Budapest Sky Day & Night timelapse video with stars

[algi]

Hello everyone!

I made this timelapse video with a Canon EOS 550D on a tripod.

All the night images were shot with a Canon EF 50 f/1.8 II with the iris opened up to max and using a 30 second exposure, shooting an image every minute with the Magic Lantern's intervalometer. Before shooting I focused on the stars manually but then I locked the focus by switching to autofocus, because the clicking itself would slide away the focus if I didn't do that. I was taking pics after 1 AM when the floodlights were shut down. When the buildings and statues were in total dark, the long exposure didn't overblow them.

The daylight images were captured with the kit lens, an E-FS 18-55. I used a 10 seconds intervalum, because anything more would turn the clouds into explosions and anything less would make it humanly impossible for me to move the camera with the tripod. I put a Polaroid circular polar filter on the lens and closed the iris as small as I could, then adjusted the brightness using the exposure. (I used Magic Lantern's zebras to tell me if any part of the image is overblown.) Long exposure is important to avoid the flicker I get when I try to make a timelapse video with a short exposure.

I used Hitfilm 3 Express to stitch the images together, using image stabilization (pattern recognition) to make it fluid and not jump around.

i started making it 7 months ago and while shooting clouds were more about finding the perfect cloud, shooting at night was more about keeping my sanity intact while standing in one place for 4 hours without doing anything, only looking at the camera doing the job for me.

PS. I hope, this is the proper place in the forum and I hope I managed to link the video properly.