Arizona Sunset animated gif as promised

azfix (65) in photography • 7 years ago

I recently posted an HDR image of a sunset and a few users asked to see more, so here is an animation from the series of photos I took to capture the sunset. The quality is slightly diminished because of the need to keep the file size down so it loads at a reasonable speed for people with slower connections.

This is a still from the start of the time-lapse I took

Here is a photo midway through the series of photos, notice how the clouds really start to light up and look like they are on fire.

The final shot as the sky starts to darken.

Thanks for looking
Please feel free to ask questions and comment below.

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7 years ago by azfix (65)

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bleujay (70) · 7 years ago

Thank you for posting @azfix.

Lovely work......the photographs are beautiful and gif...just incredible.

All the best to you. Cheers.

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thanks @bleujay I really appreciate your support

kam.ila (63) · 7 years ago

Result looks great!

Greetings @kam.ila

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thank you @kam.ila nice to meet you

greenie (47) · 7 years ago

Absolutely gorgeous! Great work. Thank you for sharing.

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thank you, very nice of you to stop by and comment.

mariacherries (54) · 7 years ago

Wow I loved the animated gif you did, I'm very familiar with the landscape because I live in Sonora, Mexico, so the desert landscape here is pretty much the same you see on Arizona, anyway keep on Steemin :D

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

The Sonoran desert is truly a magical place with the monsoon season and the diversity of desert creatures. Thanks for stopping by my fellow Sonoran desert friend!

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mariacherries (54) · 7 years ago

Your welcome desert friend 🙋

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insiders (42) · 7 years ago

Upvoted and also resteemed :)

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thank you, I appreciate that

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nachon (49) · 7 years ago

Wow awesome

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thanks man!

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nachon (49) · 7 years ago

🤓

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harleymechanix (61) · 7 years ago

Wow. Great capture.

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thank you, took a while to get everything but it was fun

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lukestokes (75) · 7 years ago

Excellent work! Thanks for sharing.

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thanks man, its nice to get recognition now and then for my original content on Steemit.

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greenjuice (70) · 7 years ago

so beautiful~!

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Glad you like it @greenjuice :)

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rogasa3000 (56) · 7 years ago

Aww so beautiful and peaceful photography, you are really great 👍🏼 following now

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the kind words and nice compliment.

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raist (52) · 7 years ago

What a beautiful sunset, i also have some good pictures of sunset , you can visit my blog.

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thank you, I am always on the lookout for original content

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rizasukma (63) · 7 years ago

wow ... very beautiful and amazing my friend

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thank you, much appreciated!

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rizasukma (63) · 7 years ago

You are welcome :-)

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mimis (37) · 7 years ago

what a beautiful view!! ♥♥

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Arizona has some of the most amazing sunsets with wide open landscapes, I am just lucky enough to be here to capture it.

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hunterbliss (35) · 7 years ago

Now THAT is an amazing GIF.

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

I appreciate that, I spent quite a bit of time capturing and editing this

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o1o1o1o (55) · 7 years ago

Nice job following up the still with the sequence and animation - glad you see you got plenty of Steemit love and upvotes.

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Glad you like it, so nice to have all the Steemit love

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playfulfoodie (68) · 7 years ago

Great images yet again @azfix!

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thanks @playfulfoodie I need to get better at day time photos, I have been spending too much time in the dark with the Milky Way. ;)

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playfulfoodie (68) · 7 years ago

Well that's a nice goal! As long as you don't forget about the Milky Way alltogether... You're who I go to for my Milky Way fix! ;-)

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

I can never forget about that, its really what got me interested in photography in the first place.

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baymaxchan19 (31) · 7 years ago

Very beautiful and magical! Upvoted. Resteemed. and followed! :)

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azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thanks for the resteem, very nice of you to do so.

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xwerk (61) · 7 years ago

Definitly awesome.

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thanks man, was fun to make this one

xwerk (61) · 7 years ago

I can imagine. Beeing there and watching it live must be really cool. Love that desert landscape and vegetation. Maybe you can post some nice closeups of these catus/cactuses (??) and other interesting plants some day.
Well I guess it's just the usual vegetation around where you live, but for me it is always fascinating. ;)

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

That is a great idea for a post, I will have to get a good collection together.

xwerk (61) · 7 years ago

Great, looking forward to it!

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natashahall (57) · 7 years ago

Love it! Really nice work putting this together :)

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thanks @natashahall very nice of you to say.

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anna-redhead (54) · 7 years ago

Lovely timelapse! How long did it take to make it?

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thank you, it took under an hour for the time-lapse photos and about the same for the edit.

old-guy-photos (73) · 7 years ago

Does your camera put the time lapse together, or do you have to??

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

I use an open source program called magic lantern that you load from the sd card into the camera http://www.magiclantern.fm/ and its great for time -lapse, long exposure and bracketed shots. For the animated gif file I used gimp and exported the series of photos as an animation. For video you pretty much just pull in all the photos from the series and export in whatever video format you prefer. They do make a camera that does this in the camera, but I prefer this method.

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joselito (38) · 7 years ago

Nice gif.

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thank you

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crycmex (33) · 7 years ago

very nice photos...

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thank you

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duki (46) · 7 years ago

Oh my... love the colors

azfix (65) · 7 years ago

Thanks

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azfix (65) · 7 years ago

thanks @minnowbooster

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bardionson (45) · 7 years ago

This is great.

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