New Zealand Time Lapse Photography Behind the Scenes Episode 2

[@johnecksmann5940]

Great video Bevan, been watching your time lapses for quite sometime, I appreciate the hard work involved to capture the shot!

[@BevanPercivalPrimalEarthImages]

Thanks John - for me it's all part of the challenge that keep you doing it!

[@johnecksmann5940]

@@BevanPercivalPrimalEarthImages Yep me too, keeps me going!

[@MrAllekss]

Great, thanks for sharing your videos! Its great and nice to see people with a common cause. Im following your videos. Im shooting timelapse, too.

[@BevanPercivalPrimalEarthImages]

Thanks mate, all the best with your shooting!

[@MrAllekss]

@@BevanPercivalPrimalEarthImages Here is one of my latest timelapse kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXaQfoqAYteDftE

[@macronencer]

That was a really tough trek mate! I wonder how many people realise the effort that goes into this creative pursuit. Looks like you found an amazing dark location though, that Milky Way was astounding. How cold do you reckon the night was? I've never had that much ice on my tent, haha! It's so true, the sun feels incredible when it first hits you after a night like that. By the way, have you thought about using a separate mic closer to your face? I lost a lot of what you were saying when you turned away from the camera. Just a thought, and I'm enjoying these videos a lot anyway, so please keep posting. All the best :)

[@BevanPercivalPrimalEarthImages]

Thank you. It was well below zero that night but not quite cold enough to ice up the surface of the tarn. Took a long time for my feet to warm up that night in my sleeping bag as I forgot to take a spare pair of dry socks! Yes I need some better setup for sound and video, which will come soon. This one is basically all off trail and not easy terrain to traverse. Thanks for the support, much appreciated!

[@macronencer]

@@BevanPercivalPrimalEarthImages Wow, you slept in wet socks? Must have been miserable :( I like to use those foot warmer pouches, by the way. Always handy to have a few of those with you for nights like that, especially for those of us who have to stand up all night to adjust the camera. I really want to get one of those ramping devices at some point so I can sleep in a tent instead :) Looking forward to another video.

[@BevanPercivalPrimalEarthImages]

@@macronencer no I took the wet socks off but it took a long time for the feet to warm up! before I invested in lens heaters years ago I used to use those hand warmer pouches taped around the lens to stop fogging, but they don't stay warm for long.

[@macronencer]

​@@BevanPercivalPrimalEarthImages Oh yes, I tried that as well at one point. It's completely useless if you're on a long night shoot, isn't it? I got myself a "dew heater" strap with a temperature regulator unit, which works really well. It was designed for astronomers' telescopes, but it's great for lenses too. The only thing I've never managed to solve is how to point a camera *upward* when dew is actually falling from the sky. That was what ruined my first attempt at a night time lapse, back in 2013... and even with the heater strap on the lens, you still get fogged glass in humid enough conditions. Maybe a fan heater of some sort might work.