Summer was quite sunny and in here where I live wasn't that much of cloudy days, but as the summer comes to end and rainy autumn weather is coming, clouds are getting mystic and volatile.
These were shot "on the fly" when I was walking my dog and when I got home and thought setting up camera for timelapses, these clouds were long gone.
The Pillars of Creation are a series of massive, dark columns of interstellar gas and dust located in the Eagle Nebula, approximately 6,500 to 7,000 light-years from Earth. These pillars are a region where new stars are forming. The pillars are made visible by the ultraviolet light from nearby young stars, which causes the gas and dust to glow and also erodes the pillars.
Okay, it's not the Pillars of Creation, but when I looked in the sky and saw this cloudscape, it reminded me instantly of the Pillars of Creation. I mean look at it closely!
Also the cloudscape has been wonderful and I have been setting my camera gear and shoot some timelapses. Now I only need to post process them with LRTimelapse and Lightroom Classic.
The weather hasn't been good for being outside, except for a few sunny days this summer. Few days ago I set up my camera to catch a cloudscape pass by and while I am post processing 4000+ photos into a single video, I decided to post the newest video that I posted on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Cloudscapesphotography
Actually I just did rename it. I couldn't believe I didn't do that in the first place. Anyhow, here is the newest timelapse video:
There hasn't been really good weather for timelapse, or I have been too busy doing something else. But I managed to shoot this about a month ago. As the days are getting longer and longer in the Northern Hemisphere and the sun is settling in late at night, this was shot late in June evening around the time the sun is just about to settle in and night begins, which is quite bright...
I meant to shoot a timelapse on the summer solstice but the weather wasn't great, it wasn't raining as is usual traditional Finnish Midsummer festival weather. :D
It was a very windy day the other day and while I was doing yard things, so I put my phone upside down in the middle of my yard, to shoot the cloudscape.
This is just plain cloudscape as it can get. No time-lapse shooting. No speed up in post processing. I only trimmed few seconds off from the beginning and at the end.
As I was walking my dog just after the sun had set, the sky was beautifully colorful. I snapped a few photos with my phone, and they seemed pretty good at first. However, looking at them afterward, they really weren’t. The dynamic range is so poor that the camera couldn’t handle both the dark and bright areas at the same time.
Yes, you can stack them via app, or do a HDR, but while those look good on a small phone screen, they do lack of range still, compared to photos taken with DSLR.
The thing is that you don't want to carry that bulky DSLR with you everywhere, but you carry your phone everywhere.
I was walking my dog the other day and I this shape in the sky, and I immediately noticed that it was a spaceship. But I couldn't remember where. Star Trek? Star Wars?
This kind of looks like a huge bird, and I mean YUUUGE!
Sunsets are great for Sky Is My Canvas, since the colours are great and also there a lot happening at the same time. And it won't last very long, you just have to be there at the right time.
I was walking my dog one night just before we went to sleeping, but I decided to filter some fresh air before I went to sleep and I noticed this faint glow in the sky and I wasn't sure if it was just clouds moving or was it Aurora Borealis.
I grabbed my phone and took a picture and low and behold: It sure was Aurora Borealis.
Even though I live in kind of a rural part of the county, but I have a street light right next to my house and I have LED-strings around my house and garage.
In both of these photos, you can observe the blueish coloring in the corner of the LED-strings.
Although those weren't so bright as the photos show, since human eye can't "extend exposure" to gather all the small hints of light in the sky, it is marvelous nightscape to look at.
So, it has been a while. Anyways, here is a couple of short time-lapses from last month:
When I shot this, I forgot the camera out there for a day or two. Then about week later I deliberately set up the camera to shoot night time time-lapse:
Managed to get nice moon travel through the sky. And I again forgot the camera there for two days.
The "blue hour" is a term used in photography and art to describe a period of twilight when the sun is far enough below the horizon to produce a diffuse blue light in the sky.
The blue hour occurs when the Sun is far enough below the horizon so that the sunlight's blue wavelengths dominate due to the Chappuis absorption caused by ozone. Since the term is colloquial, it lacks an official definition such as dawn, dusk, or the three stages of twilight. Rather, blue hour refers to the state of natural lighting that usually occurs around the nautical stage of the twilight period (at dawn or dusk).
