awesome! thanks for sharing. it left me wanting to see the rest of it, or at least the finished image. keep uo the good work!

On the contrary, I think the clouds helped decrease light pollution from Ithaca and gave you a clearer view of the Milky Way : )

Great video man, really appreciate the time and effort you put into this. I did have a question regarding the foreground exposure. Perhaps i missed it, but why the 7 min exposure with the ND filter as opposed to a shorter one without the ND? Was it to give you a smoothed out sky to make the masking and blending easier? Thanks in advance for your time.

@JSnowPhotography

7 жыл бұрын

Hey man, so I have gotten that question quite a lot, and I am actually not using an ND filter, I am just using photopills to calculate a longer exposure but to do that in an exposure calculator, and wanting to make a brighter foreground you "trick" the calculator into thinking youre stopping down by 1 or two stops, so If I want my foreground 1 to 2 stops brighter than in the sky exposures I would calculate that in to get an equivalent exposure. Hope that makes sense!

I got one from the fingerlakes national forest last year. Where did you go to get a wide open flat area like this. I ended up by the big pond on the interloken trail

Solid Video, Joshua!

First time watching. I have heard of photo stacking but haven't tried it. I had been wondering about the cost of Photo-pills, whether it was monthly, yearly or what. Really enjoyed your presentation.

Very good tutorial! I will try to use this, But why didn't you show the ending? I wanted to know how it would look on the photo..

Nice work brother!

When taking long exposures for foreground (like your 7 minute exposure for foreground) how important do you think it is to use the ND filter? (and did you chose to do this because of the white snow?) Would you say it's generally useful to use an ND filter for most night scape foregrounds? I am trying to work on improving my foregrounds.... Thanks!

@ebrahemmh

6 жыл бұрын

Bianca Smith he didn't use ND filter. And he shouldn't use them in night. He is just calculating the new change in exposure by using Photo pills app. I use it some times.

What camera do you use? Your 10.000 iso looks like 800 on mine :))

Out of all of the milky-way editing videos, I randomly clicked on this as I have a milky-way shot myself I grabbed in Florida (it sucks btw) and wanted to get an idea for next time, and turns out this is in the fingerlakes. I was born and raised close by here and I used to work in Ithaca years ago before moving to SC.

@JSnowPhotography

7 жыл бұрын

Thats awesome! Small world!! Thanks for watching!

Thanks for the video. The technique is incredible. Why did you shoot 13 frames? Was there some sort of calculation that went into that? I'm just wondering how many images I should take in the field to try this for myself. And I assumed the only difference between each shot was the time it was shot, correct? A little more detail on your setup for this would be very helpful. Thanks again.

@PsytastikTunes

7 жыл бұрын

I would think by shooting 10 seconds you can get a really sharp image. At 30 seconds exposure, you will start to get some trails, even if you use the 500 rule at 14mm. Then, he ups the iso to get the right exposure and since he's shooting lots of images, that will eliminate the noise. I think 10 shots is just arbitrary. The more you take, the better the noise control can be?

@JSnowPhotography

7 жыл бұрын

PsytastikTunes you're right, actually as I've refined this technique I find that 8 frames at ISO10000, f/2.8. Ten seconds stacked is cleaner or as clean as 10,13, or even 20 frames

Nice video ! Can you explain the camera settings? 14mm 10 sec exp ISO 10k? With a 14mm lens you can easy push 20-30 sec exp without getting star trails. 500 rule / focal length = exp time Maybe ISO 1600-3200 30 sec exp?

@PsytastikTunes

7 жыл бұрын

I think he did it to just get his stars as sharp as possible and since this process is all about removing noise, the iso could be pushed to get the equivalent of a 30 sec @ iso 3200. Even at 30 secs you start to see trails, especially at the edges (coma) with a 14mm. I'm gonna try this technique next time I'm out .

