Fleeting dots of light (a time lapse video)
May your lucky stars follow you wherever you go! Happy 2017 folks!
Here's a short time lapse video I made on a recent trip to Sedona, AZ. Low light pollution makes it an ideal place to see and shoot stars. I settled on this composition as it was close to the place we were staying. Given the freezing temperatures at night in Sedona, my plan for this shoot was to set up the intervalometer to capture about 480 images for a 20 sec video and take shelter in our room while the intervalometer did its job. Unfortunately my Opteka intervalometer decided it was the best time to break down! My only option was to keep pressing the shutter manually while standing out in the cold. And that's what I did! After shooting about 200 frames in the 40F weather for nearly 2 hours and listening to the howling of coyotes in the distance, I wrapped up my session, happy that I'd be able to get at least an 8 sec video. Of course I was thrilled not to have become fodder for coyotes as well :-) Each of the frames in this video was shot at ISO 2000, 16mm, f/2.8 and 20s.
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Fleeting dots of light (a time lapse video)
May your lucky stars follow you wherever you go! Happy 2017 folks!
Here's a short time lapse video I made on a recent trip to Sedona, AZ. Low light pollution makes it an ideal place to see and shoot stars. I settled on this composition as it was close to the place we were staying. Given the freezing temperatures at night in Sedona, my plan for this shoot was to set up the intervalometer to capture about 480 images for a 20 sec video and take shelter in our room while the intervalometer did its job. Unfortunately my Opteka intervalometer decided it was the best time to break down! My only option was to keep pressing the shutter manually while standing out in the cold. And that's what I did! After shooting about 200 frames in the 40F weather for nearly 2 hours and listening to the howling of coyotes in the distance, I wrapped up my session, happy that I'd be able to get at least an 8 sec video. Of course I was thrilled not to have become fodder for coyotes as well :-) Each of the frames in this video was shot at ISO 2000, 16mm, f/2.8 and 20s.
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