My UNTRACKED Milky Way editing workflow in 2021 - keeping it NATURAL and NOT OVERDONE

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In this video I show how make your Milky Way pop if you are shooting without a star tracker. I share my workflow which includes Adobe Lightroom, Starry Landscape Stacker, PixInsight and Photoshop. The resulting image is kept quite natural as I don't need to do any targeted local adjustments in the sky, no dodging and burning etc.
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► CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:40 Why shooting untracked
03:39 Step 1: Lightroom
06:51 Step 2: Starry Landscape Stacker
10:00 Step 3: PixInsight
12:17 Step 4: Photoshop
18:50 Conclusion
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  • @GusMcCrae01
    @GusMcCrae01Ай бұрын

    Very nice Milky Way processing work.

  • @sianoshea
    @sianoshea2 жыл бұрын

    Great video - always great to see how others process their images! Thank you ✨

  • @DanYosua
    @DanYosua2 жыл бұрын

    Subbed on the RF 16mm vid, came here next. I haven't watched many astro tutorials but this is the first I've seen that separates the stars, very cool. I think you hit a really nice pace/length in your vids!

  • @kamilkp

    @kamilkp

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Dan!

  • @anthony_mungcal
    @anthony_mungcal2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for Sharing your Workflow.

  • @kamilkp

    @kamilkp

    2 жыл бұрын

    You’re welcome!

  • @anderslonn730
    @anderslonn7302 жыл бұрын

    Hallo Kamil, like your workflow very much. Think your way of edit this kind of shoots keep the natural look indeed, very helpful 🧡

  • @kamilkp

    @kamilkp

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Anders, I appreciate the comment!

  • @YAMNIKIN
    @YAMNIKIN2 жыл бұрын

    Kamil - Always sharing a detailed information on everything. Love this about you! Fan of your work and the way you have wide variety of topics in Astrophotography. This workflow initially looked simple..lol but then PS layers/groups came in where I got little confused. I don't have much experience with Photoshop so would you recommend any other video for me to go through so that the steps you followed during the PS editing process makes more sense to me. I do appreciate all your guidance. Thank you and keep sharing! Take care. Hoping to hear from you soon :)

  • @YAMNIKIN

    @YAMNIKIN

    2 жыл бұрын

    Kamil - Is this workflow good for Milky Way images with no separate foreground shots? I will be stacking my images as mentioned in your tutorial but no foreground shot taken separately. I would like to try this workflow on those to see how the results come out to be, if I am able to follow all the steps in the Photoshop you described :). There are so many Milky way editing workflows online and I am confused as to which one to go with :( . Any advice would be appreciated!

  • @stevenrobinsonpictures
    @stevenrobinsonpictures2 жыл бұрын

    Kamil good tutorial. I was slightly weirded out with your blue tinged sky though as I know you are a clark vision fan. Appreciate you are astro modded here. I'd say because you are stacking, with a 24mm lens I'd drop down to 10 seconds. Main reason being is that you can with a big stack, and virtually eliminate star trailing even at pixel level and get better, rounder stars. Gotta love that sigma 24mm 1.4 art. Keep going, vids are great and I enjoy watching.

  • @kamilkp

    @kamilkp

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Steven! Yeah I did a video about Roger Clark’s stuff but truth to be told I like a bit of blue in the sky. I’m pretty happy with how my Milky Way images turn out to look these days. You are probably right about the exposure time, 10 seconds would be better and maybe around 20 exposures to stack.

  • @stevenrobinsonpictures

    @stevenrobinsonpictures

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kamilkp Yeh I'd give it a try. I do 10 max on 24mm on full frame and the stars come out better generally. Esp on a tracker. I know what you mean with the colours. I am sometime's in a quandry over it but to be honest I like the burnt orange look more. Some of your previous edits have blown my mind - the colours where great. Also, another thing to consider is, it differentiates your images from all the blue one's out there - but I do understand it is personal preference.

  • @pich1337
    @pich13372 жыл бұрын

    Great content Kamil!

  • @kamilkp

    @kamilkp

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Didn’t realize you are still a subscriber 😀

  • @pich1337

    @pich1337

    2 жыл бұрын

    I am a day one subscriber. The Follower 0000001 :)

  • @travellingjournalist966
    @travellingjournalist9662 жыл бұрын

    Hi Kamil great tutorial as usual, do you know if there's a free trial for starry landscape stacker, thanks Jack

  • @kamilkp

    @kamilkp

    2 жыл бұрын

    I don’t think there is unfortunately

  • @edwarddebruyn8717
    @edwarddebruyn87172 жыл бұрын

    Some more questions. For most of my landscape photography I’m using an Sony A7r4. But is it right to say that a 12mpix image from a Sony A7s has more than enough resolution for nighttime sky’s since otherwise we will use a star reducing workflow. And is it also right that the whole star eating problem is not a problem and largely exaggerated. Thank you for any response.

  • @kamilkp

    @kamilkp

    2 жыл бұрын

    I don’t see how star reduction would be related to the image resolution that you might wanna have. The thing is that stars are not that big but if you expose for long they will spill a bit into neighboring pixels so star reduction is a way to fix that phenomenon that happens in a camera

  • @southernexposure123
    @southernexposure1232 жыл бұрын

    First thing I noticed is your photos are oriented vertically. I can't get my camera and computer to work together that way. Everey time I rotate my camera to get a vertical shot the camera takes the picture vertically, but my computer always rotates the image to be oriented like a landscape photo. My vertically shot Milky Way image lays down horizontally. Can you tell me how I can get my camera and computer to show my images with the Milky Way to show up vertically on my computer screen? If it matters I'm shooting RAW. Thank you very much.

  • @travellingjournalist966

    @travellingjournalist966

    2 жыл бұрын

    there should be a setting in your camera that says auto rotate portrait images the when you load them to your pc they should be upright, you can always rotate them on the pc

  • @southernexposure123

    @southernexposure123

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@travellingjournalist966 OK Thank you. I'll do that. Based on setup advice from other astrophotographers I shut down that feature. Only now do I understand the reason. If the rotate feature is turned on some of the images taken during a photographic sesson will be oriented differently. That causes some of the images to not be usefl for that photographic session becaause RAW images won't rotate in the computer. At least that's the way my computer works. Thank you very much for the tip. Now I can make Milky Way Images with the camera oriented for portraits and have them to show up on my computer the way I intended.

  • @kamilkp

    @kamilkp

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes exactly, you may end up with differently oriented images if you shoot e.g. straight up into zenith. But this is no big deal you can always rotate them in post one way or another

  • @southernexposure123

    @southernexposure123

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kamilkp Thank you.

  • @jrbfotocom
    @jrbfotocom2 жыл бұрын

    cannot open starlet on my mac. they're all exe. files

  • @kamilkp

    @kamilkp

    2 жыл бұрын

    sourceforge.net/projects/starnet - there is an OSX version to download

  • @echoauxgen
    @echoauxgen Жыл бұрын

    To much work, one image in Lr using the different masks da dah!! If needed topaz denoise and gigapixel if a 12MP image!!! Use PhotoPills spot stars for NPF SS. It all can be done with a f/4 lens at 30s No fast glass needed.

  • @ro3843
    @ro3843 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you. So sick of ridiculously overdone astrophotography. Is this photography or graphic design??

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