日落雲影 Sunset Cloudscape (6-minute long exposure via time-lapse median stack of 36) / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130706.6D.18412-SML.20130706.6D.18447-ST-Median

When I first posted a time-lapse video about a sunset cloudscape [1], a few people commented that they really liked the sequence about the sunset, but they wish that it was longer. Recently, I read about doing long exposure via stack sequences, so I tried to see if I can utilise this new knowledge to render a long-exposure shot this way since I have already a long series of captures done.

 

For this photo, I have used 36 captures spaced at 10-sec each to create the final image. The time spacing is probably a bit too wide to render the smoothest clouds, because it was originally intended as a time-lapse sequence and not an LE stack. I used Photoshop’s Stack Median functionality to blend the transition, then I lowered the clarity in Lightroom to smooth out some uneven edges on the clouds and water. And voila. It works pretty well, so I will definitely work on more in the future.

 

Photographed with the Canon EOS 6D + Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM mounted on tripod in Ma On Shan, Hong Kong. Processed in Lightroom 5 + Photoshop CC 2014.

 

1. 風起雲湧 變幻萬千 Everchanging Cloudscape / 寧 Serenity 延時攝影 Time Lapse Photography / SML.20130706.6D.18062-SML.20130706.6D.18889-TL

+ www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/9240254664/

+ vimeo.com/69869622/

+ youtube.com/watch?v=VnG5egmMsWg/

 

日落雲影 Sunset Cloudscape (6-minute long exposure via time-lapse median stack of 36) / 寧 Serenity / SML.20130706.6D.18412-SML.20130706.6D.18447-ST-Median

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