This is me !

And I am passionate about photography! Since ever ! Well.. almost: p I am particularly fascinated by astrophotography, and I would like to make a timelapse of the Milky Way of about 3:30 minutes or more with different landscapes, in France!

I come from a family of musicians, and I studied at the conservatory of music of Cannes so what better to associate my two passions? I will make myself the image and the music.

I have been preparing this project for a while now, I regularly check and test. I bought little by little the gear I needed but I still miss some stuff ...

What is a timelapse of the Milky Way?

A timelapse is taking pictures at regular intervals for a certain time to create an accelerated video. The more we take photos at large intervals, the faster the video will be, because we stream the images at a speed of 24 frames per second. The earth turns and the timelapse will highlight this movement. The stars will scroll in the sky and the ark of the Milky Way will rise!

Photographing the Milky Way is not an easy exercise, not to mention the necessary equipment, it is necessary to travel to escape the light pollution of the cities, to have the weather on its side and ideally to do it during the phase of new moon (when the moon is visible during the day) because the moon makes a lot of light and prevents to see the Milky Way. With all these conditions, there are only a few days left in the month to be able to make the pictures.

To make a timelapse, it takes time, a lot of time. For information, 15 seconds of video is equivalent to about 3:30 of real time, I go with a tent, something to eat, drink, spend time and because there are only a few days in the month available do it and at specific times, it will be done over several days spread over at least 3 months. There is also the processing phase of these thousands of photos, editing and to finish the music. I estimate it all at about 4 months of all-inclusive work.

This is not a sunset, but the light pollution that we see in orange, the effect is nice but we don't see very well the Milky Way

La tête dans les étoiles