Cairns Eclipse - Timelapse, Stills Compilation

[cazza132 (Troy Casswell)]

Here's my first ever video compiled from timelapse, still images and video clips. It is also the first timelapse work I have ever shot. I am a landscape photographer venturing into timelapse and video.
I used an Astrotrac to track the sun on a basic tripod, which did well despite the windy conditions using a 70-200 f2.8LII lens + 2x teleconverter + canon EOS 600D for a 640mm equivalent focal length. 2x EOS 5D Mark II cameras with various lenses were used for timelapse work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-G2hQU6d2c

Hope you enjoy. I welcome any feedback and critique. Cheers

[iceman (Mike)]

Wow Troy, that was fantastic. I really enjoyed that.

Great journey and great images! Excellent!

The only critique is the sequence where the Moon was moving off the Sun. It would've been better to try and align the Sun images. Having them jerking around like that was a little off-putting. But a minor thing in a fantastic video.

[cazza132 (Troy Casswell)]

Thanks Mike!
If I revisit the project, there's some timelapse between 1st and 2nd contact that I would add, and I'd also take the time to fix the frame alignment. Was quite windy, which was an issue earlier that morning just after sunrise with the slower shutter speeds. Also a few typos need to be fixed - lol.

[Johno (John)]

Great work, really nice video.

[ChrisM]

Great work Troy - well done.

Chris