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For four consecutive nights I traveled throughout the Jura and Swiss Alps regions to record the Nights of Shooting Stars, a timelapse short that showcases meteors. On August 12-13th there was a nice peak of Perseid meteors with about 40 meteors an hour, but some other radiant also gave nice shooting stars. This year the conditions were exceptionally good due to the new moon corresponding with the Perseids peak, but also nice anticyclonic conditions that allowed rather clear nights. It was the occasion for me to try and record as many meteors as possible on timelapse with a brand new post-processing workflow that I am showcasing for the first time ever here, allowing even more detail in the milky way and deep-sky objects. I traveled to several locations. First I drove to 'my backyard' aka the Jura mountains to get an absolute gorgeous water reflection at the many forested lakes they possess (Lac d'Ilay and Lac de Bonlieu). On the third night for the peak of the Perseids I traveled 2,5 hours away from home to the fantastically beautiful Emosson lake and dam in the Swiss Valais. Once hiked up there a gorgeous view of the milky way core passing behind Europe's highest mountains Mont Blanc (4807m) also offered the best 'shower' effect with many bright greenish Perseid fireballs raining down. The show got shortened by rolling clouds around 3am but I think I got the best of the show. On the fourth night I travelled almost 4 hours away from home even further east and deeper into Alpine Switzerland. I stationed myself at Grimsel pass, a very renowned site for dark skies and actually some of western Europe's darkest ones! I shot some very nice shots in the glaciers and mountains around, with the best reflection shot I have gotten so far and some very nice mist (0:53). In this short many other things can be seen thanks to the special processing workflow I just crafted. The pine green meteors all directed in one direction are Perseids but you can sometimes peek at others that shoot in other directions and burning blue or yellow indicating other metals being combusted. They might come from Alpha Cygnids, Kappa Cygnids, Alpha Capricornids or even North Iota Aquarids. Many other deep-sky objects can be seen: the Andromeda galaxy, Hear and Soul nebulae, North American and Pelican nebulae, close-up shots at the Lagoon and triffid nebulae, the big dipper, the Pleiades and California nebula, the Hyades, and if you look closely you can even see the Triangulum galaxy! The film starts with some innovative shots that I am very happy about: the reflection of our home galaxy in more or less still waters of ponds and lakes, but also meteors if you look closely! I was so happy when I caught them! Everything was recorded with the Sony a7s and Canon 6D Baader modded, as well as a wide variety of lenses (Sigma, Samyang) ranging from 14 to 135mm. Motion created using the Vixen Polarie in a panning mode and the Syrp Genie generation I 3-axis system. Further detail and contrast enhancement was possible thanks to the Matt Aust and Lonely Speck LP filters. All post-processing was done in Lr, Ps, timelapse plugin for Lr, TLDF, Sequence, FCPX. All this content is copyrighted AMP&F and may NOT be used without the owner’s permission (shoot me an email for inquiries at adphotography2410@). The soundtrack ‘Rosetta’ by Ebb and Flod was licensed through Epidemicsound and may not be used for any other purpose. Thanks for watching this video, I really hope it was useful for you and that you liked it. If you did please subscribe to my channel, like comment and share the video around. For more information, you can also find me at: Website: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram:
