Adam Woodworth Photography
Milky Way Over West Quoddy Head Lighthouse

Online Editing Session

1-on-1 Personal TrainingVia Zoom

$120/hr

Hosted by Adam Woodworth, author of the best selling book Night Sky Photography, and featured by:
Outdoor Photographer MagazineNikonDigital Photographer MagazineHahnemuehle PaperDPReviewSpace.com

Details

Take your photo editing to the next level with a private 1-on-1 Zoom session. This is your session — we go over anything you want to cover, working on your photos or mine, such as:

  • Star stacking
  • Exposure blending
  • Creative edits
  • Milky Way editing
  • Panoramas
  • Masking
  • Noise reduction
  • Lightroom Classic
  • Photoshop
  • Planning with tools like PhotoPills, The Photographers Ephemeris, etc
  • Planning for Sun, Moon, Milky Way, Solar Eclipse, deep space object alignment, etc

Price: $120 per hour.

Use the booking button to pick a time that works for you, and we'll meet on Zoom. If you want to work on your photos, please mention that when booking your session and I will get back to you with a place to upload your files.

Payment of for 1 hour ($120) is required when booking, but if desired we can extend the session beyond 1 hour once we get going, and additional payment will be collected then.

If you have questions before booking, feel free to contact me.

Before & After

Here are some examples of what editing can do, from flat raw files straight out of the camera to finished images. In your session you'll learn how to make edits like these on your own photos.

Milky Way Over West Quoddy Head Lighthouse - unedited raw file
Before
Milky Way Over West Quoddy Head Lighthouse - final edit
After
Milky Way Over Lobster Boats in Cutler Harbor - unedited raw file
Before
Milky Way Over Lobster Boats in Cutler Harbor - final edit
After
Milky Way at West Quoddy Head Lighthouse - unedited raw file
Before
Milky Way at West Quoddy Head Lighthouse - final edit
After
Milky Way Over Snow Covered Cliffs - unedited raw file
Before
Milky Way Over Snow Covered Cliffs - final edit
After

Exposure Blending

Blend separate exposures for the sky and foreground into one natural-looking final image using masking in Photoshop.

Glowing Coast - sky exposure
Sky
Glowing Coast - foreground exposure
Foreground
Glowing Coast - final blended image
Blended

Panorama Stitching

Shoot a series of overlapping frames and stitch them into one big panorama. These nine vertical frames became the final Milky Way panorama below.

Panorama frame 1 of 9
Panorama frame 2 of 9
Panorama frame 3 of 9
Panorama frame 4 of 9
Panorama frame 5 of 9
Panorama frame 6 of 9
Panorama frame 7 of 9
Panorama frame 8 of 9
Panorama frame 9 of 9
Milky Way Over Cable John Cove - stitched panorama
Stitched Panorama