This one doesn’t really require much more introduction than the author’s (Ettubrute) description:
On my night time flight back to SF from Amsterdam, I noticed that the lights from cities were making the clouds glow. Really spectacular and ethereal – it was really seeing the impact of urban environments from a different perspective. Each glow or squiggle represents one town or city!
Luckily the flight was half empty, so I was able to set up an improvised stabilizer mound made up of my bags, pillows, and blankets for my camera to sit on.
We were around the midwest at the beginning of the clip, and there were fewer cities once we hit the rockies. the bridge at the end is the san mateo bridge.
Technique: 1600iso; beginning – 1 (30sec) exposure / 45secs; end – 1 (4sec) exposure / 10 secs; total elapsed time: around 3 hours?
Equipment used: Nikon D300 (interval shooting mode), Tokina 12-24mm.
Music: Bloc Party – Signs
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Definitely a unique view of the land. Great job!
What a way to while away the time on a flight. The light and heat envelopes surrpounding cities are something else, and boy are they shown off to good effect here!
That is super cool! I wish I had the time, energy and flights to do the same! Amazing!
Pretty cool, I wish I was able to spend a flight productively. Unfortunately I am scared of flying…so my experience generally consists of drinking myself into a stupor then boarding the plane and passing out for the duration of the flight. However, there have been some “more exciting” flights during which I was banned from one major US carrier…and then another one…oops
Very cool. On a similar note, here is a great time lapse photo video of Seattle: http://www.danachatz.com/seattletimelapse/
This is AMAZING! I guess he used a tripod…
This is a very creative way to pass a few hours on a plane. Unfortunately, where I live the cities are a LONG way from each other so I am not sure this would work. :(