An Evening in Joshua Tree + additional

JimFox

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From last Sunday night, it was a very pleasant evening in Joshua Tree National Park. I already posted a vertical timelapse taken on my Sony A6400. This one was taken on my D810. It is made from Raw files converted to tiffs and then compiled. All of that was done in Photoshop. Now sadly there is a bug in Photoshop now where it can just totally stop Rendering Videos, with hundreds of complaints. And that issue happened to me on 2 different computers, I finally had to go back to older versions of Photoshop in order to compile the tiffs into timelapses and save them as Video's. I have probably 3 full days working on this one, due to the issues with Photoshop not Rendering right.

So this one isn't perfect, but after 3 days on it, once I could finally start rendering with older versions of Photoshop, I was too worn out to redo some of it.

These are 2 sets of Photos. I had captured over 2500 photos on the D810 which is what these are a part of. The day portion was at 3 sec intervals. The night ones have no intervals. After I finally got the photos rendered, I took the videos into Movavi to assemble. I handled the transition from day to night by using a 10 sec Fade transition between the day and night sections to make hopefully a pretty seamless transition that looks normal. Or at least normal to the casual viewer that doesn't know how I did it. :)

All comments are welcome,

Jim

PS. Sorry this one is also showing the YouTube Bug where it is taking the first 10 seconds of the video playing before it finally renders. It's 1:30am, so I tomorrow I will add a still image in the beginning to take up that loading time of the HD version.


With Intro
 

Ben Egbert

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Great job Jim, I love the way you handled the exposure. I wonder how it went from fairly dark to brighter and then to night? Did the moon pass over during your TL? I also notice here as with mine that we don't get a 4K option for viewing, this one topped out at 1080 P.

Good music.
 

JimFox

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Great job Jim, I love the way you handled the exposure. I wonder how it went from fairly dark to brighter and then to night? Did the moon pass over during your TL? I also notice here as with mine that we don't get a 4K option for viewing, this one topped out at 1080 P.

Good music.
Thanks Ben. Yeah, I am not sure why the exposure starts a bit dark and then brightens up a bit, but I guess it did?

This one was just 1080p so that explains the no 4k option. With so many issues with Photoshop, when I finally got it going I didn't want to spend any more time rendering then I had too. At this point in playing with timelapses, 1080p is fine for me I don't know that I even notice the difference between it and 4k. Maybe once I get all of the kinks rolled out on doing timelapses I might focus more on 4k?
 

JimFox

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Nice day/night transition in this Jim. Now you need a get a dolly and you can take this up a notch.
Thanks Jameel!

I am not sure about getting a dolly, not at this point at least or in the near future. I did get an automated panning head like Jim Sanderson mentioned. I could pick up an inexpensive one for about $50. I haven't used it yet. I am still working on just getting the basics down.
 
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