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Stone Ruin under the Milky Way We look at how I took some beautiful nightscape images at this lovely location in the Central Victorian countryside. |
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Light Painting & Astrophotography 1937 Chev Ute This is the video I've been working on for a while taking us behind the scenes of a milky way shoot involving this marvelous old Chev ute. We take a look at the motivation and techniques involved. As a bit of a surprise there's also another bonus old vehicle featured in the video as well. |
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Astrophotography on the Farm This video takes us out to the farm where we run our Nightscape Images night photography workshops. We get to look at some of the various machines scattered around the property and I give some insight into how these can be shot using the milky way as the backdrop. |
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Motivation & Inspiration for Nightscape Images As nightscape photographers it's really hard sometimes to keep motivated and inspired to keep going. When the temperature gets low and tiredness takes over it's easy to give up and stay at home. In this video I share some of my feelings on the subject and hopefully give some insights to help you overcome the many challenges we face. Light Painting the Old Chevy's I spent an amazing time recently searching out some awesome subject matter on a farm property including two old Chevy's and a wonderful gate post and tree. When I returned at night the 3 or 4 hours flew by as I put my fine art light painting techniques into practice. Light Painting the Little Boiler This video goes behind the scenes of the processes involved in creating a vibrant and beautiful light painted shot of this old boiler on wheels sitting in a paddock rusting away. It looks absolutely superb when given the Nightscape Images lighting treatment. Focusing for Nightscape Images This video demonstrates a couple of methods of easily attaining infinity focus when shooting Night and Milky Way Photography. We look at Live View Focussing as well as using a Depth of Field Chart. |
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Lighting for Nightscape Images In this video we go through the different lighting methods used to capture Nightscape Images. Four different scenarios are described with detailed instructions on how to achieve the lighting on each shot. The emphasis is placed on lighting the foreground objects. |
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How to Pre-Visualise the Shot One of the most difficult things to develop when shooting nightscape images is the ability to pre-visualise how the shot will look when scouting locations during the daylight hours. In this video we look at various examples and techniques involved to do just that. |
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Night Photography Workshops
Nightscape Images regularly run weekend workshops to help people of all ages and abilities learn the principles and techniques required to create amazing night images. We cater for all experience levels and even provide equipment for those who don't own any suitable camera gear. This helps people get hands on experience with cameras, lenses etc before they actually make their purchase. I'm always happy to assist with this process after the event. All accommodation and food is provided for the weekend and we stay at a lovely old homestead set on 100 acres of beautiful farmland. |
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Multiple Off Camera Flash In this video I discuss the techniques used to create multiple off camera flash group shots at our Nightscape Weekend Workshops. The emphasis is on budget solutions using common, inexpensive gear to achieve high quality results. |
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Fine Art Light Painting This video explores a very special technique I use to create beautiful layered images. The example is an old ute carefully light painted from multiple directions whilst also combining focus stacking, which is a process enabling crisp focus right through the field of view. Nightscape Images 2017 Workshops A short video highlighting the amazing time we enjoyed at a recent weekend workshop shooting the stars under the milky way in the country. Scouting Locations for Milky Way Shooting This video explores my method of working out how to incorporate the milky way core into the background of our nightscape photography. We also go on a road trip scouting a few of my favourite locations. Lighting Setup Cairn Curran Photo Shoot This video gives some details and shows behind the scenes of a photo shoot at Cairn Curran Reservoir recently. We re-create the shot and list some of the equipment and methods used to both shoot and edit the final image. |
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My Nightscape Journey This video takes us back to the beginning of my Nightscape Journey and gives some insight into my motivation for going out at night and shooting the night sky and landscape. As a young teenager I can remember spending hours out at night pondering the splendour of the stars, and attempting to capture that moment in camera. I want to encourage anyone viewing this clip to be inspired to seek out the beauty of the natural world around us and not let your imagination or creativity be limited. |