How to Shoot — Episode 5: The Milky Way Free Preview
- ON1 Photo RAW
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The next episode of How to Shoot is for all you star gazers out there. How to Shoot The Milky Way with coach Hudson Henry features in-the-field discussion, gear recommendations, camera settings, light painting and editing inside ON1 Photo RAW.
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David PriceSeptember 9, 2019
Hi Hudson
Thanks.
Best wishes, David Price
Hudson HenrySeptember 10, 2019
Hey my friend. So glad you enjoyed!
YvanSeptember 10, 2019
Hudson, it was a superb video! Thank you so much. I especially learned how to improve my noise reduction of night skies.
Hudson HenrySeptember 10, 2019
Awww, Thanks Yvan! I really appreciate that feedback.
Omar MahmoudSeptember 11, 2019
Good timing. I m going on a trip soon, which I hope to shoot the milky way. Thanks
Rafael Campillo RodriguezSeptember 11, 2019
Hello Hudson !!!
Greetings from Xalapa, Veracruz. México !!!
THKSM !!! … Great Job !!!
Best Regards,
Rafael
JacquesSeptember 11, 2019
Great video.
Susie JacobsSeptember 12, 2019
Thanks Hudson – so informative. I have many Northern lights photos from Iceland. Would the process be the same as the Milky Way . If not maybe a How to … Northern Lights video tutorial
Thanks
Susie
Hudson HenrySeptember 20, 2019
Hi Susie, I’ll be doing something like that for sure. I might not hit Sunshine and Dynamic contrast as much with Northern Lights, or tone them down a little. Otherwise it should be very similar. Thanks so much for the kind words.
Chris LastSeptember 12, 2019
Thank you Hudson, just got my Star Adventurer equatorial mount to try 2 minute exposures at ISO 1600 or even less, looking forward to new moon end September fingers crossed for clear skies. I have been back over my milky way shots and tried some of your editing much improved. Many thanks.
Chris
RobertSeptember 12, 2019
Thanks for all the info! My friend and I will be heading to St. Helen’s to try to replicate your shot shortly or next year. Other than knowing where St Helens is (1.5 hrs away) we know have to put your lesson into action. Thanks!
Hudson HenrySeptember 20, 2019
That’s so great to hear! Yeah, I’ll be with a workshop in Moab for that new moon. 🙂 Good luck to us all.
Hudson HenryOctober 26, 2019
Let me know how that went Chris.
Bob MillerSeptember 12, 2019
Very nice Hudson! I’m really glad to see more of the night sky tutorials! I use Sun Surveyor also, awesome app! I’ve not heard of the Mac stacking app you mention, I’ll have to check that out. I want to share another app that I use all the time for my sky images. It’s called Stellarium. It’s a free app that you can put on your desk top or for a small fee you can put it on your phone. It is a real-time planetarium, showing you what is in the sky at any given time, for your location. Including the milkyway, planets, stars, nebula. It has it all. Right now, as the Milkyway is crossing the Meridian, it come’s down right between Saturn and Jupiter!!
Thanks again!!
Bob
Hudson HenrySeptember 20, 2019
So cool Bob. I just downloaded Stellarium. 🙂
John CaulfieldSeptember 12, 2019
Henery – great show. You said Rokinon 14mm 2.4 did you mean 2.8?
Thanks John
Hudson HenrySeptember 20, 2019
Hey John. First name’s Hudson, but no big deal. Nope, I mean the Rokinon 14mm F2.4 SP (It’s a higher quality build than the 2.8).
David SchmidtSeptember 14, 2019
Hudson, thanks for another great instructional video. Regarding the method of pre-marking your lens for infinity, this works well for pure manual focus lenses but not so well for focus-by-wire lenses. My preferred method is to focus on a bright star. Assuming your camera has a live view mode, zoom in on the brightest star you can find, then carefully adjust your manual focus until the star is pin-point sharp. I have been using this method for several years now, and have never come home with shots of out-of-focus stars.
Also, Starry Landscape Stacker is a great program, I can’t recommend it enough. For Windows, Sequator is another alternative.
Hudson HenrySeptember 20, 2019
I will check Sequator out. Yes, there is even a filter to help make that method more easy to do. I personally don’t like focus by wire lenses for this stuff though. I’m not a huge fan of them in general despite enjoying many of my new Z-lenses size and precision, I’ll not be jumping to use them dark sky work. Give me a manual focus or at least mechanical autofocus any day. 🙂
Alan BrunelleSeptember 25, 2019
I was about to type this in as well (regarding the star point) – it is by far the best method I’ve tried as well. Getting that distant (as distant as anything we can observe) object pin point means that the lens is at its best for infinity. Very simple too – rather than having to deal w/ the edges of a mountain, or some other object.
David ArcherSeptember 15, 2019
Glad you had some decent skies to work with that night!
Lots of good info in this video for everyone to learn from.
Hudson HenrySeptember 20, 2019
Thanks my friend. Maybe we can get some practice together in Patagonia next month!!! 🙂
Dallas BraithwaiteSeptember 17, 2019
Good tip on reflecting headlight back from hand. Wish I had of seen this two weeks ago for a visit to Uluru
StevenSeptember 19, 2019
Hudson, your comments at the beginning about the Southern Hemisphere are confusing. When you say “winter” is when you want to view the Milky Way from down under, you mean their winter, which is the same time as our summer.
Both hemispheres have trouble viewing the galaxy in the months November thru February, as that is when the galactic core is near the sun.
The main difference in viewing from “down under” is that the galactic core can be much higher in the sky…
Hudson HenrySeptember 20, 2019
Fair enough. I should have just used a month range instead of ‘Northpocentric’ seasonal references. I’ll amend to say that in either hemisphere’s summer months the Milky Way is visible at night, although in the south the shoulder seasons are better aligned than the dead of winter.
Angela GrantSeptember 28, 2019
Absolutely stoked about this amazing video. I see I have my work cut out for me. Looking forward to shooting the Milky Way at Grand Canyon. Great tip for bouncing the light off the palm. Thanks for the excellent video.
Bart M CarrigOctober 18, 2019
As always a very helpful tutorial, timely for me as well. I enjoy your delivery as well the substance of your presentations. Thank you.
Bart
Hudson HenryOctober 26, 2019
Thanks so much Bart! I really appreciate the kind words.
Jim NordstromMay 16, 2021
Hi Hudson,
Thank you doing this video, cleared up a number of questions. Not sure if you’ll get this, being year and a half after you completed the video, but I hope you someday have time to demonstrate how Starry Landscape Stacker is integrated within On1.
Hudson HenryMay 21, 2021
It’s funny. I’ve really moved away from stacking since trying out the Move Shoot Move star tracker. It’s light affordable and so easy to align for landscape work. I’m working on a course about that right now and really rethinking the whole starry night landscape. My latest YouTube video previews what I’m working on at the end. 🙂
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