Milky Way timelapse in central South Dakota

For the month of May I shot Milky Way timelapse in central South Dakota when I had the time, and the weather cooperated. The biggest challenge was cloudy nights and the wind. There were very few nights, when I could shoot, that were perfectly clear, and often the wind was blowing 25mph +. That made it hard to get the shots I wanted. I kept most of the shots low to the ground, so the wind wouldn’t catch the setup and cause camera shake, or blow it over. I used a Stage Zero Dolly on the dolly shots and a “Milapse” mount on the panning ones.

Canon T2i
Tokina 11-16mm
Tamron AF 17-50mm

Sigma 20mm F1.8

Dynamic Perception Stage Zero Dolly dynamicperception.com

Shot in RAW format, the Milky Way shots were 30 seconds exposure F2.8 or F1.8 with 2 second interval between shots, for 3-4 hours run time.

Ten seconds of the video is about 2 hours 20 minutes in real time.

Simon Wilkinson from thebluemask.com created the soundtrack “Exodus” for the video

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Tres semanas es el tiempo que le ha costado a Randy Halverson, un agricultor aficionado a la fotografía, realizar este impresionante timelapse desde su granja en Dakota del Sur. Un espectacular trabajo que no solo destaca por su calidad técnica sino por la dificultad de grabación derivada de las condiciones atmosféricas de la zona.

Noches nubladas y fuertes vientos que no han impedido que Halverson haya recopilado horas y horas de material para editar este timelapse en el que un segundo corresponde a catorce minutos reales.

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