Milky Way Panorama Post Processing 

Thanks again! Very informative. :D

The beauty of the internet and RU-vid- it allows people from all over the world to get together and enjoy the artistic work of Richard and other content contributors. Thanks for sharing with us Richard.

I get noticed, that Richard has made a new video...! I click the link, I click Thunbs Up and Then sit back and Whatch...! Thank You Richard for all your work and insight in your workflow...!

Wow, you make it look so simple Richard, yet I know it isn’t. I have done a few successful panoramas myself, with the most recent one featuring a lone tree as my favourite. I am amazed to see how bright the Zodiacal Light is there, I noticed it straight away as you opened up the pictures. I was lucky enough to see a very similar ZL to that in South Africa one November, when around 2 hours after sunset the galactic plane was practically sitting along the horizon and ZL was shining through Sagittarius and high into the night sky. It was a pretty amazing sight to see the Milky Way so clear when it was so low down, but we were in Sutherland Northern Cape, which is home to the Southern African Observatory. It was great to see your amazing southern skies for the first time.I was even lucky enough last week to capture Zodiacal Light here in the UK, or in Wales to be exact, around 2 hours before dawn. It’s the first time i’ve seen it at this time, rather than after sunset, when I have seen it several times. By the way, I am honoured that you have subscribed to my channel. I learned a lot from you just by watching this video. Who knows, maybe you might learn a few tricks off me!

Congratulations on another brilliant explanation of workflow from set up to final post-processed image. Thank you once again.

Bravo! Beautiful image captured, post processed by the master.

Richard, Thanks for sharing how you edit your images. I would love to see your process of time-lapse also.

Wonder which drone you are using. The cinematic shots are superb.

One question about night panoramas. As we know the earth moves and between the first and last shot, the stars would of moved. Do you get any problems with seeing the same stars doubled up on the stitched image.

Richard, I enjoy seeing where you go and how you chose the beautiful and sometimes bizarre foregrounds for your night shots. But, this is the video I have been waiting on and really look forward to the series. May I pose question I hope you may answer during the processing series? I have trouble with Sequator leaving blurred edges between the foreground and the sky. I have tried changing settings, but to no avail. Perhaps you can demonstrate what you do. Thanks for what you do AND how you do it...

MATE!,I love your vids I soak like a sponge,thanks to your simple guidelines I got my first nighscape,selfie with ORION above,for my mum.200asa.f3.5.30sec. THANKS!...

Fabulous.. I really enjoy and appreciate these kind of videos. Thank you

Hi Richard, So for the Pano, you took 8-9 shots at ISO6400, since you did not take multiple shots for stacking, how did you manage to reduce the noise so much. It is like taking 8 single exposures and combining them, where as had this not been a pano but just a landscape or portrait pic of milky way, you might have just taken 6-8 shots of milky way just to reduce the noise

Hello Richard! Some of your videos discuss how you shoot multi-row panos. Is there any difference in the post-processing stitching steps between a single-row and multi-row pano? Thanks!

Another great, and helpful, video. If it were my photo, I think that I would quieten down the star reflection in the pond. The larger star reflection is distracting. But, that is just a personal observation.

Hi Richard, thank you so much for sharing your techniques to help beginners like me start with a great basis of knowledge. I was amazed at your stacked image at 24:22 at the end of the video and was wondering if the 10,000 ISO was a typo? That image is one of my favorites of yours and was just wanting to know which settings you used. I am looking forward to this Milky Way "season" in the US and binge watching your videos keeps me inspired!

Thank you for this tutorial,, I'm shooting or trying to shoot at the Aurora's, and my thinking is that this method will work, because this is all most the same condition, and the ISO would be some part lower.

its always so dark where you shoot your photos.... here in germany i barely can do F2.0 15sec and iso1200 higher iso would result in a much too bright sky becouse of the lights all around in the citys :(

Thank you so much Richard, awesome video!! Regards from Chile.

Great educational video ,looking forward for the rest in this series.thank you

This is awesome, Richard. Thank you for another great video.

