So when you are shooting the Milky Way with a 30 second interval and a 20 second exposure there would be 10 seconds between shots for a combined 30 seconds not 50 correct? I am looking forward to the day to night video. Can you touch on white balance settings going from Milky Way to blue hour to sunrise?

Just had the same issue. Last weekend I tried to do some night timelapses, I used to make 300 frames with 20sec exposure, interval was like 1 sec. I've got only half the frames I needed. Later I understood that the issue was that a camera can't write image so fast. So I need to add some more seconds on the interval...

@@jamiemalcolmbrown If I was shooing a 20 second shutterspeed for the milky way I would tag on 1-2 extra interval seconds for the buffer. So on my remote I would set 21-22 seconds. But if you were shooting a 25 second shutter for the milky way I would set 26-27 on the remote. So it really depends, when I mentioned a 30 second interval that was mainly if you wanted to shoot a 25-30 sec shutterspeed image.

@@jamiemalcolmbrown If you were doing a long term light change timelapse, I would leave the WB at daylight and change it in post using LR timelapse.

@@lukasjonaitis7925 Yeah and it will also depend a bit on your cameras bufferspeed. For older cameras I would pick a slightly longer interval above the shutterspeed. For newer cameras it is a bit less of a worry and the interval just needs to be a touch longer then the shutterspeed.

and it makes me laugh every time :P

Thanks so much Dale!

Awesome! :D Actually that shot was done in Dubai, but its the same people who designed that fountain.

Thanks so much for watching!

Tape is always helpful, I try to have a roll of gaffer tape on the side of my bag at all times :)

Thanks for watching! :D

Hahaha glad you liked them!

I am really glad to hear that Andrew, get out there and shoot some killer stuff!

Thanks for checking it out :)

Thanks man, hope all is well!

Its a great tip and something I plan to do a full video tutorial on, since it can be very finicky. Maybe something for slightly more advanced timelapsers, rather then those just getting started shooting their first timelapses. Although I will say I have not found any Aperture Flicker issues on most of the newer camera systems such as the Nikon850 and Sony A7R series. It was a big issue back when I was using my older Canon cameras though.

I use Sandisk extreme cards, I try to get cards that are at least 90mps. I also have some XQD cards for the Nikon d850 which are super fast.

Great, thanks!

Indeed I do! :D

I had aperture flicker on my Canon camera awhile back, where I would do the lens twist method for every shot (which I will make a video on). However on my D850 I have never gotten aperture flicker and haven't had to twist the lens. I usually shoot less then F8 as well. I try not to go past F6.3

Thanks Michael for taking the time to reply. Your channel is a true gem.

I use LR timelapses for shots with pretty drastic lighting changes. I usually just stick with lightroom processing for Milky Way timelapses and make sure the frames look good throughout the timelapse. But I will be doing a video on LR timelapse in the future. :)

I just bought the Osmo Pocket for vloggy stuff. I will do some timelapse tests soon. :)

White balance wont matter unless you are shooting Jpeg, I usually just leave the camera on daylight for most stuff. White balance for shooting RAW is mainly just to reference colors while you are shooting, but can always be changed in post.

Hahaha true! I have found that to be an issue when a bird fly pretty close to the camera. Thanks so much Alex, I appreciate you checking it out!

possible but u have to be there when u need to change the exposures so in short its difficult i usually use wide open aperture , of 2.8 or what ever ur lens have .. and auto iso

@@stanglova86 thanks for very good tips sir :)

Well that math is based on doing 1 timelapse shot which would span 3 mins long. But personally that does not make much sense to me. Most people do not have the attention span to watch 1 shot for over 3 minutes straight. The longest one timelapse really should be is maybe 20 seconds if a ton of stuff is happening in that one shot. Honestly most of the time my timelapses are not longer then 10-15 seconds and sometimes when cut into a bigger video they are 5 seconds. When I make a full timelapse video the entire project might be 4-8 terabytes but that is over the course of weeks, months and even years. That project is often 50-100 timelapses. Stored on regular hard drives. Its really rare that I would ever shoot 400 gbs in a day. Unless its some special request of a client to do a really long timelapse like that.

@@MichaelShainblum Ah good point, I guess I was coming from the stance that you might not want to show a 3 minute timelapse but you might want to capture one so that you have options later on, then again i guess one could just be judicial when taking the shots to inclue only intervals where there is something of interest to keep data down. Again for the record, i don't disagree with the tip at all, all my stills are RAW.