Notes from the Stars

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Notes from the Stars is a new hardcover book, written by ten award-winning world-class night landscape photographers, each teaching us about what they do best. This is a KickStarter project that should be totally crowdfunded by December 10th, with a January 2018 delivery date. The minimum pledge to get this "dream team" book is $50. Pledge here to get your copy.

FUNDING UPDATE: On November 30th, This KickStarter project reached it's $25,000 funding goal, and is now totally funded!

There are many books and tutorials that teach nightscape photography techniques. However, no photographer can master every facet of nightscape photography, so readers are often left with useful but standard procedures and perhaps a taste of the author's own take on all those techniques. In Notes from the Stars, each subject is covered from a personal perspective by an expert and acclaimed nightscape photographer - an authority and inspiration to many in the topic they chose to write about.

Here are the 10 authors and their topics:
Yuri Beletsky: Capturing the Airglow
Mark Gee: The Art of Nightscape Timelapses
Brad Goldpaint: Photographing the Milky Way with Moonlight
Mikko Lagerstedt: Vision of Depth (elevating nightscape photography to the level of fine art)
Babak Tafreshi: Deep-sky single-shot nightscapes
Jack Fusco: Photographing the Northern Lights
Mike Taylor: Exposure blend nightscapes
Wally Pacholka: Capturing National Parks at Night
Paul Wilson: High Resolution Nightscape Panoramas
Rogelio Bernal Andreo: Meteor showers and abstract nightscapes.

Rogelio Andreo is the creator of this KickStarter project, and has successfully funded two other books in the past, Deep Sky Colors, The Book and Hawaii Nights.

A note from Royce: I was offered one of the authorship positions in this book (to write about my expertise on low level landscape lighting), but the deadline for the manuscript came at a time when I had several other projects in the works, so I had to decline. I'm really looking forward to getting a copy of this book and expanding my expertise in other areas. One can never have enough nightscape knowledge!

Special eBook DISCOUNT: If you help fund the "Notes from the Stars", you can get
a $5.00 discount when you purchase my MilkyWay NightScapes eBook!
Just enter the discount code TWAN at checkout.

Brad Goldpaint light paints Valley of Fire

"In the Dream" - photographed in the Valley of Fire, Nevada ~ © Brad Goldpaint (click for larger view)

Brad Goldpaint created our Photo of the Day at the Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada. That's Venus on the horizon and a very low, almost horizontal, winter Milky Way.

This image resonated almost immediately with viewers when it was posted on 500px, February 15th —reaching the site's highest "pulse" rating of 99.9 within only a few hours. Al Oliver wrote the comments echoed by many that day: "Turn off the lights. Night photography got to the top, the summit, heaven, mount Olympus, with this shot. The best I've seen ever, and I'm sure I'm not the only one to think like that. Extraordinary!"

A.M. Ruttle also mirrored the feelings of many others: "So tactile, so beautiful, and your image becomes elegant with the words of Emerson. Bravo, Brad."

Teach me your mood, O patient stars! Who climb each night,the ancient sky. Leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.  – Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can see more of Brad Paintpaint's photography at his website.

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