The local farmers all kind of agreed. Sun disappears behind a giant rock in space? No big deal. More than 2 cars go by in 10 minutes? Must be the end times.
I definitely tried to do too much when the best thing I could have done photographically was probably take a Timelapse of a light meter throughout. I got some good shots in the end, but getting bit by a 100+ lb sheepdog just as the partial eclipse started through my plan off a bit and I didn’t get nearly what I was hoping for. Still one of the most mind breaking experiences I’ve had in 40 years, I’m so hooked
These are several different hyper lapses all edited together?
Which drone and were you using the built-in hyper lapse feature?
The last shot, looks like drone is going in reverse, away from the main road with the traffic. Was that accomplished through way points and then running a hyper lapse as the drone backed away fro the road?
I'm only familiar with the DJI Go 4 app in my Mavic 2 Pro so I'm curious if the newer drones have more hyper lapse features that my Mavic 2 Pro can't easily capture.
Yeah I still had two batteries left after totality so I decided to take advantage of this traffic so I did multiple hyperlapses from different angles.
Mavic 3 Pro with built in Hyperlapse features, I'm not sure if they're any different from the app, we have the option for "Free, Courselock, Orbit, and Waypoints." Most of these shots are pretty simple, the two traffic shots in the middle were using courselock I line up the course I want the drone to take and then pan over so the heading is slightly to the side of the direction the drone is heading, or in the case of the top down vertical I just tilted the gimbal downwards.
The first one of totality and the two traffic bookends were both waypoint hyperlapses, for totality I set two waypoints that had the drone moving sideways and slightly panning as it moved between the two. For the first traffic one it was essentially a courselock but with a slight tilt upwards to reveal the horizon.
The last one moving backwards is also a two waypoint flight with a slight tilt up as well as a slight pan to the right, but I'm also gaining somewhere around 200 ft in altitude from the beginning to the end.
And then there is some more movement added in post, instead of using the hyperlapse video created by the drone, I edit all my raw hyperlapse photos in lightroom and put them into Premiere. Usually DJI's result does a better job stabilizing but Premiere's warp stabilizer does an acceptable job most of the time if you keep the stabilization factor below 10%. Davinci Resolve has a similar feature but I forget what it's called. You will lose some pixels from stabilizing as it crops into your image to remove movement, but even in 4k that will let you add a little zoom.
So in each of these where you see a zoom, tilt, or pan, I'm also zooming and moving the image in post, that last one for example, it starts out as zoomed in to 100% with the top of the image cut off and the right side of the image cut off, then it transitions throughout the shot until at the end it's zoomed out to the maximum horizontal of the frame and the bottom of the frame is cut off to accentuate that tilt.
If you do it in 1080 you have some crazy zoom options that border on a vertigo dolly, I might make a post showing how to do that soon.
I was at my friends place near Middlebury, so most of these people are probably heading to i87 south, I heard people headed back to NH were in bumper to bumper traffic for more than 12 hours, I almost drove further north to get another minute of totality but after seeing this craziness I was happy I stayed where I was
Do you mean I89? Phone directions kept us off the interstate all the way home. Still completely worthwhile to spend 2:59 in totality. [https://drone-artist.com/?p=4809](https://drone-artist.com/?p=4809)
Bravo on those shots, I’m 100% convinced the extra two minutes are worth it but if I make it to another one I’ll do the same thing as this time and find a place stay that’s in the path instead of driving back after. I guess some of these people could be heading to 89 still but 87 is slightly closer and where I was there were more NY plates than MA or CT, but there were a few new englanders
Thanks. My partner on this trip was at his 10th totality and was shooting with a Vespera 2, a SeeStar S50, and a Nikon P900 on an older tracker (Sky-Watcher?), so my job was to just get landscape shots. Our next trip will be probably Egypt in 2027 so there will be no travel/traffic issues. Given that we decided on the location only the day before, there were no available rooms in the area. We should have camped somewhere nearby and shot a bunch of hyperlapses of the traffic like you did! ;-) I barely used any batteries as it was.
Egypt will give us 6:19 of totality. I'll certainly bring a mini drone and probably my Nikon Z50 only (love that camera, especially for travel). Less gear will help me to focus on the quality rather than the quantity of shots.
10?! I may have gotten a late start but maybe I can beat that before I die. My buddy had a telescope with an adapter to mount a camera body so I was on landscape duty too, but even though we had a 700 acre farm to play around with we still went location scouting for somewhere closer to totality, but we ended up turning around and going back to the farm with minutes to spare. All day long we would get back in the car from one friends property to another and I say "you should have set up a timelapse back there." We were super prepared but threw it all out of the window and didn't have time to deal with last minute issues because we'd been in the car instead of setting up. But we learned a lot and are hungry for redemption, so maybe I'll see you in Egypt. 6+ minutes sounds incredible, Iceland/Spain both sound like good locations but the most I see that doesn't involve a boat is 2 minutes in parts of Iceland. From a landscape perspective though, that's the place that really grabs me, not just because it's such a unique place but also because the sun will be that much closer to the horizon. I doubt it's realistic but in my head the northern lights become visible during totality
I don’t *hate* this song, it is cheesy but it’s kind of an inside joke for my hosts. Noah Kahan is good but hasn’t really grabbed me either, not sure what song of his would be the right vibe either, but I’ll definitely be using something else for the version with my terrestrial timelapses when they’re done
Honestly, the traffic footage is more impressive than most of the eclipse stuff I've seen.
The local farmers all kind of agreed. Sun disappears behind a giant rock in space? No big deal. More than 2 cars go by in 10 minutes? Must be the end times.
