Photographing life on Earth, our home on the outer rim of the Milky Way
If you want to photograph the Milky Way, the first thing you’ll need to know is how to find it. In this article, I share some of my favorite tools and tips for finding the Milky Way’s galactic plane and more specifically, the bright galactic center. Using either smartphone apps or by memorizing important constellations, you’ll be able to find the Milky Way with or without the use of technology.
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Learn how to photograph and process one of the most colorful parts of the night sky.
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.
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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This article and video tutorial will show you my favorite way to defish a fisheye photo and how to use your fisheye lens as a serious landscape tool.
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Unfortunately Comet ISON suffered a fiery death. Here’s how you could have captured it, had it survived.
This video will show you how I make photographs of the Milky Way in really heavy light pollution around cities like Los Angeles California.
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