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9. Tempest Milky Way
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Tempest Milky Way won Best Overall and Audience Choice at the 2011 Chronos Film Festival. chronosfilmfestival.com
One of the challenges in making this video, was trying to get good storm with stars shots. The opportunity doesn't come along very often, the storm has to be moving the right speed and the lightning can overexpose the long exposures. I had several opportunities this summer to get storm and star shots. In one instance, within a minute of picking up the camera and dolly, 70mph winds hit. One storm was perfect, it came straight towards the setup, then died right before it reached it.
Extended cut available here dakotalapse.com/?p=448
At the 1:57 mark a Whitetail buck came in to check out the setup. It was caught on 20 frames, and was there for about 10 minutes. It was only 50 yards from the camera, dolly and light.
At the 3:24 mark, a meteor reflects on the water of the small lake, see still below in Photos. There are also quite a few other meteors in the timelapse.
This was all shot in central South Dakota from June-August.
Canon 5D Mark II for a few shots, Canon 60D and T2i
Canon 16-35, Tokina 11-16
Shot in RAW format. Manual mode, Exposure was 30 seconds on most Milky Way shots, 20-25 on some of the storm shots, ISO 1600 or 3200 F2.8.
Simon Wilkinson at thebluemask.com created the music "Tempest" and sound for it.
thebluemask.com/shop/tempest/?tid=tempestmilkyway
I used the Dynamic Perception Stage Zero Dolly on most of the shots as well, it is awesome. dynamicperception.com
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Randy Halverson
dakotalapse.com
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One of the challenges in making this video, was trying to get good storm with stars shots. The opportunity doesn't come along very often, the storm has to be moving the right speed and the lightning can overexpose the long exposures. I had several opportunities this summer to get storm and star shots. In one instance, within a minute of picking up the camera and dolly, 70mph winds hit. One storm was perfect, it came straight towards the setup, then died right before it reached it.
Extended cut available here dakotalapse.com/?p=448
At the 1:57 mark a Whitetail buck came in to check out the setup. It was caught on 20 frames, and was there for about 10 minutes. It was only 50 yards from the camera, dolly and light.
At the 3:24 mark, a meteor reflects on the water of the small lake, see still below in Photos. There are also quite a few other meteors in the timelapse.
This was all shot in central South Dakota from June-August.
Canon 5D Mark II for a few shots, Canon 60D and T2i
Canon 16-35, Tokina 11-16
Shot in RAW format. Manual mode, Exposure was 30 seconds on most Milky Way shots, 20-25 on some of the storm shots, ISO 1600 or 3200 F2.8.
Simon Wilkinson at thebluemask.com created the music "Tempest" and sound for it.
thebluemask.com/shop/tempest/?tid=tempestmilkyway
I used the Dynamic Perception Stage Zero Dolly on most of the shots as well, it is awesome. dynamicperception.com
Contact for licensing or anything else
Randy Halverson
dakotalapse.com
Follow:
Google + plus.google.com/115274420552571826637/posts
Facebook facebook.com/dakotalapse
Twitter twitter.com/dakotalapse
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Congrats on another Bad Astronomy feature!
blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/08/23/another-jaw-dropping-time-lapse-video-tempest/
Anything you wish your dolly did that it doesn't do?
A winner.
:p
atbreak.com/videos/tempest-milky-way/
Did you shoot in aperture priority or full manual? Can you elaborate a little on your camera settings (ISO, shutter speed, setting white balance for night shots, etc.)?
Oh, one more thing. Did you have to deal with flickering?
Thanks
How long did it take you, start to finish?
I was watching a Tom Guillmette video where he had BTS footage of TimeFest2011 and I'm pretty sure they were using an App on their Iphones to find out where the milky way was going to be. Look into that, it'll probably save you a lot of time
@Randy
You said you shot using the T2i (what I use), how well from your experience can the T2i handle rain and shooting in areas like those corn fields where you have dirt and bugs all around?? I'm very over protective of my baby so I'm scared to take it any where in the great outdoors
Amazing video bro, love the lake and storm shots. Gives me some ideas and inspiration to make some thing cool!!
Thanks for the tip! The app is called Star Walk for the iPhone...brilliant app...now I will never need to guess where the Milky Way is! Cheers!
there is another great app besides StarWalk both for iPhone and iPad called RedShift. You may find it better to use on choosing a view for a certain Day/Time (and scroll that Day/Time back and forth) and it also has a very accurate day/night transition as well as a Movement control (like StarWalk). Since I found RedShift I rarely use StarWalk anymore. RedShift reminds me a lot of Stellarium, which is great (on the Mac), too.
I will certainly check out RedShift... now that I have all this info, venturing out into the dark night would be that much more appealing and fun! Thanks mate! Love your timelapse videos too!
geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/tempest-milky-way-time-lapse-20110824/
Featured video today on timelapseitalia.com
Does it move the dolly only on the intervals between exposures?
(edit) Got my answer here: dynamicperception.com/?main_page=wordpress
Interleave or "Shoot-Move-Shoot" mode!
=)
(plus: thanks for all the technical info in the video description)