Tempest Milky Way

Watch in HD - More info, still photos and Download the extended cut, with exclusive footage, here http://dakotalapse.com/?p=448

Won best overall and audience choice at 2011 Chronos Film Festival.

One of the challenges in making this video, was trying to get good storm and star shots. The opportunity doesn't come along very often, the storm has to be moving the right speed and the lightning can overexpose the long exposures. I had several opportunities this summer to get storm and star shots. In one instance, within a minute of picking up the camera and dolly, 70mph winds hit. One storm was perfect, it came straight towards the setup, then died right before it reached it.

At the 1:57 mark a Whitetail buck came in to check out the setup. It was caught on 20 frames, and was there for about 10 minutes. It was only 50 yards from the camera, dolly and light.

At the 3:24 mark, a meteor reflects on the water of the small lake, see still below in Photos. There are also quite a few other meteors in the timelapse.

This was all shot in central South Dakota from June-August.


Canon 5D Mark II for a few shots, Canon 60D and T2i
Canon 16-35, Tokina 11-16

Exposure on most shots was 20-30 seconds, ISO 1600 or 3200 F2.8.

Simon Wilkinson at the http://www.bluemask.com created the music "Tempest" and sound for it.

I used the Dynamic Perception Stage Zero Dolly on most of the shots as well, it is awesome. http://www.dynamicperception.com

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Randy Halverson
http://www.dakotalapse.com

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• milky
• way
• storm
• timelapse
• lightning

[gatanc123]

0:50 to 1:00 you have object go the midle of the screen to the left, not possible for a meteor o satelit? because 10seconde of your video, If you need 30seconde for make 1picture of your movie, 10 seconde it's very long time!! what's that?? (sorry for my bad english)

[dakotalapse]

@gatanc123 it is a persisent train (ionized gases) caused by the meteor, link to article on it, is on my site, or you can copy and past the one in the description above.

[gatanc123]

@dakotalapse I see no meteor in this video has the second 50! the meteor in the seconde 50 is in your order video! , I see like a star go to the left for 10 seconde, so 10x 20(frames)x 30 seconde exposure, so 1.7hour...

[dakotalapse]

@gatanc123 The meteor is only in 1 frame of a video that is 24 fps, go to my website and look at the article for a still of it. You won't see a meteor traveling across the sky in a timelapse.

[BlinkinFirefly]

Something so comforting about watching our galaxy dance through the sky like that....and put to this music....love love love this

[themightyquinner123]

Okay...I see why it won a few awards.....amazing and great choice of music.

[george6900]

It is nice to know that the Republicans can not ruin the galaxy...

[Dannymofo]

2:28, what might that be going under the cloud??

[WhiteRobeOfPeace]

Beautiful beyond words! You truly deserve the award you received. Thank you for posting.

[gatanc123]

@dakotalapse thank you very much for your answer so fast! so the persistent train look like star, that's just a small spot for mor than 2hours.

very good job, that's like dream see the stars like this, and the music is just amazing, thank you for put that in youtube

[nodlon20]

Your videos definitely deserve awards! It wakes us up and makes us realize how beautiful the universe we live in is. We are so busy with trivial things, if we only take the time to look at the heavens it puts everything into perspective. Glad you got the award!

[33Skygazer]

I cant describe how beautiful this video is.... this is one of the reasons I teach Astronomy :)