Create Trophy Nightscapes with Planit Pro Course

Are you just starting your adventure in night photography? Do you want to take stunning nightscape images? Implementing Planit Pro into your landscape photo planning process will be a great first step! In this 2-hour online masterclass and Q&A, photographer Mike Shaw will show you how to design and...
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Are you just starting your adventure in night photography? Do you want to take stunning nightscape images? Implementing Planit Pro into your landscape photo planning process will be a great first step!

In this 2-hour online masterclass and Q&A, photographer Mike Shaw will show you how to design and capture the perfect nightscape image with Planit Pro so you are always at the right place, at the right time, with the right gear to capture your image right – the FIRST time!

And know you’re in good hands – Mike Shaw is the co-creator of the video tutorials embedded in the Planit Pro app!

**This is a recording of a previously live event**

What you will learn:

• Planit’s powerful Virtual Camera – how to simulate the exact image you’ll capture
• How to plan images with the Milky Way core, panoramas, time-lapses, solar and
  lunar eclipses, star trails, moonrises / moonsets, & much, much more
• Design deep-sky astrophotography images with Planit’s full Messier Catalog of
  nebulae, galaxies, and star clusters
• Create custom simulations of objects of interest to include in your Virtual Camera compositions, e.g., buildings, lighthouses, rock arches & people
• How to search the next 100 years for the precise dates & times when the sun or moon is at the exact spot you wish in your Virtual Camera compositions

Hands-on examples will include:

• Milky Way
• Panoramas
• Time-lapses
• Solar and lunar eclipses
• Star trails
• Deep-sky astrophotography of nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies
• Sunrises/sunsets
• Moonrises and moonsets
• Meteor showers

About the Presenter

Mike Shaw is an astrophotographer, teacher, and author of The Beginner’s Guide to Astrophotography (2023), Creative Nightscapes and Time-Lapses (2018), and The Complete Guide to Landscape Astrophotography (2017). Mike’s field workshops take him and his students around the globe, searching for the darkest, clearest skies.

He began teaching photograph classes in 2010 while working as a physics professor and soon succumbed to the lure of the open road. After four years, he quit his job in 2014 and has been enthusiastically teaching night photography ever since. He especially loves being present when people experience that human connection with the night sky and the universe that transcends international borders.

Mike offers interactive online lessons with Adobe Lightroom and helped create the video tutorials for the Planit Pro app. In addition, he provides astronomy training to the US National Park Service, taught night photography and time-lapse classes in the Bryan Peterson School of Photography, and led an interactive Nightscapes Star Party Live! weekly on Slooh.com.

Finally, Mike is a Delegate to the International Dark Sky Association and is also an active member of the Minnesota Astronomical Society and the Astronomical League.

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