Awesome video John. It's good to see people recognizing your skill and expertise in this area of photography. You certainly have so much to offer the photographic community in general and best of all . .it's great to see another Aussie doing so well here on youtube .. !!! Take care mate.
A comparrison between modified and unmodified pictures would be great to see! maybe you could do the postproduction in the same video,too! Thank's for the insight of what you're doing. greetings from germany
Sweet video dude, cheers for answering all our questions. love the new recording setup you got going on there. Great to see more and more people recognising your unique work. As you mentioned. we’d love to see a tutorials on how you polar align quickly, comparison between modified and stock and a editing tutorial on your summer panoramas :)
Awesome Q&A John👍 Would love to see how you polar align the SA in the southern hemisphere as I'm about to order one. Great content mate, keep the coming👍
A video of your complete setup and what you take out with you in your bag on a night shoot would be awesome. Also some insight on how you plan your shot locations. Great videos so far mate.
Dude, thanks for this video - very insightful stuff. It's great to see how you are pupming out videos on a regular basis latley. And thanks once again for using my image :) I am also one of those who would like to see a postporocessing video which is more focused on h-alpha. And you are more than welcome to come over here in Europe :D.
My pleasure mate, it's just a shame that my videos don't get alot of views for people to see your work as its amazing. Il pencil that video in for the future. And maybe il get to Europe in the next few years, fingers crossed 🤞
Thanks so much. My post production changes so often as I try to progress, if I find something I'm going to stick with long term il put a video up for sure
Thanks for this and all of your vids, John. I'm new to the channel (thanks to Geoff Sharpe and Richard Tatti for that) and happy to be following you. Please add me to the list of people who'd be helped by a vid about your down-under polar alignment method.
Great video, John. I could listen you chatting Astro for ages! The passion for those panos really shines through. I thought the question about balancing things with other commitments was great; learning how to make ever-stronger coffee helps too!
Thanks for answering my question! I guess it makes sense you don't get IR leak since the filters are still cutting UV/IR, jsut lets more visible red through. My 6D after it got modded shows an IR bleed when shooting in SILENT shooting AND Live View....which made me worry about modding my A7R II.
I can't comment on the 6D, and I don't know what filters other companies use for their sony conversions but the filter in my camera, light transmission cuts right after 656nm so all IR is blocked,
Thanks John new to the channel and Astrophotography, keen to see how to do polar alignment Down Under I have thought about getting the M2M tracker, but it’s early days for me I may look into it down the track.
Great vid mate, I’ve never used a nodal rail either, making sure you’re tripod is level in all directions seems to be the biggest mistake I see made. Keep up the killer content mate! Beers soon miss you!
Great video John, I’d be interested in a video re polar aligning in the Southern Hemisphere, Ive had my star adventurer for nearly 2 years and I haven’t seen sigma octantis yet with the scope, Maybe my eyes aren’t as good as they used to be but I do get good alignment using a tilt meter, compass app and a real compass as backup and I can get 4 minutes without any star trails, it just takes a few minutes and a bit of patience but always like to to see other people’s methods.
Hey Nick, what ever works for you. That's really impressive. It is challenging especially for people with glasses of those who "can't see as good as they use too"
I have been enjoying your videos since hearing about you on the Telegram app. I too would be interested in an astro-modified, post-production video whenever you are up to it. (By the way, that rig you have for astro travel is impressive!)
Hi John! A very interesting video, congratulations! The tracker works very well for panoramas or single photos, but one doubt I have is when making time lapses that I would like to get Milky Ways with more force, so I would need to use the tracker to take longer exposures, 2 minutes per example, do you think it's a good idea? or it is not worth making time lapses with traker. Thanks for your time. All the best!
Hey mate, it's definitely worth your time, it's obviously a lot more time invested but the results are worth it, go check out night light films on youtube, his tracked timelapses are the best I've ever seen
And to touch on the cooled camera + lens set up, it's an idea I've toyed with and it would be worth a try, but I can see it being to annoying with power supply etc for the camera + you would most likely use a ASIairPlus to control the camera. It's just not a easy to use set up for your "normal" astro nightscape images, but every now and then as a Deepscape Astro set up....well thats another story. :)
Yeah that was my thoughts, using the asi air and small power bank to power it all. Another thing is the crop factor. As those sensors are so small I would need a really wide angle lens to get a 35mm equivalent.. maybe one day il give it a go
@@johnrutterphotography There are Full Frame versions, but you will pay for those!!! 5-6k for the camera, but I guess it would be worth it for the cooling.
For those doing or want to do panos (I’m not up to that yet) but when it come to keeping things level, Kamil pekala in Poland had a video on RU-vid using 2 ball heads on his tracker, it works realy well apparently
Hi John, have you tried doing several photo's at at each position, stacking them to reduce noise and then stitching them together. What issues could arise? Cheers
Hey mate, I have done that, the biggest issue is, if I want to do a full arch pano at 35-50mm I need 50+ shots and if I stack each panel it takes too long, if your going to just do15 image pano of the core section for example then stacking each panel is no issue
Thanks for providing! I have an extra question though, and I can't seem to find the answer anywhere.. After polar aligning I always feel a bit rushed to get the framing and start the tracker as I´m afraid Polaris will move out of the correct position in the "compass" in the sight. So.. how long is the alignment good for? Maybe not so important for ultra wide, but I'm afraid of ruining longer focal length shots like 50mm and up.. Thanks again :D
@@johnrutterphotography Oh! Thas great news. Lowers my night time blood pressure a bit 😅 And thank you so much for taking the time to answer this question ☺
