Night Photography for Beginners: Shoot the Night Sky

An introduction to the type of photography equipment you need to capture stunning sky photos, from the basics, intermediate or the more advanced level.

Understand what camera you need to capture night sky photos.

With so many modern cameras out there currently, we uncover what is best for you night photography. Micro four thirds vs APS-C or Full frame cameras?

An overview of the different type of lenses out there and understand what lenses would be best your type of photography requirements.

Are tripods really that important to night sky photography? Do we need one, what should we look for and how much should be investing?

Understand the differences between prime and zoom lenses for night sky photos and how much we should spend on lenses?

Light Pollution filters how important are they for night photography and will increase the quality of my images?

Oversee all the accessories I recommend to make you night photography a lot easier with beginner, intermediate and more advanced accessories to make your life so much easier out in the field.

Start understanding the basics of what we require to understand in-camera for capturing night sky images.

Begin to understand 1 of the 3 main elements in photography - ISO

Learn out in the field how ISO is affecting your night sky images with this practical lesson!

Begin to understand the second of 3 main elements in photography - The aperture.

Learn out in the field how Aperture is affecting your night sky images with this practical lesson!

Begin to understand the third of 3 main elements in photography - Shutter Speed.

Learn in the field how Shutter Speed affects your night sky images with this practical lesson!

Previous lessons we've discussed each element individually, here we understand how all elements work together to make the perfect exposure in our photography

Progressively we start to understand more information we require to capture stunning night photos in the advanced basics module.

One of the most important lessons is to understand ALL the information our camera gives us regarding the data from the image.

Should I shoot in RAW or JPEG, in this lesson we find out what format you should be shooting in.

Understand the POWER of RAW image, especially in image processing which we will find out in the last lesson in this course!

The MOST UNDERRATED feature in ANY type of photography that you have to know and understand to improve your photography.

Adjusting white balance or Kelvin Temperature in-camera, is it really that important?

Understand how so much pre-planning goes into capturing Night Photography Images

Try to eliminate light pollution with this simple and easy pre-planning tip!

Don't waste time by having terrible weather, in this lesson we learn how to raise the chances of capturing unique images!

Discover not only the BEST APP for night sky photography, but your entire photography in general

Wish to become more pro in your photography, I will show you how THIS APP will help you achieve that.

Use this PRO TIP to get the BEST results for you night sky photography.

1 of 2 crucial features in this course that we talk about NEEDING to master to get the best results from our Night Sky Photography!

Learn the best base settings for night sky photography fro capturing images before we make changes

In this lesson, we put those base settings to the test to understand what we have to do with the resulting image.

Understand what to do if the base results of the image are underexposed, how do we fix the image?

Understand what to do if the base results of the image are overexposed, how do we fix the image?

This lesson we learn one pro tip to advance our night sky photography with overexposed images.

Speed up your workflow, reduce time and effort out in the field with this professional tip!

Understand how important composition is to generating unique and personal images for Night Sky Photography

Learn a simple technique to improve the impact of your photography with a foreground element in the composition

Make your images come to life by creating scale and learn how this will impact the viewer.

An extremely simple and effective way to create stunning night images by learning how to capture reflection images

Learn how to capture unique blue hour low light photography to photography stunning cityscape photography

Easy way to create a composition from car trails on a motorway or road in photography. Understand the importance of shutter speed compared to other photography elements.

Do you need a light pollution filter for your night photography and how good are they?

Learn the professional method to get the best results out of night photography through exposure blending

In this lesson, we learn how with a single headtorch we can create artistic images in our night sky photography

Learn how, when and why to focus stack to get the best results for our night photography

Create stunning Milky Way time-lapse photography the easy way

Star Trail images may look extremely unique and difficult to capture, but learn the easy way to take 1 set of images and create 3 different types of images!

A guide to image editing what we will be covering in the last module of this course, understand how image editing will give us the BEST results from our images.

Understand what changes you are making and how it impacts the image for the overall result!

Global adjustments, what should you do to the overall image to get the best quality out of your pictures?

A lesson editing an entire image from a recent lesson that we captured out in the field.

Create beautiful results from artificial light in night photography with important editing techniques

Understand the difference of blending natural light and artificial light and getting cleaner and more natural results for night photography

Get the sharpest results with a large depth of field with focus stacking in Adobe Photoshop

Discover the easiest way with the best result to focus stack your night photography images to create a large depth of field.

Learn how to edit a favourite of mine, Milky Way Time-Lapse photography creating unique night sky results.

Thes easiest way to create gorgeous star trails with a FREE software, the entire process is made simple!

Discover a few hidden gems in Adobe Lightroom to help speed up your workflow and achieve the BEST results

Download ALL the RAW files for the Editing Module in this course