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Today on The Slanted Lens, we are up at Mono Lake in northern California to teach you about shooting time-lapse photography at night. I want to get a great shot of the Milky Way as it moves across the night sky behind the tufas, which are the towers of calcium build up present all over the Mono Lake area.
First off, we need to know where the Milky Way is going to be in the sky and when it will rise above the horizon. I found a great article on Star Circle Academy to help get me started; read the article here:
It is important to scout your location ahead of time. You cannot show up half an hour before it is going to start, throw down the camera and expect to get a good shot. Get out there early and check out the location. Here are a couple things to bring along to make this experience a little easier:
1) A backpack – We had to walk quite a long way to get to the area where we wanted to shoot and a backpack makes it a lot easier to haul everything you need.
2) Chair or foam pad – The time-lapse is going to take a while and you need something to sit or rest on.
3) Headlamps and extra batteries – Even if you don’t arrive in the dark, you will probably be packing up in the dark.
4) Dim flashlight – A small light like the kind found on keychains will give you enough light to move around while the time lapse going, but won’t be so much that it will affect your subject, in this case, the tufas.
It was a great time to be out in that location, sitting under the stars with my sweetheart. I love photography and video – where else can you get these kinds of experiences? Get out there and see what you can do.
Thanks for watching! Keep those cameras rollin’ and keep on clickin’.
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Thanks for posting, this made things a lot clearer for me. One question I do have though. I will be in a situation where I can only get to my spot a little bit before the night shot. no way around it. What advice could you give me in order to max out the opportunity and get the best shot possible?
I felt like I was watching a movie there were so many logos
i think it was not focused rightly
Hello, i wanted to get an intervalometer for my Canon 200D. Can you recommend one ? I tried searching the net.. but couldn't find anything 🙁
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Thanks
Very good video ,
How can you shoot for so many hours if the Canon 5D has only a battery life of ~ 400 shots?
Melkyway? Or milkyway? 😂
Can I do this with my Canon T7i with a 50mm f1.8? Please reply.
Great job, now I know how you pro's do it!
2000 iso? My 70d would show nothing but noise with that lol.
Flat
you note a zakuda loop' at 4:33, what is it?
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I am a newbie at photography but wanted to do some time lapse of the stars. thank for the video i have couple of questions. does auto white balance screw up the time lapse? you mentioned that you use white balance to day light.another question is regarding the mirror opening before each picture. I have heard that here is small camera shake when that happens? would it not be better to keep the mirror locked open?
What gb sd card did you use and how did you have enough battery time
Spectacular video!
Was the internal camera battery sufficient?
The camera that you shooting yourself seems like the whites are not balance
How did you keep power supplied for such a long shoot? You said that you used two lenses. Wouldn't switching out lenses cause aligning your time-lapse to be off?
Would you use all the same settings for the northern lights?
Great video for the stars time lapse? I am wondering how to use this to shoot a star trails time lapse? What settings would be different?
Loved this video! I'm planning to get Canon EOS Rebel T5i. Is it good for timelapse at night? If so, is there any way to film it all night without the battery dying?
Thank you so much for a wonderful video, I am completely new to this and just dialled in your settings to my canon g7x11 and doing a time lapse as I write. Amazing thanks again.
For a tutorial, there are waaaay to much jargons and acronyms in this video. :
I have a Canon 80D body with a 18-135mm lens… Can i take such photos??
To much advertising. Besides with Pentax K-1 I have all I need to create a time lapse without those expensive material you advertisse.
HOLY CRAP STOP SAYING "MELKY" IT MAKES ME WANT TO DISEMBOWEL MY SELF WITH A SPOON.
Thanks for the excellent tutorial. What do use to protect against the mosquitoes?
This was shot on one or two cameras?
here's one I made just outside area 51 a few days ago
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=0qpv7sLN3M8
What would your (or anyone else out there) advise be on settings shooting with an aperture of F4.0 (I have a 5d mkII)
Great video! Just to clarify, if you are taking a 20 second exposure, it is the intervalometer that you set to take a photo every 25 seconds? I wasn't sure if you do that, or if you set the intervalometer to take a photo every 5 seconds, thinking that it might account for the exposure time. I realize it's basic stuff, but I am new to this.
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You're great. Love your tutes – very informative. Keep it up!
It's not "melky way" it's Milky Way
That was the best lesson on timelapse.
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Beautiful!! my TimeLapse Milky Way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rPrxKMZaI0
*Those formations are Cyanobacterias, and their 'history' is quite interesting.
I wish i saw this video a week ago.. I drove to Red River Gorge in Kentucky for that purpose and was totally under prepared hahaha.. Learned a lot from the experience and your video though. Thanks!
or you can install Magic Lantern (works with canon) and save up some money instead of spending them for a trigger. It has an intervalometer and u can take up to 10.000 photos. Works perfectly for me. I have a canon 600 D , 18-135mm.
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hi can you send me a link to the processing video plz
I doubt I can do this with kit lens. so disappointing
Thank you SO much for all of your amazing videos. Your channel is my all time favorite photography channel. I recently had the opportunity to shoot my first long-exposure starlight shoot while on vacation not long ago, but I wish I'd seen this video first! I was taking 30-second exposures at ISO 800, cause I was afraid of the extra noise (I shoot on a t3i). As is, I had to do a lot of noise removal in post to bring it to a presentable level. Would it have been better for me to crank the ISO up and reduce the shutter speed as you did to reduce the noise?
I liked the geology lesson!
Little correction: not everything you see at night is IN the milky way but most visible stars are.
Thank you for making and sharing these tutorials, they're appreciated.
Alex, from Montreal.
The iphone has a time lapse and if you all wanna make a lapse you should try it. Its helpful