That’s awesome!! I’m glad You can understand almost everything I’m saying...if it helps, you can turn on subtitles as well to help. If there’s anything you’re not sure about, you can always email me and I’ll help as much as possible. 😁👍
After watching 100s of tutorials on Holi Grail Time-lapses I have no doubt to say that this is the most thorough and well explained tutorial. Especially for Sony users. Thank you Mike. Very Grateful 😊
I’m watching this 3 years after and this video gave me the knowledge I needed to continue this Timelapse’s fascination I have. I’ve been having some trouble controlling some things and it taught me things I didn’t know. 🙏🏾
I've just bought the Sony A6600 and never knew that you could shoot a "Holy Grail" timelapse straight from the a camera. I'm amazed!! Thanks so much for this invaluable tutorial and for explaining it so well.
No worries Bill, great to hear I could help! The A6600 is a great little camera ... I have one as well and take it out to shoot when I want to travel super light. Thanks for watching 😁👍
Hi Mike, I’ve just shot my first day to night timelapse using your exact methods and it worked like a dream, I didn’t detect any flickers at all. No need for LR Timelapse any more. I didn’t have my tripod with me but set it up on a gimble and, of course, there was slight movement in the framing of each photo. I’ve tried to stabilise in Davinci Resolve without much success. I’ll definitely use a tripod next time. The timelapse was shot in Brisbane Australia so the sun sets pretty quickly here. Thanks again for all the hard work you put into your videos to make them informative, interesting and entertaining too.
That's great to har Bill! It is amazing that even when gimbals have been calibrated, the amount of drift you get over time. That has happened with all of the gimbals I have owned over the years. Great to hear you got something useable from it though. I've often thought of trying to get some astrophotography pics from a moving boat with the use of a gimbal ... maybe one day when I get my super-yacht!! 😆😆 Thanks for your kind words and thanks for watching 😁👍
I haven't visted your channel for ages as it is mostly for beginners. Now I came back for the Timelapse information and have to say, that you are the only one so far who is really explaining it in your different videos so that it is possible to understand it technically and what the different settings mean. Thanks a lot!
Just want to say thank you so much for being an inspiration and great teacher. I’ve learned so much from you and I give you credit for what I’ve learned. Thank you and don’t ever stop helping us.
Like many comments already submitted, I watched your channel and enjoyed expanding my knowledge/abilities thanks to your videos years ago. After several frustrating failed attempts to capture a day-to-night Holy Grail Timelapse using a buggy German dongle, my search led me back to this channel and video. First time out, flawless capture! Thank you very much. Not sure if you are still collecting data as mentioned in the video, but I am happy to share my info/files if you are! My TL was shot in the middle of San Francisco Bay from Alcatraz Island National Park. Thanks again!
dude, been looking for a video that explained if the auto exposure ramping in the sonys worked well or not, you are the first one that demonstrated it! thanks!
Used some of your other Astro photography videos to shoot the milky way while on vacation earlier this month. I did use the intervalometer but it was all night shots, I want to try the day to night and night to early morning tho! I’m new to a good quality camera so always learning, appreciate the help I get from your channel!
That's great to hear! I'm glad my tutorials are helping! It's well worth trying...I'm going to do a day to astro time-lapse to put in the editing video...it'll be interesting to see how it copes with that! Thanks for watching! 👍
Hi Mike, great video. Just a tip I noticed, if you shoot in 16:9 the raw images will still be full size 3:2 so framing in 16:9 has no drawbacks that I can think of.
Thanks for the info Dane, yep this is true, I just prefer to look at the 3x2 aspect ratio so I can see the whole image and work out which part of the image I am going to use...although every now and then, I completely forget about this and then am too cropped in with the final shot. Having it in 16x9 is a great way not to forget this! Thanks for watching! 😁👍
I have the a7r3 and love it. Yet to do time lapse and have a job request coming up. I've watched other videos and yours is by far the best tutorial. I'm sure I will need to watch a couple more times to get the math down. Going to experiment tonight. Appreciate the help!
Thanks so much! The timelapse function is definitely a great addition to this camera!! ... and once you get a good timelapse, it can get quite addictive! Thanks for watching and let me know how you get on! 😁👍
I just wanna go out to shoot timelaps. And I did't know the interval effect the speed how turns day to night. I thought only the lenght of the timelaps only count. Thanks for explain it this 10,6,3sec video! Helpful! Can't wait to try out!
Thanks so much! I have lots of fun creating these tutorials so there are plenty more to come!! Go check out my channel and subscribe if you haven't already! 😁👍
Great video Mike! As usual! Greetings from Greece, and I'll see what I can do about that timelapse. A7iii / Tamron 28-75 here. You are, by far, my favorite tutorial source for this camera, and for photography in general! Keep it up. Thank you!
Thanks so much! I'm glad my tutorials are helping!! The tamron is a fantastic lens ins't it, I'm looking at getting the 17-28mm really soon! Thanks for watching! 😁
Super post, Mike! Lots to absorb. Haven’t tried timelapse yet, but will retain this vid and make a cheat sheet from it for reference. Good illustration of Photopills real life use. Array of settings seems ripe for assigning to one of the memory mode dials. Involving your viewers via their downloads is a wonderful addition.
Thanks so much Paul...Photopills is by far my favourite photo app, although I'm trying planit pro and the photographers ephemeris at the mo to see if there's anything better out there...might even make a comparison video on those three as well! 😁 If you're doing it a lot it would definitely be worth assigning a memory mode position for it. I was thinking it would be great to get a whole load of time lapses from around the world...it'll be interesting to see the different ones everyone sends in...I just hope my dropbox account can handle it all!! 😁👍
Thanks, great video ! Just want to add thought, you should mention the setting to turn off the screen light, so your battery can make it till the end !
VERY good info, ESPECIALLY showing us the difference bin settings. I see the advantages of the shooting Interval Priority on or off. Thanks so much for the tips.
Hello Mike. Thanks so much for this amazing tutorial. This makes it so much easier compared to what we needed before to do time lapse. I just created my first time lapse and I’m very happy with the result, however to go for the best quality you need some serious processing power. Thanks again and all the best to you!