@JSnowPhotography

7 жыл бұрын

PsytastikTunes you're exactly right

@JSnowPhotography

7 жыл бұрын

Eddie Ed sure if I wanted to shoot a single exposure and deal with the noise. I can eliminate noise in an ISO 10k image as easily as a 3400iso image. Ten seconds eliminates any trailing whatsoever which is the goal because I like to print HUGE

@JSnowPhotography

6 жыл бұрын

In fact, the 500 rule on my d810 sensor is completely wrong. I see star trailing at exposures at 18 seconds. This is due to the sensors pixel density. I use the rule of 250. Therefor I need to ramp the ISO in order to get perfectly sharp stars.

A lot of people go missing in the Finger Lakes..

Duo you think is it possible to do three 10 sec pics and stack them instead of one 30sec and make fluent Timelapse this way? The noise is a real problem for me, and I can't get satisfying ressulsts nor with my 5dMk2 nor A7s and now with my new a7r2 the same...the noise with ISO 3200 is killing me. I do not see any difference between a7s2 and a7r2. I would say that 5Dmk2 is best from that three.

@jessehalva6453

7 жыл бұрын

Maciej Siemieniuch how about canon 6d, handles iso noises really well

Im too far from the finger lakes. Ill have to check this area out sometime.

what is the name of photo editir you use for removing the noise?? and plzzz just tells about shutter speed and ISO level you use while shooting and also tells about the brightness level during removing noise i hope you will reply as soon as possible

@artemorbid

4 жыл бұрын

yes

I have a problem with lightroom where my photos do not look anything like what I had created in lightroom once I open them in OS.

@bluesynergy600

8 жыл бұрын

You want to update your Camera Raw, and if LR asks you if you want to "Open Anyway" or "Render Using Lightroom" then render using lightroom. What that does is it creates a new .TIFF file from your edit that then opens in PS.

If I'm stacking star photos, can I leave long exposure noise reduction on my camera off? On my camera long exposure noise reduction takes a second exposure every exposure I take to get ride of hot pixels. Is it necessary to have this on if I'm stacking anyways? Thanks!

@JSnowPhotography

6 жыл бұрын

kevin you'll definitely want to have that off so that there is minimal time between frames. SLS will have a much harder time aligning if you don't. You can take a dark frame to add to your stack that will help with hot/deadpixels

@PathNotTaken

6 жыл бұрын

J.Snow Photography thanks for the quick response! This helps a lot thank you. And if I were to want to take a stacked panorama, would there just be too much time between the shots/not worth the amount of time post processing would take?

@JSnowPhotography

6 жыл бұрын

kevin no it's totally possible you'd just want to shoot your stacks in columns before panning, stack the columns then stitch

I live close to Ithaca. Where were you? And what time were you out? I've never seen it look as big as this. I was thinking maybe I need to try a different time?

@JSnowPhotography

5 жыл бұрын

Keith G this was in March of 2016, in the National Forest, about 4am I think, I don’t recall. It was shot with my 14-24, so could’ve been zoomed in, the compression causes the galactic center to appear larger

@kg322

5 жыл бұрын

@@JSnowPhotography so basically if I am out at 10:0], I'm not going to see much, if any, of it lol. Thanks for the info! I'm new to this, so I'll be checking out good spots at 3:am ish!

@JSnowPhotography

5 жыл бұрын

Keith G it changes throughout the year, so use an app like photopills or photographers empharis to track it

13:25 "Cops is filled on location with the men and women of law enforcement. All suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law!"

You know nothing Jon Snow.... On a serious note, nice tutorial :)

OMG stack it already...

Very cool tutorial ! (next time turn off the background noise too ! :O)

awesome man where is the second video you have me hooked...

@pakomondragon

7 жыл бұрын

he didnt bother sharing the other vid. bummer. its been 10 months and no final result. booooo

@JSnowPhotography

7 жыл бұрын

Cisco Mondragon sorry about that. You can view my website for much, MUCH better images that utilize this technique. Life is busy, between working full time as an engineer, and leading photography workshops full time, moving across the country etc I haven't had time to make more videos but I plan to, as well as a vlog, blog and more.

