SGL X Timelapse

[James]

The SGLX star party was only a few days ago but feels like a month now! I spent some time at SGL X doing some time lapse photography and have strung them together into a movie... be gentle, I'm not a cinematographer/soundtrack expert etc but it's been fun having a play.

I don't know how to (or if it's possible) to embed a movie file here so here's a link to the time-lapse I've posted on Vimeo, hopefully you'll enjoy it

SGLX Timelapse

I used a Canon 6D with a Samyang 14mm lens and at the end a modded Canon 650D but the brightening sky didn't allow offer the modded camera to really show it's stuff. There's several hours worth of 30 second exposures at ISO6400 and f/3.2.

James

[Astronigel]

That's a lovely video.

Makes a great advert for sgl

[Psychobilly]

Works for me James

Peter...

[kenny k]

Excellent video,thanks for sharing.

Kenny

[steppenwolf]

That was magical, James - beautifully done.

[barkis]

Classy Video young James, I got the feeling I was standing there myself, which eases the sadness of not being there.

Perhaps your masterpiece good be used as a Trumpet Call to future events at Lucksall.

Gird The Loins so to speak  .

Ron.

[AndyUK]

Fantastic James...  Very nicely put together indeed .  Being a lightweight this year, I'd gone back to (the warmth of?) my tent before the milky way came up so didn't realise what I'd missed until I saw this - I'll know to stay awake next time!

[lunator]

James

Great video, caught the atmosphere really well

Cheers

Ian

[James]

.....I got the feeling I was standing there myself, which eases the sadness of not being there.

You were missed Ron

Thanks for the nice comments folks - my kids loved it for the same reason you mention, they couldn't come this year so they chose the music that goes with the time lapse - well it was their second choice after I vetoed a 'Minecraft' song...   

I think next time I'll move the camera slightly further down the field to capture the (now infamous) Dob Mob - they're the red lights visible in the latter part of the time-lapse on the far right.

@AndyUK - the skies were fairly murky over to the east so I can understand not staying up... especially if warmth beckoned from your tent It was a chilly night and the frost is visible on the tents towards the end of the time-lapse.

James

[knobby]

Quality job

[JonH]

Nice one James, nicely exposed with plenty of detail in the foreground. Love the way the two planes streak across the sky. 

[James]

Nice one James, nicely exposed with plenty of detail in the foreground. Love the way the two planes streak across the sky. 

Thank you Jon, I had to push the foreground harder than I would have liked but never mind

When I saw the contrails appear on my laptop I thought I'd just secured the best footage of a stonking couple of meteors... alas, it was not to be, just a couple of planes coming in from the US (I presume)...

James

[PhotoGav]

That is a wonderful selection of time lapses, thank you for sharing. How lucky were we this year?!?

[JemC]

You were missed Ron

Thanks for the nice comments folks - my kids loved it for the same reason you mention, they couldn't come this year so they chose the music that goes with the time lapse - well it was their second choice after I vetoed a 'Minecraft' song...   

I think next time I'll move the camera slightly further down the field to capture the (now infamous) Dob Mob - they're the red lights visible in the latter part of the time-lapse on the far right.

@AndyUK - the skies were fairly murky over to the east so I can understand not staying up... especially if warmth beckoned from your tent It was a chilly night and the frost is visible on the tents towards the end of the time-lapse.

James

Fantastic time lapse, made even better by the choice of music in my opinion

any chance you coulod tell me what the music was,

Regards

[Jonk]

Brilliant....I've just bought a slider so will hopefully do a lot better next time.

[James]

I hadn't seen yours Jonk but have now, nice  ... a sliders' a ways off for me yet.. the next step is day to night without manual intervention

James

[James]

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any chance you coulod tell me what the music was,

Not offhand, I'd need to do some hunting. I downloaded some tracks off a stock music site a few months back and used one of them, if memory serves it was from pond5.com

James

[Jonk]

Day to night without manual intervention - exactly what I got wrong.

I'm going to look up methods of doing this automatically, and the auto ETTR in Magic Lantern apparently does this well.

Sliders + that could make for some interesting timelapses, which for me is my summer astronomy project! Not enough dark early enough in the evenings to DSO image.