This video tutorial will take you through the entire process of shooting a professional motion timelapse of the Milky Way, from planning to settings, shooting, processing in Lightroom and compiling in After Effects.
The Night Sky on Film: A Salute to the Photographic Process
For me, photography is a way to slow things down, to hold on to moments that I recognize as being otherwise impossible to possess.
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Film Speck One: 102 Free Lightroom Presets for Earthlings
There are as many ways to process a photo as there are stars in the night sky. In order to share my favorite processing styles with all of you, I created presets based on my favorite photos over the last year. I now present to you Lonely Speck’s first Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw preset pack: Film Speck One. It includes 102 original presets, and it’s free to download!
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On Photographing the Milky Way
Here’s a little inspiration and my answer to why we stay out late in the cold and the dark.
The Most Exciting Lenses for Astrophotography at Photokina 2014
Astrophotographers should be excited about many of the new lenses announced this year at the Photokina 2014 conference in Cologne, Germany. We see lots of fast lenses and that’s a very good thing.
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Medium Format Astrophotography with Panorama Stitching
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how I use standard prime lenses like a 50mm to make medium format sized astrophotos with a regular small format camera.
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A Beginner Astrophotography Kit
Let’s talk about the bare minimum of what you will need to photograph the Milky Way.