Tips for taking Nightscapes from a drone
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by Royce Bair
1w ago
A DJI Mavic 3 drone photo, taken above the Outeniqua Pass foothills in South Africa by Agnieszka Taggart  Written by Agnieszka Taggart Agnies is a licensed drone pilot and instructor in Johannesburg, South Africa. Drones are becoming more popular among photographers so it’s no surprise that with the improving specifications, they are also becoming usable in night sky photography. There are couple things to consider though. One is the legal side of flying drones at night as some countries only allow drones during the day or with special permissions. The second one ..read more
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Calculating Your Low Level Lighting Exposure
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by Royce Bair
1w ago
LED Panel lights at Fairyland Point, Bryce Canyon How to Calculate the Proper Intensity of Your Low Level Lighting Calculating Your Exposure: Your exposure is actually determined by your sky exposure, which is often something like f/2.8 for 30 seconds at ISO 6400. Since you want your foreground landscape to match that exposure, what you are really trying to do is place an amount of illumination on the foreground that will look natural with your sky exposure. Because it is a night scene, your foreground should be about two stops darker than a daytime foreground. LED panel lights are o ..read more
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Setting Up Low Level Landscape Lighting
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by Royce Bair
7M ago
Low Level Landscape Lighting (LLL) at Fairyland Point, Bryce Canyon Nat'l Park • Lights off in top photo • Two LED panel lights turned on (each at about 5%) in middle photo • Camera moved to left in bottom photo, and pointed up to show more sky. Post processing contrast added to sky (orange light pollution reflecting on clouds from nearby town) • © Royce Bair • Click on image to enlarge  How I Set Up My Low Level Landscape Lighting (LLL) for Nightscape Photography Go to LLL BASICS Home Page I've been using the F&V Z96 LED Panel Lights for about a decade in my Low ..read more
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Low Level Landscape Lighting (LLL)
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by Royce Bair
7M ago
Palouse Falls (eastern Washington state) with and without Low Level Lighting (LLL) • Canon 5D Mark III with 15mm lens • 20 sec, f/2.8, ISO 6400 • Copyright Royce Bair   Official Low Level Landscape Lighting (LLL) public service webpage, provided by Royce Bair and Wayne Pinkston. What is Low Level Lighting (LLL)? LLL is NOT light painting — which is moving and momentary. LLL is a form of "stationary lighting" (on a light stand, tripod or lying on the ground). LLL is constantly on during all camera exposures — making it ideal for stacking, panoramas, time-lapse and group settings ..read more
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Smartphones for Nightscape Photography
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by Royce Bair
8M ago
"A photo of Me with the Arch and Starry Sky" by Wu Zhengjie. Taken with a vivo X90 Pro+ ~ Night Category 1st Place winner in the vivo VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards 2023 (click image to enlarge). The technology for smartphone cameras is changing rapidly! When I published version 1.1 of my Milky Way NightScapes ebook there were no mobile phone cameras that could decently capture blue hour twilight photographs, let alone photograph the Milky Way stars during the Astronomical Dusk! Currently, there are are over a dozen smartphone cameras that can do a fairly good job of photographing starry ..read more
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Focus Stacking Nightscapes with Marybeth Kiczenski
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by Royce Bair
9M ago
  Big Stable Lighthouse by Marybeth Kiczenski • Foreground taken during the blue hour, using several 15 second "focus stacked" exposures at f/8, ISO 800 • Sky is a 90 seconds tracked exposure, ISO 1000, f/2.8 • Sony a7iv  camera, with a Sony 24-70mm lens at 50mm. Winter blooms at Anza Borrego by Marybeth Kiczenski • Foreground taken during the blue hour, using several 6 second "focus stacked" exposures at f/8, ISO 800 • Sky is five 1-minute tracked exposures (a total data stack of 5 minutes), f/2.8, ISO 800 • Sony a7iv astro modified camera (to visible ..read more
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Updated ''Milky Way NightScape'' eBook Version 2.0
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by Royce Bair
1y ago
  My NEW updated eBook coming out the end of 2023 PRE-ORDER for end of year eBook Delivery - Get Weekly Updates NOW. Only $10.08 via my PATREON support membership (annual - cancel at any time). Why wait until the end of 2023 to get my new, updated eBook? I'm publishing weekly updates of my new Version 2.0 eBook right now via my PATREON account. My supporting members at the NightScaper Advance Patreon level are receiving these updates every week, and at the end of the year, they'll receive the completely compiled and edited Version 2.0 eBook. It's a pre-order, but with a wee ..read more
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Sample Pages from my New eBook
Into The Night Photography
by Royce Bair
1y ago
 Here are six (6) random sample pages from my new Milky Way NightScapes Version 2.0 eBook: Click on image to enlarge Click on image to enlage Click on image to enlarge Click on image to enlarge Click on image to enlarge Click on image to enlarge HERE is what a typical weekly update looks like (a 4-page PDF).  This update is about using moonlight in your nightscapes, and features "Guest Artist" Brad Goldpaint. Be sure to check out the NightScaper Conference video link on this sample update for even more "how-to" learning ..read more
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Camera Sensor Astro Modification and Conversion Recommendations
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by Royce Bair
1y ago
A Full Spectrum conversion done by Spencer's Camera to the Canon R6 (I also bought the Irix 15mm lens from Spencer's). Here's a list of recommendations for camera sensor "astro modification" and conversion: I recommend Spencer's Camera & Photo. You can watch a video on how Clarence does his conversions, the various types of conversions, how they differ, including his personal recommendations. Here are a list of other nightscapers who recommend Clarence: Paul Wilson - New Zealand  Dan Zafra (@capturetheatlas)  Larryn (@shadowandshadenz) - New Zealand  Brandt Ryder ..read more
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1-Night Workshops in the Kanab Area
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by Royce Bair
2y ago
"Zion's Little Tree" is only about 35 miles from Kanab, Utah. Photo by Royce Bair  During the 2022 NightScaper Conference (April 26-29), Robert McKendrick and I will be conducting several 1-night workshops in the Kanab, Utah. Each workshop includes one hour of post-processing instruction. After the instruction, we will go to one or more of the following locations: A large chamber, about 80 minutes from Kanab. Photo by Robert McKendrick Zion's "The Watchman" and Virgin River. Photo by Robert McKendrick Toadstool Hoodoos - about 45 miles from Kanab. Phot ..read more
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