Drone Milkyway Day to Night Timelapse over Eureka Gold Mine - Death Valley, CA

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A composite day to night timelapse of a drone video over the Eureka Gold Mine in Death Valley, CA and a 3 hour Milkyway timelapse from Dante's Peak, Death Valley, CA. The Milkyway timelapse was captured with a Sony a7iii mirrorless camera and a Sony 24mm f1.4 lens @ f1.4. Intervals were 17s and camera was set to aperture priority with AUTO ISO. The drone video of the Eureka Gold Mine was captured with a Mavic 3 during the daytime and edited for night. Edited in LRTimelapse, Lightroom, and Davinci Resolve 18.
Photography by Daniel McCauley
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[@Jammer.1]

I lived out in Pahrump, Nevada back in 1999-2002 and used go out on long night drives to get away from all the lights just to enjoy the sky !

[@dhmccauley]

That's great. Beautiful area. I love the desolation of area as well, but i do enjoy living in the city as well.

[@IBRAKEFORBEDROCK]

You got my thumbs up .... Very Nice !

[@dhmccauley]

Thank you very much!

[@SlowLaneZ]

How do you get the drone to stay full of battery for a day to night time lapse? A drone cant stay in the air for this long of a time lapse, even if you changed batteries, they only last 30 mins and you'd never get that drone back into the same position to continue the time lapse.

[@dhmccauley]

Good question. As the description states, this is a composite video. The drone video is just that a video about 30s long captured in the morning in daylight. The Milkyway timelapse was about 3 hours and captured at a different location in Death Valley. Carefully mask and edit it, convert day to night, add some car headlights in post, and sprinkle with some extra flavor, and you have a pretty convincing video!

[@SlowLaneZ]

@@dhmccauley ahhhh I didn’t read far enough into it, makes total sense now. I knew it had to be a composite of some sort, I just read the title and clicked like a noob 😂

[@MajesticFlights]

This came out awesome Dan!! Love it!! 👌👌

[@dhmccauley]

Thanks Noel!

[@kevosims2012]

Nice composite bro...really nice. 👍

[@dhmccauley]

Thanks Bruh!

[@HikingTheSonora]

Excellent music

[@dhmccauley]

Thank you. Can you guess the movie its from?