The weather forecast for Saturday wasn't promising, but having spent the working week hunched over a keyboard and monitor the urge to get out was too great to resist, so come Saturday afternoon my wife Liz and I got in the car and headed up the North Wales coast for some fresh air.
Imagine my pleasure when, after something to eat and a good long stroll along the promenade at Llandudno, the clouds to the west broke up allowing the late evening sun to stream through the gaps and paint the landscape with golden light.
But how to make the most of this unexpected weather bonus.
A few days previously I'd visited the seafront at Rhyl to film the incoming tide and noticed that, from this stretch of coast, the sun would set directly behind the closest turbines of the offshore Colwyn Bay wind farm.
What an opportunity then, to shoot a time lapse sequence of the sun setting behind the rotating turbines, so off we went a few miles down the coast to Rhyl, just in time to set up and capture the hundreds of still images needed for thirty seconds of video.
The weather was most helpful, with just some broken cloud on the horizon adding a little extra interest to the scene, and the strobing effect of the wind turbines being photographed every two seconds looks quite cool too.
Filename - windfarm sunset timelapse 01.mp4
Camera - Canon 6D
Lens - 100-400mm zoom @400mm
Exposure (start of sequence)
1/800 sec, f5.6, ISO100
Exposure (end of sequence)
1/125 sec, f5.6, ISO100
Time between exposures - 2 secs
Location - Colwyn Bay, North Wales
This clip - HD 720p
Clip duration - 30 secs
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