We're back up and running!
Piha was great last weekend - unfortunately this weekend looks awful, so we'll set something up for next month - stay warm and dry guys!
Photographers hard at work shooting the Lunar Eclipse in Waitawa Regional Park last night. It was a magic evening, even with the haze! You can see the dramatic change in star visibility once the mood starts to dim, with Matariki and Orion particularly prominent.
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With Auckland in Lockdown it's given me time to organise and revisit my photos and time lapses, mostly to put them into the odd competition.
This is a timelapse from Lake Ohau in New Zealand's South Island. I took it while testing a new lens for Lumix New Zealand back in 2019.
The red sky is caused by airglow, and those streaks you see are aeroplanes (not meteors...)
Shot on a Lumix GH5S
Leica DG 10-25/F1.7 lens
576 frames
20 second exposures
ISO 8000
f/2.1
motion with a Syrp Genie II Pan-Tilt
Shot over about 4 hours
"Strange Flower"
An Astro Timelapse shot at the Sculptureum in Matakana, New Zealand.
Shot on a Lumix GH5S
Motion with a Syrp Genie II Pan-Tilt and Linear
SLR Magic 12mm T-1.5 @ 1.5
15 second exposures
ISO 12'800
608 Frames
Thanks to:
Lumix New Zealand
Sculptureum
Master Astrophotography in Piha This Week.
We've got the best weather conditions we've had in years....
The cold Antarctic blast has pushed away all the clouds, and it'll be clear until Monday.
Learn Stacking, Tracking, and Panoramas with gear from Lumix, Samyang, iOptron and more.
Places still available every night except Saturday.
Nightly from 5pm until late. Piha Beach, Auckland.
Details at www.highrestours.com
Shooting with the Lumix S1 at Waitawa Regional Park in New Zealand over the last week. We had tremendously clear skies, so I thought I'd create this little zoom video...
The region you're seeing at the end is Rho Oph & Antares, one of the most beautiful parts of the sky with it's wild colours.
This was shot on a variety of lenses:
Samyang 14mm
Lumix S Pro 50mm
Lumix S Pro 200mm
All mounted on the iOptron Sky Guider Pro with iPolar
Thanks to Lumix New Zealand and Astronz
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I've been experimenting with ways to combine timelapse and slowmotion in a single shot. This is my first test, a proof-of-concept with my wonderful fiancee Yasna.
This was created on a @lumix S1R using the 180 FPS high-speed mode, slowed down to 30 FPS. This was then combined with a 30 minute timelapse, shot from exactly the same position.
All of the video processing was done in-camera. The blending of the two clips was done in After Effects.
My next step is to use some magic from @Syrp to add some video motion to this...
#Lumix #changingphotography #SharingThePassion
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Strange Flower in Matakana, New Zealand...
I was thrilled to be invited to photograph the Sculptureum in Matakana, about an hour north of Auckland. This extraordinary sculpture garden has never been photographed at night before. It's countless sculptures appear totally transformed under the southern stars...
We'll be hosting time-lapse workshops there soon with @Syrp_ @highrestours and @sculptureum.nz
Photographed over 3 hours on a Panasonic Lumix GH5S (My favorite time-lapse camera by a very wide margin)
SLR Magic 12mm t-1.6
SYRP Genie 3 axis slider kit (what a stunning piece of gear!)
Thanks to:
@lumixnz
@sculptureum.nz
@highrestours
@syrp_
Music:
Britten Cello Symphony, mvt. 2 Presto
Truls Mork, City of Birmingham Symphony under Simon Rattle
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Strange Flower at the Sculptureum
I'm getting really excited about our upcoming time-lapse workshops.
Syrp are lending us some amazing gear, and now we're working with the Sculptureum in Matakana to bring you a totally unique place to film and photograph!
I haven't been so excited about a new location in ages - there's just so much you can do at this place.
Thanks to:
Panasonic New Zealand
Syrp
Sculptureum
High Res Tours
Shot on a Panasonic GH5S with the Syrp 3 axis slider.
3 hour time-lapse.
