This clip was taken early in the morning in a very mountainous area of New York State. I was actually visiting my extended family, not really looking to get any footage. The area was beautiful and I only had one 16GB memory card on me that had the Magic Lantern Firmware. This meant that I only could come home with one time lapse (lesson learned!). This was, I think my 6th attempt at something. The previous day, I had captured a couple of cloud formations that I thought were nice. Each time I deleted the contents of the card to capture something "better".

I managed to capture this time lapse the other day on my quest to film what I call "Toy Story" clouds. While I believe I got the right conditions, the interval of 1 second between shots seemed too long considering how fast the clouds were moving. I plan on taking advantage of Magic Lantern's FPS override feature next time to try to get a much more slower, fluid, dreamy like movement. The only downside is that I will lose the RAW imaging flexibility I get from doing stills. We'll have to see how far my ND filters and polarizers can balance things.

Came across a beautifully silver sky the other day. The sun was coming through a patch of clouds to the right of this time lapse, projecting it's rays onto some of the others. I was quite pleased with this one. One of the challenges I gave to myself recently was to learn as much as I could about creating time lapse videos of clouds. You cannot imagine the wild variables you run into in this environment. I have learned a lot, and I hope some of you may be able to benefit from it. Hope this helps!

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