic techniques.
Hi Richard, as usual you're willingness to share secrets (blow-by-blow) is very unique. If it was as easy as you make it look, you'd be out of business. Just brilliant. Thank you.
Thanks so much for watching John, I really appreciate that. I know it's not easy and that's why I keep getting out there to shoot these videos. Lots of people give up and I'm trying to keep the inspiration levels high.
Wonderful tutorial on the photography technique and the processing technique. Helps me to truly enjoy my efforts at night photography. And how in the world did this get any negative votes? Unbelievable.
I've watched most of your videos... I've come to the conclusion that you are the "Bob Ross" of night scape photography. At the time of this comment, it is February 19th 2020 and the Milky-Way is just over the horizon at 3:45a.m. till astronomical dawn around 5:30a.m. Location: Northeastern Pennsylvania region. I have used Sequator for about 3 years now and have loved it. And your pronunciation of it is correct. This year I'm stepping it up and gonna do more tutorials on this technique and do portraits under the Milky-Way. Love your work!!
Thanks so much for watching Steve. You've hit the nail on the head. The whole point of my videos is to show that even quite insignificant foreground objects can become a work of art, especially with the wonderful night sky as the backdrop.
@@nightscapeimages.richard it sure was helpful. Now to go out and give it a crack. This has also sparked some creativity that I never knew existed. I am now thinking of ways to augment this technique into other genres of photography. Thanks so much again.
First of all Richard, I hope that you are keeping safe where you are as I learned from the news that parts of Australia are being hit very hard with torrential rainfalls and flash flooding. I was just going through your extensive video presentations (I have seen them all and some several times), and found this one which covers shooting to post processing. I thank you for sharing your knowledge and I am inspired to improve my skills under the night skies.
I don't have a ton of favorites but your channel is one of my favorites. Thanks a ton for showing us your tips. I'm getting a D750 this week to give it a go, hopefully Bob will be my uncle ha ha. Bucket list is to come down one day and go on one of the outings.
that's true..especially with photographers..this one of the best I've come across in all aspects that are needed. very thorough and clear without that pompous pride you see way too often...great photo results in the end makes it even better
Thank you Richard for your great videos, it is nice to see that others are finding you and sharing these videos out there too.. you have a great combination of teaching ability mixed with a great outcome.
Love the content. Be as technical as you like. I like to know how it all works. I am heading off to the bush for a week to try out all your suggested settings. Can't wait.
Great video Richard , the techniques and editing are simply fabulous and the end results are so interesting to look at , i look forward to every new episode , it must keep you very busy , keep up the great work , many thanks.
Thanks again for another great video Richard. I've just begun watching TH-cam videos on my big screen TV. Your images look just as nice on the big screen as they do on my laptop.
Richard, thank you so much for the incredible series of nightscape tutorials. You do amazing work and provide me with much inspiration to learn and do something new with my photography. Like several others, I can sit down and watch multiple videos. Appreciate you awesome work and method of instruction.
Another fantastic tutorial! I've been practicing in my own home with the lights off and lightpainting furniture. After some ridiculous results, I'm starting to get a hang of everything. Can't wait to get outside and take some "real" photos!
@@nightscapeimages.richard A question, if I may. Do you find yourself using the 500 rule or 300 rule more often, and is one more advantageous over another when using longer focal lengths?
@@photog1529 I never use the 500 rule. In fact I don't use any particular rules . .but the 300 rule is better because it's a shorter shutter speed and therefore you'll get less star trailing.
Thank you for taking the time to make this very informative video.Your laid back relaxed teaching style is helping me make my own milky way shots.Your start to finish videos are much appreciated.
I thought that I wasn't good enough or my equipment wasn't up to scratch but after watching your videos it's given me a new confidence and I really appreciate your easy to follow tutorials. Well done mate 👏
Beautiful photo and wonderful video! Can’t wait to try these techniques on the Saltflats of Uyuni, Bolivia. Thanks for your work in teaching your knowledge in night photography and light painting techniques!
