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Clouds Timelapse #1

The story behind this video

Arriving at work one morning, I was greeted by a chorus of 'look out of the window'!

There, over our car park, was the most amazing cloud formations I've seen in quite some time.

Heavy, ponderous waves of stratocumulus clouds were passing by low overhead, with most dramatic lighting, forms and textures.

I couldn't resist, and rushed back out to my car to get my good old Canon 5D and tripod to record the event.

Set up on the windowsill by my desk, I took a shot every five seconds for an hour as the drama unfolded.

Contrast, grain and an ND grad effect were added to the stills in Adobe Camera RAW before loading them into Premiere Pro to compile the final video.

Video data


Filename - clouds timelapse 01.mp4

Camera - Canon EOS 5D

Lens - 24-105mm zoom @28mm

Exposure - 1/320sec @f5.6, ISO100

Location - Deeside Industrial Park, North Wales

This clip - HD 720p

Clip duration - 29 seconds at 25 frames per second.

Shooting interval - 5 seconds