Couple of newish videos

It has been quite great weather for shooting cloudscapes in this and past month. Although there has been wind and rain, and managed to shoot some new footage. My main problem seems to be procrastination. 

This was quite good, there is sun rays in the sky, clouds, sunset and stars in the sky at the end.

One thing that bothers me a bit, is that I have set the timelapse interval in 6 second, and I shoot in A-mode, which keeps the aperture fixed and exposure time varies due lighting condition and when it gets really dark, exposure is ramped up in max, which is in this case 30 seconds. That means that the speed of the video will accelrate as you can see around 0:47 time mark.

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First Aurora borealis of the Autumn

Last night when I was walking my dog before we went to sleep, to thought I saw faint Aurora borealis

Then I turn off my head light and took a picture with my phone camera.

Sure enough there were faint Aurora borealis to be seen.

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Days are getting shorter

...and the night falls earlier.

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.

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Pillars of Creation in clear blue sky

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.

Here is few of the newest videos:

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Long summer nights

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

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Windy day for the win

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.

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Sunset just after dawn

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.

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Shapes in the sky

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.

This gotta be biggest fish I have ever caught!

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Aurora Borealis

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. 

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Sun dogs and Circumzenithal arc

It was a bit cold morning and I noticed how wonderful Sun dogs in the southern sky. Then I looked up.

I can't remember when I have ever seen that arc on top of the sky. It is Circumzenithal arc.

I posted this to couple site, and there people recognized these also:

• 22° halo 
• 22° upper tangent arc
• Parhelic circle
• 46° supralateral arc 

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It's been awhile

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.

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Magical blue hour

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).

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Last day of the last year

The day started as well as it could, a bit cloudy and not too chilly. 

Later on the day we were driving home and saw this huge cumulus cloud and it was snowing so hard, that you couldn't see the horizon at all.

And the same thing in our home. Well, this actually passed our home by few kilometers, but there were few of those cumulus clouds that snowed hard.

Last sunset of the year 2024.

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Overcast over lake

Overcast weather occurs when the sky is completely covered by clouds, often leading to a gray and gloomy appearance. This weather condition is typically associated with stratiform clouds, which are extensive, uniform layers of clouds that can cover large areas of the sky. These clouds form when moist air rises gradually, condensing into water droplets or ice crystals that spread out horizontally, creating a thick, even cloud cover. Overcast skies can occur at any altitude, from low-lying stratus clouds to higher altocumulus and cirrostratus clouds, but they most commonly involve low to mid-level clouds.

Overcast conditions can have several effects on the environment and daily life. The thick cloud cover blocks direct sunlight, which can lead to cooler temperatures and a more stable atmospheric condition. This type of weather often results in subdued lighting, which can affect visibility and the overall mood of people. Prolonged overcast periods can sometimes lead to feelings of melancholy or depression for some individuals. Additionally, overcast skies are frequently associated with precipitation, such as drizzle, light rain, or snow, although not all overcast conditions result in wet weather.

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Moon Halo in the pitch dark

A moon halo is this enchanting optical phenomenon caused by the refraction and reflection of light, mostly through ice crystals in thin, cirrus or cirrostratus clouds high in the atmosphere. It results in a ring of light around the moon that looks almost supernatural. It’s pretty special when you catch one! You get to see a glimpse of how light and ice play together in our atmosphere.

To see a moon halo, you need three main ingredients: a bright moon (usually a full moon), clear skies, and those high, thin cirrus or cirrostratus clouds with ice crystals way up in the atmosphere. When the light of the moon hits those ice crystals, it bends and creates that mystical ring. It's like nature’s own little light show! 

It is quite fascinating now days to photograph night skies with your cellular phone. I mean it was almost pitch dark, but pointing phone on the sky and press the shutter button and 3 seconds later you get this.

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Colourful October

Usually cloudscapes are great all year around, but especially cloudscape is awesome around autumn, since the landscape is changing colours too.

I had a lucky situation the other day when I was driving to work. Sun is just about to rise above the horizon. 

And when I turn to the bigger road, there it is, risen above the horizon. It felt like a... victory. Whole drive to work was kind of awesome, except few spots where the sun shined straight into my eyes as it were still low and the road leads straight in the path of sunshine.

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After rainy weather cloudscape is wonderful

While I was driving home from long drive, I noticed that the rain clouds have made away, and as the sun was ready to settle in, it gave a wonderful cloudscape in the sky. 

Rainbow was shooting almost straight into the sky, almost. The arc reached higher in the sky than normally because the sun was just above the horizon.

And the colours were magnificent. This purple haze lasted just a brief moment and then turned into orange reddish, as the sky would be on fire. Which also lasted just a brief moment too.

Check my other sunset cloudscape post.

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Few Cloudscape timelapses

In my last post I wrote that I have managed to shoot few cloudscape timelapses in the summer time and here are some of those.

This one I shot at the end of July:

 

 And this just around midsummer festival:

I have few others from summer and I will posting them when I get around to post production.

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Gone with the wind

This summer has really gone with the wind. I planned to shoot timelapses whole summer and I think I managed to shoot only few. And I need to start to carry my actual camera with me when I am walking my dog.

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Magnificient Cumulus cloud

I was driving regional road 204 to Säkylä and it was raining quite heavily, but then I entered this opening and all of the sudden sun was shining brightly. I saw with my left that there was this tall cumulus cloud, kind of like mushroom cloud, but all white. 

Cumulus clouds are low-level clouds characterized by their distinct puffy, cauliflower-like appearance. They form due to localized convection, where warm, moist air rises, cools, and condenses into visible water droplets or ice crystals. 

The highest cumulonimbus clouds, which are a more intense type of cumulus cloud associated with thunderstorms, can reach peaks of up to 12,000 meters (39,000 feet) or even higher. So, while cumulus clouds themselves are generally found at lower altitudes, their more powerful cousins can soar to impressive heights

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