Creative Nightscapes and Time-Lapses: Your Complete Guide to Conceptualizing, Planning and Creating Composite Nightscapes and Time-Lapses

by Mike Shaw (Author), Michael C Shaw (Author)

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Hardcover
2018
$186.75
Creative Nightscapes and Time-Lapses is your all-in-one guide to making spectacular, multi-image nightscapes and time-lapses.

Beginning with a review of the key fundamentals of astronomy and photography, you'll learn the latest methods for planning your night shooting sessions and how to set up your gear to get the best constituent images. You'll then see how to combine them into twelve different varieties of state-of-the-art nightscape trophies, each impossible to capture in a single image. Next, you'll learn how to create stunning level and ramp time-lapses that transition fluidly from day to night. Each nightscape and time-lapse project category includes specific tips for (i) acquiring the constituent images; (ii) assembling them into the composite image or time-lapse; (iii) overcoming common obstacles and (iv) finding the best subjects. Finally, you'll see examples of how to apply these techniques in the field through four detailed case studies, including one, three-night immersive retreat.

Key highlights include:
- Your Ultimate Exposure Guide for perfectly exposing starry sky images
- Best camera settings for colorful star trails or maximum star trail density (they're very different!)
- How to create stunning solar & lunar eclipse composites
- Make your own 360 Degrees Virtual Reality (VR) panoramas
- Milky Way nightscape blends
- Detailed guide to creating gigapixel night-sky panoramas
- How to make stunning, aligned meteor shower composites for any camera orientation
- Novel two-image composite blends: day-to-night, focus stacking, ISO blends and more
- Creative light-painting and light-drawing composite blends
- Fundamentals of time-lapses, including recommended settings for top subjects
- Holy-grail time-lapse image acquisition methods and assembly
- Complete LRTimelapse / Lightroom how-to guide
- Motion time-lapses - what you need and how it works
- Final video production of your nightscape time-lapses in Adobe Premiere Pro
- Astronomy / photography fundamentals so you can confidently plan your night sessions
- Lightroom and Photoshop secrets to creating stunning composite nightscapes and time-lapses
- Guide to creating your detailed Night Shooting Plan for maximum efficiency
- Planning for Sky-Priority vs. Foreground-Priority Nightscapes
- Daytime field scouting - goals and methods
- User guides to the latest nightscape photography planning apps
- Common obstacles and solutions in nightscape and time-lapse projects

Synopsis

Creative Nightscapes and Time-Lapses is your all-in-one guide to making spectacular, multi-image nightscapes and time-lapses.

Beginning with a review of the key fundamentals of astronomy and photography, you'll learn the latest methods for planning your night shooting sessions and how to set up your gear to get the best constituent images. You'll then see how to combine them into twelve different varieties of state-of-the-art nightscape trophies, each impossible to capture in a single image. Next, you'll learn how to create stunning level and ramp time-lapses that transition fluidly from day to night. Each nightscape and time-lapse project category includes specific tips for (i) acquiring the constituent images; (ii) assembling them into the composite image or time-lapse; (iii) overcoming common obstacles and (iv) finding the best subjects. Finally, you'll see examples of how to apply these techniques in the field through four detailed case studies, including one, three-night immersive retreat.

Key highlights include:

Your Ultimate Exposure Guide for perfectly exposing starry sky images
Best camera settings for colorful star trails or maximum star trail density (they're very different!)
How to create stunning solar & lunar eclipse composites
Make your own 360 Degrees Virtual Reality (VR) panoramas
Milky Way nightscape blends
Detailed guide to creating gigapixel night-sky panoramas
How to make stunning, aligned meteor shower composites for any camera orientation
Novel two-image composite blends: day-to-night, focus stacking, ISO blends and more
Creative light-painting and light-drawing composite blends
Fundamentals of time-lapses, including recommended settings for top subjects
Holy-grail time-lapse image acquisition methods and assembly
Complete LRTimelapse / Lightroom how-to guide
Motion time-lapses - what you need and how it works
Final video production of your nightscape time-lapses in Adobe Premiere Pro
Astronomy / photography fundamentals so you can confidently plan your night sessions
Lightroom and Photoshop secrets to creating stunning composite nightscapes and time-lapses
Guide to creating your detailed Night Shooting Plan for maximum efficiency
Planning for Sky-Priority vs. Foreground-Priority Nightscapes
Daytime field scouting - goals and methods
User guides to the latest nightscape photography planning apps
Common obstacles and solutions in nightscape and time-lapse projects

$186.75

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 372
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02 Nov 2018
ISBN 10: 1138745448
ISBN 13: 9781138745445

Author Bio

Mike Shaw is a professional photographer and author who leads workshops around the world. He holds a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, an M.S. in Ceramic Engineering from the Ohio State University, and a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Shaw is a former physics and astronomy professor who has taught thousands of students. He also conducts educational workshops for the public, including astronomy and astrophotography outreach seminars for the U.S. National Park Service. He is the author of The Complete Guide to Landscape Astrophotography (2017), published by Focal Press; and the co-author of Integrated Science-New Approaches to Education (2009), published by Springer.