Storm season 2012/13, NQ.

Lightning_Lee · #1 28-04-2013, 12:35 PM

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.

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Stay well!

Lightning_Lee · #2 01-05-2013, 02:45 PM

awww...no one likes my video?!

multiweb (Marc) · #3 01-05-2013, 03:49 PM

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awww...no one likes my video?!

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 · #4 01-05-2013, 04:51 PM

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!

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.c...ke-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

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multiweb (Marc) · #5 01-05-2013, 06:23 PM

Cool - thanks for the links.

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

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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 a while ago.