Unveiling Samsung's Galaxy S23 Ultra: Capturing Stunning Night Photography-how Incredible Is It?
Samsung galaxy s23 ultra night photography has been well anticipated.
In this video we will be testing the Samsung S23 Ultra and doing a Samsung s23 ultra camera test in very low light conditions. On this channel, we have recently done lots of iPhone 14 Pro Max camera testing and in this video, we will do a s23 ultra vs iphone 14 pro max camera test when we photograph the stars in our very clear night skies. There are lots of tests that can be done with new phones, but with very low light photography, that is, astrophotography with your phone, its the ultimate Samsung s23 ultra camera test
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00:00 Introduction
00:16 Methods of shooting the night sky
00:53 Limitations of ExpertRAW
01:16 Gear needed for night photography with your phone
02:39 Setting up the shot
03:32 Using astro mode in ExpertRAW
07:32 Results
08:18 Editing the night photo
I've tried astrophotography with my s23 ultra and had some good results. I just wish I knew how to edit in light room. I'm still a newbie.
My tip, start by slightly adjusting your sliders untill you like it...don't slide them all the way to the left or right but sometimes you only need a "+15" change...and just play around untill you like it, if you photo is too bright you slightly darken it and visa versa
My tip, open an image and go through all the sliders one by one, sliding them all the way to the left and the right and back to zero, so that you can see their effects. Also play with the light curve
@@bvdschelde great advice I would also do this way...
I really love how samsung dex works nd edit my pics or vid on big screen with android apps mostly using Dex
KZhead will help you
Honestly this was one of the main features that made me very attracted to the pixel phones...very happy they brought this over to the Samsungs
My guy feeling is this is a better result than the Pixels. I will have to compare
@@ShayneMostyn im eagerly waiting to see xiaomi 13 pro results from you
Seriously Redmi phone with S23 ultra ?
Isso tem nos Samsung desde o s7
I have the S23u and i've made some seriously good shots already...Can't wait untill i'm at a place where it's even more dark to try out some more and different options, but so far it's incredible 🔥
Its one of the best camera systems on a phone I have seen.
Here in Greenland is so dark and perfect place to take a pic😁
Can you share your results?
Just stumbled onto this when checking comparisons for s23u vs a6400 and you popped up. Great video. Really explained lightroom too. Thank you.
Nice video ^^ I visited Finland for one week and I used the S23 Ultra for everything. I got sooo good pictures and even hyperlapses of polar lights- I was shocked how epic those pictures looked. So stunning what smartphone technology can do today
Thanks for sharing!
I have been taking shots like this for the past couple of months using the S22 Ultra with Photoshop Express to do my editing. I have some really fantastic shoots of the moon and stars, but I did it using an exposure of only 30 seconds. I just recently got the Astrophotography app and have attempted to get some shots with the exposure set at 4 minutes. I have yet to have seen any results that didn't end up with the image being completely washed out. I'm quite familiar with photography as I used to develop film in high school and have been an amateur photographer for many years now. I first became familiar with digital photography after purchasing my first digital camera before being deployed in the Army to Iraq. I love using shadow silhouettes, like some of the pictures I took during my deployment reflect. My biggest issue is the way the stars sometimes look great while others times they come out looking like blurry dots. Nothing more frustrating then taking the time to set up a shot, getting it exactly where I want, waiting 4 minutes for the shot to be taken, only to find out the image is either too blurry or washed out that even editing can't fix it. I would love to see you do a video on how to avoid having these same problems I have had. Also, what settings like ISO, focus, and even which lenses do you feel yield the best results? Your videos have been very helpful to me.
Great Video Shayne! Last week I took 40 photos of the night sky and also some Dark Frames with my s21 FE and stacked them in Sequator, the photo was amazing!
That is awesome!
You used the same app to do that? The s21fe has it?
@@silverwerewolf975 No, Expert RAW is not working on this device. I used the pro mode, ISO 1600, 15s shutterspeed, it's more work but its worth, cause the final image is stunning!
@@kilianmanger5949 Thank you very much, i will try it on my s20fe!
