Creative Nightscapes and Time-Lapses is your all-in-one guide to making spectacular, multi-image nightscapes and time-lapses. Beginning with a review of the key fundamentals of astronomy and photography, you'll learn the latest methods for planning your night shooting sessions and how to set up your gear to get the best constituent images. You'll then see how to combine them into twelve different varieties of state-of-the-art nightscape trophies, each impossible to capture in a single image. Next, you'll learn how to create stunning level and ramp time-lapses that transition fluidly from day to night. Each nightscape and time-lapse project category includes specific tips for (i) acquiring the constituent images; (ii) assembling them into the composite image or time-lapse; (iii) overcoming common obstacles and (iv) finding the best subjects. Finally, you'll see examples of how to apply these techniques in the field through four detailed case studies, including one, three-night immersive retreat. Key highlights include: Your Ultimate Exposure Guide for perfectly exposing starry sky images Best camera settings for colorful star trails or maximum star trail density (they're very different ) How to create stunning solar & lunar eclipse composites Make your own 360 Virtual Reality (VR) panoramas Milky Way nightscape blends Detailed guide to creating gigapixel night-sky panoramas How to make stunning, aligned meteor shower composites for any camera orientation Novel two-image composite blends: day-to-night, focus stacking, ISO blends and more Creative light-painting and light-drawing composite blends Fundamentals of time-lapses, including recommended settings for top subjects Holy-grail time-lapse image acquisition methods and assembly Complete LRTimelapse / Lightroom how-to guide Motion time-lapses - what you need and how it works Final video production of your nightscape time-lapses in Adobe Premiere Pro Astronomy / photography fundamentals so you can confidently plan your night sessions Lightroom and Photoshop secrets to creating stunning composite nightscapes and time-lapses Guide to creating your detailed Night Shooting Plan for maximum efficiency Planning for Sky-Priority vs. Foreground-Priority Nightscapes Daytime field scouting - goals and methods User guides to the latest nightscape photography planning apps Common obstacles and solutions in nightscape and time-lapse projects.