I like to think of this as the whole sky always being "there", but the Earth blocks about half of it ALL THE TIME! Alternately, if we look straight "up", we're always pointed towards a different part of same sky. I made these reprocessed spherical timelapses to hopefully communicate these perspectives. I think it's pretty incredible how the sky acts like an ever-changing window on our universe. I shot this timelapse over the course of about a week. (the camera was pretty tired and I went through a bunch of 64BG SD cards...) I ended up finally capturing one good 24-hour span with the camera pointed up, and one good 24-hour span with the camera pointed down. I was using a circular fisheye lens with a 185 degree field of view to capture the entire sky in a single photograph. I also flipped the camera over to take a picture of the ground and capture a full spherical image (albeit separated by a day). I did a whole lot of math and editing in Lightroom (twice for each of the "up" images), Matlab for color temporal smoothing, Davinci Resolve for stabilization and looping, back to Matlab for spherical "unfolding", back to Resolve for compositing the top and bottom images, back to Matlab again for redistorting into the "tiny planet", and finally back into resolve again for a final render. I also passed a few frames through Imagej in order to measure some angles I needed for the polar alignment and "star stabilization". After all that I think it turned out pretty cool! Camera: Sony A6000 - Aperture priority, auto-ISO, AWB Lensbaby circular fisheye (E-mount) - adjusted aperture at sunrise and sunset to control light) External intervalometer set to 1:20/frame (enough time to process a max 30 second exposure and associated dark frame) Case-relay power system (plugged into the wall, you can see the orange cable on the ground...) Other videos in this series: Star-stabilizing the sky: https://youtu.be/JmCNNHQ86NE Tiny planet (APOD Featured!): https://youtu.be/14TrSQQsrNM The "up" view: https://youtu.be/gfSRGHrsYKU Virtual reality timelapse: https://youtu.be/VGAkMqM5fnI GIFs in this series: Tiny Planet: https://gfycat.com/disguisedclevereasteuropeanshepherd Tiny Planet (south pole): https://gfycat.com/courageousbaddaddylonglegs "Tiny Tunnel": https://gfycat.com/bouncyhighlevelaxolotl "Tiny Tunnel" (south pole): https://gfycat.com/jauntycarefulghostshrimp Music Credits: I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) http://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Dreaming in 432Hz by Unicorn Heads is licensed under a Creative Commons license Graphics Credits: Northern hemisphere star chart overlay - Couldn't locate original author, shows up all over tineye... Textures I used to make the intro ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmCNNHQ86NE

Ever wish you could extract one day of nature from the world and play that frame on a loop? I do! and I've been trying to figure out the best way to take full-day loopable timelapses for a few years now. As good weather aligned with a pre-planned hiking trip, I had the awesome opportunity to film a timelapse from Santa Cruz Islands, in Channel Islands National Park off the coast of southern California. Other than the ranger station on the island, I don't think there was a permanent human structure within 20 miles of my camera, and Ventura was behind me to the north, so the southern sky was DARK, and the night sky was awesome! The camera ran for a total of 25 hours and 52 minutes, and I spliced the footage back on itself to create a looping day-long timelapse. I'd been meaning to make a video about shooting 24-hour timelapses because I've done a bunch now and it's a really satisfying technique, so here it is! The full tutorial! I'm going to go through the entire process, front-to-back, that I used to create this timelapse, starting with planning and location selection before I left the mainland, and ending with post-processing and video looping in daVinci Resolve. In between I'll hit everything about physically recording the timelapse, including my equipment setup, camera settings, weatherproofing, and mounting. Once you've got more than a thousand raw files, It also takes a solid day to edit (largely AFK lightroom rendering time but still...) and I go into my complete day-to-night-and-back timelapse workflow. Hope you enjoy! I really love the technique so if you film such a timelapse, let me know cause I'll want to watch! Music Credits: I Dunno by grapes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) http://ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 New Land by ALBIS is licensed under a Creative Commons license ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YorUDE0f9g