Fascinating editing bro! Can’t wait to receive my S23 Ultra
Thx for these very usefull tips, got subscribed!! Now i can use the max power of my S23 Ultra!! Great job!!
Was waiting for your video bro finally
Just bought this phone and just found your video, and just subscribed; this has been a great Wednesday.
Lmfao, by the time the video ended i was watching with a blue light filter on my TV thinking "what is this guy doing?" 😂(it makes things look a LOT different) Great edit and awesome to see what the phone is capable of! Not why i bought this phone, but i'll definitely make a mission out of this, next summer.
I have a Skywatcher Star Adventurer Tracker that I use for DSLR Astro. Is there any advantage of using this with the S23U? Would I use 30 sec exposures and stack them myself?
Will you use any of the handsets in future with the 1inch sensors like the up and coming oppo find x 6 pro or Vivo x90 pro
I just got myself a nikon d810 and 14-24mm 2.8 and a S23ultra took them out this morning there is not much in it now s23 does great straight into the sun I can get light in the shadows at 5am on the beach I got a xiaomi mi11 ultra as well it's a heavy hitter as well
This is bloody brilliant! I have wanted to do astrophotography since I was in my teens. Always figured it was beyond my means (at least back then it was). I've been on the fence in getting a new phone, Iphone 14 pro max or the Samsung S23 Ultra. This video has helped me decide on just this ONE feature. It will still be a few months before I can get my phone as I need to pay off my current one, but I'm totally excited! Thanks for making these videos and showing that my one time passion is possible again!
Does the Samsung take multiple pictures when you do Astrophotography? or is that an iphone only thing? I am trying to decide which phone to get because I want to use it for this very purpose. At the end of one of your videos you said the S23 is good but you were going to stick with the iphone. Are you planning on releasing a video on your thoughts on that? Appreciate the videos you have made. I've learned a lot over the weekend. Now I need to step back and let it all sink in lol.
Using the astro in expert RAW it takes multiple images. Most phones do this now for low light / astro. If you use the ProMode it will shoot a single frame though
@@ShayneMostyn Thanks., I have the Galaxy Z Flip 3 and it doesn't have the Astro mode. I really hate the phone and will get one of the two I mentioned so I'm a bit excited.
@@lotharen hope you went with the s23u
@@lotharen @lotharen my wife has the iphone14 and I got the s23 ultra... The s23U blows it away with nighttime/ASTRO photography.
S23 vs S22 vs S21? Great video, i ended up getting the S23 ultra as my 21 died so far im pretty happy , i think they could make a couple updates to camera software but its pretty dang good!
Couldnt agree more mate
what program are you using to edit those photos?
You never fail to impress. Thanks again
Thanks mate, I really appreciate that. Very kind of you.
nice one ..thanks for the tips :)
Question to @Shaynemostynmobilephotography - one thing im struggling with is the focus on the s23 Ultra on my night shots - do you dial it in with trial and error? - i have taken some great night pics - ie longer exposure and star trails - but im not yet satisfied with some crisper focus. is there a way to get it perfect - or will it always be limited due to it being a phone camera?
great video Shayne!!!
Thanks mate
I just got one, hasn't arrived yet. Looking forward to the night sky of Northern New Mexico. Q: can you share the phone mounting info as well as the tripod? A flashlight I got 😉. Great video, thanks for putting it together.
What program you use for post editing of photo and what program (free one) would you recommend to use on phone? Thanks in advance.
Fantastic tutorial 👌 keep up the good work
Thanks, will do!
Love your videos! i got s21 ultra atm, and thinking to upgrade, is it worth getting s23 ultra? or can i jst get the s22 ultra? thinking price wise and if its worth it or would pixel 7 pro do it?
Thanks, that was awesome!
Glad you liked it!
The astrophotography feature is avaliable on the S21 Ultra ? I recently bought this phone, the Expert Raw mode only has the basic features, is it possible to add them?
