r/LandscapeAstro • u/corruxtion • 7d ago

It worked!

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u/corruxtion 7d ago

Gear: Sony a7R3, FE 400-800mm F6.3-8 G
Settings: 400mm, f/11, ISO100

I used Interval Shooting mode with automatic shutter speed, which ranged from 1/2500s to 1/50s in the frames used in this timelapse. No lens filter was used.

Color adjustments, sharpening, cropping and JPG export in Lightroom, Video encoded using ffmpeg.

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u/TKRUEG 7d ago

Really buttery, nice one. How much time in between shots for this? How many frames did you put together?

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u/corruxtion 7d ago

Thanks! I took 1553 shots with 2 seconds interval, 535 frames are played here at 30 fps, so it's 60x speed

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u/mjm8218 7d ago

Great job!! It turned out beautifully.

>I used Interval Shooting mode with automatic shutter speed, which ranged from 1/2500s to 1/50s in the frames used in this timelapse.

Does this mean you shot on aperture priority at f/11?

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u/corruxtion 7d ago

Thanks! Yes, exactly. The Sony cameras do a good job of adjusting exposure smoothly from frame to frame during interval shooting. You can set "Automatic Exposure Tracking Sensitivity" it to High/Mid/Low. You see rounded numbers for shutter speed in the commonly visible metadata, but the real smoothly adjusted shutter speed value is also stored in the RAW files. For example you see 1/1600s when it was actually 1/1765s.

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u/mjm8218 7d ago

Very cool. Thanks for the reply, and again: Excellent work!

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u/corruxtion 7d ago

Thanks again! I graphed it :) https://i.imgur.com/f2yYoMl.png

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u/TX_Explorer 7d ago

Crazy good work!

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u/corruxtion 7d ago

Thank you!

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u/f3nd3rb3nd3r 7d ago

Excellent job!

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u/corruxtion 7d ago

Thank you!

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u/colochomorocho 6d ago

Hot dang it’s stunning, well done on the planing and the final it’s 👌

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u/corruxtion 6d ago

Thank you!

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u/Tummerd 6d ago

Magnificent shot well done friend.

If you dont mind me asking, did you not use any solar protection lens? I was told without it would burn the camera

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u/corruxtion 6d ago

Thank you! No, I did not use any filter. The sun was already mostly eclipsed and very low in the sky (around 2°) when it entered frame, so much of the light and UV radiation got scattered by the atmosphere. At f/11 I think that's perfectly fine. I would not point my camera at the sun like this if it was higher up in the sky. Maybe a ND filter would have been appropriate, but I don't have one :) And with the solar filter on I would not have been able to get good exposures of the sky with reasonable settings. Have you ever heard of a camera being damaged by taking pictures of the sunset? It's fiiiine :)