Approaching the Scene 191: Sunstars & Milky Way: Tips, Tricks & Accessories

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(LINKS BELOW) We had a blast the last couple of weeks in Joshua Tree and Death Valley shooting sunstar and Milky Way images. I’ve had a number of people asking about accessories for the Move Shoot Move star tracker as well as how to set it up. I’ll share my thoughts on that, show you some images I captured using it this month with the Z9, and showcase how the new 24-120 S lens renders sunstars and handles backlight. The more I use it, the more I’m loving all the new gear.
LINKED TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 Intro to ATS 190
01:07 Join our next free Office Hours and submit questions for us
01:38 Milky Way & sunstar discussion with new example images
05:31 Focusing for Milky Way with the Z9 & other cameras
06:29 White balance for Milky Way
07:00 Shooting stars with the epic .95 58mm Noct S
10:12 Best Nikon S lenses for sunstars
13:08 The new 24-120 S lens is fabulous in backlight
15:30 You don’t need Move Shoot Move (MSM) non-laser accessories
16:10 MSM batteries and charger case (A MUST HAVE)
17:18 Tips for setting up the MSM
My Milky Way video course: www.hudsonhenry.com/milkyway
Kase filters: www.hudsonhenry.com/kase
B&H Nikon 24-120: bhpho.to/30YMlCr
B&H Nikon Z9: bhpho.to/2XQjXBh
B&H Nikon 100-400: bhpho.to/31eQimV
MSM star tracker: bit.ly/MSMbHPH (code “HUDSON” for 5% off)
MSM batteries & charging case: amzn.to/3tyuTQY
Kirk foot for Move Shoot Move: bit.ly/3HYlK9t
Acratech’s GXP ball head: bit.ly/HHPATGXP
Frequently updated links to all the gear I use: bit.ly/HudsonsLinks
Using my links helps support this video series. Thank you!
I invite all of you to join Rick, Woody, David, Darren and me for our free live Office Hours Tuesday April 12th at 10AM Pacific. We’re on a bit of a hiatus while on the road teaching workshops in Death Valley and Joshua Tree, but we’ll be taking questions you submit at the signup site on the road in these amazing locations and posting Q&A videos as we can. Be sure to submit your questions at the Office Hours signup site.
Office Hour signup site: bit.ly/2UgDaX4
Thanks to everyone for the great questions you are sending in. Keep them coming either in the comments below or by emailing me directly. I hope to see you in the next Office Hours Session April 12th.
Stay safe and healthy.

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@CJGlynnPhotography 2 жыл бұрын

What an awesome time we had. Great workshop. Great people.

@gscharlach 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! I can't wait for my 24-120mm. Ordered it back in the first week of January, was hoping to get it for April 15th vacation to Morocco. Sold my 24-70mm to MPB last month and just found out that the new lens won't arrive until May. Oh is me... I guess I will have touse a 24-120mm F lens.

@clark7894 2 жыл бұрын

I ordered mine about the same time from B&H. Really hope it arrives before May!

@PatrickHochner 2 жыл бұрын

Great info, as usual. Thank you!

@charlesdavis6371 2 жыл бұрын

You do such beautiful work Hudson, TY for sharing with us.

@barryobrien1890 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Hudson. Would like to see an ATS on how you set up your automatic focus stacking on the z cameras, number of steps with start and step etc. Really liked the composites this week.

@MikeJamesMedia 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, as always, Hudson, for the great info and tips!

@WarlordsRising 2 жыл бұрын

Great video Hudson, finally nice to see some video with the Z9 and landscape work. :) Just picked up my Z9 the other day after waiting 3 months and looking forward to some landscape work....cheers

@billyxxx81 2 жыл бұрын

Amazingly insane shooting, fantastic Hudson! The shot with the Juniper and the rock and Milky Way is incredible. See you next video 👍

@steviejsmall 2 жыл бұрын

Have the 58 f/0.95 Noct myself too and it truly is an incredible lens. Hadn’t tried it with MSM yet as I’m too nervous about the weight limit but seeing you were able to do it with a Z 9 and the Noct may embolden me a bit there to try it this season! Excellent ATS and images from the recent workshops!

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

I would not use it on the msm moving forward. In Joshua tree we used my iOptron skyguider pro with the counter balance and it was fabulous. :)

@steviejsmall 2 жыл бұрын

@@HudsonHenryPhoto Ah, gotcha. I haven’t had the chance to go through your Milky Way course completely but don’t suppose you have any guidance on how to use ioptron in there, do you? Know it’s a bit more advanced so if not, maybe another ATS or even supplemental course to the Milky Way course on purchasing and using for more heavy setups?

@adamkrauss303 9 ай бұрын

Love all your vids, but wish you would have some close up shots of the gear when your going through your excellent tutorials/reviews.

@HudsonHenryPhoto 9 ай бұрын

I frequently do. Especially in the ones from the past 18 months. This one is older than that.

@adamkrauss303 9 ай бұрын

@@HudsonHenryPhoto Great, looking forward to more of your excellent content.