Thanks a lot Walter. The image would still be ok as I've done that before. I think it makes a small improvement with the dark frames and it probably depends on how noisy the original images are.
Wow, just wow. Great video and explanation of your fantastic work again Richard, many thanks. Carried out my first light painted shot on an antique machine in a basement and im pleased with my effort due to all the help from watching your videos. Next step is starry outdoor shots 😊
Another amazing video from you Richard. You have inspired me to start doing light painting so i have ordered a led lenser P7.2 to get started. Thank you so much :) I would like to offer a small tip to speed up / ease your brush resizing in photoshop: If you hold down Alt + right click the mouse you can change the size and hardness on your brush. While holding down both Alt and right mouse drag mouse up/down to adjust hardness and sideways to adjust size.
Thanks ... a great outline for a photo club project. The combination of Milky Way photography, light painting, and, if needed, focus stacking enables a chance to work on many techniques.
As per below, your videos are awesome and very inspiring.... We are All constantly learning and improving, even after 30 years of photography, I still love learning new techniques... Keep up the good work mate.
Hi, awesome Video. Now that I´ve seen your great results and the awesome pictures that you can create with that technique, I´m wondering, if you can also use gimp istead of Photoshop. keep on going, love your videos.
Your Video's are my first place I look when i go on you tube - really good stuff you produce and have watched all your vids multiple times keep up the good work
I like night time shooting and love many of your images. I find that many of my nightscape photography is curtailed because of animals and some bugs. I'm sure you have run into a spider web before, that happens. It's a shock and a mess except when you find a large spider in your car after it climbed off you. Then there are times of extreme concern like when hearing a rattlesnake but have no idea where the sound is coming from. They generally don't bother humans and other large animals unless the snake is just about stepped on, but in the dark, which way do you step! Keep up your work. What do you suggest in places where "nature" happen?
Thanks so much for watching George. Most of my photography happens in the cooler months here in Australia so I don't run into too many wild animals. There are plenty of wild kangaroos out on the roads at night but they don't cause me too much bother.
This is my first comment on youtube. Great work, congratulations!!!! Your photography, filming and video editing are extraordinary. I can feel the passion in your work. You are a source of inspiration!!
Apart from the tech' in all of your videos, it's the story telling you have mastered. A small suggestion for your workflow in photoshop, use a Group Folder for your Lighten Layers and one mask instead of pasting the mask multiple times. By selecting the background sky and creating a mask of it, you'll have the perfect mask for the foreground subject. When using the brush try using the (Mac) option+command to resize/soften your brush to speed up your process. As always by doing you inspire the rest of the seat warmers!
Thanks a lot for your great suggestions Rodd. I do often use the group function but I like to show the small steps for those who haven't used these options before. Really appreciate your comments.
Hi Richard, a great video once again. I have just found your channel and I am really enjoying watching how you go about your work flow. I am going to try and give it ago but find it difficult to find a spot that is dark enough as light pollution is a problem for me in the UK. Looking forward to seeing more of the same great vlogs. 😀😀
I think about these things from time to time, well the part about taking the things around us for granted and not noticing them, trying to get better at not doing that
Yes it's very easy to get into a routine and forget about the simple things that make us happy .. often the very reason we enjoy photography so much. Thanks for watching.
Hi, I just got the chance to know your channel, I really appreciate your effort to teach us some good stuff. I am new to photography and I admit I learned a lot from your page. Excited to go outside and try some of your methods. Good job man, really good job.
Mate, just a week or so and she’ll be back! I’m so excited. I watched your light painting video and hope to use it really soon. Love your videos and thanks for inspiring so many...
Great video, really made me motivated to go out and try this method.Now getting some good results myself and really pleased to add another angle to my photo's. Keep up the good work, love your content. best wishes from Ireland.
I really admire your art! Everything you are doing is so well done including all your video work. Very inspiring! I'm watching all of your videos from oldest to newest and am currently on this one. Hoping you can answer a basic question at this point on a couple things thing I'm unclear on. What is the advantage of taking multiple background images and stacking them in Sequator vs. taking a single background image? Are the stars and the milky way core just brighter doing it that way? When is it a good idea to stack multiple background images vs. taking a single image? Is there no equivalent Photoshop or Lightroom function for doing what Sequator does? Thank you and I just want you to know how much I'm truly enjoying your channel and your work!
