The Milky Way, A Journey Through The Sky

[Barry C]

This time lapse film was made using the A7SII and A7RII.  Lenses used were the 28mm f2 and Zeiss Batis 18mm f2.8.

 

[LiveShots]

Incredible imagery

[cws]

Hi Barry, stunning work.
what sort of exposure times were you using, and wondering what motorised slider/dolly you used on the project?

[Barry C]

Hi Barry, stunning work.

what sort of exposure times were you using, and wondering what motorised slider/dolly you used on the project?

I used two lenses: Sony 28mm f2.0, and Zeiss Batis 18mm f2.8.  The exposure times were always 15 seconds on the 28mm, and 20 seconds on the 18mm-  followed the 500 rule.  I only used motion control hardware on a few of the scenes where I was tilting up the trees into the sky.  On those, I used a Genie Mini with a tilt bracket.  All other motion was added in post- the Ken Burns effect.  My NLE is Edius which has a great tool called the Layouter which is very good for this.

[izzikiorage]

This is absolutely stunning, what ISO did you use for these shots. Was the milky way visible to the naked eye in these places?

 

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[Barry C]

This is absolutely stunning, what ISO did you use for these shots. Was the milky way visible to the naked eye in these places?

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Thanks, much appreciated!

 

All the Milky Way sequences were shot at iso 12,800.

[Barry C]

Oh, almost forgot. Yes, the Milky Way was visible to the naked eye, just not nearly to the extent that the camera picks up with long exposure high iso settings.