Video: In The Marlborough Night Garden - The Making Of...

[PhotoGav]

Hello folks,

I thought I would share the video that I made for my recent exhibition. It is called "In The Marlborough Night Garden - The Making Of...". As the name suggests it was intended to give people an idea of how I made the images that were on display. I hope you enjoy it and as ever comments are always much appreciated.

 

 

 

[RuralBill]

Excellent, very informative and very well put together

and a fantastic image

Bill

[astronymonkey]

Hi Gav,

this is a great movie and very informative for a visual iberver like myself. The only slight change I would make would be to remove the postal address for privacy reasons. Cheers

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Psychobilly]

Well worth a watch if you haven't already - nicely put together Gav

Peter...

 

 

[MarkyD]

Fantastically informative video - enjoyed watching that

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Mark

[mcsheffield]

Very nicely done, thank you for a great insight to the process

 

Andrew

[sulaco]

Brilliant, little film, that should be be in one of the permanent "How To" sections.

 

[laudropb]

Very nice video, full of good information and vey enjoyable to watch.

[theo]

I thoroughly enjoyed that Gav. A great way to convey the ins and outs of how you go about capturing and processing your images that you had on display. Fabulous!!

Pete.

[MartinB]

Excellent video, must have taken hours to put together.  I hope the visitors to your exhibition were impressed!

[Davey-T]

Really excellent vid' Gav, deserves to be pinned at the top of the imaging forum as it contains a wealth of information for would be imagers.

Dave

[jrastro]

I saw that exhibition! The images looked fantastic framed and the heart nebula mosaic in particular looked sublime.

[Barry-Wilson]

Excellent Gav . . . your sense humour shines through too, "MEST", LOL!

[PhotoGav]

Thank you all for your kind comments. It seemed to work very well at the exhibition and gave a new perspective to the images on display. I think people had a greater understanding of the patience required to create these images. Most people think that to take a photo you just point and shoot. We lunatics well know that with astrophotography that is very very far, in fact light years away from the truth! I was very glad that I took the time to put it together.

That's an interesting point raised about the privacy question and my house number being in the video. Is that really what this world has come to?! On the other hand, perhaps an insurance claim would offer me the chance to upgrade some of my kit!!!

@jrastro, superb, thank you for coming to visit and I'm glad you enjoyed the exhibition. Did we meet?! Where in Wiltshire are you?

[swag72]

That's a great looking video Gav ... I enjoyed watching that

[ultranova]

great stuff, very informative

well done

Paul

[strutsinaction]

Excellent video, very captivating! I really like your use of timelapse to convey the capture process. This video needs a wider circulation I think. Sky at Night Magazine website, perhaps?

Regards
John

[Paul73]

Great video to complete a great exhibition!

I had been toying with the idea of a bit of imaging....... Now that I know what it envolves on the computer front. My seat is definitaly front row of the audience with a big tub of popcorn watching as others unfold the wonders of the night sky.

The iPad from the sofa does sound a bit like cheeting (not jelous at all).

Paul

[symesie04]

Cracking video Gavin. Very informative and a excellent peak into the dark arts. Would liked to of seen that actual PS workflow though

[jrastro]

19 hours ago, PhotoGav said:

Thank you all for your kind comments. It seemed to work very well at the exhibition and gave a new perspective to the images on display. I think people had a greater understanding of the patience required to create these images. Most people think that to take a photo you just point and shoot. We lunatics well know that with astrophotography that is very very far, in fact light years away from the truth! I was very glad that I took the time to put it together.

That's an interesting point raised about the privacy question and my house number being in the video. Is that really what this world has come to?! On the other hand, perhaps an insurance claim would offer me the chance to upgrade some of my kit!!!

@jrastro, superb, thank you for coming to visit and I'm glad you enjoyed the exhibition. Did we meet?! Where in Wiltshire are you?

We definitely met. I'm in Swindon

 

[wavydavy]

A lot of time effort and dedication has been put into this work................so thanks for sharing!

[Scott]

19 hours ago, PhotoGav said:

Thank you all for your kind comments. It seemed to work very well at the exhibition and gave a new perspective to the images on display. I think people had a greater understanding of the patience required to create these images. Most people think that to take a photo you just point and shoot. We lunatics well know that with astrophotography that is very very far, in fact light years away from the truth! I was very glad that I took the time to put it together.

That's an interesting point raised about the privacy question and my house number being in the video. Is that really what this world has come to?! On the other hand, perhaps an insurance claim would offer me the chance to upgrade some of my kit!!!

@jrastro, superb, thank you for coming to visit and I'm glad you enjoyed the exhibition. Did we meet?! Where in Wiltshire are you?

Perhaps advertising where you keep your expensive astro kit will void your insurance.... it's happened before apparently

Hence my sig

 

[PhotoGav]

Thank you folks.

I am all for evangelising astrophotography, so the further this reaches, the better! The question is generally 'how?'...

Interesting point Scott. I am edging towards anonymity.

Paul - don't be scared, it's well worth the effort and isn't really that 'difficult' just needs some care and attention and a great deal of patience! The results make it all worthwhile. And, yes, the iPad on the sofa is definitely cheating, but at 2am when it's freezing out there, I really don't mind a bit of cheating!!!