@JSnowPhotography

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry about that, life got in the way, along with moving across the country to launch my photo tour and workshop business here in Moab, Utah!

mate sorry to bother but what camera and lens did you used to get that photo so noiseless at 10000 iso?? I'm baffled!!

@SpyroThyFirst

7 жыл бұрын

asking my self the same thing :/ ISO 10000 !!!!

@joshcummings2570

7 жыл бұрын

Total guess based off of this video, but I would say either Nikon d610 or d750 but for sure w/ the beautiful 14-24 f/2.8 lens

@lauza247

7 жыл бұрын

only camera i can think of with that little noise at that iso is the sony a7sii/a7rii

@JSnowPhotography

7 жыл бұрын

Actually thats what the point of this tutorial is about, stacking for noise reduction. This was shot on the Nkon D750 and 14-24 2.8.

@JSnowPhotography

7 жыл бұрын

Actually thats what the point of this tutorial is about, stacking for noise reduction. This was shot on the Nkon D750 and 14-24 2.8.

dude seriously? you didnt show the final result!? you should have done the whole thing together in one vid bud. great explanation but why cut the video off like this!?

@JSnowPhotography

7 жыл бұрын

Frank Mondragon it was really meant to show the process of stacking for noise reduction and less about the processing of the whole image. I plan on doing more I just need to find time. The image itself wasn't a great one so I didn't bother continuing

@pakomondragon

7 жыл бұрын

okay okay bro. sorry! look forward for more :) the video u made is brilliant but really wanted to see the final image and how you blend them together. that's all. the image wasn't bad. would be great to see the rest of the process. peace. hope u find lots of time and everything goes great for you.

Nice video but if you weren't gonna do a follow up vid, it would've been nice to see final image on this one.

@JSnowPhotography

6 жыл бұрын

It wasn’t intentional...life got in the way and by the time I could get back to it I had advanced so much I didn’t see the point in doing the second part: you can gander at my portfolio and see the results I achieve with these methods

@fingerstylefan

6 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks for a quick reply. I took a gander at your website and I was impressed. You do good work. Didn't mean to sound so harsh.

@JSnowPhotography

6 жыл бұрын

fingerstylefan no worries😊

r you doing the follow to this one soon?

@JSnowPhotography

8 жыл бұрын

Hi Brandon, do you mean fully editing the image? Likely not, but I do have plans on other tutorials

@MrBrandonPetersen

8 жыл бұрын

yes, the blending of the two images. Essentially the follow up to this current video (i believe you had said) Thanx!

@JSnowPhotography

8 жыл бұрын

+Brandon Petersen I did do a blending video, the same technique I used on this image, just with a different image. Check it out!

@MrBrandonPetersen

8 жыл бұрын

oh gotcha, my apologies. Ill check that out. Thank you!

@JSnowPhotography

8 жыл бұрын

+Brandon Petersen hey no worries man! Hope it helps! Keep an eye out for more! Gotta feed the channel=]

Why would you use an ND filter while staying at 1200 ISO ?...

@JSnowPhotography

6 жыл бұрын

SiouLfr I’m not using an ND Filter...are you referring to my calculation for the long exposure? Much to learn you have.

