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Thank you for taking it a little slower. I'm one of those who is new to Photoshop. Also, thank you for sharing your thoughts and conveying your ethics on where the line is (or should be) with post processing. Very refreshing for those of us who want to hone our photography skills and have the editing bring out the detail of what we photographed, vs creating images that never existed.
Thank you, Alyn. I just discovered your channel from Steven Barnes in a moveshootmove user group I joined on Facebook. At 49, Sometimes I feel too old to learn new things, but your tutorial and teaching style really helps. I truly appreciate it.
Thank you for this excellent tutorial showing us two different approaches. Awesome. I'm glad I've subscribed to your channel. Lots to learn from you, thank you so much.
Great tutorial! I just recently bought the Sony 200-600mm G lens specifically for shooting the moon with and I've been wondering how to do this type of edit. Thanks for posting! Have you ever done any "true color moon" edits? I've seen only a couple tutorials on it on RU-vid. I would love to see your take on that method.
Thank you so much for sharing this, I made a beautiful image of the moon with earthshine, and I added some stars in the background for fun. This was really informative. You told us the keyboard shortcuts to different tools and explained everything with ease, and that makes things much easier for everyone
Great Video, learnt a lot from it. But as a newbie, I cannot get an over exposed shot of the moon that shows the whole moon, I’m not even getting a round outline and have tried a few different settings, is there something I’m doing wrong? Does it have to be taken at a particular time? Thanks.
I wonder how Auto align layers in PS and HDR merge in Lightroom work for this kind of phpto. There's almost no anchor point to match the two if you analyze the two images down to the pixels.
Great tutorial...im doing the hdr moon but when I drop the glow of the moon behind the full moon I get a dark ring around the moon then the glow...don't know what I'm doing wrong 🤦🏻😭
Haha yeah. I could have just put the star layer underneath the Moon layer too! I realised this after filming but thought it was actually a good thing to leave it in there as it mentions not to put stars in front of the Moon which I've seen some people do!
Alyn Wallace seriously. I do a lot of tutorials for Premiere Pro. I watch a lot of tuts. There are very few that get to the point and deliver quality with efficiency. You seem to possess that rare quality.
Enjoyed that Alyn. I am the same as you and only do composites if I took the photos at the same time (i.e. focus stacks / HDR etc..). Although that last image was amazing!!!! It look 3D.
Thanks Nigel! Although I'm not really against composites that are not pretending to be a real photograph. That's what I don't get, people have unlimited freedom with composites, you could create a world that has a sunset and a sunrise going on at the same time with a giant ringed planet in the sky but nope, they just create stuff that could have been done with patience and planning.
Merhaba sevgili Alyn. Ben seni Türkiyeden takip ediyorum. kırsal yaşıyorum ve bulunduğum yerdeki nüfus 1. o da benim :). Sevgili Alyn bu yazımda sana teşekkür etmek istedim. imkanlarımın kısıtlı olması sebebi ile gökyüzünü izlmekte zorlanıyordum. ama şunu anladım ki inandığın zaman imkanlar artıyor. böylelikle bende senin videolarını izleyerek inancımı artırdım. ve şimdi gökyüzünü daha net izleyebiliyorum. bana bu düşüncenin gelmesinde sebep olduğun için sana teşekkür ederim. saygılarımla. davut...
R.I.P Alyn, my thoughts to your family... Also a fellow Welsh man that only lived a few miles from me he was such a talented man and its great Alyn have past on his knowledge and have showed us all his amazing astro photos.
Love it! I have a 150-600 on the way and this has been the main thing I've wanted a super tele for. Also, when doing a marquee, if you hold Alt (option on Mac) you can draw the marquee from a centre point instead of edges (can still use shift for a perfect circle). And also when masking out the stars you could also just ctrl/command click your existing mask from the glow layer to get the selection for the mask then invert it for a perfect mask of the moon instead of brushing. Hopefully this doesn't come across the wrong way, they're just two thing I use all the time that I wish I'd found out about earlier! Thanks again for another great tutorial
I'm a 12 yr old tryna beat my dad u know he has a better phone than mine sooo STORY TIME one day there was a lunar eclipse here so we went up the terrace to see the eclipse but there was no eclipse but instead there a BEAUTIFULLY BRIGHT MOON so we went and took some pics and literally nobody's photo came cool it was just showing a big ball so I came to this thank u so much
Beautiful pic Alyn. One thing I'd like to ask of all you astrophotgraphers with Photoshop: Do you all pay the monthly fee for it or do you use some sort of stripped down version you can buy outright? I will be up and running soon, I hope, but I really am not enamoured by Photoshop monthly fees or any other software for that matter.