Richard thanks for great video! In one of previous videos I asked about noise reduction in panoramas, and as I see here it is not applied. At 8:35 there are masks so there is no overlap. Also have you tried to edit sky reflection in the water as sky? I think the water may need same adjustments as sky. Cheers!

Wow! You just keep getting better and better. Thanks so much for all the great info.

Great image Richard. Thanks for sharing your art with us.

Awesome work Richard, I have a question. I know you have remote shutter release, but dont you have to stay with the camera to do each image of the pano, or do you have a gizmo, to move the camera for you, so you dont have to keep running back to the camera while light painting?

Thats awesome mate👌 Did you use any special gear like an L bracket or gear head for the pano or just a simple ball head?

Could you write some small pdf document something like Lightroom for Dummies for us who are new to this software? Thanks I really enjoy your videos!

Great catch mate and nice tip for the stars with colour range.

Hi, very beautiful video and pictures, I have only a Samyang 14 2.8 and a Eos R, do you think it's too much wide for astropano? I'm worried about the stitching with the higher prospetctive distortion

Loving your channel Richard, doing a bit of a catchup on the back catalogue. I've had great results on my first attempts at stacking for noise reduction using Sequator as per some of your other videos. Just curious if you ever use stacking to reduce noise on the individual images making up a pano or is that overkill - would obviously add to the post-processing workload.

Love these Richard. Saved video until I could relax and enjoy. Noticed there was some jigsaw puzzle effect after stacking for panorama, then it disappeared after flattening. Keep them coming.

Bonjour Richard! One quick question or two; How do you avoid the star trail between the shots you have taken for this panorama? I would imagine there is some trailing from first shot to the last one taken. Does Photoshop takes care of it when you merge all the photos in the panorama? Always very nice to see your video. I can't wait for the next one :-) Pierre

Absolutely a helpful tutorial. Thanks, man. And I want to know is there any possibility to stack a panoramic picture with each part longer shutter speed? Such as a minute or more. Cause there's no doubt that the longer you take, the more obvious movement of the milky way shows, which could affect the post processing.

Another great video Richard, I watched the milky way leave our hemisphere last month and thought of you greeting it coming to yours. Your videos are great for learning and you do a wonderful job with them.

Great vid, love seeing other peoples work flow. Awesome image too!

Excellent video Richard - particularly useful for me was the star minimisation which I can see can be used to give a really clean image that is not too busy.

Very nice. Thank you, i learned a lot.

Richard, thanks for once again making a great tutorial. I look forward the rest.

Great video yet again Richard. Just wondering if you had any tripod / tripod head recommendations (for panoramas especially)? Proper panoramic heads seem very expensive, are these overkill for simple two or three row panoramas?

When we do milky way panarama , it is impossible to do stacking for noise reduction, right?

Magic looking forward to the next one.....😊👍🏻

Excellent introduction to shooting and editing Nightscape panoramas. Curious about the green patch in your sky..Could it be the Aurora australis?

Awesome, thank you so much!

Hello my friend. Your videos are very useful, I like it very much. How do we get rid of the city lights at the bottom when processing photos of the Milky Way? How can we saturate just the nebulae in the Milky Way? How can we make nebulae more prominent? Do you have a plan to make a video about this?

Thank Richard for another informative video. I am curious about what happens when light painting the different frames of the pano when one shot was illuminated much more than the overlapping frame. ie When photoshop blends the images do you possibly lose some of the lighting effects of particular frames. Thank you

Another great and informative video Richard and I hope to attend one of your workshops next year as well

Youp as i thought ,another great one from you . Thanks for sharing .👍

Another winner, Richard! Loving these tutorials, keep them coming, please. 👍

Love your work mate, very clear on your explanations and tips! Hoping to work on my light painting over summer so I can be ready for MW season next year :D

Thanks to you and your tutorials, I finally got a shot that was half way decent to me. After sharing that photo on a few Facebook groups, several people wanted to know: "how did you do that?" and "where can i learn how to do that?" All I could do was send them here. Hopefully you pick up a few more subscribers from it!!! Thanks again for taking your time to share your knowledge with us... Cheers

Bravissimo, grande scatto.

You are the best Richard

Fantastic Richard!!!!

Amazing video Richard keep up the good work.

