11 hour timelapse of the night sky

[Lester]

Hi all, I began this sequence on the 9th June at 6:30pm and left the camera running taking 40 second exposures till 5:30am on the 10th June. Used a 14mm Samyang f2.8 lens and compiled the images in Lightroom 4. Taken near Port Lincoln, South Australia. Hope you like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmrrmbVg9WQ&feature=youtu.be

[Larryp]

That's excellent, Lester. Are you able to add some suitable music?

[pluto]

Nice!
Did you have a white balance set on the camera or was it on auto? just looks like there is a little bit of colour change throughout. Awesome though :D

[iceman]

Great work Lester! What framerate did it play back at?

[Lester]

Thanks for the comments. I am still to learn how to add music to these. Yes I had the WB on auto. The images were in two different folders as the camera clock clicked over from one day to the next, so I may have adjusted the developing sliders in Lightroom differently for the second. I had the frame rate at 15fps, as I think any faster and the short meteors would be completely lost in the faster movement.

All the best.

[adavis]

That is excellent, really nice

[Kunama]

That's excellent Lester, thanks !!!!

[multiweb]

Yeah very nice. Excellent resolution. :thumbsup:

[rmuhlack]

Very nice indeed Lester!

[prokyon]

Great work!

[ourkind]

That was cool Lester! Well done :thumbsup:

[h0ughy]

great sequence - very enjoyable

[Lester]

Thanks everyone for your comments, glad you like it. All the best.

[IanP]

Awesome piece of work !!!
:thumbsup:

To add music/sound you may use YAMB [yamb.exe]
Google for it. It is a free application and I think it also allows to add subtitles - how about adding a time stamp?
:party2:

[Lester]

Thanks for your comments Ian and helpful tips. I will look into this.

[Ross G]

Excellent work Lester.

Looks great!

Ross.

[CapturingTheNight]

Great work Lester :thumbsup: The WB colour changes are a little distracting though. You mentioned you used LR so am I right in assuming that these were RAW files? If you ever decide to re-edit it one day, I would love to see how it looks with all the WB's synced to one setting.

[Lester]

Thanks Ross and Greg for your comments. Yes Greg I should have another go at this in Lightroom.

[Lester]

Here is an improved version with the processing of the two folders of images done together to avoid any fluctuations. Also got this one running a bit slower at 12fps and IMO an improvement to pick up the fleeting meteors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cTGj4UR6vY&feature=youtu.be

[IanP]

Hi Lester,
It is a very nice presentation, but, in my opinion, it’s to quiet.
From the top of the shelf I found a piece of music that is 1:20 long and using YAMB mixed with your file (I hope you don’t mind). Here is the result:

http://ul.to/5bp0moo9
:hi:

[rogerco]

You say "exposures every 40sec" by which I take that's the interval between the start of each exposure. What was the actual exposure and ISO settings? Was the lens wide open?

I'd like to give it a try tonight, a starting point to experiment would be great.

Lovely presentation though, congratulations :thumbsup:

Roger

[Lester]

Hi Ian, I got something else on that link, definitely not my timelapse.

Hi Roger, I used 40 second exposures with 1 second interval, 14mm lens at f2.8 and ISO 1600. All the best.

[IanP]

Hi Lester,

To download a file from UL.TO click on FREE DOWNOLAD and then you'll be prompt to enter CAPTCHA.
The file is there...
:hi:

If you still have problems, do you have another website that can be used for easy file upload/download?

[Lester]

Hi Ian, no I don't have a website. Plus our internet quota for the month has been reached and it is on Very Slow now for the next 10 days. Unfortunately I will have to wait.

[IanP]

OK.
Here it the YOUTU-BE link ..
Hope you like it .........
:question:

http://youtu.be/dOI0GplCdgQ

[Bassnut]

Yes, improved :D that other link was pretty crap ;)

Excellent work Lester, the clouds added entertainment, well done.

[Lester]

Thanks for that Ian. I will have to learn how to do that now, as you said it does add to it.

Thanks also Fred. All the best.

[rogerco]

Emm, first experiment with one hour of frames went ok but the frames need a bit of processing of levels to bring out the detail in the milky way before putting into a video. I'm using a program called VideoMach to put the video together, its can do basic filtering and adjustment such as brightness and contrast but not level processing. Anyone know of a batch processing software that can preprocess the frames. I don't use Photoshop.

Roger

[Lester]

Hi Roger, lightroom can do batch processing, where you pick one image out of the sequence. Adjust it and then do the rest the same with a few clicks.

[rogerco]

Thanks, but not much change out of $200, I was hoping for something cheaper, unfortunately the trialware of LR that I downloaded expired before I could test it properly :shrug:

I will have to explore if GIMP can be scripted to do it.

Thanks
Roger

[TheoP]

Lightroom 4 is available at a lot of places now for $99. Just look around and I am sure you will find a good price.

Theo

[rogerco]

Ok, thanks.

I have found a couple of interesting scripts for Gimp which I am experimenting with, I'll try these first.