Planetary Panoramas 4k – 360 Degree Night Sky Time-Lapse
Compilation of 360 degree night sky footage created using a rig of 4 cameras with fisheye lenses. Featuring the Milky Way, startrails, fireflies, and aurora borealis over iconic landscapes in the United States and Iceland.
Newly remastered and now in 4k with some cool effects.
Music by Brandon McCoy ‘One Letter From Lady’
Played on a one of a kind Rich Tone guitar. The premier luthier of Charlotte, Michigan! Rich Tone let us borrow the orchestra model to record this song with.
After successfully running a Kickstarter campaign Brandon McCoy is going to be recording his debut studio album with his own custom made Rich Tone guitar ‘The Red Dread.’ The album is going to be awesome.
While experimenting with different photography tricks and techniques back in 2012, I was shooting 360 degree panoramas in the daytime and long exposures of the stars streaking in the sky at night. It suddenly became clear that the potential to combine the two techniques could be a trip! I created a custom rig of 4 cameras with fisheye lenses to capture the entire night-sky in motion. Thus the images show the stars rotating around the north star as well as the effect of the southern pole as well and a 360 degree panorama of the scene on Earth. Each camera is doing nonstop long exposures, typically about 1 minute consecutively for the life of the camera battery. Usually about 3 hours. I then made a script to stitch all the thousands of these panoramas into this time-lapse. I created my rig in January of 2013 while in my final semester at Lansing Community College before receiving an associates degree in photography. Given it was winter in Michigan, I didn’t get to chase the notorious clear moonless night sky as much as I had hoped as the region has lots of cloud cover that time of year. Though I was ready on the rare night to go experiment. After graduating in May I had built up quite the urge to hit the road. My rig has taken me to firefly parties in Missouri, dark eerie nights at Devils Tower, through Logan Pass at Glacier National Park, up the mountains of British Columbia, and around the amazing arches and sandstone monuments in the Great American Southwest. As well as a trip to Iceland to get underneath the aurora borealis.
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Scenes:
Milky Way Rising Over Arches National Park, Utah
1. Delicate Arch – Startrails
2. Double Arch Planet
3. Inside Double Arch
4. Landscape Arch
Time Warp in Monument Valley
5. Natural Totem Poles Startrails – Dome to Planet Projection
6. Monument Valley Mittens – Startrails Forward and Reversed
Sumer at the Lake (of the Ozarks, Missouri)
7. Brandon McCoy on a Little Planet
8. Milky Way Over Million Dollar Cove
9. Firefly Planet
10. Fireflies
Auroras Over Icelandic Landscapes
11. Gatklettur
12. Lake Mývatn
13. Skógafoss
14. Kirkjufell
Full Moon
15. Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, Iceland
16. Geysir, Iceland
17. Lunar Eclipse Over Windows/Turret Arch – Arches National Park
Big thanks to the Windwalker crew. Brandon McCoy for the guitar work. DJ Bryan helping out with the computing power. Kalli the great encourager, and the Windwalker for being himself and all the hospitality he provides for artist.
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