Well, actually I guess it was the sky and not the stars, and actually it went more psychedelic and not psycho... But once I titled the timelapse and had uploaded it to YouTube, I wasn't going to modify it since it takes too long. 
So this was from just leaving Furnace Creek to the North in Death Valley National Park. I had spent some time finding an area where the road and hills were situated so that I would not have any headlights from cars shining on the hills. As you will see, I was off in my thinking.
Now in my defense, this is a timelapse from a secondary camera. My primary camera is pointed East to catch the Milky Way rising. But when I stopped and found this spot, I walked across the road as I saw the moon setting to the West. As soon as I got by the roadside hills, I saw the clouds were just racing by in the valley below, so I ran back and quickly set up a camera to do a timelapse of it. Once it got going, I thought the position would avoid most of the headlights, at least no headlights could shine on where the camera itself was at, but clearly there was still a lot of headlights. And once I had it going I didn't want to move it to another location and then have a gap in the timelapse.
One thing I have been learning, and I think Ben can attest to this, that when it comes to Timelapses, there is no such thing as perfect. With still photography, I think at times we can say that, but with the timelapse, that compiles 10 to 12 hours of time, there are things you just can't always control.
Now with this one, I didn't realize it until I was compiling the images, the color in the night sky kept changing a lot. I don't know if it's just airglow or there is some aurora in there too, but the White Balance was made to be the same when I processed this in all of the images, so it's not a processing thing, it's just the colors went a bit psycho during the night.
The beginnings and ends of the timelapse are in camera timelapse with 5 second intervals. The majority of this with the stars was shot at f2, ISO 3200 and 25 sec shutter speed with the Sigma 14mm f1.8 and the Nikon D850.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
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So this was from just leaving Furnace Creek to the North in Death Valley National Park. I had spent some time finding an area where the road and hills were situated so that I would not have any headlights from cars shining on the hills. As you will see, I was off in my thinking.
Now in my defense, this is a timelapse from a secondary camera. My primary camera is pointed East to catch the Milky Way rising. But when I stopped and found this spot, I walked across the road as I saw the moon setting to the West. As soon as I got by the roadside hills, I saw the clouds were just racing by in the valley below, so I ran back and quickly set up a camera to do a timelapse of it. Once it got going, I thought the position would avoid most of the headlights, at least no headlights could shine on where the camera itself was at, but clearly there was still a lot of headlights. And once I had it going I didn't want to move it to another location and then have a gap in the timelapse.
One thing I have been learning, and I think Ben can attest to this, that when it comes to Timelapses, there is no such thing as perfect. With still photography, I think at times we can say that, but with the timelapse, that compiles 10 to 12 hours of time, there are things you just can't always control.
Now with this one, I didn't realize it until I was compiling the images, the color in the night sky kept changing a lot. I don't know if it's just airglow or there is some aurora in there too, but the White Balance was made to be the same when I processed this in all of the images, so it's not a processing thing, it's just the colors went a bit psycho during the night.
The beginnings and ends of the timelapse are in camera timelapse with 5 second intervals. The majority of this with the stars was shot at f2, ISO 3200 and 25 sec shutter speed with the Sigma 14mm f1.8 and the Nikon D850.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
PS. Please help the FocalWorld YouTube channel grow by both Sharing a link of this video on an Social media platforms you are on, and then also Subscribe to the FocalWorld channel on YouTube. We have a whole 14 subscribers, which is really embarrassing. Any help in sharing and subscribing to give us a bigger reach would really be awesome!