Hi Reiner, Great to hear it has helped. You're right...I normally edit the photos for a timelapse and then leave my computer alone whilst it process them...and come back a few hours later...it is definitely a longer workflow than just shooting video or stills that's for sure. Thanks for watching 😁👍
Well, the day to night timelapse wasn't that great, but I went out very early last week to shoot a sunrise. But there is a lot of flickering, don't have a program like 'LRtimelapse' yet (but then again, I use On1 and not Lightroom). But afterwards I noticed I had the dial put on P and not A, so maybe that explains some flickering as well. Here's a link if you're interested. I shot it in the northern part of the Netherlands. ua-cam.com/video/x5pQ-FcOJRA/v-deo.html
Thanks Mike, a few years old but still an excellent and relevant video. I did some more experimenting and testing on this feature in various modes for others that may have my questions. I shoot a lot of sunset into astro timelapse which requires a huge change in exposure to Speed, Aperture and ISO. I start at usual daylight settings of say 1/125th, F8, ISO100 but by night time 2 hrs later I need 8.0 secs, F1.2 and ISO3200. The problem is almost every mode locks the Aperture at whatever you start with therefore as it gets darker you can never get enough light because your aperture is locked at F8 or whatever you started with. This equals dismal failure - EXCEPT? EXCEPT when you use Speed (S) Mode. In S mode you set the shutter speed to whatever works during daylight and as it gets darker, the aperture becomes wider and wider until the limit of your lens is reached. Then start increasing your shutter speed during the shoot bit by bit until you get to your 8 or 10 secs that you need in the dark. If your ISO is set to Auto, it then starts increasing the ISO as it gets darker. If you had your ISO locked in at say 100 originally, then you can increase the ISO during the shoot until you get to about 3200. Once you get to around 8 or 10 secs with your ISO at around 3200 (either auto ISO or manually), then you can walk away and enjoy a warm coffee in the dark while it does the rest. It works extremely well with little to no flicker. You can also choose whether you want a constant shoot interval, say 10 secs, right from the start and just adjust shutter speed as you go OR let the shutter speed override the interval as you go. This just results in different time effects during playback and is a personal choice. Be aware that Shoot interval priority is locked in the default off setting so your selected shutter speed will always override your Shooting interval.
Thanks for the info Levin! Do you use LRtimelapse at all in this process to get a completely smooth transition? Also, do you use the interval function in camera or an external intervalometer? Thanks for watching 👍
@@mikesphotography No Worries Mike, happy to help out as it is difficult to find detailed info about this feature. Everyone says you can do it and then just repeats the info in the Sony manual. Your video is the only one I could find that gave a really good explanation of HOW to use it in real life so thanks for that. All this was done using the internal Sony Interval Shooting Function. No external intervalometers at all. I do have and use Edelkrone heads and sliders which will be my next experiment but everything mentioned is with the camera only. Yes I still use LR timelapse pro for all my timelapse work but my tests indicated that while using the auto ISO, it get a little flicker but LRT was easily able to reduce it to virtually nothing. The flicker is caused by the occasional change in ISO between a few images when it is on the cusp of needing to change. It might be at ISO 200 and then one image will be at ISO250 then the next back to 200. You might get this jumping of ISO for say 3 in 10 images until it darkens enough to lock it at 250 until the next auto change. While the luminance value barely changes it is enough to just cause a little flicker. When I used a set ISO of 100 and then increased it manually as needed (once the aperture had opened completely and I had extended the speed out to 10sec), I ended up with no flicker at all and LRT didn't really have to do anything. The down side of changing the ISO manually is towards the end I had an interval of 11secs with a shutter speed of 10secs. Therefore the shutter is open and the screen is blank for 10 seconds. When you open the ISO window and change it, you can't see anything because the screen is blank taking the photo. It will change the ISO successfully between shots but you really need to know how to do that by feel and have a deep understanding of which buttons and how many turns to change it to your desired setting because it is all done blind. There is now only a 1 second window between shots to confirm your changes. This is also not great while the shutter is open as you can introduce image blur because you are shaking it when changing the settings. I tried using the Sony Imaging Edge Mobile app to control the camera during this so I wouldn't have to touch it and make all changes remotely from the app but the moment you invoke the Intvl Shooting Func, it kicks the app off line and won't have a bar of it. Pity because it would make the perfect solution. So the best result was using manual ISO but it is challenging. Auto ISO still gave an excellent result after I ran it through LRTimelapse. Results can be viewed at ua-cam.com/channels/_WA_CFINHy24j679Wno_8w.html Sorry for the long reply.
As always, a great video Mike :). I tried out the interval shoot setting in Zimbabwe for a timelapse of the Milkyway - came out ok. Happy to send you the timelapse and edited photos I used to create it :).
This is absolutely the best and most in depth timelapse day tutorial i have seen. And i have watched a lot. I would like to join in and send a day to night timelapse. I just got a Sony A7 III two days ago, and would like to give it a try. Good stuff! Keep it up.
Thanks so much, that would be great. If you can email me at mike@boxheadmike.com, I'll send you a link to upload the time-lapse to when you get the chance to make one. Thanks for watching and commenting and offering to join in, Much appreciated! 😁
Your such a talented pedagogue. You should've been a schoolteacher. I love your videos simply because you make everything so understandable. I'll try to make time for a timelapse from the middle of Sweden (latitude 59° north) Thanks and please continue your highly educational videos😀
Thanks so much Thomas. I’m guessing my dad being a university lecturer, my brother, eldest sister and my wife being teachers must be influencing me! 😆 It really does motivate me to make a lot more videos hearing my tutorials are helping so much! I’d be really grateful if you could make a timelapse...it w oi led be really interesting to see how different it is in Sweden compared to here in Dubai. 😁👍
@@mikesphotography Influenced by your siblings? Or genetics? I found this video on TL really useful and I'll be sending you an email shortly. I'm at Lat 35 in the western US, shoot with a Sony A7iii, or A6500, and a variety of Sony lenses.
Hi Mike! AMAZING tutorial again. Can you please follow up with the sunset to star timelapse video that you mentioned in this tutorial? Your work is amazing and I will be very interested in it! Thank you very much!
Thanks so much Eduardo! As soon as we're allowed back outside, I'll definitely make that tutorial!! I'm going a little bit crazy being stuck indoors at the moment!! Can't wait for the curfew to be over!! Thanks for watching. 😁👍
Nice time lapse...I’m just beginning to experiment with them so I got a few good tips here, and I love Astro photography as well! I’m hoping to get an Astro time lapse in soon..before winter sets in ha! Not sure if you’ve done earlier tutorials on Astro, if not hope there’s more in future.