Thanks very much for watching. Sequator really only does one thing, but it does it very well .. It reduces high iso noise in our images by stacking more than one of them together. You can't do this in Lightroom. It is possible in Photoshop but a more difficult process. You can certainly just use one background image and I have done that for years myself, however the stacking is cleaner in the long run. The other big advantage of using Sequator (and Starry Landscape Stacker for mac) is that you can freeze the foreground and therefore stack a number of images together and not get blurry sky or foreground. Photoshop doesn't do this without jumping through lots of hoops first. Appreciate the question.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thank you! Less noisy background, easier process. Got it. I have a couple more questions but I suspect they'll be answered as I watch the rest of your videos and catch up to the present. The work you are doing is so amazing I must tell you it's got me entirely excited!
I really appreciate this series on light painting and editing Richard. Ever since I started watching your program I've wondered how you did the light painting and how you threw it all together in processing. There is a national park about 3 hours from me in California that is in old farms fields with old equipment that I'm going to in about a month or two when the spring flowers come up. Can't wait to give this a go.
Just wow, you and your channel are so inspiring! Genius!
Thank you so much for watching.
I have no earthly idea why 4 idiots might hit dislike on this fine art video!.
Richard, thank you so much for this and other tutorials, I can’t express enough my sincere appreciation and admiration of your work. I follow tens of professional astro and nightscape photographers and you have simply helped and inspired me the most. Thank you 🙏
Haha, thanks a lot for watching Osama. Well I think some people just hit the dislike button for fun sometimes. I doubt they actually watch the videos.
great learning on how to edit and blend the layers
Thank you so much for watching.
Once again brilliant finished image 👏❤️🇮🇪
Thanks again mate
I thought I had seen all your videos and on one occasion I asked you to show how you lit the foreground and now I see it in this video that I had not seen. Thank you very much for sharing your photographic techniques.
Thanks a lot Rodolfo, yes it's very easy to miss the odd video.
Hi Richard, as usual you're willingness to share secrets (blow-by-blow) is very unique. If it was as easy as you make it look, you'd be out of business. Just brilliant. Thank you.
Thanks so much for watching John, I really appreciate that. I know it's not easy and that's why I keep getting out there to shoot these videos. Lots of people give up and I'm trying to keep the inspiration levels high.
Great!
Thank you so much for watching Branko
You really know how to make the ordinary look extraordinary! Hope you and the family stay well and safe.
Thanks so much Helen, yes we are going ok at present.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Very innovative way you are going about things, congratulations, you know have have a supporter.
@@helenbrecknell3930 Thanks Helen, yes I know you are always there cheering me on.
Great tut! Thank you !
Thanks a lot for watching Paul
Wonderful tutorial on the photography technique and the processing technique. Helps me to truly enjoy my efforts at night photography.
And how in the world did this get any negative votes? Unbelievable.
Thanks so much Marc, really appreciate your encouragement.
Truly a work of art Richard. Thanks mate.
Really appreciate that John
i enjoy watching you
Thanks so much Mohab.
Another great job, awesome 👍
Thanks very much Graham
Great job Richard!
Many thanks
I've watched most of your videos... I've come to the conclusion that you are the "Bob Ross" of night scape photography.
At the time of this comment, it is February 19th 2020 and the Milky-Way is just over the horizon at 3:45a.m. till astronomical dawn around 5:30a.m. Location: Northeastern Pennsylvania region.
I have used Sequator for about 3 years now and have loved it. And your pronunciation of it is correct.
This year I'm stepping it up and gonna do more tutorials on this technique and do portraits under the Milky-Way.
Love your work!!
Thanks very much for watching Mike, and I really appreciate the comments.
Excellent video!!
