Swirling vortices: Afternoon storm

[naskies (Dave)]

Hi all,

Here's a short time lapse of a storm cell building near Moreton Bay this afternoon (keep an eye out for the rainbow near the end). Worth watching in 720p/1080p if you can.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vstsjOHqOGg


Technical details: 624 frames captured at 3 second intervals from 4:53 pm until 5:44 pm, using a Canon 5DmkII & 14 mm f/2.8L II in Av mode at f/8, ISO 100, EC 0.


Thanks for looking!


Cheers,

Dave

[Octane (Humayun)]

Very cool, Dave!

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[h0ughy (David)]

nice one - was the camera under cover?

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Very cool indeed.!

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Awesome Love storms. It looks like that one developed some real nice structure towards the end there.

[iceman (Mike)]

I like that! Nice one.

[hotspur (Chris)]

Nicely done,I like the technical details-very well presented,not sure what EC 0,the speeds the images were taken at varied? as it got darker/lighter? as is usual in AV mode? or does the EC 0 mean you have set something in your camera?

Hope you do not mind the questions,would like to try something like this one day with my 50D,Not sure if it has the setting like the 5DII,i.e the progaming to set 3 sec timing,I know I can do all that when its connected to laptop.

Cheers Chris

[FlashDrive (Poppy)]

That sure looks menacing ....

Flash.

[Ric]

That timelapse is a beauty Dave, top stuff.

[naskies (Dave)]

Thanks everyone! It was quite the afternoon of storms.

Originally Posted by h0ughy

nice one - was the camera under cover?

Nope - the lens is weather sealed, but the camera isn't. I stood by the tripod with freezer bags ready to cover the kit. It started pouring down about 2 minutes after the end of the clip - I was completely drenched

Originally Posted by obsidianphotos

Awesome Love storms. It looks like that one developed some real nice structure towards the end there.

Yeah, that storm was crazy. I could see/hear the lightning striking closer and closer... the closest one was only a few hundred metres away.

I forgot to set the low resolution RAW mode again... my memory card filled up right at the really good part of the storm

Originally Posted by hotspur

Nicely done,I like the technical details-very well presented,not sure what EC 0,the speeds the images were taken at varied? as it got darker/lighter? as is usual in AV mode? or does the EC 0 mean you have set something in your camera?

Hope you do not mind the questions,would like to try something like this one day with my 50D,Not sure if it has the setting like the 5DII,i.e the progaming to set 3 sec timing,I know I can do all that when its connected to laptop.

I don't mind at all, I love camera tech talk Yep, that's right - I shot in aperture priority mode to give the scene constant brightness because the sun was constantly poking in and out of the clouds. EC as in exposure compensation (the thumb wheel slider setting in Av mode) - I just set it on 0 to use the built-in metering. I find that slight underexposure (-2/3 or a bit more) in camera usually saturates sunsets nicely without fiddling in post-processing.

Unfortunately, the 5DmkII doesn't have an intervalometer built-in either. I used the Canon TC-80N3 remote release/intervalometer (works with the 50D too) - programmed in a 5 sec starting delay, 3 sec interval between frames, and let it go. (If you think it's a bit overpriced, eBay has lots of cheap clones that I've read/heard good things about.)

Hope this helps. I'm a newbie at time lapses too - this was my 7th ever timelapse

[hotspur (Chris)]

Ah,thanks-forgot about that little gadget -I have the cheap ebay $28 version
seem to work fine,I'll give that a blast next storm.

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Great timelapse Dave! It was a great storm wasn't it. Just about to post some photos myself...

Cheers,
Stephen