How to Create Stunning Milky Way Panoramas with Adam Woodworth

👉 To start planning your photos: www.photopills.com/
In this class you'll learn all you need to create amazing panoramas of the Milky Way from start to finish with a true expert, Adam Woodworth. Including: inspiration, planning, gear, camera settings and editing.
TIME INDEX
00:00 Introduction
02:50 About Adam
06:55 Types of panoramas
27:24 Camera settings
30:39 Panorama gear
44:49 Q&A
56:10 Planning
1:03:08 Stitching
1:26:27 Q&A
1:41:28 Final words
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ADAM WOODWORTH:
Website: adamwoodworth.com/
Workshops: adamwoodworth.com/workshops/
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Book: adamwoodworth.com/book/
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RECOMMENDED PHOTOGRAPHY GUIDES:
- Milky Way Photography guide:
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INSPIRATION
- What to Photograph in 2021
• What to Photograph in ...
- The 36 Best Photos in 2020
• The 36 Best Photos of ...
PHOTOGRAPHY FUNDAMENTALS
- Understanding Natural Light: Golden Hour, Blue Hour and Twilights
• Understanding Natural ...
- Understanding Depth of Field (DoF) and How to Calculate it
• Understanding Depth of...
- Understanding the Hyperfocal Distance
• Understanding the Hype...
- Learn How To Focus at the Hyperfocal Distance in 1 Minute!
• Learn How To Focus at ...
MILKY WAY PHOTOGRAPHY
- Milky Way Photography Planning
• Milky Way Photography ...
- Learn Milky Way Photography
• Milky Way Photography ...
- Milky Way Photography Masterclass with Alyn Wallace
• Milky Way Photography ...
- How to Post Process the Milky Way with Nick Page
• Milky Way Photography ... ​
- How to Calculate the Milky Way Photography Exposure Time
• How to Calculate the M...
- Photographing the Milky Way with a Natural Arch
• Photographing the Milk...
MOON PHOTOGRAPHY
- How to Plan a Photo of the Next Full Moon with a Building
• How to Plan a Photo of...
- How to Photograph the Moon with Foreground
• How to Photograph the ... ​
- How to Get in Focus Both The Moon and The Subject
• How to Get in Focus Bo...
- Moon Photography Masterclass with Jennifer Khordi
• Moon Photography Class...
- Photographing a Full Moon Silhouette from Another Galaxy
• Photographing a Full M...
SUNSET & SUNRISE PHOTOGRAPHY
- How to Plan a Powerful Sunset Photo | When You Know the Date
• How to Plan a Powerful...
- How to Plan Any Sunset Photo You Imagine
• How to Plan Any Sunset...
- How to Plan a Sunset Photo in a Valley | Or a Sunrise
• How to Plan a Sunset P...
- Photographing the Sun setting through the natural arch of Es Pont d’En Gil
• Photographing the Sun ...
LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY
- Landscape Photography with Nigel Danson
• Landscape Photography ... ​
- Landscape Photography Post Processing with Albert Dros
• Landscape Photography ... ​
- How to Edit Your Landscape Photography in Photoshop with Sean Bagshaw
• How to Edit Your Lands...
METEOR SHOWER PHOTOGRAPHY
- How to Plan Any Meteor Shower Photo You Imagine
• How to Plan Any Meteor...
- How to Plan a Photo of the Perseids Meteor Shower 2021
• How to Plan a Photo of...
- How to Plan a Photo of the Geminids 2020
• How to Plan a Photo of...
- Perseids Meteor Shower Photography Masterclass with Ian Norman
• Perseids Meteor Shower...
- Photographing the Perseids Meteor Shower with an Ancient Oak Tree
• Photographing the Pers...
SOLAR ECLIPSE PHOTOGRAPHY
- How to Plan a Photo of the 2020 Total Solar Eclipse
• How to Plan a Photo of...
- Annular Solar Eclipse Photography Masterclass with Joshua Cripps
• Annular Solar Eclipse ...
LUNAR ECLIPSE PHOTOGRAPHY
- How to Plan the Total lunar eclipse with the Giza pyramids
• Plan 1. Total lunar ec...
STAR TRAILS PHOTOGRAPHY
- How to Plan Any Star Trails Photo You Imagine
• How to Plan Any Star T...
- How to Photograph Star Trails
• Star Trails Photograph...
TIMELAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY
- How to Calculate Timelapse Settings
• How to Calculate Timel...
LEARN PHOTOPILLS
- How to Enable and Use the Widgets
• How to Enable and Use ...
- How to move the Red Pin of the Planner
• How to move the Red Pi...
- How to Save, Share and Import Plans and Locations
• How to Save, Share and...
- Mastering the Load button of the Planner
• Mastering the Load but...
- Calibrating the Augmented Reality Views
• Calibrating the Augmen...
- Understanding the Map Buttons of the Planner
• Understanding the Map ...

