How To Create Stunning HDR Moon Composite

[hunterofficial]

Rest in peace, Alyn Wallace. You will be missed. This was your most helpful tutorial to me.

[GeorgeSpacesOut]

This video taught me how to do my HDR moon shots. Thank you, Alyn. May you rest in peace.

[darkshaman]

R.I.P Alyn, my thoughts to your family... Also a fellow Welsh man that only lived a few miles from me he was such a talented man and its great Alyn have past on his knowledge and have showed us all his amazing astro photos.

[RCOverlanding]

Rest Easy My Friend!!! These Tutorials will teach for generations of Astro Photographers to come!!

[cherryjunphotography]

Thanks, Alyn. This is the best tutorial on YouTube by far! Rest in peace, my friend.

[haroldcarlson]

The end result is excellent. I think many non-diehard astronomy folks don't care if it's a composite, they just care about the feeling the image invokes. It's hard to describe what feeling I get other than amazement.

[MohammedAhmed-mxrp]

RIP My friend. You are still mourned through our community.

[dw.in.michigan]

Thank you for taking it a little slower. I'm one of those who is new to Photoshop. Also, thank you for sharing your thoughts and conveying your ethics on where the line is (or should be) with post processing. Very refreshing for those of us who want to hone our photography skills and have the editing bring out the detail of what we photographed, vs creating images that never existed.

[billpowell]

Best description of masks and how to use them I have seen. Thank you for sharing.

[NigelDanson]

Enjoyed that Alyn. I am the same as you and only do composites if I took the photos at the same time (i.e. focus stacks / HDR etc..). Although that last image was amazing!!!! It look 3D.

[MikeChesworthPhotography]

Great tutorial. Can't wait for a clear evening when the moon is visible to try this out. 👍

[davidrousseau]

WOW, the best explanation of what a layer mask is I've ever heard!!! So clear! As the saying goes" If you cannot explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough yourself". Sir, you definitely know what you are talking about! Thanks a lot!

[frednorman]

A STUNNING composite ate the end of the video, can’t wait to try it ..

[Kwozzie]

I know the last one was a creative interpretation, but Wow!! It looks great!

[Flamamacue]

Love it! I have a 150-600 on the way and this has been the main thing I've wanted a super tele for. Also, when doing a marquee, if you hold Alt (option on Mac) you can draw the marquee from a centre point instead of edges (can still use shift for a perfect circle). And also when masking out the stars you could also just ctrl/command click your existing mask from the glow layer to get the selection for the mask then invert it for a perfect mask of the moon instead of brushing. Hopefully this doesn't come across the wrong way, they're just two thing I use all the time that I wish I'd found out about earlier! Thanks again for another great tutorial

[rayganrambles]

The adjustment layer clipping is something new I learned. Lots of new photoshop tricks in this!

[InsightImagingPhoto]

This was amazing. Been looking at the moon the past few nights and didn’t have the motivation to get out and shoot it. I’ve now got a reason to shoot it. Thanks

[willtheelectrician]

I just learned more on this tutorial than most other tutorials on YouTube. Thank you!

[abdullahlaith]

I can’t believe how amazing is that tutorial! Much simpler and easier than paid Photoshop courses!!!

[VincentVega]

Thank you man, in general I don't like watching photoshop tutorials at all, but really enjoyed watching this one. Learn a lot. It was very to the point, no endless talking about tiny little details no one cares about. But still very well explained, even for beginners. The internet needs more of that