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)! 

A cave near Pyramid Lake, Nevada

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…

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9 Comments

  1. Asa
    on December 26th, 2009
    1

    Dan, that video is phenomenal. Nice work! Cool soundtrack too, who is it?

  2. Dan Newton
    on December 26th, 2009
    2

    Thanks. I forgot to give song credit, the song is call “Loud Pipes” by Ratatat.

  3. derrick
    on December 26th, 2009
    3

    hi 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.

  4. Dan Newton
    on December 26th, 2009
    4

    Thanks 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.

  5. Adam
    on December 28th, 2009
    5

    Amazing 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…

  6. bryan scott
    on December 30th, 2009
    6

    Very inspirational.

  7. Aswirly
    on January 4th, 2010
    7

    This is absolutely fantastic. I love your star trails, and this video is just mesmerizing. wow.

  8. Bob Towery
    on February 7th, 2010
    8

    Tremendous and unique image. Congrats on a great one.

  9. Andrew Halligan
    on August 4th, 2010
    9

    Truly awesome vid. I also very much dig the background music.

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