View Full Version : Lunar eclipse... failure


Robert Benda
April 6th, 2015, 03:43 PM
But we learn from our failures, right?

I tried to do a photo time lapse but spaced them out too far, and the resulting video was unpleasant to watch. I had done 10 seconds between shots. The video only uses the video I took (each is about 30 seconds long, if you're not patient).

Once the sun came up, there was fog and it looked very cool. I still am not sure how to do a better job capturing that fact. I used a shot of a row of trees with a wisp/strip of fog in front of it, and just feel it looks too flat compared to how impressive it was that morning.

Eclipse on Vimeo

Jim Michael
April 6th, 2015, 04:19 PM
You shot a series of 30 sec scenes rather than time lapse, correct? Time lapse would have been nice - weird seems like you kind of expect it any more. I really liked those scenes you filmed around 2:00. Very cool.

Robert Benda
April 6th, 2015, 04:26 PM
I had two cameras. One was doing a photo time lapse using Magic Lantern's intervalometer, but at 10 second intervals, when I made it a video it.... didn't look good. The moon moved too much during those 10 seconds.

Rereading my post, I see how very confusing I made it. So...

This only uses video footage I shot on camera #2 (70D), rather than any time lapse (5d Mark ii).

Thank you.