This is the first video of a complete Milky Way photography course where I’ll cover Milky Way planning, shooting and post-processing.

In this video you’ll learn:

• How to easily plan for the best Milky Way photo possible for a given date with PhotoPills app.
• If you know the photo you want but don’t know when it happens, you’ll learn how to figure out the exact date and time the Milky Way will be right where you want it to be.

If you want to learn how to photograph the Milky Way, watch the second video of this course.

Time Index

00:00 Introduction
01:06 Step 1 Place the Red Pin in the location
02:11 Step 2 Set the shooting date
02:49 Step 3 Switch on the Milky Way layer
08:19 Step 4 Find the shooting spot and shooting time
10:44 Step 5 Find when the composition you want occurs
14:27 Final words

Photography Guide Mentioned

• Milky Way Photography guide
• 15+ Photography guides collection

Join The Tribe!

• Get PhotoPills
• Photos planned by PhotoPillers
• Submit your photos (PhotoPills Awards)

Inspiration

• What to Photograph in 2021
• The 36 Best Photos in 2020

Photography Fundamentals

• Understanding Natural Light: Golden Hour, Blue Hour and Twilights
• Understanding Depth of Field (DoF) and How to Calculate it
• Understanding the Hyperfocal Distance
• Learn How To Focus at the Hyperfocal Distance in 1 Minute!

Milky Way Photography

• Milky Way Photography Planning
• Learn Milky Way Photography
• Milky Way Photography Masterclass with Alyn Wallace
• How to Post Process the Milky Way with Nick Page
• How to Calculate the Milky Way Photography Exposure Time
• Photographing the Milky Way with a Natural Arch

Moon Photography

• How to Plan a Photo of the Next Full Moon with a Building
• How to Photograph the Moon with Foreground
• Moon Photography Masterclass with Jennifer Khordi
• Photographing a Full Moon Silhouette from Another Galaxy

Sunset & Sunrise Photography

• How to Plan a Powerful Sunset Photo | When You Know the Date
• How to Plan Any Sunset Photo You Imagine
• How to Plan a Sunset Photo in a Valley | Or a Sunrise
• Photographing the Sun setting through the natural arch of Es Pont d’En Gil

Landscape Photography

• Landscape Photography with Nigel Danson
• Landscape Photography Post Processing with Albert Dros
• How to Edit Your Landscape Photography in Photoshop with Sean Bagshaw

Long Exposure Photography With Lens Filters

• Calculating Long Exposure Times Using ND Filters

Seascape Photography

• Seascape Photography Masterclass with Francesco Gola

Meteor Shower Photography

• How to Plan Any Meteor Shower Photo You Imagine
• How to Plan a Photo of the Perseids Meteor Shower 2021
• How to Plan a Photo of the Geminids 2020
• Perseids Meteor Shower Photography Masterclass with Ian Norman
• Photographing the Perseids Meteor Shower with an Ancient Oak Tree

Solar Eclipse Photography

• How to Plan a Photo of the 2020 Total Solar Eclipse in Chile and Argentina
• Annular Solar Eclipse Photography Masterclass with Joshua Cripps

Lunar Eclipse Photography

• How to Plan the Total lunar eclipse with the Giza pyramids, Cairo (Egypt)

Star Trails Photography

• How to Plan Any Star Trails Photo You Imagine
• How to Photograph Star Trails

Conjunctions

• How to Photograph the 2020 Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn

Timelapse Photography

• How to Calculate Timelapse Settings

Learn PhotoPills

• Photography Planning Masterclass with PhotoPills app
• How to Enable and Use the PhotoPills Widgets
• How to move the Red Pin of the Planner
• How to Save, Share and Import Plans and Locations with PhotoPills
• Mastering the Load button of the Planner
• Calibrating the Augmented Reality Views (AR)
• Understanding the Map Buttons of the Planner