Milky Way Photography With A Nifty Fifty Processing
In this video I process a photo of the Milky Way taken with a Canon 50mm lens from start to finish. Chapters at the bottom of description!
Unprocessed Tiff file for practice: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VscPZwW3-HqN39xswVSGeP5rNwXj6FXt/view?usp=sharing
Software Links:
Sequator: https://sites.google.com/site/sequatorglobal/download
Photoshop (choose photography plan): https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html?filter=photography&plan=individual
Hasta La Vista Green: http://www.deepskycolors.com/archive/2010/04/26/hasta-La-Vista-Green.html
GradientXTerminator: https://www.rc-astro.com/resources/GradientXTerminator/
Starnet Version 2: https://www.starnetastro.com/download/
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:40 Stacking in Sequator
03:32 Photoshop Curves and Levels
05:16 Creating a Star Mask
08:19 Remove Green Cast
09:09 Remove Light Pollution
11:20 Remove Stars
13:51 Create Stars Only Layer
15:11 Star Management
18:02 Starless Stretches
18:46 Selective Color Editing
24:19 Dodge and Burn
26:39 Camera Raw Filter Edits
28:48 Bring Stars Back
29:24 Final Touches
29:55 Outro
30:27 Final Before and After