Really appreciate that Bryan
Enjoyed the video, you have been showing us that you don't need that grand landscape foreground to have beautiful piece of art
Thanks so much for watching Steve. You've hit the nail on the head. The whole point of my videos is to show that even quite insignificant foreground objects can become a work of art, especially with the wonderful night sky as the backdrop.
Fantastic series, thanks for putting this together.
You're welcome Adam, hope it's helpful.
@@nightscapeimages.richard it sure was helpful. Now to go out and give it a crack. This has also sparked some creativity that I never knew existed. I am now thinking of ways to augment this technique into other genres of photography. Thanks so much again.
@@adammacsween3230 Awesome mate . .all the best with your work moving forward.
Thx for this splendid tutorial👌
I'm really pleased you got something out of it Ton. Appreciate you watching.
I can't wait to try this technique this coming Milky Way Core season
Thanks a lot for watching Jason, I really appreciate it.
Awesome lesson!
Thanks for watching Roman
First of all Richard, I hope that you are keeping safe where you are as I learned from the news that parts of Australia are being hit very hard with torrential rainfalls and flash flooding. I was just going through your extensive video presentations (I have seen them all and some several times), and found this one which covers shooting to post processing. I thank you for sharing your knowledge and I am inspired to improve my skills under the night skies.
Thanks so much Bob. The floods are a long way from me. Appreciate your comments.
Love your work. Inspirational.
Thanks Kevin, really appreciate you saying so.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Watching your work flow start to finish has motivated me to try astro photgraphy and light painting this year.
That's great to hear Kevin
I don't have a ton of favorites but your channel is one of my favorites. Thanks a ton for showing us your tips. I'm getting a D750 this week to give it a go, hopefully Bob will be my uncle ha ha. Bucket list is to come down one day and go on one of the outings.
Really appreciated Bruce
You give me so much inspiration to go outside and take pictures.
Keep going Richard.
Really do appreciate your encouragement Andre, thank you.
There’s very few channels on TH-cam I can sit and watch a 20-30 min video on, but yours is one of them. Very fascinating!
Thank you very much for watching Alpha ... really appreciate your comments.
that's true..especially with photographers..this one of the best I've come across in all aspects that are needed. very thorough and clear without that pompous pride you see way too often...great photo results in the end makes it even better
@@markstarrett2740 Your kind words are very much appreciated Mark
Thank you Richard for your great videos, it is nice to see that others are finding you and sharing these videos out there too.. you have a great combination of teaching ability mixed with a great outcome.
@@markstarrett2740 Means a lot Mark ... thanks.
Excellent Richard! Great great great !
Many thanks Alex
Very smart image your put together. I wasn't convinced in the beginning, but it turned out well. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Randall really appreciate you watching
Amazing job and amazing cool teacher! Tanks for all ! Want to do similar!!! 🌠😊
Thanks so much for watching Chris, really appreciate your comments.
Love the content. Be as technical as you like. I like to know how it all works. I am heading off to the bush for a week to try out all your suggested settings. Can't wait.
Thanks heaps Keith. It's always hard to find a balance between technical details and creative elements.
I am SO feeling excited to go try this in a apple orchard !
Fantastic I'll be keen to see how you go
Great video.
Thanks so much for watching.
✨B R I L L I A N T✨👌🏻#iSpike loves these videos - thank you 👍🏻
Thanks so much for watching my friend
Fantastic series so far. Much appreciated.
Thank you so much Frank
Great video and image Richard. You make some very ordinary things look absolutely amazing under a night sky. You are truly an inspiration. Thanks.
Really appreciate you support and encouragement Glen .. means a lot.
Your love for what you do shows in the way you narrate and your enthusiasm is very infectious :) Love your videos.
Thank you very much Avijit
Superb, informative tutorial. Thank you.
Really appreciate you watching Allen
Another very great tutorial on light painting and post processing. You are a very good teacher.
You are very kind Raymond. Thanks for watching.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much for watching
Great video Richard , the techniques and editing are simply fabulous and the end results are so interesting to look at , i look forward to every new episode , it must keep you very busy , keep up the great work , many thanks.
