The problem with shooting long exposures for star movement on digital is the issue of long exposure noise which creates unpleasant marks through the image.
The way around it is to stack numerous exposures that have been taken consecutively. In this tutorial we go through the focus and exposure settings for each image. Then in photoshop we created two actions. The first to open and save all the files into a folder as Tiff images. Our next action is the main one as it will take those newly saved and blend them into each other to create the final image.
The action created can be used on as little as two images or 1000. The best thing about it is that is only keeps two images open at any one time so it doesn’t need a massive amount of computer memory to run.
We finish off the tutorial with a bit of post production to the image.
December 9, 2011
With photography quite often the photographer can see the final image they want to create even before they take the first shot.
In this tutorial we discuss the concept of our final shot, the filters used to slow down the shutter speed, how the images were captured using the Shutter Blending technique and then the Photoshop post […]
December 4, 2011
Quite often you will see images online on websites like flickr etc where the landscape image has a nice softness about it, but at the same time still sharp. Well in this tutorial we show you how we go about applying this technique to a shot for both web presentation and for print.
We explain why this […]
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