Italian photographer Mattia Bicchi spent 10 years creating spectacular 8K timelapses of the Milky Way. His new selection, which gathers ten of the best astrophotographs in one 13-minute video, showcases his skill and patience, which he considers most important for successful work.
Timelapse shooting is a complicated process, especially at night when each frame takes more time and you need to take numerous frames for each second of the video. Early in his career, the astrophotographer was often in a hurry, resulting in mistakes and wasted nights.
Bicchi also emphasizes that shooting together with others – friends, photographers or family – is much more fun. Although he loves spending time alone under the stars, the collective experience makes the night sky even more exciting.
Photographing the Milky Way has its seasonal challenges. In winter, Bicchi faces the cold, and in summer – the interference of light from people and flashlights. Also, the position of the Milky Way in the sky changes throughout the year, which affects the way it is photographed. In the Northern Hemisphere, the core of the Milky Way can be seen from March to September, when its angle of inclination changes, requiring these factors to be taken into account when choosing a location for photography.
Despite successes and collaborations with customers such as Netflix, BBC, Ford and Amazon, Bicchi is committed to improving. He plans to use the motion control slider and pull focus techniques, as well as investing in new lenses and learning about post-production. He also intends to work more with a star tracker to achieve more dynamic movements in his works.
The photographer has plans to visit the Canary Islands, New Zealand and Norway, where he wants to capture the Aurora. Some of his favorite locations to shoot include the lake region south of Toledo in Spain, Zafra Castle and the Durdle Door rock formation in England.
Bicchi continues to explore the night sky and its various manifestations, creating breathtaking timelapses that reveal the beauty of the Universe.
We previously showed a record-breaking timelapse of an exoplanet.
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