This post was last modified: 2012-01-11, 14:36 by gantico.

[Video: http://vimeo.com/34798042]
http://vimeo.com/34798042

Saint Nicolas is a small village, sitting like a balcony above the Dora Baltea Valley, in the zone of Mont Fallère (Aosta - Italy). I tried to capture some of its beauty and to freeze a few instants of its peaceful atmosphere in an autumn week-end, while teaching in my first Timelapse Workshop.

I shot everything in RAW with my Canon EOS 7D and developed the picts with Lightroom 3. LRTimelapse was vital for deflickering and to animate white balance, exposure, brightness or other development settings.

I used After Effects CS5.5 for stabilizing a couple of sequences, final color grading and a second pass of deflickering with GBDeflickr on masked adjustment layers (sometimes the sky needed a different treatment).

I edited it in Premiere Pro on a MacPro with a CUDA card, not before spending some long days in paint for removing thousands of stains created by insects, birds and sensor noise in long exposures.

I also removed dozens of the most annoying airplanes, especially by night. Even a hang-glider slashed some frames... I would have not survived in AE paint if I hadn't a big Wacom tablet!

Very good work and nice Landscape, thank you very much for sharing!!

Great work, I love the scene where the sun comes through the clouds, really great.

Can you tell something about your camera settings for the star-shoots (1:30)?
I will try my first star-timelapse videos in some weeks in Switzerland. Here in my hometown, the lights are too bright at night

Great work, I love the scene where the sun comes through the clouds, really great.

Can you tell something about your camera settings for the star-shoots (1:30)?
I will try my first star-timelapse videos in some weeks in Switzerland. Here in my hometown, the lights are too bright at night

Thanks.

In the sequence with the spinning stars I set 1 shot every 60" with the following settings:
Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Exposure: 15"
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal Length: 10 mm
ISO Speed: 1000

I would probably raise to iso 1600 next time because the heating noise on the sensor was much more problematic to clean in post then classic ISO noise. Maybe you can also test if you have a function to reduce noise for long exposures, but pay attention that it can consumes batteries easily and requires 2 times the seconds set as exposure.