Posted by Paul DeCesare on October 7, 2011 at 6:55 PM
We've seen a lot of timelapse and Milky Way work crop up in the last two years, but this new one is REALLY worth checking out. The fella treated each raw image like we do for nature work prior to assembling the video with the images. Wow. I highly suggest full screen and sound on. See it here.
Enjoy!
Posted by Peter Cross on October 7, 2011 at 7:24 PM
Amazing. Thanks for the link.
Posted by Luke Ormand on October 7, 2011 at 9:10 PM
wow - looked incredible on my 27" iMac. Thanks for posting this
Posted by Angela McCain on October 7, 2011 at 9:45 PM
Thanks for this post. It made my heart pitter patter.
Posted by Bill Chambers on October 7, 2011 at 10:41 PM
Amazing stuff - almost better than being there live!
Posted by Paul DeCesare on October 7, 2011 at 11:09 PM
The image quality he got was astounding. I can't imagine how many hours he was out there at each of these places... take a 30-second exposure, move the camera 1 millimeter on the slider, take a 30-second exposure, move the cam... wow, what patience.
I'm sure many of you have heard of Tom Lowe, the fella at www.timescapes.org who was the pioneer of these types of timelapses. Evidently the guy who did the one I posted saw Lowe's work and ran with it.
The other day I took a picture of my cat. I think I need to kick it up a notch!
Posted by John Mumaw on October 7, 2011 at 11:14 PM
Pretty sweet! Beautiful quality of thework. I admire his persistence.
--P
Posted by Stan Rose on October 12, 2011 at 11:10 AM
Cool! I really want to do more time lapse, because im working on music videos and i want to make time lapse a big part of them, but its frustrating when you're a still photographer cause you don't want to miss any great still shots while a time lapse is in progress. Even if i used two cameras, its hard to do both things at once.
Posted by Paul DeCesare on October 12, 2011 at 12:51 PM
Just toss a spare camera setup on the dolly, set your intervalometer for whatever exposure you need, plant 1 or 2 seconds inbtween, turn on the slider's motor, bake at 350 for 2½ hours while you're off shooting other things.
Three items to ponder:
1. Will your battery last 2 or 3 hours? (it should if it's new)
2. Nikon shooters rejoice, many bodies have a built-in intervalometer. For us Canon heads, we need this. It works very well and will save you buckets of money over the Canon version.
3. If you walk away to shoot other stuff, is your setup guarded from thieves? Maybe pay some local neighbor's kid 20 bucks to sit there and text his friends for two hours and act as security.
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16 repliesEnjoy!
I'm sure many of you have heard of Tom Lowe, the fella at www.timescapes.org who was the pioneer of these types of timelapses. Evidently the guy who did the one I posted saw Lowe's work and ran with it.
The other day I took a picture of my cat.
--P
Just toss a spare camera setup on the dolly, set your intervalometer for whatever exposure you need, plant 1 or 2 seconds inbtween, turn on the slider's motor, bake at 350 for 2½ hours while you're off shooting other things.
Three items to ponder:
1. Will your battery last 2 or 3 hours? (it should if it's new)
2. Nikon shooters rejoice, many bodies have a built-in intervalometer. For us Canon heads, we need this. It works very well and will save you buckets of money over the Canon version.
3. If you walk away to shoot other stuff, is your setup guarded from thieves? Maybe pay some local neighbor's kid 20 bucks to sit there and text his friends for two hours and act as security.