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Siwash Rock Making Star Trails
This is a 100 image, 30 seconds an image time lapse. I was planning on stacking them and lightening them to get star trails but the clouds flying by made that much harder than I anticipated.

This is a 15 frames per second video.


John Harvey Photo > Blogs for 2024 to 2005 > December 2015 > Siwash Rock Making Star Trails

Porteau Cove Facing South
Porteau Cove Facing South
John Harvey Photo > Blogs for 2024 to 2005 > December 2015 > Porteau Cove Facing South

Porteau Cove Facing North
The flow is from Squamish. There is one asteroid streak in this movie.
John Harvey Photo > Blogs for 2024 to 2005 > December 2015 > Porteau Cove Facing North

Milky Way Over Pyramid Mountain
I put the camera out on the dock and left it shooting and went back to bed. The sequence started at 12:08 am and finished at 1:22am for 73 photos. The images are taken every 62 seconds. The exposure is 30 seconds at f2.8 and ISO 800. The camera was set in manual mode so the exposure didn't change.

The mountain is called pyramid mountain.
John Harvey Photo > Blogs for 2024 to 2005 > Cathedral > Milky Way Over Pyramid Mountain

Moonrise Over Trial Islands Lighthouse
There are a whole bunch of things wrong with how I took this. Exposure was every 2 seconds and this is 100 frames long (3 minutes, 20 seconds). Exposure was f 5.6, 1/320th of a second at ISO 400 which was about 3 stops too faint. The f5.6 was dictated by the long lens setup and the 1/320th of a second was to reduce motion blur.

The biggest problem was the tripod. It was quite windy out (you can see the flag flapping) so the camera was actually blowing quite a bit. All of these frames were aligned by hand from the silhouettes of the house and lighthouse. I have more frames of the moon rising into the night sky, but I can't align them because I have no fixed part of the frame. It was so dark that even fully ramped up, I can't see the light house building.

I was surprised how much the moon is distorted - it isn't round and the face is blurred by changes in air density. I can understand why people usually take pictures of churches in the mountains rather than lighthouses on the horizon.
John Harvey Photo > Blogs for 2024 to 2005 > July 2021 > Moonrise Over Trial Islands Lighthouse

North Over Green Lake
North Over Green Lake
John Harvey Photo > John's Overnight Page > Whistler August Long Weekend > North Over Green Lake

Beach Sky
Sky time lapses are hard. I started taking photos at 10:56:40 on July 21st and ended at 11:46:10. I took a photo every 33 seconds roughly for 92 exposures. The exposure was 30 seconds long.

The town on the horizon is Powell River.


John Harvey Photo > John Harvey Photo - Camping > Miracle Beach Camping > Beach Sky

Milky Way From Whytecliff Park
90 frames x 30 seconds each is roughly 45 minutes of tripod time. I first started shooting at 13 second exposures and it took me a few minutes to realize my mistake (those frames were discarded). The camera wasn't very level when I shot it (hard to get right when so much of the frame is black) so these images are cropped.
John Harvey Photo > Blogs for 2024 to 2005 > August 2017 > Milky Way From Whytecliff Park