yo Hows it going guys my name is Adam and today I'm gonna be teaching you guys how
to shoot plan an edit star trail Milky Way photography and this is gonna be a
good one
you ever just see these supercool photos online of the stars trailing or the
Milky Way and you're like damn I wish I could get a photo like that you probably
need a really expensive camera all this gear I'm gonna tell you guys right now
right here today it's actually not that complicated it's super easy you'll just
need a few things first thing you'll need is a camera and
a camera that can take 30 second exposure and has bulb mode and the
second thing you'll need is an intervalometer and intervalometer it's
just like your remote you plug into the side of your camera can leave the
shutter open for however long you want see whenever you switch your camera to
bulb mode bulb mode is basically as long as you keep your finger on the shutter
the shutter will stay open and then when you take your finger off the shutter the
shutter closes you don't understand for are just keeping a finger on the shutter
so get yourself a camera remote plug it in and then flick it over and then
whenever your exposure is complete like a back over and that will clue your
shutter but here's the thing I do whenever I do a long exposure my camera
has this end both function whenever I switch it to bulb mode I don't actually
need an intervalometer because my camera has a touch screen I just flick it to
bulb mode flick on light view and to tap the screen ever so gently so the camera
doesn't move that will start my exposure so I don't have to keep my finger on the
shutter and then whenever my desired time is up I just tap the screen really
gently again and then boom my long exposures done so with a canon 80-day
you're on a camera with a touchscreen this might work for you you want a
better place that's completely dark new like pollution whenever I took this
photo right here I was at place in Ireland cold and port super dark super
cool just complete darkness but this little torch I'm hold until they soo
dark it's unbelievable I'm gonna take some nighttime shot so this camera long
exposures you know what I'm saying then you want to determine how your photos
gonna look that photo was took for 45 minutes I left the camera the shutter
open 45 minutes points straight up into the sky whenever I close the shutter
I took the camera and all there 45 minutes to actually process that image
so longer you keep your shutter open the longer it will take a camera to process
that I mean go for this one photo alone it took me an hour and a half plus just
for the photo to process which is insane so to get this particular photo right
here this is a 30 second exposure 30 seconds to take the photo 30 seconds
for your camera to process it not really that long just a minute but they just
look stunning that's unbelievable with this photo here I was standing beside
that structure with a torch behind and a train in it 3 as it was doing left a
ten-second timer on the camera ran out behind the structure and then just
started training the torch behind that so I got that lovely light blue and
behind it and then the milky way directly
but you see whenever you take the photos that doesn't look as vibrant in real
life as the photos are because this camera can take in a lot more light than
your eyes can but I think the best way to shoot is whenever you can see the
stars with your own eyes that's when the camera is gonna pick
them up if there's too much light too much light pollution if you're in a city
like me dry far away get out of the place just somewhere where it's
completely dark and your photo should be sweet I'm gonna move into the add it in
part right now you can use Photoshop or Lightroom in this tutorial I'm going to
show you guys Photoshop let's get into this okay guys so here right now and
Photoshop this is what we're gonna be working with Photoshop you can use
Lightroom that doesn't really matter to me whatever you find best to edit your
photo but there is one thing I want to emphasize so so much see whenever you're
shooting a photo any photo in my opinion always always always if your camera has
the function to shoot it in raw raw saves a lot of information about the
photo saves all the highlights all the darks all the exposure settings the
contrast settings you can do so much more with raw then you camp the JPEG to
me if I shot in the JPEG I would just delete the photo and shoot again and raw
because a JPEG just doesn't hold enough information from a shoot and raw saves a
lot more information about the photo shoot when I'm talking about so I've got
three photos I'm gonna be showing you guys how to add it right now I've got
this eight-minute exposure one and second one that was a done report that
was the other day left that exposing for 30 seconds and then this last one was a
45-minute one you can't really see much in it right now because it's super
exposed but whenever I bring it into Camera Raw you'll see what I'm talking
about so right click on your photo open with Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 now this is
gonna bring up all these raw function you can actually add it so watching this
it's unbelievable so over here on the right tab here as you can see this is
all the stuff we have to tweak with we're gonna start with I like to start
with the highlights highlights are the stars are that haziness you can tweak
you all out if you need to we're gonna start with the highlights
just fold them down a little but it what's going on mmm look okay that's
flaking the whole way up see what's happened there's a lot of haziness in
the sky here so I'm gonna pull them the whole way down I'll show you guys how to
pull like just the stars in a moment I'm gonna work with four grain right now as
you can see down here at the bottom it's underexposed up of these trees
underexposed very dark these are the shadows of the photos so we're here as
you can see if you pull these down the shadows go down pull these up boom the
