Master the Night Sky

There’s a particular kind of quiet that settles in once the sun is long gone and the Milky Way begins to reveal itself overhead. Today’s digital cameras allow us to capture this remarkable landscape in ways that weren’t possible with film, from the Milky Way arched across the sky to the subtle details that emerge in the darkness.

Join landscape photographer and technical guru Rick Berk for an online workshop focused on photographing the night sky. Rick shares his process for planning, composing, capturing, and processing nighttime landscape images, taking you from the initial planning stages through a finished, print-ready photograph. You learn how to read moon phases, light pollution maps, and weather conditions to determine when and where to photograph, as well as how to approach exposure, focus, and gear when working in near-total darkness.

Over four sessions, Rick covers several approaches to capturing the night sky, including single exposures, image stacking to create cleaner, more detailed photographs, and composite blending when the foreground and sky are best captured separately. He also demonstrates how to determine the position of the Milky Way in relation to the landscape and how to compose the scene with both elements in mind. Assignments and image reviews throughout the workshop give you time to put the techniques into practice and receive feedback from Rick on your photographs.

Post-processing plays an important role in bringing these images to life. Using Photoshop, Lightroom, Starry Landscape Stacker, and Sequator, you work with raw files to reduce noise, bring out detail, and refine a night landscape into a finished image. By the end of the workshop, you have a deeper understanding of the process behind successful night photography and the tools to create your own compelling images after dark.