Temporal Distortion

There is a 23 minute extended cut, available for digital download here http://www.dakotalapse.com/?p=877

Featuring an original score "Temporal Distortion" by Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Eureka, etc) http://www.bearmccreary.com Thanks to Bear for taking the time to do this!

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http://www.dakotalapse.com/?p=864 for more info and digital download.

There is a 23 minute extended cut, available for digital download here http://www.dakotalapse.com/?p=877 The feature is 23+ minutes of Milky Way, Aurora and other night timelapse, it has 2 original scores by Simon Wilkinson http://www.thebluemask.com , as well as some from his royalty free collection.
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What you see is real, but you can't see it this way with the naked eye. It is the result of 20-30 second exposures, edited together over many hours to produce the timelapse. This allows you to see the Milky Way, Aurora and other Phenonmena, in a way you wouldn't normally see them.

In the opening "Dakotalapse" title shot, you see bands of red and green moving across the sky. After asking several Astronomers, they are possible noctilucent clouds, airglow or faint Aurora. I never got a definite answer to what it is. You can also see the red and green bands in other shots.

At :53 and 2:17 seconds into the video you see a Meteor with a Persistent Train. Which is ionizing gases, which lasted over a half hour in the cameras frame. Phil Plait wrote an article about the phenomena here blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/­2011/10/02/a-meteors-lingering-tale/
There is a second Meteor with a much shorter persistent train at 2:51 in the video. This one wasn't backlit by the moon like the first, and moves out of the frame quickly.

The Aurora were shot in central South Dakota in September 2011 and near Madison, Wisconsin on October 25, 2011.

Watch for two Deer at 1:27

Most of the video was shot near the White River in central South Dakota during September and October 2011, there are other shots from Arches National Park in Utah, and Canyon of the Ancients area of Colorado during June 2011.

Equipment Used
Thanks to Dynamic Perception for their support and for making the Stage Zero Dolly. http://www.dynamicperception.com/#oid... The best dolly made in many ways!

Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 60D
Canon 16-35, Tokina 11-16

Shot in RAW format. Manual mode, Exposure was 30 seconds on most Milky Way shots, 15-30 seconds on Aurora. ISO 1600 - 6400 F2.8.

Production Assistants - River Halverson and Kelly McIlhone

Opening title by Gus Winkelman // Winkelmedia LLC // Contact Guswinkelman@gmail for creative solutions

Contact for licensing footage, or anything else.
Randy Halverson
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[BobyTheZombie]

What's that on 0:53? I'm guessing a tiny meteor geting burned while entering the atmosphere?

[dakotalapse]

If you read the description, all of the info is there.

[Vcize]

Great video. Did you actually move the camera during the lapses or was the movement effect done by zooming in a bit and panning in post-editing?

[dakotalapse]

With a Dolly, see the description above.

[Responsio]

Perfect. Just perfect.

[kk141281]

Do you ever use 7d for night views?

[wobblyfin]

love the video and the music.. reminds me of K-Pax soundtrack.. class. out of this world.

[vichkovski]

great shots

[Mag kika]

ohh thank you, thank youuu so much for those videos, i'm a super fan

[cdbfort]

stunning:)

[AnnakaRae]

AWESOME!! Wonderful work!!

[Gabriella Flutterby]

Sukoi... thanks for making and uploading this video.

That's a kind of you. this is worthy for me.

[vanessa24796]

Thank you soo much for creating this.. Seeing this means soo much to me thank you thank you thank you!

[noEUnoCONSENT]

do it i got my stage zero after watching this