When you've got time - shoot timelapse

thefilmaddict

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I pulled out my Canon 5D and started shooting timelapse about 4 hours a night. After about 4 evenings, here are the results:

https://youtu.be/BM4jmYNm08o

Shutter Speed: 20 seconds
Aperture: 2.8 24mm Canon
Aperture: 8mm fisheye 3.5 Rokinin
ISO: 3200 or less (shot raw for flexability)
Used Photoshop to make the jpegs
Used Premiere Pro to do the edit
 
Nice. It looks like you caught some spy satellites. They really move fast (7.8km/second). Stare up at the sky some night and when you see a star moving very quickly across the sky north to south, that's a spy satellite. They have a 90 minute orbit time.
 
Thanks, everyone. It's relaxing and it's fun to see if something came out that's good. It requires so much patience. I also tried some melting timelpase: https://youtu.be/yIgHkkp6hPE

Spy Satellites, thats amazing! It makes sense. There must be so much stuff up there.
 
Paul F said:
Nice. It looks like you caught some spy satellites. They really move fast (7.8km/second). Stare up at the sky some night and when you see a star moving very quickly across the sky north to south, that's a spy satellite. They have a 90 minute orbit time.
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How do you know they are SPY satellites and not communications, weather or any other type of satellite?
 
I don't know what he shot. But it's a good guess as most satellites have a geosynchronous orbit around the equator. They stay stationary over one location to observe that location or communicate over that location. So like a planet or star, they seem to stand still in the night sky (except as show in the timelapse).

Spy and reconnaissance satellites have a polar orbit. They orbit north to south instead of east/west at a very fast rate. Their orbit stands still relative to the earth's orbit. This way, with them orbiting every 90 minutes, they get a fresh view of the entire earth every 24 hours. If you put enough of them up there, they can scan the entire world every 90 minutes or even less if multiple satellites cover the same orbit.

I mention them because they travel so fast are easy to spot in the night sky.
 
LOVED 1:41.

inspiring.

thanks for the effort and the sharing.

love what you do!

thumbs up.

rob
smalltalk productions/nyc
 
thefilmaddict said:
I pulled out my Canon 5D and started shooting timelapse about 4 hours a night. After about 4 evenings, here are the results:

https://youtu.be/BM4jmYNm08o

Shutter Speed: 20 seconds
Aperture: 2.8 24mm Canon
Aperture: 8mm fisheye 3.5 Rokinin
ISO: 3200 or less (shot raw for flexability)
Used Photoshop to make the jpegs
Used Premiere Pro to do the edit
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what process did you employ for riding exposure from day to night?
 
I just set everything to manual mode. That one shot does look like I am going from day to night (like I am ramping exposure), but I am not. What’s actually happening is I am going from A dark time of night to an even darker time of night (if that makes sense).
 
Just checked this out. Gorgeous! And trippy. The one thing I don't get is how come in some shots the stars start out as points and morph into trails. That's an editing effect? I would think that at constant shutter speed they would maintain appearance. Whatever the cause, it looks dope
 
Paul F said:
I don't know what he shot. But it's a good guess as most satellites have a geosynchronous orbit around the equator. They stay stationary over one location to observe that location or communicate over that location. So like a planet or star, they seem to stand still in the night sky (except as show in the timelapse).

Spy and reconnaissance satellites have a polar orbit. They orbit north to south instead of east/west at a very fast rate. Their orbit stands still relative to the earth's orbit. This way, with them orbiting every 90 minutes, they get a fresh view of the entire earth every 24 hours. If you put enough of them up there, they can scan the entire world every 90 minutes or even less if multiple satellites cover the same orbit.

I mention them because they travel so fast are easy to spot in the night sky.
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I really like your explanation of the moving satellite, but it could also be one of these two options:

1) One of the satellites "Iridium":
This is a group of satellites that provides data transmission around the planet via satellite phones. There are 66 of them in total, not counting a certain number of "spare" vehicles in orbit. At times they give very bright long flashes.

2) ISS station: sometimes it flies close enough to be discerned with the naked eye.

By the way, there are applications that notify the user about the upcoming outbreak of Iridium or the passage of the ISS nearby with a focus on the user's geolocation. In any interactive maps of the starry sky, this is also sometimes provided.

And yep, cool stuff
 
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