Excellent details shared 👌
Thanks a lot
Hello Shayne Mostyn, maybe you could answer me this question: the video compression on S23 Ultra is HEVC, all the way from 30HD to 30 8K. Is this the problem I have with You Tube and Whats app, this format is not compatible? Everything looks jittery, to not to say unusable! Thanks, Yorg
Great job!!
I have Raw Expert installed on my new S23U, however, astrophotography is greyed in the setup menu. Any suggestions?
Awesome! I love mine
i would love to see a manual stack of this, by that i mean taking multiple photos using the same method, and then stacking them in photoshop to improve clarity to see how much further you can push the photos....
I think I may try that this season
I had some decent pics from manually stacking, better than the auto stack but that also could be user error I haven't been able to play around with it too much
@@ShayneMostyncan’t wait!
I can't wait to get out and try this with my s23u. Unfortunately I live in the UK and light pollution is a bit of an issue
I'm having trouble uploading astrophotography in expert raw to Ligntroom and snapseed..getting a message that the file may be damaged or the format is not supported. What is the problem"
I was lucky to get some shots like that in Temagami Ontario (no city light at all) with my iPhone 12 Pro Max. Friend and I got similar ones in rural Texas with 13 Pros. She got better results using a tripod as the shutter speed went to 30 seconds. In that kind of darkness we got amazing shots of the Milky Way.
Amazing video, Will you be doing a stacked photo using the S23U?
thanks for the video, very useful ! But i have a question, i do a photo of the milky way but i have a lot of "banding", when you use the app did you turn auto hdr on ? i try to understand if the problem is this feature or another, i read a lot of people have banding problem with night photos
There is a big problem at the moment with the Expert RAW shooting on this phone causing that. Im hoping Samsung fixes it soon
it seems to be fixed in the beta 2 of one ui 6 :) a little bit after i wrote the first message to he i see a video with this fix in beta 2. @@ShayneMostyn ps. sorry for my english i'm italian
how does this compare to s21u? is there a big difference? the two phones have very similar camera setups
hi mate where did you buy your phone case?
Cant find the link with the photo
...the focus tip is gold. I was wondering why i never got focus right. On the pixel its just point and shoot. Never had one issue with focus argh.
Also, might I make a suggestion? I would highly recommend doing the editing using Dex and an external monitor. I made this mistake of editing photos using my phone, which looked good on the phone, but once I blew up the image on a monitor I see all these artifacts and things that makes it look terrible. I now use my PC monitor to do my editing on. This is just a suggestion to any of your viewers who are getting into taking nightshots. It might save them the trouble that I went through.
@@Alex-wv9pl I use Photoshop Express to do most of my editing on, I know it works great straight on the phone or in Dex. Lightroom is also a good option that comes already on the phone. Either one will give you a lot of the same options for making edits.
Great video- thanks! Love your channel- subbed. What is the name of your editing software?
Thanks mate. Adobe Lightroom
hello on the Expert Raw video you advised me to stay in auto focus auto There you place yourself in auto focus 0.7 Why this backtracking on the method? For me the focus is rather sharp at just over 0.9 and between 0.8 and 0.9 it's blurry Otherwise the best for me is not even in astro, it's in expert raw and 25Mpix 8s iso 800 much better than the 4min or 10min astro mode at 12Mpix, there is much less detail and there it is wow THANKS
Would it make a difference if you use a GCam on the Samsung S23 Ultra for astrophotography?
May I ask, what do you think is the better phone for photography, S23 Ultra or iPhone 15 Pro? Thanks !
Can you put a link in hers for your tripod please pal, trying to find a good stand for my S23 Ultra 👌
I recently tried this astrophotography mode on my regular S22 and I've got to say, Samsung has done an amazing job with this feature.
Cheers mate, thanks for watching :)
My s21 also does it pretty well
I think something is wrong with mine. I tried taken a picture of the moon tonight and all it is a big blurry bright light... my TLC 20se has taken better moon shots. I'm so annoyed. Also, when you take a zoomed in Pic, is it suppose to randomly sway. It's almost like the lense is free floating and doesn't do it the whole time but soon as I'm focused and want to take a shot or something, it's floats/sways. Idk, i never had that happen on any other phone.. I'm also having issues with it with, say I'm reading down the comments. All of a sudden it flicks and goes back to the top of the page.. This phone is brand new. I just got it a couple days ago
Just got my S23 Ultra and, so far, I've struggled to get the quality I was hoping for. This video has given me knowledge and confidence to keep trying and learning, thank you.
