What will I learn in the field?
- Camera settings for night photography
- How to focus at night
- How to shoot star trails
- How (and why and when) to use an intervalometer
- Using PhotoPills to plan your night shots
- How to shoot panoramic pictures in landscape photography
- How to light paint foreground objects for landscape photography shots
- Understanding hyperfocal distance
- How to look for composition of a night image
- Understanding composite images and shooting during blue hour
Post-Processing:
I am available for questions during the days. Workshops in the fall will have a hands-on post-processing session. Attendees will have access to post-processing videos. Videos include:
I am available for questions during the days. Workshops in the fall will have a hands-on post-processing session. Attendees will have access to post-processing videos. Videos include:
- Using Lightroom and Photoshop for post-processing night photography pictures
- Lightroom: Upload and organization
- Lightroom: Basic editing for Milky Way images - global and local edits
- Lightroom: Advanced Editing: Luminosity Masking
- Lightroom: Editing batches of pictures for import into stacking software or Photoshop
- Photoshop: import from Lightroom for advanced editing for Milky Way, including masking, dodge and burning, and luminosity masking.
- Photoshop: Layering for Focus Stacking for day or night landscape photography
- Photoshop: Layering for exposure blending
- Photoshop: Import from Lightroom for stacking (layering) for star trails
- Creating and stitching panoramic pictures from Lightroom or Photoshop.
- StarStax: Import from Lightroom for stacking for star trails
- Stacking for Noise Reduction in Starry Landscape Stacker (Mac) or Sequitor (PC)
What does the workshop include? Not include?
Workshop includes my knowledge of Big Bend and the lessons I have learned over the years shooting at night in Big Bend. Attendees will get access to a video bank of past post-processing lessons from previous workshops as well as the workshop you attend. Attendees must take care of their own park entrance fees, travel, food, and lodging.
Workshop includes my knowledge of Big Bend and the lessons I have learned over the years shooting at night in Big Bend. Attendees will get access to a video bank of past post-processing lessons from previous workshops as well as the workshop you attend. Attendees must take care of their own park entrance fees, travel, food, and lodging.
What equipment is required?
Here's the bare minimum (but when you sign up, I will send you much more information on recommended items to bring):
Here's the bare minimum (but when you sign up, I will send you much more information on recommended items to bring):
- Camera - DSLR or Mirrorless that can go completely manual mode
- Lens - preferably a eide angle lens (10mm - 24mm) with an aperture of at least 2.8 or bigger (smaller number)
- Sturdy Tripod
- Small hand-held white light (headlamps with red lights are not recommended)