At 1:57, or really whenever I try to overexpose, it overexposed the entire moon, and the bright stuff expands far beyond the circle shape. Any help? I use Sony gear. So either I expose right or if I try to overexpose, all is so bright and I don’t get the half bright half dark part where you can still see moon
I can't seem to get the right exposure for the dark side of the moon. I end up with an over exposed side that when I try to merge with the correctly exposed side, it overwhelms the whole picture. Also I think you should update the PS to the latest version. I may be missing something here.
When you need to make a perfect circle selection, you can hold shift while you click and drag the selection, and then press and hold spacebar if you need to move the selection around. Just another method for selecting the moon without using the two guidelines. Not saying the guide method is "wrong" or anything like that, just offering up another way to do it that might save a little time in the future. :)
Outstanding video. Learned a lot. At 8:47 I had to look up creating the stamp visible layer on a MAC as you need to use Shift+Command+Option+E (Mac OS). Everything else was perfect and you made it straightforward and easy - Thank You.
Nice tutorial. May well try the first one out. But I'm with you on the second one, 2 different moons and adding stars isn't my thing, although the image is pretty cool.
Thank you for this tutorial Alyn - fabulous information! Quick question - is there some percentage of the waxing/waning moon where you can't capture the unillluminated side to create the HDR composite? I was able to create an HDR image following your tutelage when the moon was at 21% last week, but when I took shots tonight (at 78%) I don't have any that I could use to create the dark side of the HDR image. Is there a "no greater than x% of moon stage" rule of thumb??
About 8th time working through this with my workspace on one screen and this video on the other. After a few difficulties I have now got through to minute 10 I have drawn the circle round the moon with the elliptic marqee tool however when I move to the create mask button there a stop on the end of the cursor and I can't make the layer mask with the cheques around it.
The end result is excellent. I think many non-diehard astronomy folks don't care if it's a composite, they just care about the feeling the image invokes. It's hard to describe what feeling I get other than amazement.
Thankyou so much for this video....iam a die hard selenophile..and was always blown away by such pictures...always wanted take this picture since iam a photographer...this video cleared all my confusions... thankyou so much once again❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Why in the world would you use 6400 ISO?????? That's like using a shotgun to kill a fly, except with a Ton more noise on the photograph. Boggles the mind. Wouldn't the lowest base ISO (for ex. 100) more than suffice and give a crystal clear image?
Good stuff man, just tuning in from checking out some other astro RU-vidrs and landing on your 100-400 video. I am considering this lens over the 70-200.
Can anyone help me in achieving an HDR edit of the moon in Gimp? I tried this method here and several others that don't seem to want to work. Any Gimpers out there willing to share their workflow?
Not that easy...Thanks for sharing. ~15:36 : to predict wobbling of the moon (librations of the moon) and make more accurate pictures, you'll probably need Virtualmoon.
Like the final image!!! Some time ago I was trying to blend 2 drastically different angle of illumination like if there are 2 suns but the "wable" make it almost impossible. Please forgive my English!
Great video! Why do you shoot the moon at such a high ISO? I was taught to shoot it as low as possible as the moon is almost like a lamp in the sky (I still find myself using 800ish for various reasons). Thanks to whoever answers, curious to the benefit of this (i can see why for the dark side).
Great AW tutorial. Just when you thought you had something nailed..Adobe changed the Gradient tool 2023 so this no longer works the same way!
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Utterly incredible the editing power graphic editors have nowadays! - huge thanks for this tutorial. I work with audio files a lot and see the same advancement (check out Melodyne for use in e.g. timing, tone and pitch adjustment). Good tip you mentioned - less is more (for audio we say reduce other rather than boost 'target' e.g. EQ).
beautiful. Nice, simple presentation. There are no morals in photography. It's all art. If you want to be pure you would do NO post-editing. Remember, the camera never "sees" what you see.
Lost immediately. I love your videos, but I don't even know how to open two photos as seperate layers. You did it with a totally different program that did it for you. I'm not importing them from some other program that does it automatically (I have Photoshop but not Lightroom), I kinda need to know how to do this before I can do anything with the photos. Looks like a good video, but I can't get into the meat of it for above reasons. Tried watching it several times. It's frustrating because so much is inuitive to the instructor, but not us. I've all but given up on autoguiding for this very reason too. I'll continue to research that first step so I can come back to this video though. When we say we know very little about the program, we mean very little. Ha ha. Please keep putting out content as I do appreciate you and what you do for us. You do great work. ::I did figure out how to do it in GIMP though. Very easy. I'll try applying this video's knowledge to that program instead::
anyone else having trouble with the linear gradient? His blends so beautifully. mine does not. Like it'll overexpose the side that has the details in a weird way. His brightens up the dark side without overexposing the detail side of the moon. help anyone!
Why didnt you expose the bright side of the moon by lowering the ISO instead of shortening exposure time? Not trying to be a dick, just curious if there's a reason. Thanks for the tutorial, man.
