Sometimes you have to travel miles and wait hours for that certain something that makes it worthwhile getting your camera out.
And sometimes you just look out of your window, stumble into the back garden and start shooting!
Living in North Wales, I'm used to interesting weather as depressions roll in from the Irish Sea on a regular basis, but even I was impressed by what I saw in the sky above my home on this day in May 2022.
Ominous black storm clouds lit from behind by the midday sun, which would emerge and disappear again as patches of blue sky intermingled with the threatening wrack.
So I didn't need much encouragement to set my camera up in the back garden, pointing upwards, and set to record the 2000+ still images used to create this time lapse video.
To add a bit more drama (as if it was needed!) I closed the aperture on my lens down as small as it would go (f22), in order to create a 'sunstar' effect when the sun came into view.
All in all this time lapse capture worked very well and I was mesmerised watching the final rendered video, and even the rain held off until I'd finished shooting.
Now there's a rarity!
Filename - sunstar clouds timelapse 01
Camera - Canon EOS 6DMK2
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm
Exposure (start of sequence) - 1/250 sec @ f22, ISO100
Exposure (end of sequence) - 1/250 sec @ f22, ISO100
Filters - None.
Shooting interval - 2 seconds
Music - Bach Cello Suite No. 1, G Major, Prelude - Cooper Cannell
Location - Buckley, North Wales
This clip - HD 720p, 30fps (4K and 1080p HD formats also available)
Clip duration - 73 seconds
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