More Stars…and a New Video
December 26, 2009 | Category: Nocturnal Photography, Photography
I’ve been slacking on posting photos lately so I thought I’d share a “reject” photo since I haven’t really shot anything blog-worthy in a while. Hopefully that’ll change on Monday (big, fun, icy-cold shoot planned)!
This is a “cave” near Pyramid Lake, NV during the recent meteor showers. 2.5 hours of exposing, freezing and conversing with some photo buddies. The red glow comes from a red-gelled headlamp facing into the rocks behind the camera.
And speaking of star trails, I’ll leave you with this new video I hacked together from my recent star trails’ still images.
Comments welcome…
Tags: blackrock, Dan Newton, desert, Light Painting, nevada, Nikon 17-35mm 2.8, Nikon D3, Pyramid Lake, Reno, Star trails, stars, timelapse, video
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Asa
on December 26th, 2009Dan, that video is phenomenal. Nice work! Cool soundtrack too, who is it?
Dan Newton
on December 26th, 2009Thanks. I forgot to give song credit, the song is call “Loud Pipes” by Ratatat.
derrick
on December 26th, 2009hi dan! may i ask if what time lapse software do you use? thanks.
btw, i’m a big fan of your star trails shots.. i jst got my tokina 11-16mm so i want to give it a try as well.
thanks.
Dan Newton
on December 26th, 2009Thanks Derrick. For the still images, I use either Startrails or Photoshop CS4 for my stacking. For video I use Photoshop CS4 to create the initial animation from still images, then I use VirtualDub and Windows Movie Maker (don’t laugh) to finish the video.
Adam
on December 28th, 2009Amazing video, and great stills too.
The clip at about 38s looks like its individual shots, one after the other (photo 10, 11, 12, 13…
Are the rest sort of moving averages? Like summed photos 10-20, 11-21, 12-22, 13-23…
bryan scott
on December 30th, 2009Very inspirational.
Aswirly
on January 4th, 2010This is absolutely fantastic. I love your star trails, and this video is just mesmerizing. wow.
Bob Towery
on February 7th, 2010Tremendous and unique image. Congrats on a great one.
Andrew Halligan
on August 4th, 2010Truly awesome vid. I also very much dig the background music.