Panorama astrophotography process (part 1) – an Astrophotobear tutorial




Part 1 of 2 of an edit for astrophotography shoot that I did recently at the Pinnacles in Western Australia with a setting milky way. This video has some pre-process and PTGui Pro process. Next video will have photoshop and lightroom process.

I note that I’m shooting with a Canon 6d + Tamron 15-30. I’ll look to doing some videos with one of my entry level DSLR’s at a future date.

Hope you’ll bear with me – not used to doing videos like this (yet).

If you have suggestions what videos you would like me to do (bearing in mind I’ll be a bit slow since I’m very busy all the time) – please comment and let me know.

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Using Ross Bugden’s copyright/royalty free music for the introduction music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rbVt0z6NLM

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27 responses to “Panorama astrophotography process (part 1) – an Astrophotobear tutorial”

  1. Hi Michael. Excellent vid. I'm using a similar setup to you with a rrs Pano head and rail. I'm struggling getting the second row level. After tilting up what do you do to ensure the full set of photos are level from edge to edge?

  2. Awesome!!! Is this the rising/setting moon there on the image at e.g. 4:58? How clear is the sky there that you still see the Milky Way in the images? Jaw dropping. When you made this great tutorial, did you still use a Lightroom version, stitching converted/rasterised images, instead of raw files, as current Lightroom CC versions do? Due to raw stitching, any pre tweaking – so says Adobe – will be obsoleted on processing the stitched image… Did you shoot the 15-30 at 15mm? For your kind reply, many thanks in advance, really will appreciate.

  3. Hi Michael. I am really inspired by your astrophotos! If I can find the right location (and Italy doesn't offer many great dark spots though…) I will certainly try to achieve similar results because your shoots are truly beautiful. I have a question that immediately popped in my mind when I first saw you astro-panos. Does the Earth rotation bothers you for a 20-ish pictures pano? I mean, from start to finish I think that the stars would have moved quite a bit. How is this affecting the pano and how do you counteract this issue (if it is an issue)? Thanks!

  4. hello, I have a sony nex5n. What affordable wide angle lens do you suggest i purchase for astrophotography as a beginner and Will I always need editting software? Should I change my picture format to capture RAW?

  5. Excellent work. I have always been confused about how to shoot pano's using two rows as you have done. I thought you needed to keep the camera level for a pano. Do you tilt the camera upright on the tripod to do the images of the sky? Not quite sure how you accomplish this?

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