Cheers mate, thanks for watching :)
It would be great if the amount of noise reduction could be adjusted. It looks like it pulls a large number of stars out in the noise reduction process, which is pretty typical for phone processing. I've done a lot of astrophotography with DSLRs and was always blown away by how many stars are actually captured, so it's a bit unfortunate that the phones strip most of them out in the stacking/alignment/noise reduction processes.
If it is RAW picture it doesn't do Noise Reduction ?
@@benderozo If it's combining and aligning images from a span of minutes, it won't likely be the raw images being output anymore.
@@aaronsuek u can set raw output
@@ladislavzenk2139 It's no longer the raw sensor output if there's processing to stack and realign images, which is likely when noise reduction is applied. The raw output would be for single exposures. Maybe it can save the individual exposures taken during those 4 minutes, but a combined image wouldn't be a true raw file.
Oh sorry for that u can turn noise reduction off also, there will be close to none noise because it's mostly around 20-50iso
What tripod do you use to shoot this?
Hello Shayne, I am going backpacking so no space for a tripod, but do you think a work around could be done with a selfie stick. Going to the dessert so hopefully nothing moving, really hoping I can capture something special.
I would use a small one like a joby gorilla over a selfie stick. Its going to pack to roughly the same size.
If your getting into astrophotography, how does the s23 compare to a dslr, including attaching it to telescopes. Is there any accessories like lenses you can get?
Yeah mate there is the nd filters/lenses i think the best of them are from freewell.... Try them
Nice video but can't find the Expert raw camera app anywhere 🤔🤔 not on the Samsung store or play store!
Can you drop the link of that case
Great video, will you do one showing 10 minutes?
What about video? Is that any good for this? Thanks.
Hello sir I took a picture with a digital camera during complete darkness and when the camera was pointed at the sky and took the picture it showed intense white lights in the shape of a star Can you explain what these lights are? Thank you very much
Hi from canada Amazing content and detailed video enjoyed it thoroughly Will expert raw work om s21 ultra ?
Hi, thanks for the nice video. Do you use auto HDR in expert raw astro mode?
Nope
It is pretty cool as long as one has reasonable expectations of such a small sensor (all cell phones) .
That is a pretty bloody good improvement over the S22U. I remember being dubious of the S23U sensors low light prowess due to the 200MP, but I didn't really consider they would introduce a newer sensor (HP3) for the S23U instead of opting for the existing 200MP HP1/HPX that went into other phones. It seems they've increased the well isolation gates and well size, along with widening the aperture to 1.7. Really makes a difference to pure sensor performance and low light video!.
S23 Ultra has HP2 Sensor
@@BMCHDVideos That's what I meant, thank you haha. That's the newer, bigger version of the HPX/HP3 (confusingly). It also has the new DVTG pixel cells. They've paired this new sensor with a wider (F1.7) lens. It's truly a lot of fun to shoot manual with at night. I'm looking forward to taking it on the road!
My raw Is on there the other bit with stars on not showing help Lee
Iv had some good results with my s23. But the little star tab in expert raw is always grayed out, and the symbol nxt to it. Any idea why I can't select these modes? I have turned on special features in the settings menu, but they still grayed out
Never mind. I deleted n re installed the app, now I can select astro mode, just got to wait for a clear night now. Had phone 2 weeks and only had 1 clear night sofar ☹️
how did you set the ISO to 5000? I can only set it to 3200max?
@3:34 mines is grayed out how to I get it to show yellow to use it ?
What case is that? I love it!
Hey Buddy great video, are there any phone cameras that shoot in PAL instead of NTSC?
Hey mate, you can shoot PAL on an iPhone. Not sure about older ones, but certainly the 14PM. You just need to enable it in the settings.