Really appreciate the comments Garry, yes it does keep me incredibly busy
Beautiful work once again Richard.
Thanks a lot Nash, means a lot
Amazing!
Thanks for your encouragement Rafael
That was great Richard. Really appreciate you sharing your techniques. Keen to give it a try the next time I do some astro.
Really appreciated Rob, thanks for watching
Thanks again for another great video Richard. I've just begun watching TH-cam videos on my big screen TV. Your images look just as nice on the big screen as they do on my laptop.
That's awesome Mike, thanks very much for watching
excellent thanks for sharing
Really appreciate that Stephen
Richard, thank you so much for the incredible series of nightscape tutorials. You do amazing work and provide me with much inspiration to learn and do something new with my photography. Like several others, I can sit down and watch multiple videos. Appreciate you awesome work and method of instruction.
Thank you so much for your very kind words Ken, I certainly appreciate your support.
Excellent tutorial Richard! Thank you!
Thanks again for watching and for the comment Terry.
Another fantastic tutorial! I've been practicing in my own home with the lights off and lightpainting furniture. After some ridiculous results, I'm starting to get a hang of everything. Can't wait to get outside and take some "real" photos!
Thanks heaps for watching. Nothing wrong with lots of practice.
Another great video
Thanks a lot Brian
Nice inspiring video again! Keep up the good work! Greetings Andre
Really appreciate you watching Andre ... thank you
Great job as always!!!
Thank you once again Milorad
Spectacular!
Thank you so much for watching.
Great information, Richard. I'm new to light painting and learning quite a bit from your channel. Also glad Uranus wasn't in the scene. 😁
Thanks a lot for watching Photog
@@nightscapeimages.richard A question, if I may. Do you find yourself using the 500 rule or 300 rule more often, and is one more advantageous over another when using longer focal lengths?
@@photog1529 I never use the 500 rule. In fact I don't use any particular rules . .but the 300 rule is better because it's a shorter shutter speed and therefore you'll get less star trailing.
Thank you for taking the time to make this very informative video.Your laid back relaxed teaching style is helping me make my own milky way shots.Your start to finish videos are much appreciated.
Really appreciate you watching
Hey Richard, very nice job.
Many thanks Jim
Another excellent video, Richard I’m really enjoying them. Love the end result too, it’s beautiful 😍
Thanks Linda, really appreciate your comments
Excellent Richard!
Thanks heaps Rexx ... hope you're going well up on the coast ..??
Doing well! Need to get out more, it's been a tad windy up here of late! Need to head inland for some stars soon can't wait.
seems a strong torch.
No it's not a really bright torch. I use it on the lowest setting . .about 300 lumen or so.
Hi Richard. You are one of the best photographers that i like. Very good tehnique and video. 10+. Because of you i will be very busy this summer 😁
Haha .. I'm sorry for making you so busy. Thanks for watching
Like me 😂
I thought that I wasn't good enough or my equipment wasn't up to scratch but after watching your videos it's given me a new confidence and I really appreciate your easy to follow tutorials.
Well done mate 👏
Thanks a lot Keith. Sometimes all we need is a little bit of encouragement ...!!!
Another amazing video. Figured out my first location now I just gotta get the time and a break in this awful weather we have been having!
Good work Jeffrey, I'll be keen to see how you go.
Amazing as always ! Thank you for sharing.
My pleasure Monika, glad you like it.
That was phenomenal , great edit.
Thanks a lot for your comment optimus308, really appreciate you watching.
Beautiful photo and wonderful video! Can’t wait to try these techniques on the Saltflats of Uyuni, Bolivia. Thanks for your work in teaching your knowledge in night photography and light painting techniques!
Really appreciate you watching and commenting
this is fantastic... Thank you soo much
Thank you for watching Tolga
🔦Very good! Thanks for this true class!
📸🤠👍
Really appreciate you watching Lutero
I wonder how the image would look if you did not use the dark frames? The final image is absolutely beautiful! Another great video!
Thanks a lot Walter. The image would still be ok as I've done that before. I think it makes a small improvement with the dark frames and it probably depends on how noisy the original images are.
