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Realistic space scenes – no stars in NASA footage
Hi everyone,
Something that’s been bothering me for a bit, is that wheneverI see photos from the ISS or space shuttle, you don’t see any stars.
I’m assuming it’s to do with the camera settings of the equipment (and not some giant conspiracy where it turns out NASA have never even been to space 🙂 )
Does anyone have any idea how to replicate this look in C4D? Where any objects appear a little over-exposed, but the white points of the stars are removed.
(I’m guessing it must be a little like when you move a camcorder from a bright area to a dark one.)
Graham
http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
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2 Replies
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Hi, yes you can’t see any star cause the subject of the picture (starship, planet) is way much luminous and the camera doesn’t have so wide range to catch everything. But if you’d be in space with naked eyes you would see stars. Space scenes in movies are never realistic, cause realistic space is “boring”, no ambient illumination, no shining nebulas, no cluster of planets, no colored stars. You’d never see the typical sunrise on the brim of planet AND the surface of planet, that would be totally black. And no movements and parallaxes at all, unless you travel billion times the speed of light.
That said, I add my space backgrounds in After Effects (Trapcode Horizon)and a simple black mask behind objects.Corrado Carlevaro
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That’s fits with my current thinking. (easier to do by eye in After Effects than by some automated process in C4D).
Thanks for the reply though
Graham
http://www.YouTube.com/ShiveringCactus – Free FX for amateur films
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