shadows go up and it just fixes out that you know under exposure you don't wanna
have to take two photos and marriage it's just so much easier this way and so
much better so I'm gonna pull up the shadows but I'm gonna zoom in here just
so you guys can see the grain on the photo as you pull up the shadows of my
pulley shadows down you can see you can't really see any of the grain but
when you push it to the limits a lot of grain is introduced here so I'm gonna
show you guys how to sort with the grain boom into the photo like I've done here
this just tab up at the top detail tab there's sharpening and there's luminance
you want to get into the luminance the noise reduction tab and then just turn
it up a little bit that will fix it a little bit and I look what happens if I
do it too much if I put the luminance right the whole way up and look like a
scene out of some sort of doesn t follow um it looks all ice creamy clay dough
look it you don't want to go too crazy with the luminance I'm just gonna put
off a little tiny but to take away a lot of that rain and then after that I like
to flick the color have the whole way off I'm gonna go back to this normal tab
here and let's see what happens if we add a little book contrast whoa okay see
it's crushing all and blacks at the same time so you can pull up the blacks tab
okay we're getting somewhere no guys this is actually looking pretty nice see
before and after it's it's starting to come to life so let's pull out the stars
we're gonna zoom into the star so we can see exactly what we're working with here
we're gonna go to the tone curve tab at the top the second one over and the
highlights are fine don't do much to them they kind of they
can of tweak them up a little bit something to push down the whole way up
anyways and this lights one you need to be careful this you do too much you'll
rack the photo and off and it's perfect so I'm gonna tweak this off just a
little let's look at okay it's looking okay dolly but there we go see how much
I just brought out the stars compared to when it's down here you see what I'm
saying the Stars just right over to the photo boom damn that looks freaking
amazing you know saying guys now whenever I do take a photo and bring it
into raw there's a lot of the photo that's messing so if you go through this
crop tool the top corner here and then just spread these out you'll get a lot
more than photo and then you can fix your composition later and Photoshop I
like to just take everything and it's we can afterwards so this is actually
looking pretty nice I'm gonna add a little tiny bit of D haze Knights to D
haze is one of my favorite functions in Camera Raw honestly it is unbelievable
what I can do if you like it up too much pulls out so much color what be hey that
find does is it takes us around and black pixels and fells in with black the
other ones around them so I don't want to do too much because it's just wrecked
my for grind here so I'm gonna Punk died looking okay so I'm gonna head open
imagine I this is gonna open it in Photoshop where you can tweak it just a
little bit more so what I'm gonna do to this photo is the first thing I'm gonna
do as we want to go to over here this is the Dodge tool
I love this tool you can just sweep this across your photograph the exposure to
the lab in here look what happened so I put it 200 it really lightens your
photos you can see that's why I'm at at 11% because I didn't want to wreck in
the photo too much I just want to lighten certain areas just to bring them
up a little bit and then the opposite of the Dodge tool is the burn till you just
wipe that on I put this right up to your hunger just to show you guys this burns
the image it really it just it can take it darkens parts of the photo so if I
wanted to darken these leaves I could do that before drying I could do that but
I'm not gonna do that I'm just showing you guys what these tools do if you need
to lighten a certain part of your photo so I'm happy with how this looks right
now I'm gonna go to adjustments I'm gonna add one of my locks to this photo
I thank emerald cinema would work nice here boom I like how this looks guys I
think I'm gonna leave it at that if you want you can tweak it more you don't
overwork a photo so I'm gonna leave this photo like that maybe change my
composition just a little bit to the real thirds place here it's gonna leave
the top half and there's a lot of this bottom part doesn't really make sense so
I'm happy with that there we go let's move on to the next
photo whenever I started taking star photos this is what I got most of the
time it looks very dark and I thought how do them people do them really
amazing photos this is how it's done guys I'm gonna show you Camera Raw it's
the way to go so I'm gonna pull the highlights way up
in this circumstance just to see what happens it lightened up a lot of the
stars look at the before and after so I just undo that see how the stars here
it's gonna zoom in so you can see they're very dull you pull the
highlights up just pops them stars like just a little bit do you guys know how
you have popped stars out again you go to the curves pull up the lights just to
laugh the whole way up yep I'm going the whole
way up guys you know I mean every star photo is deferens you have to tweak with
what you feel in the photo so now you're all ready that looks so so much better
but for me it's not enough I'm gonna leave this solo at effect and I know I
don't want to pull up the shadows cuz look what happens if I do that
super granny super overlay so I'm gonna keep it at the silhouette and see what
happens we add a little bit of contrast mmm that's looking nice already know
what I like to do is like to add color to the star photos they don't have to
look realistic it's your photo you can do the hell what you want with your
photos so I'm just gonna crop on crop it a little bit here so we can see more of
the Milky Way this is actually the Milky Way running the whole way through the
photo you leave it like that and let's see here what I'm gonna do isn't gonna
