Lessons
Class Introduction: What is Light Painting?
03:45 2Camera Considerations
16:18 3Camera Settings and Initial Exposures
09:26 4Light Painting Accessories
04:05 5The Color of Light
05:21 6Focusing in the Dark
03:13 7Light Painting Techniques
08:30 8Lightroom: Basic Panel
14:14Lightroom: Presence Panel Adjustments
06:05 10Lightroom: Hue, Saturation, Luminance
05:17 11Lightroom: Local Adjustments
16:46 12From Lightroom to Photoshop
11:55 13Photoshop: Lighten Blending Mode
04:31 14Photoshop: Star Stacking
03:17 15Photoshop: Layer Opacity
03:25 16Photoshop: Selection and Masks
05:55 17Photoshop: Mask Adjustments
05:46Lesson Info
Photoshop: Star Stacking
If you've been following us here on night photography week, I'm sure. And I'm hoping you guys watched. Lance Lance is talking about all kinds of different things you can do with stars. One of those things is to shoot star points or smaller exposures. So in this case, this is not too short of an exposure. It's actually three minutes long and f eight, but that gives me that amount of Star Trail. But if you're looking for that whole big long star trail, that's gonna take a lot longer. That could take 1/2 an hour, 20 minutes, half an hour or even an hour. So a three minute exposure is just gonna be really super short. But you guys can see here. This is a full moon night, so I could not expose any longer than three minutes, or I'd start blowing out the canyon walls in Zion National Park. So three minutes was my limit. But what I did do well, shoot that for three minutes and then that for three minutes, and then that one for three minutes, and you can see how the stars air moving through thi...
s photograph, and you can see how many of these photographs there are, And they were shot back to back using an interval ometer and all those techniques you can discover by watching games and lances and, uh, Chris's videos. So what we're gonna do now is we're gonna stack these altogether 18 images here, and I've turned these into J pigs just so we won't get bored staring at my computer chewing away on these if there were actual raw images, So these are a little bit smaller and there j pegs and we're gonna go photo at it in open as layers in photo shop. Okay, so we've got him all opened up here and we can see we've got a whole bunch of different layers inside a photo shop. The first thing we're gonna do people is click on the top layer, scroll down, depressed your shift key and click on the bottom layer. What that does is it selects all of the layers now. Very simple. With all the layers selected. All I need to do is go and change the blending mode. And I want you all just to keep an eye on this image. When I change the blending mode from normal to lighten bone. That's it. And you are finished. All right, so one step that you can dio and this may not be necessary in every single image. But if you that's a bumpier tripod or the wind is blowing or somebody else bumps your tripod, then these images might not be perfectly aligned. In this case, they are perfectly aligned. My tripod didn't move a hair at all. But if you thought there was some alignment problems, the first thing you would do after you selected all of these layers is go to at it auto align layers. And when you get the auto align layers box up, just choose auto and then click. OK, And then what will happen is a photo shop will go through and look at each layer, and it will transform and twist and more all of them. So they're all perfectly registered that way when you get going, Ah, and you do your light blending mode. Everything should everything should line up perfectly
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