South Island sky time lapse

[Phil Hart]

lovely again alex.. great holiday destination! hope your daughter got to enjoy some of the night sky too?

beautiful foregrounds.. and quite active airglow in many sequences all nicely captured and processed.

every one of those sequences appeals to me but some of the all-night panning sequences might be long enough for the short-attention span average internet user to move on? that's something i learned from my last effort anyway but they should not necessarily be your target audience. just a slight crop and vertical pan within the frame might help the static camera shots sit in better with the other motion controlled shots?

all up though another recognisable cherney masterpiece!

Phil

[danielsun]

Wow! That is stunning! The colors, yellow fog and orange clouds and what magnificent sites and scenery.
Truly amazing work Alex. Loved every second of it!

Cheers Daniel.

[ZeroID (Brent)]

Alex, the stills are magnificent especially the 6th one but forgive me for swearing but wow! The video is just asolutely incredible, stunning is not enough. You should be charging heaps for that. I have been down that way myself but that was a whole new aspect and the music and changes just made it an awesome watch.
I'm posting the link to a few friends who just need to see that it is so beautiful. Love the fogs and lights, flashes of aircraft ( and meteors?) in the sky. It is a symphony of delight. Many many thanks.
If I want to impress friends at home I am going to set a permanent link to that on the PC that talks to the TV. That show in 46" HD has just got to be .... <ran out of words>

[dvj (John)]

I got chills watching the video. The syncronization with the music, the fades and pans are remarkable. Probably one of the best productions I've seen posted. Endless possibilities with timelapse.

[Analog6 (Odille)]

Simply glorious. I do want to try to do one of these when I get a Polarie. Do you buy the music from the artist or how does it work? And thanks for sharing the nuts and bolts details.

[Phil Hart]

you can tell a great timelapse when your mind keeps replaying scenes even when you're not at the computer.. and that's what this one does for me. really superb footage and i have to agree the car lights through the fog is quite mesmerising!

Phil

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Absolutely stunning

[alexch (Alex)]

Thanks everyone for the kind words again!

When I was setting up the 14mm lens for the church shot I was hoping to get the SCP just above it for potential star trails - it almost worked (attached).
190x30s shots, 14mm, f/2.8, ISO 3200.

Cheers,
Alex

[alexch (Alex)]

Originally Posted by Analog6

Simply glorious. I do want to try to do one of these when I get a Polarie. Do you buy the music from the artist or how does it work? And thanks for sharing the nuts and bolts details.

Thanks!
I get music from www.jamendo.com
The tracks used in the Mystic Sky were from Zero Project and can be used free under Creative Commons license. Jamendo offer commercial licenses too.

[alexch (Alex)]

Originally Posted by philiphart

you can tell a great timelapse when your mind keeps replaying scenes even when you're not at the computer.. and that's what this one does for me. really superb footage and i have to agree the car lights through the fog is quite mesmerising!

Phil

Thanks, Phil! I could not believe my luck when the fog descended but Mt. John stayed above it. It was very cool to watch visually too, looked like mountains of light were slowly moving under your feet.

I might mix a shorter version when I get some time, but it was very hard not to use most (80%) of the footage .

Cheers,
Alex

[Irish stargazer (John)]

Simply stunning images Alex.
I just picked up a Sigma 50mm f1.4 lens to give this a try. I might pick up a Polarie for Xmas.

[iceman (Mike)]

I don't know how I missed commenting on this - I just watched it again.

It's absolutely amazing, Alex. Congrats. The scenes with the fog, and the last 10 seconds, are the best. Quite amazing.

The 5 minutes did feel a little too long, we're very easily distracted these days. But there's not a whole lot you'd want to cut out either! With two cameras going you end up with loads of material!

Well done.