Approaching The Scene - Milky Way and Stars Course

This course is for anyone who strives to capture sharp, clean, printable images of the night sky. Over the course of 14 videos, I'll cover field topics like determining the optimal ISO for your camera, calculating night exposures, selecting lenses for night work, separately capturing foregrounds and skies, setting up a star tracker, capturing for star stacking and avoiding condensation. In the editing sections, I’ll cover focus stacking, noise reduction, raw processing and compositing in both Photoshop and ON1 Photo RAW.

• 14 Lessons 

• Over 4 hours of content

• RAW files to follow along with every edit

• Course outline PDF and cheatsheets for Star Stacking and Star Tracking

• Gear lists

• Direct download for viewing anywhere

Lesson 1. Course Introduction

Lesson 2. My History Of Night Photography

Lesson 3: Gear For Night Photography (Free Download) 

Lesson 4. ISO Quality Discussion

Lesson 5. Capturing The Image

Lesson 6. Capturing The Image- Blue Hour Foreground

Lesson 7. Capturing The Image- Star Capture Setup

Lesson 8.  Capturing The Image- Star Stacking

Lesson 9.  Capturing The Image- Move Shoot Move Star Tracker

Lesson 10. Editing- Intro

Lesson 11. Editing- The Foreground

Lesson 12: Editing - The Sky (Tracker and Stacking) 

Lesson 13. Compositing- Adobe Photoshop

Lesson 14. Compositing- On1 Photo Raw