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Stateside
Things have been a little busy of late, hence the bit of a gap between posts! Anyway, now back from a two week trip to America for a bit of a holiday and a work conference. It was my first trip to New York and my word was it an eye opener! Anyway for now here are some pics, hopefully normality will resume and I can escape out into the hills again soon. Expecting some new equipment in the mail today so very eager to get out and test it out. We’re planning on heading back to the Alps later this summer so needing to get the training going in full swing!
Day-night time-lapse: a first attempt…
So after a few previous attempts using a Go pro, I decided to have a stab at using myDSLR at shooting a day-night time-lapse. I had read about how difficult it was to get the balance between shot interval and exposure length, so the clouds don’t move too much whilst it’s daylight with the bright light, but then when it’s dark making sure that there is a large enough interval between shots to allow you to take long exposures and time for the images to be saved onto the camera. Given this was a first attempt, I was expecting it to go wrong, I was attempting to use the “holy grail” approach which required me to manually adjust the settings on the camera at set intervals in order to compensate for the reduction in light as the sun goes down. In hindsight this probably wasn’t the best approach given that I can’t change these settings without touching the camera, which can result in small movements of the shot. It’s the kind of thing that could really irritate you in post production, having to make adjustments to the photos to get rid of any such movement. Anyway here is the first rough edit. I say rough edit as I don’t currently have any software to smooth over the changes in exposure. So it may look a little rough but for a first attempt I’m quite pleased.
My main regret from this shoot is that I stopped too soon. I only had one camera with me and I had plans to do some long exposure shots, but in hindsight I should have kept running the time-lapse as the stars really came out an hour or so after I stopped. This is definitely
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