El Cielo de La Palma - Timelapse of the Canary Island Sky

“El Cielo de La Palma” es un vídeo en formato “Timelapse” donde se muestran las escenas mas impresionantes de “La Isla Bonita” A lo largo de poco mas de 3 minutos de vídeo en formato timelapse nocturno y crepuscular se muestra el espectacular cielo de la isla de La Palma, sus increíbles lugares y paisajes. Daniel López www.elcielodecanarias.com www.facebook.com/elcielodecanarias.es www.lapalmaturismo.com www.facebook.com/lapalmaturismo ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "El Cielo de La Palma" is a video "Timelapse" which shows the most impressive scenes of "La Isla Bonita" A little over 3 minutes of video in nocturnal and crepuscular timelapse shows the dramatic sky on the island of La Palma, amazing places and landscapes. Daniel López www.elcielodecanarias.com www.facebook.com/elcielodecanarias.es www.lapalmaturismo.com www.facebook.com/lapalmaturismo

The landscape of the Canary Islands, a Spanish Territory off the coast of Africa is already a spectacular scene, but put it in attentive timelapse and you see just how radiantly beautiful it can me.  

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Timelapse of the Dakota Night Sky (and Wyoming's Devil's Tower)

If you have ever been in a wide open landscape the most interesting thing isn't necessarily the landscape itself, but what you see coming over the horizon. Growing up in South Dakota the landscape itself can be beautiful at times, but that doesn't compare to what the sky can do, especially at night. Combine that with the landscape, and it makes for great photo opportunities. More information and stills at http://dakotalapse.com/2013/06/horizons/ Watch the 30 minute feature on Vimeo On Demand https://vimeo.com/ondemand/horizons Bear McCreary (The Walking Dead, Defiance, Battlestar Galactica, etc) once again helped me with some original music for the video. This time he suggested adding vocals to the mix. Brendan McCreary and his band (Young Beautiful in a Hurry) did just that. They came up with “I Forever” The single is available on iTunes http://tinyurl.com/pgrq45p , Amazon and other online sources. I shot Horizons from April - October 2012 mostly in South Dakota, but also some at Devils Tower in Wyoming. From the rugged Badlands, the White River valley and the Black Hills, the horizons seem to endlessly change. Download the 30 minute long Horizons feature at http://dakotalapse.com/2013/06/horizons-feature Photography and Editing – Randy Halverson Production Assistants – River Halverson and Kelly McILhone Color Correction - Jeff Zueger - Spectrum Films Sponsors: Dynamic Perception – The Stage Zero and Stage One dollies were used in many of the shots. I can't recommend them enough for a quality product at a low price. http://www.dynamicperception.com/#oid=1005_1 Borrowlenses – Throughout the summer I got some great Canon and Zeiss lenses from Borrowlenses to use in the shoot. They have great service and every lens performed flawlessly. So if you ever want to try out a lens ,or just need one for an special shoot, give them a try! http://www.borrowlenses.com Granite Bay Software – I try to avoid flicker in sunset or daytime timelapse while shooting. But sometimes it is unavoidable. I used GBDeflicker to smooth out the flicker in some of the sunset timelapse. http://www.granitebaysoftware.com/ Equipment Used Canon 5D Mark III, sometimes with a 2nd from Borrowlenses.com Canon 5D Mark II Canon 60D I used a variety of lenses, many from Borrowlenses.com Canon 14, 16-35, 24-70, 50 F1.2, 70-200mm lenses Zeiss 21, 25, 35mm lenses Nikon 14-24mm with Novoflex Adapter Available in 4K Digital Cinema Contact for licensing footage, shooting rates or anything else. Randy Halverson dakotalapse@gmail.com Follow: Facebook http://www.facebook.com/dakotalapse Twitter http://www.twitter.com/dakotalapse

Randy Halverson shot this amazing nightsky timelapse in South Dakota and in Wyoming near the Devil's Tower. Just stunning.

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Rocky Mountain Night Skies Lit by the Northern Lights

A Timelapse of the Canadian Rocky Mountains at night ending with the northern lights. Shot over a period of three months and some very long cold nights. All scenes are shot in either Alberta or BC Credits, in order of appearance: Heart Mountain Mt. Townsend Mt. Smuts & Mt. Byng Spectral Peak & Mt. Costigan Mt. Aylmer Mt. Bogart & Mt. Kidd Revelstoke BC For more photos and such www.richardgottardo.com or connect with me on twitter www.twitter.com/richardgottardo thanks for watching!

Photographer Richard Gottardo on his months in the Rockies hoping to capture the Northern Lights:

"Time after time they prove to be incredibly difficult to forecast."

April 13th and 14th, an enormous solar wind (i.e. a coronal mass ejection or CME) streamed over the Rockies in British Columbia. ​

Just astoundingly beautiful!​

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5 - The Star Filled Dark Skies of Namibia

It's not easy to come up with something new when you visit the same place every year for more than a decade. Over the years Marsel has created the most extensive and most popular night photography portfolio of Namibia on this planet, and two years ago he decided it was time to take it to the next level. The idea was to create a night photography timelapse video featuring his most popular subjects in this amazing country: the fairytale-like quivertrees and the eery, dead camelthorn trees in Deadvlei - something that had never been done before. But instead of going for static scenes, Marsel decided to add movement to the scenes by using a dolly system. All scenes were shot during the night with Nikon D3, D3s and D4 cameras. We used small headlights for selectively lighting trees and rocks, and we sometimes used the moon. The brighter the scene, the more moon there was at the time. For the arch scene we timed our shoot exactly with moonset, which involved quite a bit of calculating and planning. But the hardest one of all was probably the mist scene in Deadvlei. Mist in Deadvlei only occurs around five times a year, so we had to keep a close eye on the weather predictions and many attempts were unsuccessful. When we finally got it right, the results far exceeded our expectations and show Deadvlei as no one has ever seen it before. Each second of video consists of 30 photographs. In total, Marsel shot more than 16,000 images over a period of two years for this project. The video won First Prize in the 2012 Travel Photographer Of The Year Awards. Marsel & Daniella Credits: Director: Marsel van Oosten Editor: Daniella Sibbing Composer: Simon Wilkinson Produced by: Squiver Equipment used: Cameras: Nikon D3, D3s and D4 Lenses: Nikon 14-24/2.8 and 24-70/2.8 Tripods: Gitzo Dolly: Stage Zero, Dynamic Perception Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Squiver Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marselvanoostenphotography

Getting to a place with clear, dark skies can pay off with some of the richest, most nuanced views of the starfields. Namibia, apparently, is one of those places.

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5 - Star Trail Timelapse

‎"Startrails Timelapse Carolina" Filmed at Huckleberry Knob and Salvo, N.C.; the far eastern and western edges of North Carolina. Print of the main image available here: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/perseid-smoky-mountain-startrails-daniel-lowe.html http://danieldragonfilms.com http://twitter.com/IStockTimelapse This is what I did with 2 years worth of static star timelapses that might have otherwise went unseen. If this gets a decent amount of views, then I'll follow up with a tutorial on how to do this in After Effects.

North Carolina-based photographer Daniel Lowe explains:

These scenes are created by stacking a sequence of long-exposure, high-resolution digital photographs in Adobe After Effects and allowing each photograph to linger on the screen for a short duration of time before fading.

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