@JSnowPhotography

6 жыл бұрын

SiouLfr I’m doing neither of those things but demonstrating how to calculate an exposure got your foreground that is brighter than the sky exposures also this video is very dated

@SiouLfr

6 жыл бұрын

Talking about your foreground 7 minutes exposure. If I understand you well, you used a 2 stops ND filter, to go from 10,000 ISO + 10 sec to 1200 ISO + 415 sec. The ND4 filter is useless as you could have done the same thing by dropping your ISO to 300, resulting in less noise and maybe vignetting added by the filter. (Light = incoming * shutter speed * ISO / (ND^2) )

@JSnowPhotography

6 жыл бұрын

SiouLfr you COMPLETELY misunderstood the entire lesson of this tutorial. I DIDNT ACTUALLY USE AN ND...I used PhotoPills exposure calculator to calculate an exposure at iso 1200, but expose two stops brighter...the only way to do that in the exposure calculator is to tell it you’re using a two stop ND...I teach photography for a living, if never use an ND at night...ever, that’s just ridiculous. Maybe gander at my website to see my portfolio, and see the techniques in action.

@SiouLfr

6 жыл бұрын

Wow, and you went to all this process to calculate that by decreasing your ISO 10 times, and addind two stops (leading to 2^2*10=40 times), you had to go from 10 secs to ~400 secs. All this mess to multiply 10 by 40 holy crap ! But sorry for misunderstanding the lesson dad, should be my bad of course. Anyway, if I found it highly unclear, I probably wasn't the only one. Peace !

Need to get a PC and try to stick to Photoshop!^ No idea what your talking about :/

Sadly this video is really only useful for mac users as starry landscape stacker is not available for windows.

@Kolinu2

6 жыл бұрын

I'm a Mac user, however, check out RegiStax and PIPP for Windows. I saw them used in the video True Colour Moon.

Why shoot 12 photos at 10 seconds consecutively, instead of processing 12 photos of the SAME time frame, 12 different ways? That way you have no star trails. Or am I on crack?

@JSnowPhotography

7 жыл бұрын

You're in crack LOL, just kidding. The idea of stacking is based on the fact that noise is random. So by stacking multiple frames your averaging out the noise resulting in a more detailed, noiseless image. You aren't processing the files differently but the same collectively. You sync the edits you've made in acr or Lightroom across all the images you intend to stack and then export them to a third party software like starry landscape stacker which will align and compensate for the earths rotation between frames.

@LindyLooo99

7 жыл бұрын

Ahhh I need to play more with this!

@JSnowPhotography

7 жыл бұрын

LindyLooo99 =]

Background noise! Man!

2 second side by side... Don't waste our time.

@JSnowPhotography

6 жыл бұрын

Dave Zurcher lmao, what?

Fuck man, this is soooo much less time consuming than having to manually warp each image in photoshop to get good alignment (since auto align is so terrible with stars.) Why can't it be available for Windows? This would save me literally hundreds of hours, I'd be willing to bay $60 for this program.

@JSnowPhotography

7 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped man!

@tjartik

7 жыл бұрын

Try deep sky stacker.

@JSnowPhotography

7 жыл бұрын

+tjartik starry landscape stacker isnt time consuming at all....

@kylewolfe_

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly, and DSS doesn't work well with wide angle shots that include foreground. I really wish Starry Landscape Stacker had a version available for windows, I don't have a mac :(

@tjartik

7 жыл бұрын

No it's not of course! I actually go ahead and give any promising software a good try. What's doing the difference is compatibility, interface and of course performance. I will definitely try it out since I need some kind of detection zone for the region i want stacked, not all software have that feature. Some just do it on the fly.

"I lower PCs" ?!! - What are you.. a Mac hipster / Apple zombie ? - Disliked right there, and moved on.

@JSnowPhotography

5 жыл бұрын

Carsten Bruhn in sorry that you’re dissatisfied with this free tutorial 🙄😂

Dude...refine this...shorten it...lots of good info lost in way too long of a video.

@JSnowPhotography

5 жыл бұрын

CCphotography dude this was like one of my first videos ever, look at the date, I’ve just released a much more updated one over on visialwilderness.com ;)

@curtismes

5 жыл бұрын

@@JSnowPhotography cool thanks for the update...

@JSnowPhotography

5 жыл бұрын

CCphotography for sure! I’m not sure why I keep this up here lol