Grand Teton at Night

JimFox

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This is from 2 weeks ago. After visiting with Ben, I detoured up to Grand Teton National Park to explore it in the winter and ended up spending a couple of nights enjoying the night skies. This is the 2nd night.

I was going to include scenes from a 3rd camera, my D610 that was doing some tighter video at 35mm for the sunrise, but somehow from the time I had cleaned the sensor 4 days earlier, to then it literally was invaded by dust bunnies and there were hundreds of dust bunnies in the sky. I only had done 1 lens change, and that was inside my Jeep, so I have no clue how so many dust bunnies invaded and ruined the sunrise sequence on it.

I am enjoying these, but by no means do I consider any of these video's perfect. They are fun and hopefully acceptable. With doing print photography it's easy to be a perfectionist. But with doing video when edits are done on a more global scale, I have found I have had to let go a bit and not beat my head on the desk over it. As it is, this is 4 days of work back at my daughters between babysitting and compiling the several thousand of images taken during the night with 3 cameras, then editing, switching sequences, clipping the clips, etc... Doing these timelapses takes a lot more work then just a single photo I am finding.

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Jim

 

Ben Egbert

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Jim, I love it, and as a fellow time lapser, I can certainly appreciate the challenges of post processing in addition to the time it takes to capture. I like the interspersed wide and close shots of the night sky. How did you get a double sunrise? At the end, the mountains start to turn, then it goes back to predawn looking followed by another sunrise? Is this from two different cameras?
 

JimFox

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Thanks so much Ben.

Oh man, that's what happens with 6 grandkids... I thought on one of the reviews there was a clip repeating part of the sunrise, but then didn't see it again. I guess I missed that. :(
 

AlanLichty

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Oh wait.... Ben is probably referring to that. Because the Moon does rise, then the Sun rises.
Not quite - right as the video gets to sunrise there is a sequence where the cloud start to light up in pink and then it transitions back to dark followed by the pink transition again. This sequence starts at 1:57 in the video.
 

JimFox

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Not quite - right as the video gets to sunrise there is a sequence where the cloud start to light up in pink and then it transitions back to dark followed by the pink transition again. This sequence starts at 1:57 in the video.
Gotcha, thanks Alan.
 

Jim Dockery

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Fantastic time-lapses Jim. I love the full frame view and think you could make an incredible shorter video without the stars only and transitions. Like I've said before I don't care for the zoom transition - too jarring for me. Did you shoot as one long sequence? If so that would be so cool - to see sunset to rise in less than 2 min.
 

JimFox

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Fantastic time-lapses Jim. I love the full frame view and think you could make an incredible shorter video without the stars only and transitions. Like I've said before I don't care for the zoom transition - too jarring for me. Did you shoot as one long sequence? If so that would be so cool - to see sunset to rise in less than 2 min.
Thanks Jim, I am glad you liked this. Great idea about doing it without the pure star sequences. I wanted to try something different with those.

The sunset and Sunrise are in camera Timelapse vidrr we is, the stars are 1000+ 20 second single shots assembled into aTimelapse video in Photoshop. The majority of this was done with my D850 and it didn’t move. The stars alone were shot with the Sony A6400.
 

Jameel Hyder

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Very nice Jim. Enjoyed the sequence. Like Jim D the zoom transitions are too abrupt. Otherwise a very nice sequence
 
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