Fluidity

[Paul Haese]

Sliding through the night like some fluid snake, the Milky Way has a complete elegance to its appearance and motion through the sky. Taken over a period of two months at various locations this video attempts to show some of the majesty of the southern skies.
Of note is Auroral activity, ionised oxygen floating in bands and look for the earths shadow when the moon rises in one sequence.

Click here (https://vimeo.com/61580902)for video

[Larryp]

Superb piece of work, Paul, and great choice of background music

[CapturingTheNight]

Very nice work Paul :thumbsup:

[RickS]

Thanks Paul, I enjoyed that.

[gregbradley]

Nice work Paul.

Greg.

[ourkind]

:thumbsup: Beautiful work Paul! That must of taken ages!!

[iceman]

Nice work Paul, some good sequences in there. The music made me want to go to the toilet though ;)

I'm not sure if you're open to any suggestions? but i'll have a shot.

One of the sequences felt like it ran too long (from 0:16 to about 1:00) - were they all played back at 30fps?

Some of the panning seemed a bit jerky?


I really enjoyed the sequence with the tree, and the last one, although no foreground, the milky way looked great.

Nice job!

[Rigel003]

Great compilation, Paul. I enjoyed it all. Music's always going to be a personal choice but I thought it worked well. That tree was a fantastic find.

[multiweb]

Great work Paul. Mammoth effort. Lot of time put into making and editing this. Kudos to you. :thumbsup:

[astroron]

I enjoyed that very much Paul:) Thanks.
Cheers:thumbsup:

[stardust steve]

Loved it Paul. Well worth the time invested. I would love to have a second body to have a go at TL. :thumbsup:

[astroron]

Then you could have an "Out of body experience",Steve:P
Cheers:thumbsup:

[Paul Haese]

Thanks all for the comments and thoughts.

Mike, all the sequence runs at 16 fps, so that might lead to one of the sequences feeling a little long. for 1428 frames to run at 30fps the entire clip would run for only 48 seconds. I will do some experimenting and see what I can come up with though.

I have experimented with the panning and found that 30 degrees and hour gives the right speed when going from right to left but when panning from left to right is looks a little jerky but I really think it is just a tiny bit like that and hardly noticable. I will look into using a panning rate fo 20 degrees and hour for future projects and then maybe running at a faster frame rate.

Graeme the tree was a great find and I wish I had more time there before moon rise.

Marc appreciate the PM and thanks for the suggestions.

Steve I sold my D3 so I am now back to one body (I do like Ron's comment;)) but would love to have two D4's with a 14-24 on each running back to back for several hours, I can think of several places where this would work well.

[stardust steve]

:lol: imagine all of the things i could do if there was 2 of me. I would love a doppelganger :lol:
Two bodies with a body each :lol:

[colinmlegg]

Nice work Paul.

A couple of suggestions.

1. Use 24 fps minimum. That's what they use in film and it's a threshold for the brain interpreting smooth movement. If you don't have enough footage, you can slow it down a bit to fit. This works well or not depending on how much movement between frames.

2. Panning. It's better to smoothly ramp to a start or stop.

check 4:08 in this vid for a nice example of ramp to start - http://vimeo.com/12055232

As others have said, music is a personal taste. Personally, I liked it :)

[strongmanmike]

Quite an enjoyable movie Paul :thumbsup:

Mike

[Joshua Bunn]

Thanks Paul, A pleasure to watch.

[Paul Haese]

Thanks all for the comments.



Thanks Colin for your imput. I am doing a rehash to 25fps to see how that works. I added another scene but still well short of the 2minute mark, so I need to add another night yet to make it long enough for 2 minutes. That is all good as I have another site that I think will work really.

I don't think I can ramp up or ramp down using the star lapse by Losmandy. It requires me to cut the power and restart and that will mean a frame being potentially damaged. I will investigate though.

Yeah I like the music too.;)

[DJ N]

Fantastic stuff Paul........ and I find the music is mesmerising :thumbsup:


I really enjoyed it.

Cheers,

Danny

[Carmen4594]

So much effort, with a great result Paul.

The night sky is so beautiful, and I love the locations you've selected, especially with that tree, it almost looks like it's moving too.

Thank you so much for sharing it.

Carmen

[ChrisM]

Paul - I enjoyed that compilation. Like others have said, that tree works wonders!

Chris

[Paul Haese]

Thanks ladies and gents for the comments.



Yeah that was a lucky find, I must look for more distinctive targets in future.