[@PhotoPills]

Thanks everyone for watching the Milky Way Pano class. If you have any questions, leave a comment below 😀 ! 👉To download our super detailed Milky Way Photography guide: www.photopills.com/articles/milky-way-photography-guide 👉 To watch our Milky Way Photography videos: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpPPoqufbJuSpMk

[@georgepistikoudis]

To calculate how many photos I have to shoot and the individual steps I need to do, I use the FOV of Photopills. If for example I am using my Nikon Z6ii, with my 20mm lens the fov is 61,72 degrees. To have easy stitching i rotate my camera 30 degrees in each step. Most tripod heads have degrees markings to do help with this process.

[@PhotoPills]

Thank you for sharing your approach :)

[@thomastuorto9929]

Thank you Photoshop Pills & Adam. Great info.

[@PhotoPills]

Thank you Thomas!

[@jorgediehl6845]

Very good masterclass. Great tips. Thanks.

[@PhotoPills]

Thank you Jorge!

[@cmichaelhaugh8517]

Great ideas. I need to try this. Thank you!

[@PhotoPills]

Thank you!

[@TonKuipers134]

Thx for posting, great tutorial👌

[@PhotoPills]

Thank you Ton!

[@eamonncullen5220]

Super video, Rafa and Adam; this is one aspect of MW photography I would love to be able to try. During this webinar I also bought both the book from Amazon and the Master Class for MW post processing. Thanks for everything, super interesting & informative. Eamonn

[@PhotoPills]

Awesome! Thanks so much for your support Eamonn!

[@raphaelcoelho1557]

Star trackers are amazing for wide angle shots. Nothing compares the details we get. I dont use it always but there is complete different hi level with huge details

[@PhotoPills]

:D

[@garciaruiz5296]

Rafael, could a suggestion for another ‘Pill’ to add to the Photopills app be for the ability to record the nodal point for various camera/lens combinations when using a nodal rail as Adam demonstrated in his video? I use a nodal rail and currently have to record my settings in IOS’ notepad, which is leas than ideal. Having it in the Photopills app would be awesome!

[@PhotoPills]

Thanks for the suggestion Garcia!

[@skep41]

This is great in case I get a job working for Nat Geo but it's incredibly over-complicated for us amateur bugs. I guess I'm just an on-the-fly kind of guy, happy to screw around a bit in Photoshop to get a fun pano.

[@PhotoPills]

Yeah... you can make it simple or complicated. Do it the way you prefer of course :)

[@SousDine]

I loved the question about light pollution. It may be OK on Minorca, or in the middle of Arizona, but outside of northern Scandinavia light pollution in Europe is almost everywhere. As an example, after midnight I drove up to the Col du Marchairuz at 1400 metres (north-west of Lake Geneva) and took some shots (14mm, F2.8, ~15 sec, ISO 3200) towards the Milky Way centre. This almost lined up with Mont Blanc, but to my astonishment the results clearly show the Grandes Jorasses beautifully lit up, presumably from street lights in the Chamonix valley. Note that I was about 100 km from Chamonix. In case anyone else wants to try this, I also discovered that the lake, which is very large, gives off a significant amount of humidity, which itself is illuminated by street lights in Geneva, Lausanne, Evian and so on, making making Milky Way photography hopeless in my area given that the MW is towards the south.