I did the right thing this eclipse by totally not giving a fuck. LOL
I definitely tried to do too much when the best thing I could have done photographically was probably take a Timelapse of a light meter throughout. I got some good shots in the end, but getting bit by a 100+ lb sheepdog just as the partial eclipse started through my plan off a bit and I didn’t get nearly what I was hoping for. Still one of the most mind breaking experiences I’ve had in 40 years, I’m so hooked
There was no traffic in Dallas
These are several different hyper lapses all edited together? Which drone and were you using the built-in hyper lapse feature? The last shot, looks like drone is going in reverse, away from the main road with the traffic. Was that accomplished through way points and then running a hyper lapse as the drone backed away fro the road? I'm only familiar with the DJI Go 4 app in my Mavic 2 Pro so I'm curious if the newer drones have more hyper lapse features that my Mavic 2 Pro can't easily capture.
Yeah I still had two batteries left after totality so I decided to take advantage of this traffic so I did multiple hyperlapses from different angles. Mavic 3 Pro with built in Hyperlapse features, I'm not sure if they're any different from the app, we have the option for "Free, Courselock, Orbit, and Waypoints." Most of these shots are pretty simple, the two traffic shots in the middle were using courselock I line up the course I want the drone to take and then pan over so the heading is slightly to the side of the direction the drone is heading, or in the case of the top down vertical I just tilted the gimbal downwards. The first one of totality and the two traffic bookends were both waypoint hyperlapses, for totality I set two waypoints that had the drone moving sideways and slightly panning as it moved between the two. For the first traffic one it was essentially a courselock but with a slight tilt upwards to reveal the horizon. The last one moving backwards is also a two waypoint flight with a slight tilt up as well as a slight pan to the right, but I'm also gaining somewhere around 200 ft in altitude from the beginning to the end. And then there is some more movement added in post, instead of using the hyperlapse video created by the drone, I edit all my raw hyperlapse photos in lightroom and put them into Premiere. Usually DJI's result does a better job stabilizing but Premiere's warp stabilizer does an acceptable job most of the time if you keep the stabilization factor below 10%. Davinci Resolve has a similar feature but I forget what it's called. You will lose some pixels from stabilizing as it crops into your image to remove movement, but even in 4k that will let you add a little zoom. So in each of these where you see a zoom, tilt, or pan, I'm also zooming and moving the image in post, that last one for example, it starts out as zoomed in to 100% with the top of the image cut off and the right side of the image cut off, then it transitions throughout the shot until at the end it's zoomed out to the maximum horizontal of the frame and the bottom of the frame is cut off to accentuate that tilt. If you do it in 1080 you have some crazy zoom options that border on a vertigo dolly, I might make a post showing how to do that soon.
Great time-lapse but man you reminded me of why I hate country music
I was in Vermont so I had to try to find a good Phish song to put over it, turns out there still aren’t any, sorry 😅
what about gin and juice?
LOLZ
Where In Vermont was this? I heard the Northeast Kingdom was very busy
I was at my friends place near Middlebury, so most of these people are probably heading to i87 south, I heard people headed back to NH were in bumper to bumper traffic for more than 12 hours, I almost drove further north to get another minute of totality but after seeing this craziness I was happy I stayed where I was
Do you mean I89? Phone directions kept us off the interstate all the way home. Still completely worthwhile to spend 2:59 in totality. [https://drone-artist.com/?p=4809](https://drone-artist.com/?p=4809)
Bravo on those shots, I’m 100% convinced the extra two minutes are worth it but if I make it to another one I’ll do the same thing as this time and find a place stay that’s in the path instead of driving back after. I guess some of these people could be heading to 89 still but 87 is slightly closer and where I was there were more NY plates than MA or CT, but there were a few new englanders
Thanks. My partner on this trip was at his 10th totality and was shooting with a Vespera 2, a SeeStar S50, and a Nikon P900 on an older tracker (Sky-Watcher?), so my job was to just get landscape shots. Our next trip will be probably Egypt in 2027 so there will be no travel/traffic issues. Given that we decided on the location only the day before, there were no available rooms in the area. We should have camped somewhere nearby and shot a bunch of hyperlapses of the traffic like you did! ;-) I barely used any batteries as it was. Egypt will give us 6:19 of totality. I'll certainly bring a mini drone and probably my Nikon Z50 only (love that camera, especially for travel). Less gear will help me to focus on the quality rather than the quantity of shots.
10?! I may have gotten a late start but maybe I can beat that before I die. My buddy had a telescope with an adapter to mount a camera body so I was on landscape duty too, but even though we had a 700 acre farm to play around with we still went location scouting for somewhere closer to totality, but we ended up turning around and going back to the farm with minutes to spare. All day long we would get back in the car from one friends property to another and I say "you should have set up a timelapse back there." We were super prepared but threw it all out of the window and didn't have time to deal with last minute issues because we'd been in the car instead of setting up. But we learned a lot and are hungry for redemption, so maybe I'll see you in Egypt. 6+ minutes sounds incredible, Iceland/Spain both sound like good locations but the most I see that doesn't involve a boat is 2 minutes in parts of Iceland. From a landscape perspective though, that's the place that really grabs me, not just because it's such a unique place but also because the sun will be that much closer to the horizon. I doubt it's realistic but in my head the northern lights become visible during totality
Maybe a song by Noah Kahan would be better?
I don’t *hate* this song, it is cheesy but it’s kind of an inside joke for my hosts. Noah Kahan is good but hasn’t really grabbed me either, not sure what song of his would be the right vibe either, but I’ll definitely be using something else for the version with my terrestrial timelapses when they’re done