Capture One Pro Tips - Editing the Night Sky, Stars & Milky Way
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- Learn how to get the best out of your night sky images - whether shooting the Milky Way, Northern Lights, or astrophotography captures of the stars above - we’ll show you the tools and techniques you need to bring the scene back to how you remember.
In this session, we explore why the Contrast tool doesn’t always work for shots of our galaxy, why noise reduction can sometimes make things worse, and how the Levels tool can cause issues when working on captures of the Aurora Borealis that the Curves tool can ultimately correct.
From images which focus purely on the stars through to detailed mountain scenes with light-painted foreground elements, we’ll cover the full range of best-practices (including camera settings) to ensure you’re getting the very best results when shooting the sky at night.
Presented by Phase One and Capture One Pro Ambassador - Commercial, Landscape & Cityscape Photographer Paul Reiffer. All video content © www.paulreiffer.com/ and may not be reproduced without permission.
Recorded using Capture One Pro v20.1.1 on an Apple Mac Pro 16-core Xeon with 192GB memory, 2x Radeon Pro Vega II Graphics cards and 4TB SSD.
And don't forget, the discussion continues on our Behind The Scenes Facebook group: / paulreifferlive
0:00 Start
0:12 Intro to Night Sky Photography
1:17 Camera Settings for Shooting
3:57 Considerations for Editing - Shadows and Highlights
5:02 Why the Contrast tool is bad
6:01 Using Clarity
6:59 Noise Reduction
8:41 Levels Tool
11:32 Scenario - Illuminated Foreground with Milky Way (New Zealand)
15:23 Scenario - Dark Foreground with Milky Way (New Zealand)
19:19 Scenario - Death Valley Salt Flats Light Painted Foreground
23:59 Scenario - Northern Lights / Aurora Borealis - Jak na to + styl
An excellent tutorial, deserves more likes!
Been watching a load of tutorials over the last 3 months, yours hands down are the best and most thorough, explaining what each tool does, very, very helpful.
I love your Tutorials. Exactly what I was searching for.
Quality. Pure and simple...
Great Tutorial Paul - Learned a lot! Thank you
This is a great tutorial! - I learned so much in a short time. Thanks...
Thank you for your great C1 tutorials, I am looking forward to try out your tips.
Amazing video! Loads of great content
Superb video! I rarely learned that much especially about how some tools are working in particular and how they differ from each other 🙏🏼 Keep up the work!
Capture One's very much like a cake - the "just add water" solutions are nowhere near as good as when you make something properly from all the best ingredients 😉
Thank you, Paul. I really like your style of presentation, I find it refreshingly matter of fact and pragmatic and easy to understand and retain. I've not dabbled too much into astro photography but with the help of this tutorial I was able to take some half decent images of comet Nowise. More importantly, I was able to re edit some Milky Way images taken from my mums garden in the New Forest (UK) in 2014 and they now look more like the actual experience of viewing the Milky Way from her garden.
Great stuff Neil - glad to hear it was useful!
I will be playing around putting some of this to use on comet shots. Thanks much!
Amazing as always, thank you!
Great tutorial. Thanks for this interesant video.
Thanks can't wait to try this!
Amazing!
Really helpful 👍🏼
Thanks!
Very informative. Though I do rarely shoot the sky at night I learned a lot of the exposure tab tools. And the video is withaut ado and glamrous vanities and egomanic airs!
Ha ha - yeah, no room for egos when we're learning :-)
Muchas gracias
With your hints to contrast I just tried something different: First I increase the exposure so that the curve is in the middle of the histogram for contrast to work best, then I set the contrast to what I like. After that I add a filled layer and on that layer I reduce the exposure. That works for me. I have a long exposure picture which was taken with moonlight so it's not pure dark sky. I tried your approach by using levels and used the clarity tool but I could not get the result I wanted. With the method of first increasing exposure, working with contrast and lowering exposure it works. Have you tried this or can you give a hint on maybe why not to do it that way?
Thanks for this helpful video, Paul!
Can I use them tricks with photos done using telescope? Let's say nebula pictures?
For sure - same principles :-)
Capture One is the worth programm ever, they offer a trial to use but after you create account it says that your trial is already expired, but account doesn't have any order history, it's new and clean, cause I found this only thanks to this youtube video, so bad piar comapny
That *sounds* like you've already had a free trial on that system, which the licensing code remembers (not just your account). Only 1 free trial of any version, per person/system - quite normal if that's the case. :-)
If not, and this is your first ever trial on the current version, just drop a note to the support team and I'm sure they'll get you sorted out!