All awesome advice man, thank you for sharing and I really appreciate the support.

Cheers man, and yeah many ways to get good results, and I wouldn't say any one is best

I've changed from my sunday's to my Wednesday for videos as it suits my lifestyle a little better and gives me more time for videos. When you commented I shit my self thinking I had published it hahahah.

@@ThomasBusbyPhotography Haha glad, I could give you a scare! That sure gave me a good laugh! I'm gonna be shooting tomorrow at a random town I've never been to on my own time. There's a nice little main street area and some lovely old buildings, nothing super interesting architecture wise, but still hoping to document how I see things. I tried a week ago, but something was lacking, my head just wasn't in it that day. I just want to ask if you have any quick advice on what mindset to try to have and/or what might be some good settings on the xt4 to roll with. Last time I shot some buildings, was mid sunny day, all in auto mode and it came out fine, except a few times the clouds/sky would come out all whited out, wasn't sure if I needed to change the white balance or ISO to get the sky to appear on camera, but I'm learning Fuji man and it's fun :)

Ohhhh hard to answer without asking a ton more questions. I'd go wide and use a ND filter to get a long exposure if you have one. I always shoot a little darker and lift the shadows in editing. Rather than try to darken the bright clouds

@@ThomasBusbyPhotography Ah yes, I don't have any filters in my setup just yet, I'll need to get on that, but thanks for the advice mate, much appreciated. Whether I get the right shot or not, usually as long as I'm out doing something, I'm still having a good time regardless. But some classic shots sure don't hurt to have :D

The video after next might help you with ideas, but I'll leave that as a tease for now.

I haven't considered it but I will now, cheers for the idea and support.

@@ThomasBusbyPhotography Also I shot a pano mid October and when I stitched it the LP really plays havoc with the image as obviously it emanates from where there’s lighting and not always apparent when shooting. I was wondering what you would do in the field to counter this, drop ISO, shutter speed, light pollution filters etc maybe a video on the effects of LP whilst shooting and then minimising in post? Thanks Tom this channel is building up mate you’re doing a great job.

I personally just try to avoid LP when shooting as I live in a pretty dark park of the world luckily.

PureRaw3 does a great job, atleas for me. Especially because Lightroom has certain difficulties with the Fuji-Raws.

You're welcome

I’d suggest checking out my advance guide to Astro video, depending on lens and direction etc, and intervals always as short as possible.

Yes that image was shot on the 12mm f/2. And are you asking about in lightroom or capture one?

@@ThomasBusbyPhotography capture one settings*

I am very sorry I did cover sharpening briefly in C1 but looks like I left it out of the final video for some reason. Essential what I am trying to do by have the threshold at 10 is not sharpen any noise. For normal landscape Photography when there are more textures I want to enhance I will have the threshold lower. But for Astro my preference is to only sharpen the larger stars as clarity can real add pop to the smaller stars without effecting the noise as much....as long as it's used subtly.

@@ThomasBusbyPhotography Hey no problem and thanks for the reply. Awesome!! that makes a lot of sense now. I am not super fluid in capture 1 but have been using it this year since buying my first Fuji camera. Keep up the great work!

Cheers mate, if there is anything else I can answer for you please sing out. Really appreciate the support

And playing with those bright or darker images I think is really important. And the final edited results is such a personal taste that i struggle to think of "the best settings" for editing.

@@ThomasBusbyPhotography Playing around with it pumping up the exposure first and then playing with the shadows and highlights gives a lot more control and will be what I'm doing moving forward. Love the white balance trick as well with notching up the saturation.

Happy to help man. And cheers for the support.

I tested it and for astro felt like I got much worse results, i am not sure why it was so bad as I hear others get great results, but with a astro focus I found the files much worse after converting through x-transformer

My experience with iridient-x on high iso images was terrible, worms everywhere, tried loads of different settings but just couldn't get a good result. Direct RAF into LR dropping "details" to 0 was much better and far less hassle.

Glade to hear I'm not alone in my results from irident.