Thanks so much Susan, I’m glad you got something from this. I haven’t done a video on astro timelpases...yet...but I have lots of other astrophotography tutorials...check out this playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLDhXA9nCkoqYeOxFC6W5hh9_AW6mapILI.html Also I have all of my tutorials in alphabetical order and genres to make it easier to find what your looking for: www.boxheadmike.com/youtubelinks/ Thanks 😁
Thanks so much Abraham! Timelapses are quite time consuming but are great fun when you get a good one! The Nikon’s already have an intervalometer built in don’t they? Thanks
Easy start is for example shooting melting of ice cube. Shooting interval 1 second. Windows movie maker might be enough for first tests. Or some other free SW. rockynook.com/article/time-lapse-photography-for-the-nikon-d750/
That is defintiely a good one to do...unless you live in a really cold country!! 😆 I'm going to try out some different bits of software to put timelapses together for people without adobe very soon. 👍
Hey Mike, I used the setting you showed on your video and I really liked the timelapse I came up with. I posted the video on my Instagram and tagged you. Thanks for the tutorial! 🙌🏼
That's awesome!! Those lights are fantastic on the bridge uprights and you got the right interval to get them looking good. Thanks for watching, commenting and linking me in to your post! :-)
I forgot to mention white balance in this video. 🤦🏻♂️ I set it to manual daylight balanced. Then edit in post. You gotta tweak and tune it until you get it right.
Thanks for the video Mike. What I'm looking for in a timelapse, if it shows the sky, is the movement of the clouds that ads interest to the shoot. I like the 3 sec interval. Oh by the way, it's great that clouds appear in your timelapse made here in UAE.
I waited for a cloud seeding day before shooting that one!! 😆 I do have a video on timelapses for clouds specifically as well, check it out when you have a chance: ua-cam.com/video/D7lRvJdC3fg/v-deo.html Thanks for watching 😁👍
It's definitely worth giving it a go...I'm guessing the holy grail title is not as fitting anymore with these more modern cameras! Thanks for watching! 👍
@@mikesphotography Today is the day, will try these settings with the rising full moon and see what I get! Just saw your video again to get it all fresh and running! Hope you are doing well with all the crazy stuff going on!
It's worth giving it a go!! It takes some time but its well worth it when you get a good one at the end of it! As always, thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated! 😁👍
Astounding. And a great tutorial on Timelapse with a guided tutorial no where so elaborate on UA-cam. Thank you. For this. But I have Fuji XT4 camera. If you can give some settings for XT4, for Timelapse I shall be thankful.
Hi Mike. Great video! I’m just learning now about using time lapse on my A7III. You mentioned a video you would create towards the end of this video showing different day to night scenarios including astro. Did you make this video? Would be very interested to see it. Cheers.
Thanks so much Shahzad! I haven't made it yet...I didn't quite get enough different timelapses from different locations to make a decent video...maybe once we're allowed to travel again, we'll get more together. 😁👍
@@mikesphotography Literally I am exporting out of lightroom to create my timelapse in final cut pro. I will shoot a link to you to see what you think of my first one :)
Amazing video Mike ! The only video with so much detail about this feature. I watched it many time and I'm still struggling with one things. The difference between the interval priority on/off. i would love to see a graph with 2 curves : Shutter speed and ISO. On horizontal of the graph would be the light value decreasing and in vertical the value of the ISO and the shutter speed (as the focal stay constant there is no need to show it). I'm sure this would make my little brain understanding it faster :) Let me know if you are able to help me with this :) Thank you in advance Laurent
That would be a good way to show it!! Far too technical for me though...sounds like a challenge for Gerald Undone!! He'd be well into getting that kind of detail from a camera setting!! 😁👍
@@mikesphotography I think you face challenges about low light grains n noises, would you please tell how to resolve this issue, I am using sony A7c. which colour profile give less noise in production. Thanks again for your video that is really helpful.
Thanks David! Unfortunately since then, as well as the pandemic, we moved to Bangkok...a place that isn't great for dark skies!! 😆🤦🏻♂️ When we get to travel again, I am hoping to be able to get somewhere dark again to shoot the holygrail sequence, just to see if it works with this setup...I have an epic place in mind in Indonesia, I just hope the borders open up again soon! Thanks for watching 😁👍
Amazing job as always! I have the Sony A7III and this is hands down the best video on YT for Day to Night timelapses!!! By the way, what is your personal preference on white balance for these Day to Night timelapses?
Thanks so much J Rod! For white balance, I normally have this in the daylight preset and then make any big adjustments in lightroom...and then finish off the final adjustments in premier pro. 😁👍 Thanks for watching. 👍
Hello Mike, thank you for this tutorial, I love it! I also love to create day to night time lapses with my DSLR camera and this video amazed me about the result that you can get from this Sony camera, it looks great! I have one question about flicker: did you use any plugins or adjustments to remove flicker or the camera did such a good job with it? Because it looks very smooth. Thank you!
Hey Philipp, Surprisingly I didn't have to do any deflickering in this video. It's great not to have to go through the whole process of LRtimelapse. 😆 I think what helped was the bright lights of the city, so even though the exposure values changed, it was less than a full day to night time lapse. I want to do one from daylight to astro...and when I do, I'll be filming the process as well. Thanks for watching 😁👍
@@mikesphotography Thank you Mike for your reply, Yes, the process in LRTimelapse takes time and it’s very good to know that Sony can make it so much easier, thank you again for sharing this example! Even if it will have some flickering I think it can be reduced with some plugins. Looking forward for your next video and good luck with your creations!
At 12:47 in you mention you’ll go over the processing for day to night, but I havn’t found it. Still going through videos though, there are worse things to do with my time ;-) Thanks for this info - i was looking at a device that would perform the bulb ramping but if the built in settings work this well, you just saved me a ton of cash.
That's a good point Chase...I had planned to shoot that one, but a few months after this covid hit...and then we moved countries...so haven't had a chance to shoot all of the time lapses that I wanted to for that video...it's still on the cards but I need to get out of the city first to get the stills needed. Thanks for reminding me...I'll add it to the list of things to shoot in the near future. Thanks for watching 😁👍
@@mikesphotography Thanks, Mike. Those are obviously all, very good reasons ;-) No worries, I just thought I was missing it, as I found the video very late and there were many more after. But, have something to look forward to. Take care.
Thanks so much for the info Gilles, a great bit of research! It is amazing how it changes as you more towards the equator. The photo planning apps are great aren’t they...I’m trying out planit pro and the photographers ephemeris at the moment to see which one does what. Thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated. 👍
Mike, Great tutorial. I've done several time-lapse videos of the Milky Way with my Sony A7III, but haven't tried to do a 'holy grail'. I'll definitely try your suggestions using the camera's interval function. My location is in the Sierra Nevada Mts. in California. I generally use 15 to 20 sec. exposures at ISO 1600 to 3200. My lens is a Rokinon 14 mm f2.8. Over the next week or so I may be able to try your suggested settings. If I do where can I send you a video of the results?
