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=rmrrm...ature=youtu.be

[Larryp (Laurie)]

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

[pluto (Hugh)]

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

[iceman (Mike)]

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 (Andrew)]

That is excellent, really nice

[Kunama]

That's excellent Lester, thanks !!!!

[multiweb (Marc)]

Yeah very nice. Excellent resolution.

[rmuhlack (Richard)]

Very nice indeed Lester!

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

Great work!

[ourkind (Carlos)]

That was cool Lester! Well done

[h0ughy (David)]

great sequence - very enjoyable

[Lester]

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

[IanP]

Awesome piece of work !!!


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?

[Lester]

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

[Ross G]

Excellent work Lester.

Looks great!

Ross.

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Great work Lester 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=3cTGj...ature=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