24 Hour Time Lapse Photographic Video of the Blizzard in Washington, DC on Feb 5th-6th, 2010

[supergreatcornholio]

I Love Time Lapse Videos

[hebneh]

Now I can imagine what my last conscious view would be, as I froze to death in a snowdrift.

[KiranGlitch]

can't you have scraped away the snow on the windowsill outside so we could see how much snow was actually on the ground at the end????

[mgoldman626]

I guess I could have opened the window in a Blizzard and pushed some snow off the roof. The effect I was going for was to show how fast the snow built up. There was so much snow, that at the 3:09 mark, I moved the camera up on the tripod. It was good enough to be shown on Good Morning America and ABC World News.

[KiranGlitch]

snow is very reflective - thats why you can see it at night

[mgoldman626]

Also shooting at ISO 1000 helps....8-)

[telepater]

Nikon and Mac no wonder it looks so good. Superb, loved it....

[KeithTaylorPhoto]

Great job man -- and I love the music. I Shazamed it and got nothing. Who is singing that? Sounds like a church choir -- a really good one.

[mgoldman626]

The tune is called Mercy Seat by the Anonymous 4 from the album Gloryland.

[deborahshuster]

Was the camera up against the inside window?

Nice soundtrack!

[mgoldman626]

The camera as angled against the window to minimize reflections. I also cleaned the glass inside and out  before shooting. Glad you liked the music.

[writingangel2]

Great fotos. Just enjoy it. Must be the "warming of planet earth" :-)

Please continue and upload more pictures from newest blizzard last night.

Regards from Berlin

[rayder1]

HOW DARE YOU insult georgously attractive Global Warming theory... uh, I mean fact! :)

[writingangel2]

great work, Pleas continue with more pictures of the newest blizzard last night.

Regards from Berlin

[writingangel2]

Very nice, great view into mother nature´s power and beauty. Please continue with your work (time laps) and upload more pictures of the third blizzard from last night and day.

Regards from Berlin, Germany

[mgoldman626]

This entire video aired this morning (2-10-10) on Good Morning America. They sped up the frame count and got it done in about 20 seconds.

[buntingtosser]

Interesting to view from Sunny Oz.

[bobcecusn]

Well done! We're "snowed in" in Bowie.

The sheep didn't seem to mind the snow too much. Sorry you lost that branch...

[cl191]

so that's how it looks like when you get buried alive....

[mgoldman626]

I left the camera in manual mode throughout the day. At dusk as the light faded, I adjusted the aperture and shutter speed about every 3 minutes. Did that for about 30 minutes until the light stabilized and then shot through the night and left the camera in Aperature priority so that it could adjust itself in the AM as the sun came up. I then went back to a manual setting and left it there until the end. Hope that this helps.

[Ssmallfry]

How did you deal with the changing lighting conditions? Unless I'm mistaken, it looks like you came and manually adjusted your settings every so often, which seems like a pain. (And can make for choppy lighting.) I'd like to do something similar with my camera, but haven't worked around that issue yet.

[jiboou]

Bravo!