Thanks so much John, that would be great! I bet you have so many amazing locations to shoot in the Sierra Nevada mountains! If you can email me at mike@boxheadmike.com I’ll send you the link. Thanks again! 😁👍
Hi Mike, what a great video many thanks. I will try it out this week. One question though, you say to use widest aperture, but would this be the case even if I was using a 24mm f/1.4 lens? That seems crazy wide and maybe a bit overkill for a landscape timelapse. Many thanks again and great channel!
No worries, glad I could help. When you got into the depths of the night, you will need all the light you can get...the best bet is to try it out and see what results you can get. It also depends on how much man made light is about...I had all the city lights here so I had a bit of an advantage, butif you're in the middle of nowhere, you will need to open everything up for the transition into night time. Thanks for watching 😁👍
@@mikesphotography yeah, it does makes sense in that respect - I mostly do astrophotography and once the current moon cycle ends I'll be trying out golden hour to total darkness. Any time lapse I've done in the past has always just started and ended in darkness. thanks again.
I'm not a english native, but i like the way you prononce every single letter and the speed of your talk, i understand almost everything :ok:
That’s awesome!! I’m glad You can understand almost everything I’m saying...if it helps, you can turn on subtitles as well to help.
If there’s anything you’re not sure about, you can always email me and I’ll help as much as possible. 😁👍
@@mikesphotography Thanks a lot for all the tips and for answering :)
Just keep going like that for your vidéos :ok:
After watching 100s of tutorials on Holi Grail Time-lapses I have no doubt to say that this is the most thorough and well explained tutorial. Especially for Sony users.
Thank you Mike. Very Grateful 😊
That's great to hear! Thanks so much! The holy grail TL is a sort after beast that is sometimes hard to conquer!!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
I’m watching this 3 years after and this video gave me the knowledge I needed to continue this Timelapse’s fascination I have. I’ve been having some trouble controlling some things and it taught me things I didn’t know. 🙏🏾
Great to hear I could help!!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
This is best time-lapse video tutorial for Sony on the whole wide wen. The whole wide web!
Thanks very much Lotny! 😁👍
I've just bought the Sony A6600 and never knew that you could shoot a "Holy Grail" timelapse straight from the a camera. I'm amazed!! Thanks so much for this invaluable tutorial and for explaining it so well.
No worries Bill, great to hear I could help! The A6600 is a great little camera ... I have one as well and take it out to shoot when I want to travel super light.
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Hi Mike, I’ve just shot my first day to night timelapse using your exact methods and it worked like a dream, I didn’t detect any flickers at all. No need for LR Timelapse any more. I didn’t have my tripod with me but set it up on a gimble and, of course, there was slight movement in the framing of each photo. I’ve tried to stabilise in Davinci Resolve without much success. I’ll definitely use a tripod next time. The timelapse was shot in Brisbane Australia so the sun sets pretty quickly here. Thanks again for all the hard work you put into your videos to make them informative, interesting and entertaining too.
That's great to har Bill! It is amazing that even when gimbals have been calibrated, the amount of drift you get over time. That has happened with all of the gimbals I have owned over the years. Great to hear you got something useable from it though.
I've often thought of trying to get some astrophotography pics from a moving boat with the use of a gimbal ... maybe one day when I get my super-yacht!! 😆😆
Thanks for your kind words and thanks for watching 😁👍
I haven't visted your channel for ages as it is mostly for beginners. Now I came back for the Timelapse information and have to say, that you are the only one so far who is really explaining it in your different videos so that it is possible to understand it technically and what the different settings mean. Thanks a lot!
No worries. Great to hear my videos are stil helping, and still a resource to come back to.
Thanks for watching 👍
Just want to say thank you so much for being an inspiration and great teacher. I’ve learned so much from you and I give you credit for what I’ve learned. Thank you and don’t ever stop helping us.
What a great tutorial mike! You make It so easy to understand! and at the same time very thecnical! The best i've seen on UA-cam! Congrats!
Thanks so much Julian!! 😁👍
Like many comments already submitted, I watched your channel and enjoyed expanding my knowledge/abilities thanks to your videos years ago. After several frustrating failed attempts to capture a day-to-night Holy Grail Timelapse using a buggy German dongle, my search led me back to this channel and video. First time out, flawless capture! Thank you very much. Not sure if you are still collecting data as mentioned in the video, but I am happy to share my info/files if you are! My TL was shot in the middle of San Francisco Bay from Alcatraz Island National Park. Thanks again!
This is exactly the information I was looking for! Thank you so much for sharing it!
No problem, I'm glad I could help.
Thanks for watching. 👍
dude, been looking for a video that explained if the auto exposure ramping in the sonys worked well or not, you are the first one that demonstrated it! thanks!
No worries, I'm glad I could help! 😁👍
Thank you so much, as a beginner I learned quite a lot from this video! Can't wait to get started!
That's awesome to hear!!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Best video on holy grail timelapse :) Easy to digest and beautifully done
Very good videos and tutorials, I am just a beginner and these videos are helping people like us a lot. Thanks You
Very in depth and helpful Mike! Thanks for taking the time to break this down!
No worries, I'm glad I could help. Thanks for watching Brady! 😁👍
Used some of your other Astro photography videos to shoot the milky way while on vacation earlier this month. I did use the intervalometer but it was all night shots, I want to try the day to night and night to early morning tho! I’m new to a good quality camera so always learning, appreciate the help I get from your channel!
That's great to hear! I'm glad my tutorials are helping! It's well worth trying...I'm going to do a day to astro time-lapse to put in the editing video...it'll be interesting to see how it copes with that!
Thanks for watching! 👍
Been surfing UA-cam for the A7iii night timelapse... Thank you for putting this together. Will be putting this to use in Hawaii next week. Stoked!
That's awesome! Let me know how you get on!!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
UA-cam needs more professionals like this man. Immediate sub!
Thanks so much for the kind words...and for the sub! 😁 Welcome to the community!
Lots more to come as well! 😁👍
Your tutorials are so clear and easy to follow. I make the A7III firmware upgrade with your tutorial, Thanks.!!
