burnt embers

These photographs are stills from an upcoming timelapse video taken two nights ago near sunset. The images are edited in LR4, and translated to all the images in the series via LRTimelapse. I am really appreciative of that software, it makes the processing of timelapse sequences so much easier.

Arriving home from work I had noticed that the Olympic Mountains were out in all their glory across the Strait of Juan de Fuca, with a bit of cloud around the peaks. I know that this is a great telephoto subject, so after dinner I set off to Trafalgar Park with my longest lens (200mm) and the idea of taking some telephoto timelapse. This is all part of my ongoing learning of timelapse methods. I wanted to capture this scene, thought the mountain cloud might be interesting speeded up, and was curious about the use of a telephoto for such purposes. Will a fairly heavy long lens magnify vibrations noticeably? My experience with the 200mm lens is that it needs some pretty heavy editing to get the best from the image, so I thought this was a good opportunity to try heavier edits in this software combination. It seems to work really well, the images are taking about 10 seconds each to render, even though I have converted to black and white with individual adjustments, done some spot removal, sharpening, clarity and various exposure and similar changes.

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