Complete Guide to Milky Way Photography

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:12 Video Sponsor: Sonata
0:50 Gear - Cameras
1:09 Gear - Lens
3:19 Gear - Tripod
3:29 Gear - Shutter Release
4:02 Gear - Filters
4:10 Gear - Star Trackers
4:25 Gear - Lighting
4:50 Settings - Aperture
5:35 Settings - Shutter Speed
6:21 "500 Rule"
6:59 "NPF Rule"
8:37 Settings - ISO
9:02 How to Choose the Right ISO
9:26 Settings Recap
9:50 Shooting - Avoiding Light Pollution
10:55 Shooting - How to Find the Milky Way
11:56 Shooting - Focusing on the Stars
12:57 Shooting - Improving Image Quality
13:15 Exposure Blending
13:49 Panoramas
14:25 Editing - Single Image Workflow using Lightroom
15:43 Editing - Stacking Workflow with Sequator and Photoshop
16:58 Recap and Conclusion
17:35 End Credits

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Regarding the video, this was my longest project yet with over 2100 layers, realtime footage captured in the field, and hundreds of hours writing scripts, making illustrations, and animating. Astrophotography is my favorite photography genre and I hope this video helps you guys out. Feel free to leave your feedback in the comments section and stay tuned for more Apalapse content coming soon! Thanks!

[chemjblab]

woow, so much knowledge in one video. Appreciate it!

[sobredosisdepeliculas]

I can't believe how much I learned in 18mins!
Really well made videos, thank you.
Please make a video on how to talk with that deep voice.

[norycomica]

What's up! Thanks for you coming back and sharing such helpful video!

[LEXPIX]

Great presentation and excellent motion graphics used in your video.

[ericbrown]

anyone notice the star trails in the reflection of the creek in his stacked composite? (16:35) I totally thought he was going to duplicate the clean star layer, make it a mirror image, and then warp it into the shape of the creek as it would have looked. would have been mad cool, but alas.

[aaronhutt]

Such a well produced video. Great for someone who is new to the hobby like me

[venezuela.paulog]

More power to your Channel. You are God Send to learning photographer’s like me!

[MuhlisErtugrul]

Really appreciate the work. Thanks a lot. Tonight I'll try to take photos of the Perseid meteor shower that will be visible in my city (I'll go to some darker areas). Photographing Milky Way is another thing to try tonight.

Thanks for the video!

[underwatercosmonaut]

Amazing video as always! Would love to see a separate tutorial video on the whole editing process (especially on photo stacking) and maybe on the different softwares you used

[RupalVaidya]

Very informative. Nicely explained. 🙏
Thank you so much 👍

[ahmedagur]

Amazing bro!! you did it! That's really a helpful guide for everyone want to photograph the sky
keep up the great work ;)

[mathersdavid]

Great shot at condensing a lot of information. I think you meant lens focal length when you mentioned lens field of view, e.g. when using the 500 rule.

[LiilReyy]

Thank you for all the tips man, I’m always waiting for your new videos

[travelwithsatyadev]

Thank u so much... Greetings from India...

[vldy]

Nice video, I'm just not sold on the NPF rule in general.
Trail size is the same regardless of pixel size (and it's pretty obvious from your example comparing 25s on A7s to 25s on A7rII, they are the same lenght despite different pitch), I find it a bit absurd to take out basically 30% of your exposure time (in your example going from 16s to 10s) just to have "point stars" when the trails would appear just as big as the one in the A7s.

Another wrong aspect of the formula is taking into account the aperture which has little to no impact on trail lenght (inb4 yes, I've read the original article on the NPF rule but the explaination it gives it's a bit absurd, plus the author speaks, from what I've understood using the translator, like the optic is a diffraction limited system when it definitely isn't!).
I've used the calculator on the site and when you take everything into account things really get weird.
Let's use an "extreme" (but possible) scenario: compare a Sony A7rIV with a 24mm f/1.4 to an A7s with a 24mm f/4. NPF suggests that the time for the A7rIV is 6.5s (which is waay too short for a decent exposure) while the A7s suggested time 15.5s, two and a half time more! Unfortunately I don't have the equipment to make a comparison, but I'm sure that the trail from a 15s image are way bigger than those on a 6s image.
If you take things to an absurd, like using an f/14 aperture (which admittedly nobody will, but it's not a good reason for the formula to fail miserably!), the suggested exposure time grows so much that it goes beyond the 500 rule... if stuff like that happens something with the formula is really wrong, because as I said aperture has almost no effect on the trail size !

My suggestion? No need to overcomplicate stuff, just use the 300 rule if you need numbers on the field, 250 if you really want to be conservative, otherwise just do some test shots and see for yourself what you think is an acceptable trail.

[alsouza]

Can I capture on a gopro since it is 14 mm?

[RetroVbes]

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