Hey everyone, this is Nico Carver from
nebulaphotos.com
and i've hit 30 000 subscribers here on
youtube and i've been thinking about
what i can do as a special thank you
video
for all my subscribers and i thought
you might get a kick out of me
critiquing your astrophotography
and to be clear the point of a critique
isn't to bash anyone it's really just if
you'd like an
honest evaluation of where you might
improve
your astrophotography and this could be
either in your capture technique like i
might notice you're a little bit out of
focus
or on the processing side things that
you can do like boost saturation
or a different crop that kind of thing
even the artistic side of
astrophotography like the framing and
and choices you make there and i think i
can help in any of these areas so
if you're truly up for having me share
your astrophoto in a video like this one
and critique it
on youtube then here's how to
participate you're going to email
nebula photos 30k the number 30k
at gmail.com and i want you to include a
few things in
email first your first name or a
pseudonym just whatever what you want me to call you in the video
secondly the gear that you use to shoot
the picture so the camera the lens the
telescope whatever it is
as many details as you can about how you
shot the picture and how you processed
it
and then any problems or issues you've
had you had with
you know setting things up or or
processing that you think maybe i should
address in the critique
if you think the issue is with
calibration like your dark frames or
flat frames then please also include
some sample calibration files for me to
look at
and of course you need to attach your
processed photo
in full resolution and then lastly and
optionally if you can
share your calibrated stacked linear
tiff file so this would be
the autosave.tiff if you're using
deepsky stacker
and it's going to be too big to attach
the email probably be over 100 megabytes
but
what you can do is you can just use a
free service like google drive or
dropbox and then just give me the link
to download it
um wetransfer is another one and this is
optional step
i but if you really want me to dive into
your
picture and really understand what you
could get out of it then i really
encourage you to include this the linear
tiff file as well
i know that was a lot of information i'm
going to put a template for writing the
email in the description of this video
so what you can do is you can just
select
the whole video description and copy and
paste it into an email and fill in all
the details and then send it into me
the deadline to participate and send in
photos is september 30th so the end of
this month 2020.
um and i think this is going to be a lot
of fun i just want to say
three quick disclaimers though just so i
don't get in trouble
one i have no idea how many pictures i'm
going to receive
so i might not be able to look at every
email
so i'm sorry ahead of time if you don't
get picked i'm just going to
choose randomly from everything i get
the second disclaimer
is if you think a photo critique may
discourage you in any way or hurt your
feelings then please don't participate
because that's really not my intention
is to scare anyone off of the hobby this
is just something i want to do for
people who feel
their astrophotos can be better but
they're just not sure how to get there
and they just want this sort of frank
advice
and also that they don't mind sharing
the whole process here on youtube so
just make sure that you're thinking in
your head my picture might get picked
and then it's going to be in a video
so just keep that in mind third
disclaimer i'm not going to use any last
names or any other personal identifying
information
okay so as long as i get a few photo
submissions before September 30th 2020
I will make this video
and hope to release it sometime before
the end of October
and i will release it premiere style
here on youtube meaning that it has like
a live countdown and then there's a live
chat on the first play of the video 
we've done that once in the past now
and it was a lot of fun so i think we'll
do that again
until next time this is Nico Carver
nebulaphotos.com
Clear skies
