Post Processing Milky Way Landscape Photography

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Post Processing Milky Way Landscape Photography

with Erik Kuna

lessons: 16 Course Lessons

duration: 1hr, 35min

published: 2019

watched: 2254 Member Views

Post Processing Milky Way Landscape Photography

with Erik Kuna

Join Erik Kuna for the post processing companion to his previous class, Demystifying Milky Way Landscape Photography! In this class Erik shares his Lightroom Classic and Photoshop techniques, tips, and tricks for bringing your Milky Way photos to life. Erik demonstrates each step in the process with examples taken during the first class. You’ll learn how to nail white balance, correct distortion, adjust tonal values, add presence and color, make localized adjustments, reduce noise, composite multiple exposures together, and so much more. Erik reinforces the techniques with a start to finish workflow to bring it all home. BUY COURSE

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lesson 1: Introduction (free course preview)

The instructor introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.

5min, 26sec

lesson 2: Nailing White Balance

The very first thing you need to do is make sure you nail that white balance.

5min, 27sec

lesson 3: Correcting Distortion

Your next step is dealing with any type of distortions or aberrations caused by your lens.

3min, 27sec

lesson 4: Toning Your Photos

This step is subjective, but this is where you start to adjust the tonality of your image.

4min, 56sec

lesson 5: Adding Presence

In this step you’ll learn how to add some pop to the scene and make your milky way standout.

4min, 4sec

lesson 6: Color Adjustments

Lightroom has a range of tools to add and adjust color in your scene.

11min, 5sec

lesson 7: Local Adjustments

Lightroom Classic’s local adjustment tools allow you to make adjustments to specific areas of the image.

10min, 24sec

lesson 8: Noise Reduction

There are a few ways to deal with reducing noise in your high ISO photos.

14min, 7sec

lesson 9: Workflow Demonstration

Watch as Erik takes a single photo through the entire workflow.

4min, 8sec

lesson 10: Twilight Composite

Erik demonstrates how to blend a twilight photo with a second photo of the milky way at the same location.

3min, 53sec

lesson 11: Lightpainting Composite

Erik demonstrates a technique to blend the milky way with a light painted foreground.

2min, 14sec

lesson 12: Stacking Composite

Building on previous techniques, Erik starts by stacking a series of shots, then compositing in a separate frame.

5min, 39sec

lesson 13: Milky Way Panorama

Just like with a landscape photo during the day, you can extend your field of view by capturing a panorama of the milky way.

3min, 23sec

lesson 14: Fine Tuning with Dodge and Burn

Moving into Photoshop, Erik demonstrates techniques for fine tuning the photo.

6min, 2sec

lesson 15: Finishing Moves

Moving deeper, Erik shares his finishing moves.

9min, 34sec

lesson 16: Conclusion

Erik wraps up the class with some closing thoughts to help you move forward.

1min, 21sec

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meet Erik Kuna

Space Flight Photographer

Erik is the Vice President of Operations for KelbyOne, and a passionate rocket launch photographer. His goal is to create images that help educate people about the space industry, and inspire them to learn more about the beauty of space exploration. His passion was ignited in 2015 by seeing the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster land successfully. He felt like from that moment, he had to be part of documenting and capturing the beauty and inspiration of spaceflight and has never looked back. He has recently pushed his work farther by working with Plotaverse to heighten his images with motion.

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