Storm season 2012/13, NQ.

[Lightning_Lee]

Here's a video I made of my time out and about during the season, was a pretty slow season locally. The video also includes some (star)trail time-lapses and (star)trail stormscapes, some haven't rendered out too well and look a bit spacey when the original isn't...meh! Most of the video with the obvious exception of driving scenes is constructed from TL's shot on a 450D.


(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHS2ab6o1Lg&feature=player_embedded)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHS2ab6o1Lg&feature=player_embedded
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHS2ab6o1Lg&feature=player_embedded)

Stay well! :thumbsup:

[Lightning_Lee]

awww...no one likes my video?!:violin:
:rofl:

[multiweb]

:lol: Pretty cool. Just checked the HD. That car ride had me holding my guts though. Gee, thank god for the occasional slow-mo on the lighning strikes. :) I really liked the night scapes and the layered storms with the stars on top. Awesome stuff. How do you do the star trails keeping the tips brighter than the trail?

[Lightning_Lee]

LOL Marc, cheers mate, glad you liked it! :) I had to make my count 5 posts so I thought I'd be a comedian while I was at it! :rofl:

Using PS, you basically downstep opacity of your layers in lighten mode. I was frustrated at first I couldn't figure out how others were doing it then I found This article(http://www.davidkinghamphotography.com/blog/2012/4/comet-like-star-trails) by David Kingham who ironically was frustrated too. LOL! I cheat nowadays(as David mentions is possible) and use Steven Christenson's Advanced Stacking Action(http://blog.starcircleacademy.com/advancedstacker/) which includes an option to save output after each step(....with intermediates) then I just stack output sequence into a timelapse. Original inspiration for it was a video by Dan Newton(http://www.liquidinplastic.com/)

It dawned on me one day/night...wonder what would happen to a storm sequence if stacked:question:... :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Cool - thanks for the links. :thumbsup:


It works if there aren't too many bright bits or everything will wash out so you might have to pick your frames and be creative. Did that one (https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=6930D3AD12D5044C&id=6930D3AD12D5044C%21863#cid=6930D 3AD12D5044C&id=6930D3AD12D5044C%211069)a while ago.