Nice video John. Great work and you're relaxed, understated way of telling us your workflow is a nice change. The final image is deadly. It would be very interesting to see your blending workflow. Thanks
John, great to be along on your adventures. Just got a tracker and tested out my first 2 minute exposure. So pumped to get this workflow going but I understand I have a long road of trial and error ahead. Keep the cud’s coming! Great work
That's some amazing work. Thank for sharing. I am heading out in the saudi arabian desert this new moon night to chase the milky way. Hope to get some pictures out there.
Awesome work John. What great results you achieved there. It's good to see you getting out and even better capturing the event here on youtube . .all the best for 2021 mate. Richard
@@johnrutterphotography Yes it's pretty time consuming isn't it. And you thought it took a while to capture, edit and process stills ..!!!! I'll be keen to see what you get up to next.
Great video mate even better resolt at the end of this video. I used to live in AU and I just did landscape photography. Now I live in Europe and I do night photography but is so difficult here to find a dark place. HUGE LIGHT POLLUTION!!
Hi from 'Bloody England!' yeah weather can be crap here ☹. Was out shooting the MW earlier this week with a MSM tracker for the first time. Hoping to get out tonight. Where Iive in the south of the UK we get the core out for just over an hour so very jealous of the thought of your 36 x 4min shots!!!
Awesome video. Out with your buddies, beer, and a few dogs on the grill - shooting stars can't get any better. Thanks for an informative review of your workflow. Next on my wish list is that Star Tracker. Thanks and take care. Mahalo and Aloha.
That meteor! Thanks for letting me tag along champion! After such a shit astro year was good to hang out and do what we love. Here's to many more laughs this year.
Hi John, Good first RU-vid video with a great result at the end. The air glow, the nebula resolution and galactic details are very impressive. I would be keen to see a detailed set up of your tracker and technique of image acquisition. Keep up the good work. Cheers, Geoff.
Excellent videos, thank you. I shoot with an A7R3 but I astro modified my A7S2 not realising that these cameras are a problem for astro shooting because there is a small IR source inside the body itself which bleeds into the photographs at long exposures. So that was very dissapointing but I am planning to use that body in the field for filming my experiences capturing astro scenes. So the mod will be useful there as the camera is sensitive to IR and video works absolutely fine with it. I may upgrade when the A7R5 comes out and in that case I will astro mod the A7R3 instead. Anyway, I am actually very new to this sort of thing and I am a novice photographer so your videos are very helpful. Subscribed.
Hey Brian, the full spectrum mods definitely cause issues in the mark ii cameras, but a H-alpha mod works just fine, this is what my R2 is. I film on a full spectrum a7s and being so sensitive to light definitely helps. I'm glad to hear you've got something out of my videos. Cheers mate 👍
Do you take the foreground images vertical and also the same number of foreground as sky? I would think the FG images are merged with the sky masked out and sky images merged with FG masked out. Correct? Thanks for the video.
Nice video John, have to get back to Australia again, here (Denmark) the night sky is nothing compared to yours, Antares hardly get above the horizon. Have the same setup like yours, only I have Canon camera, but how do you cope with the rotation of the Earth? I mean after one or two hours the horizon will be almost vertical in your image, if you don't do any compensation. Do you move the camera by hand to compensate for the rotation, and how often do you compensate, after a few images, after you have done a row or? Looking forward to seeing more from you.
I'm definitely lucky to live where I do that's for sure. We are spoilt with the best view of the milkyway. If I shoot 3min exposures, I adjust the dec bracket every 2 exposures so as I pan across it stays level. I hope that makes sense. I could do an in depth video on how to shoot a tracked pano
Great video John! This video is super inspiring and makes me want to travel to the Southern Hemisphere to shoot some Astro now! Just wondering how do you do your tracked vertical panoramas, do you use any kind of Z or V plate like the MSM? Thanks Mate and keep up the good work!
Thanks for the kind words, we definitely have a great perspective down here, I do use the MSM z brackets on my set-up to make it super user friendly for panoramas
Impressive work and panoramas, but having the same equipment I don't get as much color from the Milky Way, is the Sony a7r2 modified for astrophotography? Greetings and congratulations on your work Translated by Google
Thanks a lot for this tutorial... one quick question - when you use tracker for the pano, do you reset the tracker to initial position after each exposure?
Also don't forget if you live in the Hunter John and I teach astro. Check out our Facebook page Starlords astro photography workshops see you legends soon
Great video John! I was wondering what astro mod you have. I did a clear glass replacement and added a uv ir cut filter but the color balance is always off
John, I think I saw a video somewhere and you were using an Alyn Wallace V/Z bracket? But I think you had a leveling base on top of the V/Z bracket instead of a ball head. That looks like a good solution to keep the center of gravity low and still have some ability to adjust the camera. Is there a leveling base that you recommend or are any of the ones that adjust 15 degrees work well? I'm using the move shoot move tracker in the USA so when I shoot North or South I get sharp stars from 1-3 minutes, but if I'm shooting directly east or west I'm having trouble with my ball head on top of my Z bracket.
Hi John, I use 2 z brackets, one to give myself a level base off the tracker and one to go between that and my camera, it gives me all the articulation I need and keeps things simple and sturdy. I will be doing a video soon using 2 z brackets on a MSM tracker to shoot a panorama, hopefully that will help you out
It does effect it a little bit. The WB is slightly off. You can buy filters to screw onto the lens to make it a standard camera for day, then take it off at night
Hi in that final photo can you share how many photos you took of each? and what times did you use? I am not able to highlight the nebulae like this, I think that this is done with more than one photo of the same part of the panoramic, right?