Thanks so much! I'm glad I could help! 😁
As always thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated 👍
Hi Mike, great video. Just a tip I noticed, if you shoot in 16:9 the raw images will still be full size 3:2 so framing in 16:9 has no drawbacks that I can think of.
Thanks for the info Dane, yep this is true, I just prefer to look at the 3x2 aspect ratio so I can see the whole image and work out which part of the image I am going to use...although every now and then, I completely forget about this and then am too cropped in with the final shot. Having it in 16x9 is a great way not to forget this!
Thanks for watching! 😁👍
I am new with a7iii. I will try follow your instruction and share with you. Thank for this episode.
Thank you! This video was very pleasant to listen to and follow along!
Thanks very much Jessica. 😁👍
am from glasgow too, your videos are amazing thank you!
Great to hear you like them!!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
wow that was by far the Best tutorial on timelapse. You gave the details that really help! thanks!
Great to hear!! This was a fun one to do and I learned a lot in making it as well! 😁👍
I have the a7r3 and love it. Yet to do time lapse and have a job request coming up. I've watched other videos and yours is by far the best tutorial. I'm sure I will need to watch a couple more times to get the math down. Going to experiment tonight. Appreciate the help!
Thanks so much! The timelapse function is definitely a great addition to this camera!! ... and once you get a good timelapse, it can get quite addictive!
Thanks for watching and let me know how you get on! 😁👍
I’ll try with my a7C
Thanks so much
I’ve learned so much in few minutes
Great to hear Mr Lamb! The A7C is a fantastic little camera ... I use mine all the time now.
Thanks for watching 😁👍
I just wanna go out to shoot timelaps. And I did't know the interval effect the speed how turns day to night. I thought only the lenght of the timelaps only count. Thanks for explain it this 10,6,3sec video! Helpful! Can't wait to try out!
No worries Daniel, I'm glad I could help. 😁👍
Another good video with lots of useful tricks ...Thanks Mike...
As always thanks Patrick, much appreciated!! 😁👍
Thanks a lot Mike for creating this great tutorial. Everything is well explained and easy to unterstand. You're the best !
Thanks so much! I have lots of fun creating these tutorials so there are plenty more to come!! Go check out my channel and subscribe if you haven't already! 😁👍
Great tutorial - was very helpful. Followed your easy to follow instructions to create my own first timelapse video of sunset to nighttime.
That's great to hear!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Good video. I have played with a few Timelapse’s with various degrees of success. This really helps explain some of the logic and settings well.
Great to hear it has helped Eddie. There are a lot of little nuances in timelapses that are really important to get right.
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Good one Mike. Lot of things to learn from here. After watching this I think I know nothing about video settings of a7iii 😀
Haha!! I’m sure you know a little about video settings! 👍
Thanks so much for watching and commenting dude. 😁
@@mikesphotography my pleasure :)
Great video Mike! As usual! Greetings from Greece, and I'll see what I can do about that timelapse. A7iii / Tamron 28-75 here. You are, by far, my favorite tutorial source for this camera, and for photography in general! Keep it up. Thank you!
Thanks so much! I'm glad my tutorials are helping!! The tamron is a fantastic lens ins't it, I'm looking at getting the 17-28mm really soon!
Thanks for watching! 😁
Super easy to understand, really well explained!
Thanks very much! 😁👍
Super post, Mike! Lots to absorb. Haven’t tried timelapse yet, but will retain this vid and make a cheat sheet from it for reference. Good illustration of Photopills real life use. Array of settings seems ripe for assigning to one of the memory mode dials. Involving your viewers via their downloads is a wonderful addition.
Thanks so much Paul...Photopills is by far my favourite photo app, although I'm trying planit pro and the photographers ephemeris at the mo to see if there's anything better out there...might even make a comparison video on those three as well! 😁
If you're doing it a lot it would definitely be worth assigning a memory mode position for it.
I was thinking it would be great to get a whole load of time lapses from around the world...it'll be interesting to see the different ones everyone sends in...I just hope my dropbox account can handle it all!!
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Thanks for the video! I'm gonna try these settings from Hong Kong tonight and see if I come up with anything useful.
Excellent! Hong Kong should be great for these! 😁👍
Thanks, great video ! Just want to add thought, you should mention the setting to turn off the screen light, so your battery can make it till the end !
That's a good point Marc... Although I've never really had a problem with the batteries.
Thanks for the tip. 😁👍
How you turn off the screen...? I never find this option! I can decrease the light but not turn off.
Thank you so much for explaining this in such a great fashion!! Brilliant.
And thanks for watching Daniel! 😁👍
From a fellow Foos fan, love the videos.
VERY good info, ESPECIALLY showing us the difference bin settings. I see the advantages of the shooting Interval Priority on or off. Thanks so much for the tips.
No worries, I'm glad I could help. 😁👍
Hello Mike. Thanks so much for this amazing tutorial. This makes it so much easier compared to what we needed before to do time lapse. I just created my first time lapse and I’m very happy with the result, however to go for the best quality you need some serious processing power. Thanks again and all the best to you!
Hi Reiner,
Great to hear it has helped.
You're right...I normally edit the photos for a timelapse and then leave my computer alone whilst it process them...and come back a few hours later...it is definitely a longer workflow than just shooting video or stills that's for sure.
Thanks for watching 😁👍
You have know idea how this video is helpful, thank you!
That's great to hear!!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
This is great stuff! I'll go out this evening right away!
Awesome! Let me know how you get on! 😁👍
Well, the day to night timelapse wasn't that great, but I went out very early last week to shoot a sunrise. But there is a lot of flickering, don't have a program like 'LRtimelapse' yet (but then again, I use On1 and not Lightroom). But afterwards I noticed I had the dial put on P and not A, so maybe that explains some flickering as well.
Here's a link if you're interested. I shot it in the northern part of the Netherlands.
ua-cam.com/video/x5pQ-FcOJRA/v-deo.html
Another great video, Mike! Great and useful explanation 👌
Thanks so much Luis! 😁👍
Thanks Mike, a few years old but still an excellent and relevant video. I did some more experimenting and testing on this feature in various modes for others that may have my questions. I shoot a lot of sunset into astro timelapse which requires a huge change in exposure to Speed, Aperture and ISO. I start at usual daylight settings of say 1/125th, F8, ISO100 but by night time 2 hrs later I need 8.0 secs, F1.2 and ISO3200. The problem is almost every mode locks the Aperture at whatever you start with therefore as it gets darker you can never get enough light because your aperture is locked at F8 or whatever you started with. This equals dismal failure - EXCEPT?