Wow, just wow. Great video and explanation of your fantastic work again Richard, many thanks.
Carried out my first light painted shot on an antique machine in a basement and im pleased with my effort due to all the help from watching your videos. Next step is starry outdoor shots 😊
Awesome work Simon
beautiful
I really appreciate that Tammy
Another amazing video from you Richard. You have inspired me to start doing light painting so i have ordered a led lenser P7.2 to get started. Thank you so much :)
I would like to offer a small tip to speed up / ease your brush resizing in photoshop:
If you hold down Alt + right click the mouse you can change the size and hardness on your brush. While holding down both Alt and right mouse drag mouse up/down to adjust hardness and sideways to adjust size.
Really appreciate you watching Torbjorn, and thanks for the brush resizing tip ...!!!
Thanks ... a great outline for a photo club project. The combination of Milky Way photography, light painting, and, if needed, focus stacking enables a chance to work on many techniques.
Fantastic ... I'm glad it was helpful.
As per below, your videos are awesome and very inspiring.... We are All constantly learning and improving, even after 30 years of photography, I still love learning new techniques... Keep up the good work mate.
Your support is certainly appreciated Nigel
Hi,
awesome Video. Now that I´ve seen your great results and the awesome pictures that you can create with that technique, I´m wondering, if you can also use gimp istead of Photoshop.
keep on going, love your videos.
Thanks very much for watching. I've never used Gimp so I can't say for sure.
Again,stunning work and a fantastic outcome. Best regards from norway. Sir.
Thank you very much sir.
Great vid, easy to follow steps cant wait to try it out.
Good on you Paul ... go for it.
Your Video's are my first place I look when i go on you tube - really good stuff you produce and have watched all your vids multiple times keep up the good work
Thanks so much Chris. I really appreciate you watching and taking the time to comment.
I like night time shooting and love many of your images. I find that many of my nightscape photography is curtailed because of animals and some bugs. I'm sure you have run into a spider web before, that happens. It's a shock and a mess except when you find a large spider in your car after it climbed off you. Then there are times of extreme concern like when hearing a rattlesnake but have no idea where the sound is coming from. They generally don't bother humans and other large animals unless the snake is just about stepped on, but in the dark, which way do you step! Keep up your work. What do you suggest in places where "nature" happen?
Thanks so much for watching George. Most of my photography happens in the cooler months here in Australia so I don't run into too many wild animals. There are plenty of wild kangaroos out on the roads at night but they don't cause me too much bother.
This is my first comment on youtube. Great work, congratulations!!!! Your photography, filming and video editing are extraordinary. I can feel the passion in your work. You are a source of inspiration!!
Really appreciate you taking the time to comment liezer, thanks so much
Apart from the tech' in all of your videos, it's the story telling you have mastered. A small suggestion for your workflow in photoshop, use a Group Folder for your Lighten Layers and one mask instead of pasting the mask multiple times. By selecting the background sky and creating a mask of it, you'll have the perfect mask for the foreground subject. When using the brush try using the (Mac) option+command to resize/soften your brush to speed up your process. As always by doing you inspire the rest of the seat warmers!
Thanks a lot for your great suggestions Rodd. I do often use the group function but I like to show the small steps for those who haven't used these options before. Really appreciate your comments.
another great video mate you just seem so relaxed and in control im trying to get a few to come and have a go at astro cheers
Really appreciate your encouragement Robert
Another fabulous video! Thanks for all the time you spend explaining the process, I learn so much, and am eager to try out these techniques!
Really appreciate you watching Kangamoo ... thanks so much.
I learned a lot from your tutorial. Thank you :)
Really appreciate you taking the time to watch.
Amazing work! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you very much for watching
Once again.. amazing.. thanks for the tips.. can't wait to try this.. you make it look so easy.. I know it's not but ill give it a go anyways.
Really appreciate you watching Noel.
Fantastic, just discovered you channel today, thanks for producing these great informative videos on astrophotography / nightscape techniques
Really appreciate your support Colm
Hi Richard, a great video once again. I have just found your channel and I am really enjoying watching how you go about your work flow.
