The Day Turned Stormy - Timelapse

[JimFox]

The view from my daughters backyard. There has been lot's of cool clouds lately in Colorado, so I have been setting up my D810 to shoot timelapses.

This is set in Aperture Mode so that the camera can adjust the exposure as it changes. I have found that Center-Weighted metering works best, and especially when the center is in the sky. I also have Exposure Smoothing set so that the exposure doesn't jump around. So I set it for ISO 400 and f10. F10 gives me decent DoF, and with being at ISO 400 it raised the shutter speed to around 1/1600th to allow the shutter speed to move around a bit as the light changed through the day. I was set with 0 Exposure compensation, that had me Histogram showing 1 stop underexposed, which again gives the image room to breath as the exposure changes.

Oh, and this was done in Timelapse mode in Camera, with a 5 second interval, which produces a video that I can then apply slight editing too. The 5 sec interval with a 6 hour run time gives me a little over 2 minutes of timelapse.

I did edit this in Photoshop, added a bit of Clarity and Dehaze to it in Camera Raw.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[Ben Egbert]

Nice one Jim, I like the brief show of light on the trees, and I love the music.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice cloud action.

I had some marine layer fog rolling around the other night out on the beach that was almost moving this fast and was a little freaky but harmless. I kept thinking as I watched it roll in and out of my sunset view that it seemed like a timelapse and it wasn't all that far off of the cloud motion here.

 

[JimFox]

Nice one Jim, I like the brief show of light on the trees, and I love the music.

Thanks so much Ben! I have been digging around for more royalty free music. And yeah, I love how the sun popped out for just a moment and lit up the trees. I wish that neighbor of yours didn't build that garage, I sure miss your timelapses. I would give almost anything to have mountains in the bottom of mine.

 

[JimFox]

Nice cloud action.

I had some marine layer fog rolling around the other night out on the beach that was almost moving this fast and was a little freaky but harmless. I kept thinking as I watched it roll in and out of my sunset view that it seemed like a timelapse and it wasn't all that far off of the cloud motion here.

Thanks so much Alan. It sounds like you should have done some timelapses! You still should. It's amazing how a timelapse can even enhance the shapes in the clouds if it's really cloudy.