How To Photograph And Edit Meteor Showers - Video

[Martin Vronsky]

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With the Perseids meteor shower coming up I made a tutorial on how to shoot and post process your results into one meteor composite shot. This how to video also applies to other meteor showers like the Geminids and the Lyrids. We take a look at gear you need, peak time of meteor showers, location, composition, radiant point, weather conditions, moon phase, photography techniques, camera settings and last but not least the editing of your images.

• 00:00 Intro

Planning

• 00:48 Gear (camera, lens, tripod, remote shutter, dew heater, software)
• 01:40 Peak of a meteor shower
• 02:11 Weather conditions and Moon phase
• 02:39 Location, light pollution, composition
• 03:04 Radiant point of a meteor shower

Shooting

• 03:57 Photography techniques and camera settings

Post processing

• 08:08 Import images into Lightroom
• 08:52 Choose a base sky exposure
• 09:15 Basic editing in Lightroom (color temperature, contrast, highlights)
• 10:14 Find your meteors and flag them
• 10:23 The difference between meteors and airplanes and satellites
• 11:19 Sync settings
• 11:35 Increase contrast of meteor shots
• 12:11 Open as layers in Photoshop
• 12:26 Move base sky exposure to the bottom
• 13:08 Mask in meteors using lighten blend mode
• 16:00 Make the meteors stand out (increasing contrast and maximum filter)
• 18:41 Results
• 19:27 Thanks for watching

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