EXCEPT when you use Speed (S) Mode. In S mode you set the shutter speed to whatever works during daylight and as it gets darker, the aperture becomes wider and wider until the limit of your lens is reached. Then start increasing your shutter speed during the shoot bit by bit until you get to your 8 or 10 secs that you need in the dark. If your ISO is set to Auto, it then starts increasing the ISO as it gets darker. If you had your ISO locked in at say 100 originally, then you can increase the ISO during the shoot until you get to about 3200. Once you get to around 8 or 10 secs with your ISO at around 3200 (either auto ISO or manually), then you can walk away and enjoy a warm coffee in the dark while it does the rest. It works extremely well with little to no flicker.
You can also choose whether you want a constant shoot interval, say 10 secs, right from the start and just adjust shutter speed as you go OR let the shutter speed override the interval as you go. This just results in different time effects during playback and is a personal choice. Be aware that Shoot interval priority is locked in the default off setting so your selected shutter speed will always override your Shooting interval.
Thanks for the info Levin!
Do you use LRtimelapse at all in this process to get a completely smooth transition?
Also, do you use the interval function in camera or an external intervalometer?
Thanks for watching 👍
@@mikesphotography No Worries Mike, happy to help out as it is difficult to find detailed info about this feature. Everyone says you can do it and then just repeats the info in the Sony manual. Your video is the only one I could find that gave a really good explanation of HOW to use it in real life so thanks for that.
All this was done using the internal Sony Interval Shooting Function. No external intervalometers at all. I do have and use Edelkrone heads and sliders which will be my next experiment but everything mentioned is with the camera only.
Yes I still use LR timelapse pro for all my timelapse work but my tests indicated that while using the auto ISO, it get a little flicker but LRT was easily able to reduce it to virtually nothing. The flicker is caused by the occasional change in ISO between a few images when it is on the cusp of needing to change. It might be at ISO 200 and then one image will be at ISO250 then the next back to 200. You might get this jumping of ISO for say 3 in 10 images until it darkens enough to lock it at 250 until the next auto change. While the luminance value barely changes it is enough to just cause a little flicker.
When I used a set ISO of 100 and then increased it manually as needed (once the aperture had opened completely and I had extended the speed out to 10sec), I ended up with no flicker at all and LRT didn't really have to do anything. The down side of changing the ISO manually is towards the end I had an interval of 11secs with a shutter speed of 10secs. Therefore the shutter is open and the screen is blank for 10 seconds. When you open the ISO window and change it, you can't see anything because the screen is blank taking the photo. It will change the ISO successfully between shots but you really need to know how to do that by feel and have a deep understanding of which buttons and how many turns to change it to your desired setting because it is all done blind. There is now only a 1 second window between shots to confirm your changes. This is also not great while the shutter is open as you can introduce image blur because you are shaking it when changing the settings. I tried using the Sony Imaging Edge Mobile app to control the camera during this so I wouldn't have to touch it and make all changes remotely from the app but the moment you invoke the Intvl Shooting Func, it kicks the app off line and won't have a bar of it. Pity because it would make the perfect solution.
So the best result was using manual ISO but it is challenging. Auto ISO still gave an excellent result after I ran it through LRTimelapse. Results can be viewed at ua-cam.com/channels/_WA_CFINHy24j679Wno_8w.html Sorry for the long reply.
As always, a great video Mike :). I tried out the interval shoot setting in Zimbabwe for a timelapse of the Milkyway - came out ok. Happy to send you the timelapse and edited photos I used to create it :).
Great video and wonderfully explained. I wanted to watch earlier but got busy. I will send you an email later.
No worries Lance, just got your email and replied. 😁
Thanks for watching 👍
Your videos are always brilliant!
Thanks so much Fasih! 😁👍
This is absolutely the best and most in depth timelapse day tutorial i have seen. And i have watched a lot. I would like to join in and send a day to night timelapse. I just got a Sony A7 III two days ago, and would like to give it a try. Good stuff! Keep it up.
Thanks so much, that would be great. If you can email me at mike@boxheadmike.com, I'll send you a link to upload the time-lapse to when you get the chance to make one.
Thanks for watching and commenting and offering to join in, Much appreciated! 😁
@@mikesphotography finally manage to make one. The weather has been terrible last two weeks. I have send you a mail.
Awesome, I’ll check it out ASAP! Thanks so much for sending it through. 😁👍
Super interesting! I‘m not sure if I will ever do a timelapse, but if I now know how to do it. Thank you!
No worries, if you ever do, you know where to get all the info for it!!
Thanks for watching! 😁👍
your results were awesome, I always thought i needed a timelapse view+
Thanks so much!! 😁👍
Your such a talented pedagogue. You should've been a schoolteacher. I love your videos simply because you make everything so understandable. I'll try to make time for a timelapse from the middle of Sweden (latitude 59° north) Thanks and please continue your highly educational videos😀
Thanks so much Thomas.
I’m guessing my dad being a university lecturer, my brother, eldest sister and my wife being teachers must be influencing me! 😆
It really does motivate me to make a lot more videos hearing my tutorials are helping so much!
I’d be really grateful if you could make a timelapse...it w oi led be really interesting to see how different it is in Sweden compared to here in Dubai.
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@@mikesphotography Influenced by your siblings? Or genetics?
I found this video on TL really useful and I'll be sending you an email shortly.
I'm at Lat 35 in the western US, shoot with a Sony A7iii, or A6500, and a variety of Sony lenses.
@@mikesphotography It's in your blood😀
Thank you Mike, that was very helpful.
Great to hear! 😁👍
Hi Mike! AMAZING tutorial again. Can you please follow up with the sunset to star timelapse video that you mentioned in this tutorial? Your work is amazing and I will be very interested in it!
Thank you very much!
Thanks so much Eduardo! As soon as we're allowed back outside, I'll definitely make that tutorial!! I'm going a little bit crazy being stuck indoors at the moment!! Can't wait for the curfew to be over!!
Thanks for watching. 😁👍
fantastic video Mike. Very helpful.
Thanks so much Aaron! I’m glad it has helped! 😁👍
Very very very intresting subject. Thanks for giving us your thoughts on the matter Mike!
And thank you for watching and commenting, much appreciated! 😁👍
Nice time lapse...I’m just beginning to experiment with them so I got a few good tips here, and I love Astro photography as well! I’m hoping to get an Astro time lapse in soon..before winter sets in ha! Not sure if you’ve done earlier tutorials on Astro, if not hope there’s more in future.
