Milky Way Timelapse in B&W

[JimFox]

In Death Valley a few weeks ago, while I had 1 camera pointed West doing a timelapse and I had 1 camera pointed East doing a timelapse, I also had 1 camera pointed up at the sky doing a timelapse. This is from the one pointed up.

I started this one later, so it's only got 500 some frames in it, so it's not quite a minute long.

It was captured with my pretty typical night sky settings, ISO 3200, f2 and 25 seconds. This was shot on the Sony A6400 with the 12mm f2.0 Samyang.

It caught a lot of the airglow on the edges since it was pointed up, and so to try something completely different I converted it to B&W. I kind of like it. I know not everyone will, but I think it's important for me to come up with some different looks since I shoot lot's and lot's of timelapses and night skies.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

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[AlanLichty]

The airglow is less distracting with the B&W treatment.

 

[Graeme F]

I have to get to your neck of the woods! Another amazing post.

 

[JimFox]

The airglow is less distracting with the B&W treatment.

Embrace the Airglow.... Embrace it.... Just relax and let yourself go....

 

[JimFox]

I have to get to your neck of the woods! Another amazing post.

Thank you Graeme. I know it's different being in B&W, but I think it turned out cool still.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Good one Jim, B&W sure does get rid of the pesky color issues with MW images.

 

[JimFox]

Good one Jim, B&W sure does get rid of the pesky color issues with MW images.

Thanks Ben. Yeah it does, but I don't think I want to make a habit of it since there is so much cool color in the night sky. But I think once in a while to go this route as a change of pace will work.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Hey Jim, when I do a night TL with say 20-25 seconds, and render it at 29.75, its too fast. What do you use? I have been slowing them down to 25% or so in Movavi. But it would probably be better to do this in Photoshop when I render.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Very interesting in B&W, although that starting color-mix that shows only at the beginning is cool - love that airglow you captured. Maybe a remote location, but sure plenty of planes overflying that area

ML

 

[chuckp]

Good work, I enjoyed watching.

 

[JimFox]

Hey Jim, when I do a night TL with say 20-25 seconds, and render it at 29.75, its too fast. What do you use? I have been slowing them down to 25% or so in Movavi. But it would probably be better to do this in Photoshop when I render.

Hey Ben,

I put my timelapse together in Photoshop with 0.1 sec durations. (400-500 images max)
I Render them (I don't change any of the default settings when Rendering).
I then pull the Rendered video into Photoshop, Use the Camera Raw Filter and do one last global edit now that I can see the actual timelapse.
I Render that again with the Default Rendering settings.
I take each of the timelapse clips (I am compiling about 400 images at a time into a Timelapse Video Clip), and then I assemble the clips in Movavi. With my Night shots I have been increasing the speed in Movavi to 150%. Then add music titles and save as a 4K.

 

[JimFox]

Very interesting in B&W, although that starting color-mix that shows only at the beginning is cool - love that airglow you captured. Maybe a remote location, but sure plenty of planes overflying that area

ML

Thanks Mike! Death Valley used to feel remote, but not anymore. I shoot the night sky all over the US, and it seems that we cant escape the airplanes. I will edit them out of any single frame images I process, but the majority of non-photographers who see my star timelapses always say how they love all of the meteors and falling stars in it. So with the timelapse it seems that the airplane traffic gives an appeal to many people.