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What if I told you that you're more than capable of imagining, planning and shooting Milky Way pictures that will put people into what I call a sharing trance? Would you believe it? Nowadays, almost everyone can take photos of the night Sky, even very good ones.

Night sky photography in general, and MIlky Way photography in particular, have become very popular. You see it every day, social networks are filled up with multiple great Milky Way photos, published by great photographers hoping that their work will be massively shared.

Unfortunately, the truth is that just a few achieve to go viral. One possible answer is: inner remarkability. Therefore, how can you make photos so that people will share and talk about? The same inner remarkability principle applies. Taking great photos is not enough, they need to be truly remarkable.

The idea behind this article is to help you tell better stories through your Milky Way photography, so your message reaches more people. In the age when Whatsapp, social networks and television are fighting for our attention - and when more photographs than you can possibly view in your whole life are published every day - you must learn how to make truly remarkable photos that your friends and followers can't avoid sharing and talking about They will spread your story, your message ;.

In this guide, I'll cover everything you need to turn your Milky Way photo ideas into truly legendary images Lots of Milky Way pictures to inspire you, a complete Milky Way viewing calendar for with the best months of the year you can photograph the Milky Way and how to use the PhotoPills app to plan any Milky Way photo you imagine In other words, to find the right shooting spot and right date and time the Milky Way scene you imagine actually happens. So you can go and capture it! PhotoPills, S.

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For more information on how we treat your data and in order to exercise your rights, click here. Do you know Mark Gee? Maybe not. He's an extraordinary photographer based in Wellington, New Zealand. Mark Gee's imagination and persistence has no limit. You may not believe it, but this is the simple cause of his successful career in both film and photography industry. Having worked on movies like 'The Hobbit', 'The Lord of the Rings' or 'Avatar', the highlight of his photography career happened only a few years ago.

He not only won two categories in the prestigious competition Astronomy Photographer of the year , but he also won it overall with his unique image 'Guiding Light To The Stars'. Every time I look at this contagious image, I can't avoid immersing myself in an imaginary world Look how the Milky Way seems to spring up from the lighthouse, connecting the stars and the landscape. In the middle of the image you see the Galactic Center, by far the brightest part of our galaxy.

But the idea that got his work out there and noticed was his viral video 'Full Moon Silhouettes'. Mark explains here what happened:. This idea proved a lot harder than I had anticipated, and there were a lot of failed and frustrating attempts.

But finally after a year of trying, I managed to pull off something that exceeded my expectations. I stayed up until am the next morning finding suitable music for my newly captured clip which I put together and uploaded it to Vimeo. I called it 'Full Moon Silhouettes' even though technically it was captured a day after the Full Moon and when I awoke later that day, my email was full of hundreds of emails from people all over the world writing to me and thanking me for making the video.

It had touched the hearts of people in ways I could have never imagined, and here they were sharing those moments with me. This was certainly a very humbling experience for me, and one I will never forget. For a detailed explanation on how Mark imagined, planned and shot the 'Full Moon Silhouettes' video, have a look at the article 'To the Moon and Back'. Now, if I told you that Mark started his photography career in , would you believe it?

I bet you wouldn't! Well, it's true With a 4-year photography career only, Mark Gee proved that you don't need to be a Master with ages of experience to shoot contagious images. The truth is you only need to have a remarkable story to tell and tons of motivation. By the way During the Camp you'll learn how to use PhotoPills, an app that has become key in night photography. As it turns out, if you want your photos to become viral, you need people to freak out with them, to fall in love with them.

The good news is you have all you need: your creative side. Yes, of course you need to master all the photography technique involved but, as Mark Gee proved, creativity makes the difference. Don't let the critic that dwells in you, your analytic mind, take over and get in control Think big, focus and let your imagination fly.

Immerse yourself in the creative process, look for a special location and do your research. Find the story hidden within, the emotion that evokes. Your goal is to come up with a unique story to tell, a deep emotion to convey, a remarkable message you'll try to get across combining a powerful technique, composition and location.

The Sun and the Moon are powerful photographic elements you can use in your image to help you get the message across while adding interest and mystery In other words, you'll have different compositions at different times of the night.

You can get the complete Milky Way arching over the landscape, which is great to capture a panorama. Or you can get part of the Milky Way in vertical, diagonal and horizontal orientation. Sure, you'll come up with multiple ideas of different compositions. Usually, you know the exact position you want the Galactic Center to be in your image, but you don't know whether the scene is possible or when it occurs.

There is no secret: the key to photographing stars is planning. Thanks to technology, the old times when you had to work out all the calculations by hand or use the trial and error approach are over.

Nowadays, you have incredibly powerful tools like the PhotoPills app at your fingertips that will do all the planning for you. You can also check section 6 to learn how to plan the Milky Way with PhotoPills. There you'll find a detailed explanation with a real example, where I use the Planner along with the Milky Way layer and the Night Augmented Reality view.

When should you start looking for the Core of the Milky Way? When will it be visible? Or even better, when is the best time of the year to shoot the Milky Way? Actually the Milky Way is visible everyday at night.

That is if you're not in a heavily light polluted area, of course However, its Core, the brightest part of the Milky Way, the most spectacular area Summing up, the portion of the Milky Way you want to have in your photos, is not always visible :.

During part of the year, the Core of the Milky Way is not visible because it's blocked by the Sun. To narrow the search and get faster results, you need to know the starting and ending dates of the best period of the year to shoot the Milky Way.

In the Northern Hemisphere, the Core begins to be visible at the end of January, although for a very short time. Depending on where you are, you'll have to wait until February or even March. At the beginning of the Milky Way season, the Core becomes visible in the pre-dawn hours just before Sunrise, and remains above the horizon during daylight hours. As months go by, the Core becomes visible for a longer and longer period of time each night, being June and July the months with longer visibility.

During this time of year, the Core is be visible all night. From July on, the Core visibility begins to decrease and the best viewing time moves towards after dusk, until it becomes totally invisible again in winter November. You'll be able to see only part of the Core of the Milky Way. The best time to see it is before and after summer.

Notice that during the summer the astronomical twilight never ends, so you won't have a completely dark sky. But here you can enjoy better conditions than in the Northern Hemisphere. Most of the Milky Way season falls in winter, when the cold temperatures will help you get crispy stars.

If you live in the Southern Hemisphere, you can enjoy a longer visibility because the peak occurs in winter, when days are shorter and nights are longer. All these visibility facts for the Northern and Southern Hemisphere are just qualitative, not exact figures. If you want to know how the Galactic Center visibility time and direction change throughout the year in a determined location, you should enable the Milky Way layer on the Planner and move time continuously to see how the visibility evolves.

Go to section 7 to learn how to plan the Milky Way ;. To better understand what I mean, watch the following video. Even if the data corresponds to figures, they're still valid because the pattern is the same every year.

Delicate Arch Galactic Center visibility calendar The reason most photographers keep their best locations secret is that an unexploded location, rich of unique photogenic elements, can help you take an award winning image, as simple as that. A second reason is that location scouting can be very time consuming and expensive. Unless you're willing to include artificial city lights in your composition, you'll need to do some research and find out where the nearby dark sky locations are.

Depending on where you live, it can be very challenging to find a location with limited light pollution. These are some resources that can help you find dark sky locations:. Make sure you don't miss the following Christoph Malin 's work of art.