Barn and Stars Timelapse

[Casey]

I pointed the camera towards the lights of Gatesville and let it go for a couple hours. The results are below. It is actually better to watch in youtube as embedded here it's kinda small.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OklwyVxjNVI&feature=share"]Barn and Stars Timelapse - YouTube[/ame]

[meathunter]

What kind of camera was that?

[OBU13DAD]

Very cool especially the satellites going thru!

[pblaetz]

Awesome!

I knew I wouldn't have to get up at 4am to see a shooting star

[Casey]

What kind of camera was that?

Canon 5D Mark III

Very cool especially the satellites going thru!

I think mos of them are planes.

Awesome!

I knew I wouldn't have to get up at 4am to see a shooting star

I saw shooting stars but I think what's in the video are planes.

[Shane]

Very cool, Casey! Tell me about the process.

[Mary]

Beautiful!

[careybirdwell]

Very Cool

[Casey]

Very cool, Casey! Tell me about the process.

I focused on a distant light with the camera then switched to manual focus so it would not change. The camera was secured to the tripod and my intervalometer plugged in. I set the intervalometer to take an exposure every 15 seconds. I used ISO 3200 and f4.5 for 10 seconds for the images. After a couple test shots to confirm the stars were showing up and everything seemed set, I put a 3 minute delay on the intervalometer which gave me time to get in the truck and drive back to the house before the camera went to work. I tripped it, bolted to the house and then watched for the red light on my camera indicating it was doing its thing. After two hours, I went and picked it up, turned it off, went to bed.

I pulled the images into lightroom and made very slight adjustments including cropping the video size I wanted. Exported the 470 images to jpegs. I then pulled the images into Premiere and set up the video length, watermark logo and music. I did back the speed down by 50% to give me more video to enjoy.

That's about it!

[ClayW]

Dang that's aeesome!

[jp74]

Very impressive!

[Leon County Slayer]

Sweet!
...you said intervolameter!! I'm gonna try to work that word into a conversation tomorrow.

[DPElite]

Top notch right there Casey. Now I gotta figure out this new Nikon D7100 to do some of the same.

[kumathebear]

very nice

[TallTexan]

Very nice