[@PhotoPills]

Awesome! thanks so much for your tips!

[@archeoonasus]

is the mini genie 2 an good option for pan-tilt panaroma for milky way ? is it stable ? does it have function to remove parallax ?

[@PhotoPills]

Hey! We have not tested it. I'm afraid we can't help you :)

[@georgepistikoudis]

At 13:49 Adam shows a wonderful panorama taken with a 14mm lens at f/2.8 25 seconds exposure and ISO3200. According to Photopills the maximum exposure time for barely noticable trails is 18,5. With 25 seconds exposure time the image has to have bad star trails ... or not?

[@PhotoPills]

That's true if you wish to prevent stars from trailing even zooming in at 100%. But if you're not planning to print the image, or only using it for social networks, then you can go for a longer exposure time and get little trails that are barely noticed. It's a matter of personal choice :)

[@BogacErkan]

Thank you very much for this very informative session. I have a dumb question though, apologies in advance if I missed the info already but considering I am planning a multi-row panorama (3 rows probably), will it be possible to capture the whole arc of the Milkyway, when it's max elevation is 80 degrees with a 20 mm lens?

[@PhotoPills]

Sure you can! 20mm on a full frame has a field of view of 83.82º (longest) and 61.72º (shortest). So shooting a multi raw panorama will work 100%.

[@BogacErkan]

Thank you so much for your support@@PhotoPills. It's much appreciated and makes me feel like being a part of a community! Thank you.

[@romanargentina]

Thank you very much for this video, which I found super informative and helpful. I have a quick question regarding Exposure blending of panoramas, Adam mentioned at around 19 mins. When stiching the panoramas in PTGUI, sometimes some adjustments will be necessary in the panorama editor (dragging the panorama with left or right mouse click). What is the easiest way to ensure that adjustments are done the same way for both panoramas? If both panoramas do not fit exactly in position, it is way more cumbersome, to blend them in Photoshop with masks. Maybe you could provide some advice.. thank you

[@PhotoPills]

Hi Roman! If Adam doesn't answer (he doesn't get notifications), you could send him an email via his website: adamwoodworth.com/

[@romanargentina]

@@PhotoPills Thank you for the hint, I would do so :-). Just ordered his book today, looking forward to it.

[@solmazeslaminejad8736]

thank you for very every usefull class.I have two questions .In a one row panorama with 2 exposures(for the landscape and the night sky)how shoud we take the photos? 1.Shoud we take each photo whith the 2 diffrent exposures and then go to the next photo?Or 2.Shoud we take a row of photos with one exposure (landscape) and then go to the next row of exposure(night sky)? And my second question is when you dont have the motor how could you fix the problem with the stars movement during panorama photography?

[@lphilpot01]

What's your opinion of Hugin vs. PTGui? Both are (as I understand it) front end GUIs for the Panotools suite of panomara tools. PTGui is commercial and Hugin is free.

[@PhotoPills]

Hi Len! We work with PTGui, haven't tried GUIs. Give a try to the free one, and if it works for you great!

[@annemarielawrence340]

Would love to know how to locate the milky way

[@PhotoPills]

Hi Annemarie! Here you have a video on how to plan the Milky Way: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qny1qKyIZrerrpY

[@alvinmorris5404]

Get the photopills app it's a one time fee then all the updates an upgrades are free for as long as you have the app 🙂 I use it a lot the other app I use for a quick shortcut is skysafari but it is more oriented towards the stargazing hobby.

[@fotoblogpy4096]

Pongan subtitulado!

[@PhotoPills]

Hoy toca versión en español con Antoni Cladera: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hF69p4ugjdytnbM

[@fotoblogpy4096]

@@PhotoPills excelente! Son los mejores!

[@PhotoPills]

@@fotoblogpy4096 ;)

[@luciog1]

Perché non mettete l'app anche su APP Gallery Huawei ?

[@PhotoPills]

It's pending!