Cloud Timelapse

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Just finished my first attempt at timelapse, it's shots of the cloud formations over my hometown of Port Elizabeth. All in all in took about 3 months to get enough footage to fill the instrumental track I wrote and used. Check the Youtube description for more info.

 
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I liked the clips at 1:02, 1:26, & 2:42 best. The one at 1:41 would have been great if the wire wasn't in view. Instrumental track was very good, nice composing!
 
Thanks Cheryl, been composing songs for many years so thought it was a perfect marriage for a timelapse.

For anyone wondering, these are still shots combined together, not a video clip sped up. Used a mixture of Lightroom 4, LRTimelapse and Adobe Premiere to create this.
 
I think that cloud timelapses are generally most successful when the clouds are noticeably forming and dissipating in the frame, not just panning past you in a static shape, as they are in most of these scenes.

At 2:20ish you have a bit of the clouds changing shape in frame, but mostly, they look almost as if you could have just shot a foreground with a greenscreen and then Ken Burns-style edited in a panning static image in the back, you know?

Here is a clearer example of what I'm talking about:



To get the most dramatic cloudlapses, you would want to go somewhere where the forecast predicts two different fronts are going to clash for the first time, AND/OR somewhere where clouds rise or fall in elevation significantly (slopes of large hills or mountains).
 
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Thanks for the comments Gavjenks. These were the best shots I could get from my backyard, next one I will definately take your comments into consideration. Great timelapse by the way
 

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