I'm into long exposure street photography, love this possibility of night photography, but I'm thinking, this expert mode can be activated at day time? I mean, putting an 10 stops ND ? I'm going to upgrade my phone and I'm between the Xiaomi 12T pro and this S23... any thoughts would be appreciated very much
U can use expert mode whenever u want
@@ladislavzenk2139 thanks a lot Ladislav
Hi, thanks for the awesome video I've just bought the S23 Ultra and can't wait to try out some of your tips. Where might I find this photo on your website, I've had a look and can't find it.
Its in the reviews section mate. Cheers
I went to his website and saw the edited photo Boy.... it's incredibly good, unbelievable I can't believe how good that photo is both edited and raw. Man you guys must see the end result.
Greate Video.. Which Phone case you are using ? Looks good ..
Hello! Thanks for the video! What kind of Tripod do you use?
Cheers mate. Its a Explorer photo video one
😍
So that's looking toward the center of our galaxy and Sag A*?
Does the 10 min exposure help at all to get more light and detail?
I havent found that to be the case. Not yet anyway. Ill give it a go in another month or two when the milky way season is in full swing.
This is awesome, i didn't know you could get a shot like that on a phone. Can you do the same on the regular s23 or only the ultra?
Regular too. You just need to be at the right location
Almost any phone will do this, some just do it better. It really is mostly in the planning.
I think s23 is also have this ExpertRAW feature
Even s21 is possible. I have a video on it
So by expanding the time up from 4 minutes and beyond (IDK what the max time limit is) does it make any difference?
Yes I think so. Less noise in the end result
Clicked on the link for the site but it only gets me to the site. Cannot easily find the photos you mention. How to access them and download for pixel peeping ?
Its in the reviews section on the site
Its happening ;-) finally a video from the master himself
Aww shucks ;)
To add the grass/trees, once the phone is set into position, first take a picture using the flash to capture/focus on landscape, take your 4 minute shot, then overlap them. You'll have to use something like Photoshop though.
100% mate. I do like to get these in one shot though for sure.
I love long exposure photography
Is astrophoto only on the s23? I dont see it on my S22ultra Edit: had to update the app. Works now
you could take a photo earlier in the evening with some natual light first than stack it on the astro. The omny thing is you will not be able to move the phone/camera...
Can do!
Awesome pic. Much love from Texas
Thank you! Cheers!
Please do make a video on pixel 7/pro
Shayne wich one its better in nigh photography, iphone 14 pro max or the s23 ultra?????
S23U I would say
we need a nightoff with this vs the pixel
Yes possibly. The pixel hasnt changed at all for astro in the last few phones. It might be worth doing anyway.
Incredible Astro photo from a phone... just wow !!
Cheers mate, thanks for watching :)
When I try to take single shots (was trying a timelapse) on my S21 Ultra in Expert Raw my 30 second exposure only seems to go for 15 seconds. Has anyone else noticed this?
S 23 ULTRAdecepcionante
You should travel to South Africa to my home town. The galactic core is super visible at the sea. We always used to build fires on the beach and watch the stars above move through the sky. It's also a lot bigger somehow than in the picture that you took. Also, you can see all the colors in the galactic core with your eyes purples, blues, greens, oranges, and reds.
Nice mate. Sounds aweseom
Where are you in south Africa?
@@wisenchild6712 used to live on the coast in Plettenberg bay
Hi Shayne could you kindly tell us what's the name of that phone case you there and the tripod you used. Awesome content btw. :)
www.otterbox.com.au/en-au/cool-galaxy-s23-ultra-case-black/77-91153.html explorerphotovideo.com.au/product/explorer-ex-exppro-expedition-pro-carbon-fibre-tripod/
Is there a way for us to edit the photos on our phone? I don't really have a pc
Yes, exactly the same way on a phone with Adobe Lightroom Mobile
Hello Shayne stellar work as usual! When I visited your website I couldn’t find the image to download. Has it been deleted from your website?
Nevermind I found it :) thanks mate you’re a legend
You use 12 or 8gb?
Can't import expert raw files after one ui 5.1, s22 plus