Incredible! About three years ago I was hiking in Mount Rainier National Park in the USA to shoot the Milky Way. I did the typical thing and hiked up to a fire lookout tower to shoot the Milky Way with perhaps 5 other guys with the same idea. However, one guy only went halfway up the trail and I couldn't figure out why. As I hiked back down off the mountain where this one guy shot the Milky Way was acres and acres of white Avalanche Lillies. It dawned on me that I had walked right past an incredible shot in my haste to get up the mountain. I have been trying to take a shot like that for the last two years. We had a pretty rough winter and the snow in many areas did not clear until the end of July so the Avalanche Lillies were only in small patches. This has got me motivated to get that shot even though it might take a few years for the right amount of snow and weather conditions to make this happen.
Hi John, That is definitely one of your best images, so good and genuine eye candy! Love it mate. Interesting to see that you changed your footwear to walk through the canola 🤣🤣
Cheers geoff 👍 Hahaha yeah I was genuinely concerned about snakes and pigs in there so unfortunately my all terrain, all weather standard footwear had to stay in the car
@@johnrutterphotography I looked at your clouded out image at 1:28 into the video. That is also a pearler! The clouds don't detract from the image, they just make it different. 👍
Really cool that you tried out not re-leveling while tracking... saves a lot of time and images and is much easier to align in my opinion :) I usually stack the foreground with a different lens, for this type of pano I would use a 20mm or a 14mm in portrait format, one single row. For stacking I use the automatic focus shift of my Nikon D850 which is really handy in such situations, especially when the exposure time is already in the seconds-range and there is not much time / light left. I just need to focus on the nearest point and let the camera run it to infinity. The camera takes care of the correct focus shift so that everything is in perfect focus, if nothing moved. Then I merge all stacks of each panorama position to one panel and create the foreground panorama out of it. Sometimes I make a second stack with a higher ISO and blend in the stacking result of this wich the longer exposed one where needed. I then blend the separately stitched pano for the sky with the foreground pano by using the puppet warp tool in PS to match the horizon line.
Thanks for that. I've never used that nikon feature, sounds super handy. I can see how not re levelling can help long focal length panos. I love trying all these new things.
Hey man, your FB page is my favorite. I really appreciate the insight into the shooting process. I had Covid a few months back and watched literally every video on your page. Some more than once. Thanks, John. You’re killing it, bro
Oh Man... You make it look so easy. ;-) Here in my area the Milky Way is something people know from stories from the old days. The only astrophotography I do is telescopic when objects are high in my sky. These skies you are showing are high on my bucketlist.
Thanks mate, I am very lucky to have access to great skies, if your doing telescope work tho it's you who makes it seem easy 😉 that stuff is challenging
Dude that final image is awesome! you're right, getting high enough to see all that yellow canola was so pretty! super symmetrical too with the arch and the barn. wow. what an experience!
Congratulations on one of the best pictures of the milky way arch ever taken, your subscriber amount doesn't do you must justice in terms of your end results.
Very cool work, and the introduction to the work was beautiful, especially the yellow color.... I used to photograph such a large scene of flowers that move using the technology (focus stacking) found in Nikon cameras
@@johnrutterphotography would love to but I believe it hard to get access. I completely why. I don't I have seen a better image from there mate. Just amazing!
I really did not think the camera was high enough for the foreground! Thought of a sturdy table! Very beautiful and awesome final image! Yes also wondering about snake boots/chaps in very tall vegetation.
John, this is stunning - definitely one of your best ever! I love the slight blur in some of the flowers to be honest - more realistic for a night shot than if they were pin sharp. The only suggestion I'd have is to drag the right hand edge of the foreground down a tad so it mirrors the left hand side - at the moment the right hand side stands out to me because its asymmetric - everything else is spot on, even the small hills on either side match! Great work.
Absolutely beautiful image. I like how the canola blooms showed up. The slightly softer focus is a nice contrast to the barn and the sky, and they look a little closer to how they appear in the daylight. So, for what little my opinion is worth, if you had trouble with them moving while you were shooting, it made the final image better. Just about every time I golf, I have an absolutely terrible shot that puts me in position for par or even birdie - sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.
Awesome shot and video mate. We are from Western Australia I had to laugh the farmers here are going off about people walking in their canola fields and taking photos. Wouldn't be game to post a video like that. 🤣🤣🤣
Hi John, another fantastic image, out of this world! Regarding the problems in the focus stack image, by the pattern I could see in the image, it may not be problems due to the subject's movement because of the wind, but a problem that typically happens when your stacking steps are too big and the deep of field in focus of consecutive images are not overlaping. You need to use more photos with shorter distance between sharp areas. At least this case is worth evaluating and discarding.
My jaw actually dropped at the full size image. Mate, that is insane. What a corker. Prints or high res download for wallpapers? I enjoyed picking out the deep sky objects I recognised that's for sure. This is the sort of photography I'm itching to branch into also. Bit far from huge milkyway panos like this though! Great video, thoroughly enjoyed
Truly Epic! I've joined the FB group to see if i can learn interesting stuff. Hopefully my body is recovered next year and we can start shooting this kind of images. We live in bortle 10 skies (on a scale from 0 to 9) so it is almost impossible to get a decent image from the MW let alone a full arch as there is light everywhere.
This is absolutely wonderful 😍 A question. If you didn't level your v-plate. What was your starting point and finishing point on your tracker? I tried this method but only for 15 images at 85mm and 1 min exposures. So it didn't move that much😉 inspiring as always to see your work.
Standing out there I could clearly see the full arch with the naked eye so I just kept shooting until I could see I was past where the arch hit the horizon and same for the start
Holy s**t, that pano is just insane! Also, you fit nicely among those flowers :D. BTW, shooting a foreground with a wider lens, like 24mm and sky with a 40mm would not be an option?
Haha I poured myself between those flowers, it wasn't graceful at all. I definitely think a focal length blend would of been a better option, but I only had a 40mm and 20mm with me so I was stuck imaging with the 40 as the 20 was on video. When I get the new sigma 24 il be all over it
You're breaking a cardinal rule for long exposure photography. Center column extended. Just messing with you. If I was rich I'd bye you a good tripod for the mind blowing work you do. Regardless of Really Right Stuff, and Gitzo. I know PromediaGear is in Illinois, USA, but for about the same money (it ain't cheep)there 6 foot tripod folds down shorter, is a pound lighter than there competition, and smarter, better design. I've worked with all 3! No affiliation. They are super friendly, and genuine.
Great pano, I admire your perseverance. In the UK, the core doesn't come up very far, the dark horse sits near the horizon, opposite to what you guys have, very jealous of your southern hemisphere mw