I am going to try and give it ago but find it difficult to find a spot that is dark enough as light pollution is a problem for me in the UK.
Looking forward to seeing more of the same great vlogs. 😀😀
Thanks for watching Andy, yes light pollution can certainly be a problem. Thankfully I can drive away from it here in Australia.
I think about these things from time to time, well the part about taking the things around us for granted and not noticing them, trying to get better at not doing that
Yes it's very easy to get into a routine and forget about the simple things that make us happy .. often the very reason we enjoy photography so much. Thanks for watching.
Richard I love your presentation of your videos.
Fantastic work and I will also start with light painting.
Regards from Belgium.
Really appreciate you watching Filip
A beautiful job. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experiences. greetings from Brazil
Thank you so much
great video
Thanks a lot Andy
Hi, I just got the chance to know your channel, I really appreciate your effort to teach us some good stuff. I am new to photography and I admit I learned a lot from your page. Excited to go outside and try some of your methods. Good job man, really good job.
Thanks so much for your very encouraging comments, appreciate you watching.
Great work as usual very informative. I use sequetor as well with great results and don’t use dark frames and noise is still very controlled
Scott
Thanks a lot Scott. I wanted to show how the dark frames are added for those who want to include them
Absolutely brilliant work! Just love the way the image is built both out in the field and then back in the studio!!
Really appreciate you watching Trevor and for leaving a comment
Mate, just a week or so and she’ll be back! I’m so excited. I watched your light painting video and hope to use it really soon. Love your videos and thanks for inspiring so many...
Thanks again for your support Josh, means a lot
I appreciate the sharing of your work and how to. Its an inspiration and a good motivator to get myself into this type of photography. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for watching and leaving a comment. I'm really pleased you feel motivated to try this type of photography
Another master class... thanks Professor Tatti
You are very kind Gonzalo, thank you
Great video, really made me motivated to go out and try this method.Now getting some good results myself and really pleased to add another angle to my photo's. Keep up the good work, love your content. best wishes from Ireland.
Thanks a lot for watching Justin. Really appreciate the comment
I really admire your art! Everything you are doing is so well done including all your video work. Very inspiring! I'm watching all of your videos from oldest to newest and am currently on this one. Hoping you can answer a basic question at this point on a couple things thing I'm unclear on. What is the advantage of taking multiple background images and stacking them in Sequator vs. taking a single background image? Are the stars and the milky way core just brighter doing it that way? When is it a good idea to stack multiple background images vs. taking a single image? Is there no equivalent Photoshop or Lightroom function for doing what Sequator does? Thank you and I just want you to know how much I'm truly enjoying your channel and your work!
Thanks very much for watching. Sequator really only does one thing, but it does it very well .. It reduces high iso noise in our images by stacking more than one of them together. You can't do this in Lightroom. It is possible in Photoshop but a more difficult process. You can certainly just use one background image and I have done that for years myself, however the stacking is cleaner in the long run. The other big advantage of using Sequator (and Starry Landscape Stacker for mac) is that you can freeze the foreground and therefore stack a number of images together and not get blurry sky or foreground. Photoshop doesn't do this without jumping through lots of hoops first. Appreciate the question.
@@nightscapeimages.richard Thank you! Less noisy background, easier process. Got it. I have a couple more questions but I suspect they'll be answered as I watch the rest of your videos and catch up to the present. The work you are doing is so amazing I must tell you it's got me entirely excited!
@@keepitsimple7604 Thanks so much
@@keepitsimple7604 me too ...Isn't he WONDERFUL :)
Absolutely amazing!....piece of art!!!
Really appreciate that Sergio
I really appreciate this series on light painting and editing Richard. Ever since I started watching your program I've wondered how you did the light painting and how you threw it all together in processing. There is a national park about 3 hours from me in California that is in old farms fields with old equipment that I'm going to in about a month or two when the spring flowers come up. Can't wait to give this a go.
Thanks for the comments, I'll be very keen to see how you go when you shoot in the national park.