11 guides. Your gear, your software.
Each guide is a downloadable PDF customised to your own camera and editing software. Buy one solo, or select a few below and save.
Milky Way Field Guide
Camera, lens, tracker and stacking software (Siril, Sequator, DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight, Starry Landscape Stacker) - a complete astrophotography workflow, start to finish.
Aurora Borealis Field Guide
Single-frame technique built around how the aurora actually moves - stacking software smears it, so this guide uses noise reduction instead.
Waterfalls Field Guide
An ND filter and shutter-speed calculator, on-site safety notes, plus its own self-contained focus-stacking and exposure-bracketing walkthroughs.
Focus Stacking Field Guide
Helicon Focus, Zerene Stacker, or Photoshop - tailored to macro, product, or landscape subjects, with real frame-count and step-size guidance.
Exposure Bracketing Field Guide
Bracket-size and EV-spacing guidance by scene, plus a complete merge-and-finish workflow in Photomatix, Aurora HDR, Lightroom, or Photoshop.
Sun & Moon Alignment Field Guide
A distance/lens compression calculator for shooting the sun or moon behind a chosen landmark, pairs with the free planning tool's Virtual Viewfinder.
Meteor Shower Field Guide
A continuous intervalometer technique built around the free planning tool's live Meteor Shower Radiant tracker, plus a full Lighten-blend compositing workflow to turn a night of frames into one finished photo.
Star Trails Field Guide
Choose a single long exposure or a stacked sequence, framed around Polaris or facing open sky, with a full StarStaX trail-stacking workflow once you're home.
Deep Sky Alignment Field Guide
Real portable-tracker astrophotography aimed at Polaris, Orion's Belt, The Plough, Cassiopeia, Andromeda Galaxy or the Pleiades, tracked exposures, calibration frames and a full stacking-and-editing workflow once you're home.
Timelapse Field Guide
Built around the free planning tool's own Timelapse Interval Calculator, a full deflicker-and-assemble workflow for day or night sequences in Photoshop, Lightroom + Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, or darktable + FFmpeg.
Wildlife & Birds Field Guide
Fieldcraft and ethics, real per-brand animal/bird autofocus setup (Sony, Canon, Nikon), and settings for a calm static subject or fast action, with a full editing workflow once you're home.