While I recorded this time-lapse of the “Falling clouds” on La Palma it was quite windy. Luckily the free blender tool has a very good image stabilization routine included. One of many great youtube tutorials about 2D image stabilization with blender can be found here. In the end no more dangling is visible in the final video!
The images have been recorded with a Fujifilm X-T1 camera and were developed with darktable.
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Last updated: June 16, 2022 at 13:02 pm
On our hike to Pico Birigoyo I had the chance to record this time-lapse video of a spectacular phenomenon – the “falling clouds”. This “Cascada de Nubes” is quite typical for La Palma. When the weather conditions are right the build-up clouds from the east side of the ridge are pressed across the so called “Cumbre Nueva”. The clouds flows over the edge and fall like a waterfall until they mysteriously disappear.
The time-lapse has been recorded with a Fujifilm X-T1 camera. The post-processing has been done with blender.
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Last updated: June 16, 2022 at 13:46 pm
After hiking some hours on the Caldera on La Palma we passed by at the Roque de Los Muchachos on our way back down. We arrived there at the right moment – right before the sunset 🙂 The photos have been taken with a Fujifilm X-T1 camera.
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Last updated: June 16, 2022 at 13:16 pm
On a hike to Pico Nambroque on La Palma I had the chance to record a short time-lapse which shows the movement of the clouds over the island. I used a Fujifilm X-T1.
As usual, the exposure time, ISO value and focus were set to manual, the white balance was set to 7100K and the frames were recorded in the RAW format. The frames were then post-processed using https://rawtherapee.com/. I did the de-flickering using the following script: https://github.com/cyberang3l/timelapse-deflicker
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Last updated: June 16, 2022 at 13:19 pm
In this post I want to show a way of Milkyway image processing which does not require any commercial software product. The idea is to use rawtherapee, DeepSkyStacker and GIMP to develop, align and combine the frames to one final image.
Quite often it is advantageous to use a high ISO value to get as much details as possible in the available exposure time (before the earth rotation becomes visible). On the other hand one probably does not want too much noise in the image. Therefore, the idea is to take multiple frames at a high ISO value and stack them later to reduce the noise. There is just one problem: The earth rotates and from frame to frame the stars are in different positions. Therefore an alignment of the frames before averaging is required. But then we get another problem: The foreground of each frame moves and so the resulting foreground gets fuzzy in the end. What to do?
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