Autopano giga tutorial full#

Work something out because being cold and lonely out there with no comforts can be tough! I am very lucky to have access to an awesome dark sky location about 3 hours from home, with a comfy friends farm to stay at and use as a base for my night adventures.

In order to maximise your chances of getting a pretty good image, you have to do a little bit of planning, which doesn’t really fly with my style but I have learnt some discipline around this after many failed attempts of trying to wing it !Īlways good to have a rough idea of where you want to take the images, and whether you will stay out all night or work out some accomodation or such. Here i detail my workflow and show some of the results that can be achieved.

Autopano giga tutorial full#

I still prefer to venture out in to the night with a full frame DSLR and wide lens and set about trying to capture the highest quality night sky panoramas I can get - and its a never ending quest. And some of the newer smart phone camera sensors are even allowing for pretty decent results to be captured by just resting your phone on a ledge and setting off a 25sec exposure pointing towards the night sky. Saying that though, lately I have visited two areas of the Southern Hemisphere - Great Barrier Island off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, and Karijini National Park, in the middle of the Pilbara region of Western Australia and both these areas have a bortle night sky rating of 1 to 2 which is the darkest (and hence clearest at new moon) skies that our world can produce, and the milky way and galactic core are visible to the naked eye with amazing clarity, just not the colour range that a digital image can produce.Ĭamera technology and processing jiggery allow for milky way images to be produced like never before. I say hidden because the images you produce aren’t quite able to be seen with the naked eye, yet there is no denying their magic and wonder even if you are a capture purist. There is nothing quite like capturing the night sky in all its “hidden” glory.