Namaste from India

Richard, an excellent video, a true recipe to process our photos, I will look for some such panorama in mu file to follow the steps you indicate. Thank you for sharing such interesting material. Greetings from Chile.

Excellent work 😍

Very helpful thank you very much 👍🏻keep it up

Another fantastic image and education in the editing process. I really enjoyed the content mixture, so that it wasn't just about the post editing.

A question: in your opinion, how close to the horizon, or at which elevation, does it become impractical to photograph the Milky Way. According to the bloke who wrote Photopills, the ideal elevation is between 20 and 30 degrees. Would you agree, Richard?

Thanks Richard! Another cool trick I learned about star minimisation in Photoshop! I think you are right, it makes the Milky Way shot more appealing with less distractions! Well done! 😀👍

Wow, I learn't so much from this video. Thank you !

Thank you brother

Great editing tutorial and great final image. Thanks.👍

Great stuff as usual!

Very helpful!

I love the timelapse at the end.. Good video

master piece

Another well presented and informative video Richard. Your level of passion in this field of photography is evidenced in your superb images. Well done.

Fantastic work. Love the process, I must watch a few more times though to understand the process. I've captured a MW shot the other night that I did some light painting of a dead tree. I'll be processing it based on some of your ideas from previous videos. Keep your fingers crossed. But, even if it doesn't come out ok, i'll be able to say I've made the first stab at your style of light painting and I'll be off and running. Thanks for all you do!

Hi from Greece!We look forward for next episodes!!!👌🏻

I use an apsc camera so I often have to stack shots for noise reduction. is it possible to do a pano with multiple exposures for stacking? Or is that too much time elapsed between shots?

Amazing. Thank you. !!! One question. In the final result, we cannot see the reflection of the stars in the lake. Is the reason that the water has some movements ? Again, thanks !!! Very motivational work and beautiful result👍

I love that your images are not overblown and look so natural. You are also too modest, you are the nightscape expert of Photoshop! Great video and thank you so much for the tutorial. I love the final image.

Yep like I always say about Richards ethos it's truly fantastic and very thoughtful of him to share his work flow, I for one have benefited from his work... Thanks bud your are a legend.. 🙏

Like your editing style very much. Love to see more of this stuff. Great picture anyway!

Excellent

Awaiting the next one......thanks

Great video, and I loved the time-lapse at the end! I'm definitely going to try the star minimalisation technique, as often sometimes my images just have too many stars in them, and tend to clutter the result. One question: if you were doing a two-rown panorama of say 16 shots (ie two rows of eight), would the workflow be the same, ie, you'd just select merge to panoarama as for the single row? I was thinking that a second row of shots makes the stitching a lot more complicated?

Best greetings from Germany ;)

Did photoshop “transform” the individual images of the pano to account for the slight change in star location with respect to the foreground between individual frames?

I love the overall final image as the colours and granular content has that early Autochrome feel, with everything beautifully muted. Great job !

Wow, Amazing and thank you so much for doing this.

Hi Richard that was a fantastic video, I have been hoping you would do a video on editing a panorama. I want to give it a go soon. Your finished photo is awesome.

Love this series Richard. Thank you.

Ripper mate … loved it !

Do you have a new car?

Hi! Whose music you use in this video?

Hi Richard, thanks for another great video. I am always amazed not only at your photography but your videography. Maybe a video on how you film all the b-roll stuff, particularly when alone ( or do you have someone helping in the background ? ). When you say 8 panels, do you mean 8x1 or 4x2 ? In the case of a double or multiple rowed pano, how do you adjust the elevation so the overlap is ok ? Most tripods have a scale for left to right but not up and down, so how do you estimate this ? Many thanks again for such super videos and content.

Photo filters, star minimisation, levels adjustment.... l learn something new everytime as l didn't even know they existed!! 🤦‍♀️ Clearly l know very little when it comes to PS so l appreciate your taking the time to teach others. That zodiacal light just makes it doesn't it, awesome! When you add your filter does that also change the colour cast on your mirrored image on the water below?

Bravo 👏, great 👍!!!!!!! 🌊 ⭐️ 🌌 это великолепно, восхитительно !!!!!!! RUS