Long and gray sky

We just had the grayest day of the year a few days ago, which is kind of nowadays used by the Hartwall beverage company to market their brand of Long drink, because the drink is also gray.

It has been gray overcast for quite a few days, weeks one can perhaps say, but finally there was a bit of clear sky and I set my camera to capture this eventful cloudscape timelapse.

I noticed that there might be some raining and or snowing and set up my camera under a tree to catch most of the rain and or snow.

I was kind of lucky to catch this much action on a single timelapse. I asked AI to analyze what kind of clouds are in this video and this was the response:

Quick Answer: The video you shared shows mostly stratus and stratocumulus clouds, with occasional breaks revealing patches of cumulus clouds. These are typical of an overcast sky that begins to clear, which matches the description in the video’s notes.

🌥 Cloud Types in the Video

Stratus clouds

• Low, uniform, gray layers covering the sky.
• Often associated with overcast weather and can persist for days.
• Seen in the video as the dominant gray blanket.

Stratocumulus clouds

• Low-level clouds with a lumpy, rolling texture.
• They appear when stratus clouds start breaking up, letting in bits of light.
• Visible in the timelapse as the sky begins to clear.

Cumulus clouds

• Fluffy, cotton-like clouds with distinct edges.
• Form when sunlight warms the ground, causing rising air currents.
• In the video, they appear briefly in the clearer patches of sky.

I don't really like the idea of AI, but there are some uses, where there aren't humans involved.

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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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Roadscape Photography
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Life @ Köyliö, mostly Finnish