Dave Baack Photo

Here's another fun one - SeaTac air Traffic from Queen Anne in Seattle. 3 second interval.

Time Lapse Sunset at Capitol Reef National Park, 2020. (0:50)

The sun breaks through dark clouds on the rock formation at sunset.

I set up and was not expecting this lightshow! I had just enough room on my cards for this sequence of 1,200 raw photos shot 5 seconds apart.

Quickly after this was over, back at the campsite, I transferred all of the files to an external drive on my laptop powered by a portable strobe battery used in wedding photography.

This lighting admittedly gave me trouble in the editing phase with how massive the swing in luminance is, as well as how long it can take to re-edit 1200 files that weigh 80MB each. The time-consuming nature of eding long sequences is why I haven't taken the time to get it just right

It took a few mis-cataloged previews, a couple re-imports, numerous exposure edits, re-edits, lots of waiting and progress bars, two walks around the neighborhood to get it right.

Now I am finally happy with the shadows & highlight drama that you see playing out here. No more overexposed highlights, no oversaturation.

After I was done editing the color & contrast, Lightroom exported 1200 Tiff files, and LRTimelapse Pro took those and made this video sequence.

Only the 1080p version is available online, since the 4k version is too large to upload to my website or any socials at 6.5GB

Editor's Note: As far as I'm concerned time lapses are my only use case for any Adobe product. If there were other exposure ramping raw processors available that worked with other raw processors, e.g.: Capture One, I'd jump ship immediately. This is a market vacuum I think exists, and I think someone should build such an application.