Mike Lewis
Staff Member
So these are maybe a bit dated, as I think I have learned some things since these were made that might have improved my results. They are perhaps still fun and maybe a little informative on a few things NOT to do.
Like @JimFox recent post where he had multiple cameras running on the moon, I had just gotten a used T2i modified for full spectrum shooting (to use for astro) but decided to bring it along, so I ran 2 cameras. The location is Sprague Lake in RMNP on a spring day. Obviously the clouds are the primary interest, although I did run through until sunset. I didn't get any great color, but it is kinda fun to see the light changing and fading across the lake and the surrounding mountain hills.
So, here is the standard light one, shot on the Canon 5D Mk II and using a Rokinon 14mm F/2.8 lens. The interval time on this was 15 seconds, which allows me to cover a number of hours, but also gives it a bit of a jerky motion to the clouds, certainly not as nice as a recent time-lapse posted by @Ben Egbert as one example. This also causes some natural flickering as the lighting is changing sometimes more than a little bit between frames. I imagine I also had auto exposure on which is generally not the best approach either. And I had just had my logo designed by my Commercial Artist wife, so you will also excuse that appearing at the end. Lastly, I would have posted these sooner, but they contained some music that I had not licensed. At the time I had not really realized that was a requirement, but now I am very adamant about ONLY using music I have the rights to use so it took me some fooling around to find the clips without the music included so I could feel OK posting them. Hopefully dropping a link in here is how this works, if not I'll be trying to edit it...
This second one is the same location and the same day, but shot on the aforementioned modified T2i, using my 17-40mm zoom. I do not seem to still have the RAWs for this shoot but my recollection is I had maybe even 30 secs between each of these frames or something. This was shot with a 720nm filter installed and converted to B&W images before creating a video. This is about half the length of the other since the doubled interval time makes it more compressed...
Comments welcome.
ML
Like @JimFox recent post where he had multiple cameras running on the moon, I had just gotten a used T2i modified for full spectrum shooting (to use for astro) but decided to bring it along, so I ran 2 cameras. The location is Sprague Lake in RMNP on a spring day. Obviously the clouds are the primary interest, although I did run through until sunset. I didn't get any great color, but it is kinda fun to see the light changing and fading across the lake and the surrounding mountain hills.
So, here is the standard light one, shot on the Canon 5D Mk II and using a Rokinon 14mm F/2.8 lens. The interval time on this was 15 seconds, which allows me to cover a number of hours, but also gives it a bit of a jerky motion to the clouds, certainly not as nice as a recent time-lapse posted by @Ben Egbert as one example. This also causes some natural flickering as the lighting is changing sometimes more than a little bit between frames. I imagine I also had auto exposure on which is generally not the best approach either. And I had just had my logo designed by my Commercial Artist wife, so you will also excuse that appearing at the end. Lastly, I would have posted these sooner, but they contained some music that I had not licensed. At the time I had not really realized that was a requirement, but now I am very adamant about ONLY using music I have the rights to use so it took me some fooling around to find the clips without the music included so I could feel OK posting them. Hopefully dropping a link in here is how this works, if not I'll be trying to edit it...
This second one is the same location and the same day, but shot on the aforementioned modified T2i, using my 17-40mm zoom. I do not seem to still have the RAWs for this shoot but my recollection is I had maybe even 30 secs between each of these frames or something. This was shot with a 720nm filter installed and converted to B&W images before creating a video. This is about half the length of the other since the doubled interval time makes it more compressed...
Comments welcome.
ML