@jameslaskin7668 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing pics and great advice. I am just learning to use my MSM, excellent advice - more is less!!!! I'll be heading to Kenya mid May (I am a physical therapist and I teach at the University there as a volunteer) and once my teaching gig is done I'll be in the Masai Mara for the new moon - very excited. My question is, any advice regarding using the MSM when just South of the equator - looking to get some tracked MW shots as well as MW arch panoramas. Thanks James

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Hey James, I reccomend some alignment apps in my Milky Way course. I think you'll need a good app on your phone. The MSM has a Southern setting, but you need to know where exactly in the cross to beam that lazer. :-) www.hudsonhenry.com/milkyway Enjoy Kenya. I can't wait till my kids are big enough to take to East Africa. :-)

@bernhardjost 2 жыл бұрын

I got some good experience with the Z-bracket from MSM, find it extremely helpful when doing tracked panos of the milky way arch. Never had any problems with shake/blur

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, I'm shocked, but good for you. Thing felt like a very springy diving board to me even with a light rig. I round filled my sample when they didn't want it back. I can't magine using it.

@JPStaats 2 жыл бұрын

Great information, as always. What MSM kit would you suggest for us folk in the Southern Hemisphere as we don’t have a North Star to point a laser beam at?

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

The same, but you'll need to get a polar alignment app for your phone and work to perfect your alignment using the southern cross with your app and the laser. It's not easy, but it works with practice.

@DjCjFoto 2 жыл бұрын

First of all, excellent video...I do owe currently Z7II, 24-120s and 100-400s. I'm thinking to add an UW lens for nightscapes (very limited experience in that kind of photography), and landscapes in general. I'm kind of between Laowa 15mm F2 and Nikon 20mm F1.8s. Have you had a chance to compare those two, and what's your opinion on Laowa lens, if you tried it yet? I see you like a lot Nikon 20mm lens. Thanks!

@patrickmolloy6994 2 жыл бұрын

can't afford any of that gear! I've the Z6 and the luscious z 14-24 S which gives pretty good results. BUT ar 30k from London, England, light pollution is a huge deal. I love those images you show. I wish ...

@R.Hogarth 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a couple of great workshops! Quick question, would the Move-Shoot-Move handle the weight of a camera such as your Z6 or Z7 and the 24-120 lens? I am trying to get an idea of if it would handle my A7R3 and the Sony 24-105 f/4G.

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. With zero hesitation. It did fine with the Z9 and 14-24 which is a much bigger load.

@R.Hogarth 2 жыл бұрын

@@HudsonHenryPhoto thank you.

@RyanLunaPhotography 2 жыл бұрын

I almost drove out to Jtree that same weekend from Orange County, but didn’t go. I feel sorry for unsuspecting campers at the sites next to the Juniper and rock. I’m sure you were respectful with your group though.

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

We had the spot below booked a year in advance for that exact night, walked out the day before scouting and went absolutely silent with red lights the next morning. No one knew we were there. ;)

@RyanLunaPhotography 2 жыл бұрын

@@HudsonHenryPhoto booking those sites is the way to do it. My first time i felt shitty because I went with a group and didn't know we were going to walk through campsites getting there. My other visits I walked all the way around the rocks at the entrance to Jumbo Rocks and came in from the back.

@jstrege1 2 жыл бұрын

When on extended trips like this, I use my laptop and a Lacie 4TB external drive to store and edit my photos. When I get home I am always confused about moving the files from that drive onto my desktop in Lightroom without loosing the edits I have made. Could you speak to that process?

@spearfish25 2 жыл бұрын

Why do you prefer focus stacking over using the hyperfocal distance on the wide angle shots?

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

I can use f5.6-11 instead of stopping down and inducing diffraction. I get way better quality. :)

@iTriguy1 2 жыл бұрын

Any chance you are going to do an addemdum to your milkyway course with specifics for the Z9 setup?

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Have you watched the Milky Way setup video I did for the Z9 here on KZfaq? Aside on those seeing recommendations, nothing would change for the course whatsoever.

@iTriguy1 2 жыл бұрын

@@HudsonHenryPhoto I must have missed that one. I will look for it.

@Mr09260 2 жыл бұрын

Do I really need a Star Tracker >> Just cant afford it >> Saving like mad to get the Z9 hopefully in 18 months time I take single image Milky Way images now and will advance to Stacking

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Having done a ton of both, I vastly prefer the tracker for ease of capture, processing and final result quality, but stacking can give you great results too. If you look, you'll find the msm tracker I use and link in the description costs under $200 with my discount code, is super compact and weighs less than 2 pounds. :) the Milky Way video course I offer covers both methods in fine detail.

@KarenVaisman1 2 жыл бұрын

So your z favorite sunstar lenses are 24-120 and 14-30? Would you say they are better than your f-mount favorite?

@HudsonHenryPhoto 2 жыл бұрын

Not the 14-30, the 14-24. I'm not a fan of the 14-30 star. No, my favorite "star" is the F mount 20 1.8 stopped all the way down, but... The Z lenses' image quality is so ludicrously better, both of them edge to edge at all apertures, that I can't picture carrying it with such great stars from the those two much better lenses.