Course Highlights
  • Plan and prepare for a night shooting the Milky Way
  • Create a Star Trail Image
  • Enhance the images in Adobe Camera Raw
  • Bonus Timelapse section
Curriculum

7 Topics
Introduction and Course Overview
Preparation is Everything! Location Direction Light Pollution
Night Sky Compositions - Milky Way
Night Sky Compositions - Star Trails
Night Sky Compositions - By The Light Of The Moon
A Brief Overview of the Big 3 - Aperture ISO Shutter Speed
How to Plan a Time-lapse Movie

6 Topics
Equipment - Your Camera Lens Tripod and Accessories
Camera Settings Part I
Camera Settings Pt II
How to Change Settings on your DSLR (Based on Canon)
A Star Trail Primer
The Shoot Itself

12 Topics
Equipment that Sandy uses to edit (excerpt from her Photoshop Udemy Course)
Introduction To Using Adobe Bridge CC
Organizing Your Folders in Bridge
Rating and Labelling in Bridge
Rating and Labelling in View Mode
Edit Your Milky Way Images with ACR - White Balance Clipping & Contrast
Changing Exposure Highlights & Clarity
Sharpening
Color Adjustments on the Airstream
Toning the Image and Finding the Ideal Crop
Enhancing the Overall Image & the Milky Way Even Further
Vignetting with the Radial Filter

4 Topics
Removing Distracting Elements
Changing the Color of the Night Sky with Color Lookup
Changing the Milky Way with More Color & Contrast
Final Adjustments

6 Topics
Presets
Sync Settings to Speed Up Your Workflow
Workflow for Star Trails
Star Trail Preset & Sync Up
Star Trail Manual Adjustments
Timelapse Preparation

5 Topics
Panorama Intro
Why to Blend Multiple Exposures to Get the Best Panorama
Blending Images in Photoshop
Edit in ACR
Edit in Photoshop

2 Topics
Developing the Image in Lightroom
Opening an Image from Lightroom into Photoshop plus Quick Edit

2 Topics
Creating a Star Trail Image
Creating The Time-lapse Movie

1 Topic
Thank You And More Example Images

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Night Sky Photography - Milky Way and Star Trails

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