This is from last night (Sunday) out at Joshua Tree. Besides wanting to get some usable timelapses, I still had a bit of experimenting I wanted to do.
So first off, I outsmarted myself with this one....
I went vertical with this one because I wanted to catch more stars above the North Star. Of course that is the still photographer of me thinking, the timelapse photographer didn't think until about an hour later that for timelapse and video you really want it to be horizontal. Oh well, I decided to just finish what I had started on this camera.
This was from the Sony A6400 with the 12mm Samyang f2.0 This was shot at ISO 1600, f2 and 20 secs. I had 2 of my Nikons that I had set up to capture the sunset through dark, so I didn't want to mess with this one until after the sun had set and it was getting darker. There was a 22% moon to light up the ground for me. This was 550 photos captured with no gap between photos. I converted them to jpg in ACR and pulled them into Movavi for creating the Timelapse with a .1 sec Duration. My previous Star timelapse from a few nights earlier I sped up the playback to 200%, this one I left it at 100% playback (the default). It was about 3 hours of shooting that turned into 53 secs of a Timelapse.
Now I had scouted this place out Friday morning, it is set well back from a straight section of the road, maybe 200 yards with the idea that no headlights from passing cars would hit the trees. I was right except for twice someone decided to do a u-turn at the pullout I was parked at. But since I had shot this as stills and not an in camera Timelapse, it wasn't hard to just mask in the ground layer on those 4 or 5 photos. So that's a point in favor of shooting stills to do your timelapse if you are in an area that might get unwanted light pollution from headlights, etc... One thing I didn't think about was how the road would eventually curve and the headlights would occasionally light up the far hills in the background.
Hopefully despite all that, the timelapse is enjoyable, it's still a work in progress doing these.
Jim
Note: Videos often appear blurry on Google Drive or YouTube immediately after they are uploaded. This is because both Drive and YouTube display a low-resolution version of your video while they're still processing the HD version in the background. ... But your video will ultimately appear in HD once it's ready. If anyone has a solution to this, please share it. It's something we have only recently noticed, so I am not sure if there is a solution.
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So first off, I outsmarted myself with this one....
I went vertical with this one because I wanted to catch more stars above the North Star. Of course that is the still photographer of me thinking, the timelapse photographer didn't think until about an hour later that for timelapse and video you really want it to be horizontal. Oh well, I decided to just finish what I had started on this camera.This was from the Sony A6400 with the 12mm Samyang f2.0 This was shot at ISO 1600, f2 and 20 secs. I had 2 of my Nikons that I had set up to capture the sunset through dark, so I didn't want to mess with this one until after the sun had set and it was getting darker. There was a 22% moon to light up the ground for me. This was 550 photos captured with no gap between photos. I converted them to jpg in ACR and pulled them into Movavi for creating the Timelapse with a .1 sec Duration. My previous Star timelapse from a few nights earlier I sped up the playback to 200%, this one I left it at 100% playback (the default). It was about 3 hours of shooting that turned into 53 secs of a Timelapse.
Now I had scouted this place out Friday morning, it is set well back from a straight section of the road, maybe 200 yards with the idea that no headlights from passing cars would hit the trees. I was right except for twice someone decided to do a u-turn at the pullout I was parked at. But since I had shot this as stills and not an in camera Timelapse, it wasn't hard to just mask in the ground layer on those 4 or 5 photos. So that's a point in favor of shooting stills to do your timelapse if you are in an area that might get unwanted light pollution from headlights, etc... One thing I didn't think about was how the road would eventually curve and the headlights would occasionally light up the far hills in the background.
Hopefully despite all that, the timelapse is enjoyable, it's still a work in progress doing these.
Jim
Note: Videos often appear blurry on Google Drive or YouTube immediately after they are uploaded. This is because both Drive and YouTube display a low-resolution version of your video while they're still processing the HD version in the background. ... But your video will ultimately appear in HD once it's ready. If anyone has a solution to this, please share it. It's something we have only recently noticed, so I am not sure if there is a solution.
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