#Capture one presets free night software#
#Capture one presets free night iso#

The radial grad tool was very easy to use and control the size/shape, with three rings for adjusting making it a favorite tool of mine. It looks best to me when the core is made of a mix of subtle colors like it does when you see it in person. The photo still wasn’t quite right color-wise within the core of the Milky Way, so an inverted radial grad was necessary to add a little color, what turned out to be fuchsia, to the highlights in ‘color balance’. It was necessary to rasterize the masks in order to manually brush out the filters in certain places where the terrain overlapped the sky. I didn’t have a lot to change in the lower gradient filter other than some sharpening and slightly warming the white balance so the orange rocks looked more natural. For the sky, I made small tweaks in the ‘exposure’ and ‘high dynamic range’ tabs, but mostly added some yellows in the highlights within the ‘color balance, 3-way’ tool.

It was then time to use gradient filters for both the sky and foreground within the layers tool, both separated at essentially the horizon line that happens to be a bit diagonal in this photo. The colors didn’t look quite right, so the color editor was used to alter the hue and saturation of specific colors with the primary focus of shifting the green hues more to yellow and the teal hues more to blue. To top it off, I sprinkled in a little ‘punch’ clarity and vignetting to round out the recipe to the local adjustments. After learning somewhere in a tutorial that it is good to use the ‘auto-adjust’ for the levels tool, I do it every time now. With a dash of darkness in the shadows and a bump to the highlights within the RBG tone curve, it was time to add a touch of sharpness and noise reduction. The photos will typically look a bit dark in the LCD screen while on location, but that can all be taken care of with editing.

#Capture one presets free night iso#

My usual settings while shooting astrophotography are anywhere from 15-20 seconds and between ISO 32, with either f/2.8 or lower depending on the lens. Then I bumped up the exposure, brightness and saturation while considerably dropping the highlights and boosting the shadows – a habit in almost every picture because it really helps bring out details with the dynamic range of the Sony cameras. The original photo was a bit too green as I preferred a cooler sky, but also wanted to keep some vibrancy in the orange terrain when adjusting the white balance and tint. The settings were 15 seconds, f/1.4 and ISO 4000 and it was a super dark night during new moon. I was using the α7 III and 24mm G Master lens on a road trip to a handful of national parks in Utah. With that said, let’s get to a Milky Way photo taken last summer in Bryce Canyon National Park of my friend, Marcus, holding a powerful flashlight pointed to the sky. I truly appreciate those who can edit more dramatically and cinematically as well as composites, it’s just not my particular style. This approach suits my personality because like many artists, I feel like I’m a realist. My overall goal in editing is for the image to come across mostly realistic to the naked eye while highlighting certain details and colors to make the image ‘pop’. Here's a look at how I'm doing my image processing now. When shooting the stars, it is imperative to get the maximum amount of information possible because you are overexposing every shot in the first place and you’ll need to recover details in post-processing (NOTE: Through April 30, 2020, Capture One for Sony is 25% off the regular price).

#Capture one presets free night software#

Recently, I switched to Capture One 20 because at Kando Trip 3.0 in Oregon, I learned that the software could be a better match for my Sony camera and lens profiles which preserves and helps recover as much information as possible in the RAW files. Astro-photographers are always looking for better tools to bring the most out of the image files. Processing an astro-photograph is where I bring all of the detail captured by the camera to life and fully recreate what it was like to be there in the moment when I took the photo. I use Sony cameras and lenses to capture the images in the field, but that's just the start of the process for me. My name is Andrew Eggers ( I’m a member of the Sony Alpha Imaging Collective and night-sky astrophotography is my biggest passion.