see what happens when I do D hey it's all about see what happens when you do
something looking pretty nice no I wouldn't gonna do see what happens when
I turn up the whites that's too much just looking to you too much there okay
that's okay there I'm gonna add a little bit of Killarney boom clarity pull that
stars a lot so gonna be careful this you don't have too much or look grainy
instead of starry no I want to add color to the sky this is what I like to do
there's this part over here which is called split toning split toning what
that does is you can change the color all of the highlights and you can change
the color all the shadows so what I like to do is boost the saturation the whole
way up so I can see it I'm working with right now they're red I like this guy to
have this little blue tint so I'm gonna put it to blue turn it down just a notch
so it doesn't look too much and then pull the shadows of all the way up this
will change a lot of your image because most of the sky is black and shadowy I'm
gonna give this a little bit of a purple effect and then just pull that down a
little bit and mmm maybe not super maybe light blue you there we go I think that
was pretty nice maybe let's see how far we can go can we put it to green mmm
that's looking nice right now that looks like a frickin galaxy I'm happy with
this you guys can tweak stuff if you want more but I'm just gonna go ahead
open image and now what we're gonna do is bring out the Milky Way this is Milky
Way photography we're talking about right now
honey bring out the Milky Way so it has that really impactful like wow factor
tune as a talk before I showed you guys the Dodge tool this is what we're gonna
use to just bring it up I'm just gonna paint over the Milky Way and make sure
you have it set to highlights because highlights are what the stars
all that I just don't and then just paint over it and this will bring out
the highlights and stars in this particular area it's not cheating it's
just emphasizing what's already there it's over exaggerating it you know
saying just keep painting over this until you're happy with it I'm pretty
happy with this how it looks already it looks freaking cool there we go okay
that looks a lot more galaxy looking no okay no I'm happy with this I'm happy
with this but the color isn't the blues look a little bit too blue to me you
look at article mm what the heck is he doing that's okay they can just make a
new layer ctrl alt shift e this will just stamp everything in top of that
bring it into filter you can open it run it through Camera Raw again here we go
again and I'm just gonna pull down the vibrance just a tad okay I'm happy with
this photo let's move on to the next one okay guys this is the 45-minute exposure
you're probably looking at if you want to Adam there's no information there
it's just white it's it's blown it-it's gone you're not gonna do anything with
that this is what I'm going to show you guys this is what hey I love Ross see if
I pull my exposure darn over here all right it's already falling like the it's
pulling right all that overexposure for me I should have my aperture a lot more
you know higher so does this lovely swirl you can see here the stars
actually swirled the North Star so if you're ever pointed at the sky make sure
the North Star is in the shot and you'll get that swirl with a spiral in the
middle I'm gonna pull the highlights down I'm gonna add a lot of da's because
this is hazy so this will be haze it the haze up and already boom that just fixed
my photo for me it's a little bit underexposed so you can pull the
exposure up a little bit more now my white balance is completely throw it off
here I'm gonna go to auto see what that does you can pull the temperature down a
little bit just to add a little bit more blue into it that's looking nice for me
there beautiful you see the milky way around the 3 in here and everything I
just love taking photos like this but it's looking pretty nice and I and then
maybe if I go to the split toning again put the highlights to blue hold on not
so it's not too much and if the shadows to purple like in the shadows on the
purple there we go so look actually I'll keep it the whole way up that looks ok
like that and I'm gonna try the clarity and see what I can get
mmm that's looking okay flip the lights it's a lot of the same procedure you're
doing just make sure you're careful with it when you're taking the photos but I'm
happy with how this looks frickin amazing no I'm gonna do
something cool this photo because because it was pointing straight up you
still have that nice spiral but if I was pointed of trees I couldn't get that
nice spiral so I'm gonna add on some trees here yeah I'm in Google Images
guys as you know I just typed them trees PNG silhouette and let's give me all
these will see I take this tree right here I like the look of this tree I'm
just gonna drag this onto my desktop okay so we've got a tree here no we need
a horizon just type in horizon PNG silhouette and you have all these oh
damn this one looks pretty cool leave all these trees a couple people to think
man run over there you can you know what possibility to lement list with
photoshop guys so I'm gonna bring this into Photoshop drag it in top my image
let's see what happens okay not too bad gonna bring it darn the whole way to the
bottom I don't want to okay I'm happy with that so whenever you have a photo
like this in Photoshop to get rid of the white parts you just put your Blanton
mode on this instead of using the magic wand tool or trying to mask her own it
put your Blanton mode to linear burn and this should just fix it takes away all
the white parts it's okay that looks pretty nice I'm gonna go up to the tree
PNG this is a PNG image so it shouldn't be much of a deal just put this in here
looks okay I'll place it say right there oh it's okay and then you have your
image guys you can tweak it more if you want but I'm happy with this this looks
pretty nice and that's how you edit shoot and plan star photography let me
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