Timelapse

Horizons Teaser from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.

Horizons Teaser

A few short clips from my upcoming timelapse film titled Horizons. The online short will feature an original score by Bear McCreary. http://www.bearmccreary.com  There will also be an extended cut, available for download at http://www.dakotalapse.com Music is “Nebula Drift” by Simon Wilkinson http://www.thebluemask.com Sponsors: Borrowlenses http://www.borrowlenses.com Dynamic Perception dollies http://www.dynamicperception.com

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South Dakota Aurora

Horizons Stills

Stills from “Horizons” timelapse – coming out soon Order Prints and Gallery Wraps of selected stills. See my Facebook and Google+ pages for more recent photos. Click on the 2, 3 and 4 below the photos, for more pages.

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Meteor, Lightning and the Milky Way

      While editing timelapse I shot July 2012, I noticed a meteor in a frame. I caught it on 2 Canon 5D Mark III cameras. Last July, I posted a photo of the lightning and Milky Way, but missed the meteor. Phil Plait wrote about that photo last [...]

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Meteor, Lightning and the Milky Way with Zeiss 25mm F2.0 Meteor with Canon 14mm on 5D Mark III Cropped from 14mm
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Meteor Persistent Train – 2012

      Update: Phil Plait also wrote this article about it. What are the odds that you can catch a meteor with a persistent train, in the same spot, one year later? On October 6th, 2012, I setup timelapse, in the location that I caught this one. 2011 Meteor [...]

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2012 Meteor with persistent train Meteor from 2nd Camera 2011 Meteor with persistent train Meteor persistent train 2012
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Shooting timelapse in cold weather, Storm Jacket camera cover, Rokinon 14mm lens

  The other night, I shot a timelapse of the Moon, Venus and Jupiter conjunction west of Madison, WI. It was about 20 degrees, so not real cold, but cold enough to need some cold weather gear on the camera. The above video shows the short timelapse, and also a [...]

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2011 Meteor with persistent train

Temporal Distortion Extended Cut

    See the Temporal Distortion short with Bear McCreary’s music here. This extended cut excerpts video, features Simon Wilkinson’s music. Buy and download the 23 minute extended cut below. _______________________________________________________________________________________ What you see is real, but you can’t see it this way with the naked eye. It is the [...]

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Temporal Distortion from Randy Halverson on Vimeo.

Temporal Distortion

Featuring an original score by Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Eureka, etc) Bear wrote about composing Temporal Distortion here. Thanks to Bear for taking the time to do this! Download an MP3 of Bear McCreary’s Temporal Distortion on Amazon or on Itunes ________________________________________________________________ There is a 23 minute [...]

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Aurora at Storm Level

Aurora at Storm Level

On 10-24-2011 the forecast was for storm level Aurora displays. My son and I went out that night west of Madison, WI to shoot some timelapse and take stills of them. At one point they were so bright, they lit up the ground, it will be hard to edit the [...]

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ISS and Milky Way with 3 cameras

  On 10-16-2011 I caught the International Space Station, rising next to the Milky Way, on 3 cameras that were shooting timelapse. The moon rose shortly after it passed. The timelapse above is slowed down when the ISS passes. Phil Plait also has an interesting article on it here. This [...]

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Second camera with ISS and Milky Way ISS reflecting on lake ISS and Milky Way from 3rd Camera
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2011 Meteor with persistent train

Meteor Persistent Train

      Bad Astronomer on the Meteor and persistent train While shooting a Moon set with the Milky Way timelapse near the White River in South Dakota. I caught a meteor with a persistent train. It lasted for 68 frames of the timelapse then moved out of frame to [...]

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