Thanks so much Susan,
I’m glad you got something from this.
I haven’t done a video on astro timelpases...yet...but I have lots of other astrophotography tutorials...check out this playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLDhXA9nCkoqYeOxFC6W5hh9_AW6mapILI.html
Also I have all of my tutorials in alphabetical order and genres to make it easier to find what your looking for: www.boxheadmike.com/youtubelinks/
Thanks 😁
Thanks! You did a great job on this one.
Thanks very much 😁👍
Never used time-lapse, however enjoy listing to your generous sharing knowledge. I own Nikon D750. Thanks Mike.
Thanks so much Abraham!
Timelapses are quite time consuming but are great fun when you get a good one!
The Nikon’s already have an intervalometer built in don’t they?
Thanks
Easy start is for example shooting melting of ice cube. Shooting interval 1 second. Windows movie maker might be enough for first tests. Or some other free SW.
rockynook.com/article/time-lapse-photography-for-the-nikon-d750/
That is defintiely a good one to do...unless you live in a really cold country!! 😆
I'm going to try out some different bits of software to put timelapses together for people without adobe very soon. 👍
Hey Mike, I used the setting you showed on your video and I really liked the timelapse I came up with. I posted the video on my Instagram and tagged you. Thanks for the tutorial! 🙌🏼
That's awesome!! Those lights are fantastic on the bridge uprights and you got the right interval to get them looking good.
Thanks for watching, commenting and linking me in to your post! :-)
Thank you sir, this tutorial is very detail and resourceful.
Excellent, I'm glad you like it!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
Thank you very much for sharing all this valuable knowledge.
And thank you for watching and commenting, much appreciated! 😁👍
So grateful, thanks for sharing, explained so well
Thats an excellent presentation clear and very helpful thank you
Thanks very much! 😁👍
Great!! going to try this soon with my A7iii. Thank you!
Great to hear Dallas, let me know how you get on! 😁👍
GREAT video.... im going to test here in Brazil ;)
btw... love the shirt
Thanks so much Bhrisha!! It's all about the Foos! 😁👍
great video. I'm wondering what did you do with the white balance cause I tried to do it once but my white balance looked like 💩
I forgot to mention white balance in this video. 🤦🏻♂️
I set it to manual daylight balanced.
Then edit in post.
You gotta tweak and tune it until you get it right.
How resourceful, well done, thank you so much!
Thanks so much Andy! I'm glad I could help. 😁👍
Thanks for the video Mike. What I'm looking for in a timelapse, if it shows the sky, is the movement of the clouds that ads interest to the shoot. I like the 3 sec interval. Oh by the way, it's great that clouds appear in your timelapse made here in UAE.
I waited for a cloud seeding day before shooting that one!! 😆
I do have a video on timelapses for clouds specifically as well, check it out when you have a chance: ua-cam.com/video/D7lRvJdC3fg/v-deo.html
Thanks for watching 😁👍
This was an amazing video!!!!!
Thanks so much Jake! 😃👍
Great time lapse video!
Thanks very much!
Excellent video tutorial, what I was looking for... thank you ★★★★★
And thank you for watching and commenting, much appreciated! 😁👍
Definitely going to try this. But first I need to save up for a city view apartment ;-)
Haha!! I’d much prefer bad views with mountains and a good countrysides to hike through nearby...we’ve just got to work with what we’ve got. 😁👍
Great informative video. Best explanation and presentation I've seen.
Thanks so much Michael, glad you enjoyed it! 😁👍
Great tips! Thank you!
And thanks for watching David! 😁👍
Haven't tried this yet on my a7iii but I will give it a try. Seems like day to night timelapses are no longer the holly grail!
It's definitely worth giving it a go...I'm guessing the holy grail title is not as fitting anymore with these more modern cameras!
Thanks for watching! 👍
@@mikesphotography Today is the day, will try these settings with the rising full moon and see what I get! Just saw your video again to get it all fresh and running! Hope you are doing well with all the crazy stuff going on!
Nice one Dario! Let me know how you get on. 😁👍
@@mikesphotography Just tagged you on my instagram post! Made some keyframes in a couple of framings to spice things up! Thanks for this great tips!
Very interesting. But I have yet to have a chance to use it. 😊
What I am also very interested in is how to make day-to-night photographs.
It's worth giving it a go!! It takes some time but its well worth it when you get a good one at the end of it!
As always, thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated! 😁👍
Thanks for very detailed explanation
No worries, I hope it has helped! 😁👍
@@mikesphotography it sure did. 👍
Great video, I’m just about to try this for the first time with my A7iii, I’ll send you mine from here in China if I get something good
Astounding. And a great tutorial on Timelapse with a guided tutorial no where so elaborate on UA-cam. Thank you. For this. But I have Fuji XT4 camera. If you can give some settings for XT4, for Timelapse I shall be thankful.
Thanks very much. Unfortunately I don't own the XT4 so I can't help.
Sorry.
Thanks for watching anyway 😁👍
@@mikesphotography I am saving this tutorial as my reference. 👍👏🏽🙏🏽
This was helpful! Thank you. !!!!
No worries, thanks for watching! 😁👍
Hi Mike. Great video! I’m just learning now about using time lapse on my A7III. You mentioned a video you would create towards the end of this video showing different day to night scenarios including astro. Did you make this video? Would be very interested to see it. Cheers.
Thanks so much Shahzad! I haven't made it yet...I didn't quite get enough different timelapses from different locations to make a decent video...maybe once we're allowed to travel again, we'll get more together. 😁👍
Thank you mike. Great tutorial, looking forward to more, will sub!
Thanks so much for the sub Chris! Glad you liked the tutorial...there are plenty more to come so make sure to keep checking back. 😁👍
@@mikesphotography Literally I am exporting out of lightroom to create my timelapse in final cut pro. I will shoot a link to you to see what you think of my first one :)
Helping a lot, as usual.. Thanks mike
That’s great to hear, thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated! 😁👍
Very helpful video! Thanks 🙏
Glad it was helpful Stephan!
very useful tutorial ^^ thank you
Thanks very much. 😁👍
Amazing video Mike !
The only video with so much detail about this feature. I watched it many time and I'm still struggling with one things.
The difference between the interval priority on/off. i would love to see a graph with 2 curves : Shutter speed and ISO. On horizontal of the graph would be the light value decreasing and in vertical the value of the ISO and the shutter speed (as the focal stay constant there is no need to show it). I'm sure this would make my little brain understanding it faster :)
Let me know if you are able to help me with this :)
Thank you in advance
Laurent
That would be a good way to show it!! Far too technical for me though...sounds like a challenge for Gerald Undone!! He'd be well into getting that kind of detail from a camera setting!! 😁👍
Really great tutorial !
Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching! 😁👍
just like your Time Lapses...cool
Thanks very much! 😁👍
@@mikesphotography I think you face challenges about low light grains n noises, would you please tell how to resolve this issue, I am using sony A7c. which colour profile give less noise in production. Thanks again for your video that is really helpful.
Great video! Did you ever post the holy grail with milky way shot test? I tried looking through your videos but didn't see it.
Thanks David! Unfortunately since then, as well as the pandemic, we moved to Bangkok...a place that isn't great for dark skies!! 😆🤦🏻♂️
When we get to travel again, I am hoping to be able to get somewhere dark again to shoot the holygrail sequence, just to see if it works with this setup...I have an epic place in mind in Indonesia, I just hope the borders open up again soon!
Thanks for watching 😁👍
@@mikesphotography sounds good! I just picked up the A7iii a couple of weeks ago and will be giving this a shot sometime next month.
Great video I wonder is this a setting that can be saved in one of those custom settings?
That's a good question ... and I am not sure ... maybe I'll try it next time I am out.
Thanks for watching 😁👍
That was great, thank you!!
No worries, thanks for watching. 😁👍
Amazing job as always! I have the Sony A7III and this is hands down the best video on YT for Day to Night timelapses!!!
By the way, what is your personal preference on white balance for these Day to Night timelapses?
Thanks so much J Rod!
For white balance, I normally have this in the daylight preset and then make any big adjustments in lightroom...and then finish off the final adjustments in premier pro. 😁👍
Thanks for watching. 👍
Out this morning trying your first set of settings for a night to day sunrise.
Excellent! Did it work!?
Mike Smith Didn’t get the high clouds but did it anyway. Going to edit it tonight. Thanks.
Hello Mike, thank you for this tutorial, I love it! I also love to create day to night time lapses with my DSLR camera and this video amazed me about the result that you can get from this Sony camera, it looks great! I have one question about flicker: did you use any plugins or adjustments to remove flicker or the camera did such a good job with it? Because it looks very smooth. Thank you!
Hey Philipp,
Surprisingly I didn't have to do any deflickering in this video. It's great not to have to go through the whole process of LRtimelapse. 😆
I think what helped was the bright lights of the city, so even though the exposure values changed, it was less than a full day to night time lapse.
I want to do one from daylight to astro...and when I do, I'll be filming the process as well.
Thanks for watching 😁👍
@@mikesphotography Thank you Mike for your reply,
Yes, the process in LRTimelapse takes time and it’s very good to know that Sony can make it so much easier, thank you again for sharing this example! Even if it will have some flickering I think it can be reduced with some plugins. Looking forward for your next video and good luck with your creations!
At 12:47 in you mention you’ll go over the processing for day to night, but I havn’t found it. Still going through videos though, there are worse things to do with my time ;-) Thanks for this info - i was looking at a device that would perform the bulb ramping but if the built in settings work this well, you just saved me a ton of cash.
That's a good point Chase...I had planned to shoot that one, but a few months after this covid hit...and then we moved countries...so haven't had a chance to shoot all of the time lapses that I wanted to for that video...it's still on the cards but I need to get out of the city first to get the stills needed.
Thanks for reminding me...I'll add it to the list of things to shoot in the near future.
Thanks for watching 😁👍
@@mikesphotography Thanks, Mike. Those are obviously all, very good reasons ;-) No worries, I just thought I was missing it, as I found the video very late and there were many more after. But, have something to look forward to. Take care.
PhotoPills (and similar tools) are very handy in calculating the key moments of lighting in a day. By varying the location settings for different cities, ranging from the northern tip of Quebec down to Quito in Ecuador, we observe the gradually decreasing interval between the Golden-Hour and the Nautical time.
LOCATION GOLDEN NAUTICAL INTERVAL
Ivujivik, quebec 17:10 18:58 1:48
Noston, Massachu. 17:33 18:38 1:05
Saskatoon, Saskatch. 17:37 18:57 1:20
Montreal, Quebec 17:38 18:47 1:09
New York, NY 17:47 18:51 1:04
San Diego, CA 17:48 18:46 0:58
Baltimore, MA 17:59 19:02 1:03
Halifax,NS 17:59 19:08 1:09
Raleigh, North Carol. 18:11 19:11 1:00
Charleston, SCarol. 18:20 19:17 0:57
Jacksonville, Florida 18:29 19:25 0:56
Miami, Florida 18:27 19:21 0:54
Port-au-Prince 18:01 18:52 0:51
Panama 17:38 18:27 0:49
Quito, Ecuador 17:36 18:25 0:49
Thanks so much for the info Gilles, a great bit of research!
It is amazing how it changes as you more towards the equator.
The photo planning apps are great aren’t they...I’m trying out planit pro and the photographers ephemeris at the moment to see which one does what.
Thanks for watching and commenting, much appreciated. 👍
Mike, Great tutorial. I've done several time-lapse videos of the Milky Way with my Sony A7III, but haven't tried to do a 'holy grail'. I'll definitely try your suggestions using the camera's interval function. My location is in the Sierra Nevada Mts. in California. I generally use 15 to 20 sec. exposures at ISO 1600 to 3200. My lens is a Rokinon 14 mm f2.8. Over the next week or so I may be able to try your suggested settings. If I do where can I send you a video of the results?
Thanks so much John, that would be great! I bet you have so many amazing locations to shoot in the Sierra Nevada mountains!
If you can email me at mike@boxheadmike.com I’ll send you the link.
Thanks again! 😁👍
Hi Mike, what a great video many thanks. I will try it out this week. One question though, you say to use widest aperture, but would this be the case even if I was using a 24mm f/1.4 lens? That seems crazy wide and maybe a bit overkill for a landscape timelapse. Many thanks again and great channel!
No worries, glad I could help.
When you got into the depths of the night, you will need all the light you can get...the best bet is to try it out and see what results you can get.
It also depends on how much man made light is about...I had all the city lights here so I had a bit of an advantage, butif you're in the middle of nowhere, you will need to open everything up for the transition into night time.
Thanks for watching 😁👍
@@mikesphotography yeah, it does makes sense in that respect - I mostly do astrophotography and once the current moon cycle ends I'll be trying out golden hour to total darkness. Any time lapse I've done in the past has always just started and ended in darkness. thanks again.