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Last night's sunset timelapse over the Charles River in Cambridge MA. This bridge over the river is right by Harvard, at Riverbend Park. I set up my tripod on the bridge railing to watch the sunset.
This time, I set up both tripods - iPhone and Sony Nex 5T. And its a good thing I did! Because, after watching this spectacular sunset get recorded on both devices, my phone ran out of batteries and lost the whole thing. (I had plugged in my backup charger but not started it charging properly, so it was my own fault, but still - timelapse apps really ought to have an auto-save feature. I'm looking at you, iLapse.) So, that was disappointing, and I was worried because often the iPhone timelapse actually comes out much better than the one from the Sony - the iPhone often does a better job avoiding the "flickering" that comes from adjusting to the changing lighting conditions.
But, it looks like I lucked out, and this video from the Sony Nex doesn't have any big flickering either. I used Sony's timelapse app, taking a photo every 3 seconds in Program mode, and put them together at 30fps using Zietraffer on my computer.
I also cropped all the frames first in Aperture to zoom in on the part with the most action (and did some other minor adjusting to the batch) - since Aperture is getting discontinued and Apple Photos can't do that, any advice on a photo program that will be able to do big batch processing like that for me in the long run, once Aperture is gone? This is made from 810 frames, it wouldn't be realisistic to edit each one!
I planned out this location using The Photographer's Epehemeris to see where I could get a good view of the angle on the setting sun, and I also used their Skyfire prediction to see the sunset prediction was 80% for last night. (Also looking out the window made me think the sunset would be great - but you'd be surprised how often the sunset looks like it will be great an hour before and then all the clouds are gone by sunset.)
Taken with my iphone4, driving down the snake pass on the way to ladybower reservoir.
I wasn't driving !!!!
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New and shiny #moocards arrived today! Also I've finished the tanned Fang make-up and she is ready for a photoshoot!
Fang will be available in Caramel skin as a limited edition ♥
Reminder that Mousse pre-order started today, there are a couple of Strawberry Fang heads for pre-order available and the other heads will be available for pre-order too very soon ;D
This was a perfect example of over-preparation going wrong. I planned this camping trip in order to align everything to capture the Milky Way and some star trails for the first time. I picked a desert in Colombia pretty away from light pollution, reviewed thoroughly the ‘Plan it!’, the ‘Photographers ephemeris’ and weather apps to select my approximate camping site, and went on a new moon.
This part in Colombia is going through an unusual dry streak (‘El Niño’ phenomenon), which was confirmed by locals as soon as I arrived: The desert hadn’t seen a drop of rain in eight months! That guaranteed me a clear sky and perfect shooting conditions, right? Wrong… My photography gear was like a rain charm. At the moment my tripod touched the ground at the evening in preparation for the sunset, the clouds started to cover absolutely everything. And not only that, far in the horizon a nasty storm started to form, and the weather predictions changed rapidly and didn’t have promising news for the night. Since I (wrongfully) chose the camping site with rain far away from my mind, the tent was set on an area very prone to flooding (or at least get really muddy), so I had to pick my stuff and search for higher ground.
The storm went on with intermittent heavy rain, and obviously neither the stars nor the Milky Way appeared. When I had the chance I went outside the tent in the middle of the night and try some shots.
On the technical side, I’m still disappointed on how my camera is handling low light. The details are not acceptable at 100%, compared with I have seen in pictures at higher ISO. Perhaps it’s time to upgrade the lens. Besides, now I can live with grain. It can be nice. But the insanely amount of hot pixels is dreadful and a bummer during review (. I have never seen a case this worse, and I’m not sure if it’s normal for a 5 mins exposure 1.000 ISO for a D750 shouldn’t push its capabilities too far, right?) and if it’s worth to send my camera to service for this. The only way to save the images is converting them to B&W. If not, it will take me a lifetime to clone out all of them. Probably later I will be posting a color version to show what I’m talking about. Still, I loved how the clouds turned out and some of the vastness feeling. The negative space works well.
As always, comments, critiques and tips are welcome and will be highly appreciated.