Heath Carmody | An Intricate Display of Bendy Light (20 minutes of raw mirage footage) @heathcarmody2867 | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 21 hours ago.
From observation #4, March 22, 2023. Shelter Bay Ferry (again).
As much as I love time lapse, sometimes the real-time refraction effects are good enough that they don't need to be sped up to show the dramatic changes.
I picked one 20 minute segment out of over 6 hours of recording on this day, to present raw and without any context, comparison, analysis or music. Hopefully, it is interesting enough on its own. If enough people like this I'll start doing the same for each observation.
This was after after a long period of strong inferior mirage, but a somewhat unique transition where the higher areas seemed to stretch before the entire water surface and land became visible. After this point, refraction went kind of crazy (again) and I captured a ton of good footage from 3 cameras. Even though this was similar effects as my last 2 observations, there is always something unique and interesting about each day, and more to learn (and to try to remember), as long as I can stay long enough to capture it.
Camera had a few issues. There's some strong but gradual vertical drift which I like to blame on the tripod, but since there was no wind whatsoever and very strong local refraction, I'm not so sure. I was away from the camera the entire time too. Why did it move and reset back gradually like that? Either way, it's a poor segment to do any real analysis on, but still worth looking at closer. Also, it had trouble focusing a few times and I realized after that the motion stabilizer was on, not full but on basic. I try to keep it off for tripod recording.
If you want to know anything about this observation please ask or check out my last few videos with some basic info on the location. I will be making more videos of this observation soon. Still working on a long video from observation #3 and more stuff from all 4 days and counting..
From observation #4, March 22, 2023. Shelter Bay Ferry (again).
As much as I love time lapse, sometimes the real-time refraction effects are good enough that they don't need to be sped up to show the dramatic changes.
I picked one 20 minute segment out of over 6 hours of recording on this day, to present raw and without any context, comparison, analysis or music. Hopefully, it is interesting enough on its own. If enough people like this I'll start doing the same for each observation.
This was after after a long period of strong inferior mirage, but a somewhat unique transition where the higher areas seemed to stretch before the entire water surface and land became visible. After this point, refraction went kind of crazy (again) and I captured a ton of good footage from 3 cameras. Even though this was similar effects as my last 2 observations, there is always something unique and interesting about each day, and more to learn (and to try to remember), as long as I can stay long enough to capture it.
Camera had a few issues. There's some strong but gradual vertical drift which I like to blame on the tripod, but since there was no wind whatsoever and very strong local refraction, I'm not so sure. I was away from the camera the entire time too. Why did it move and reset back gradually like that? Either way, it's a poor segment to do any real analysis on, but still worth looking at closer. Also, it had trouble focusing a few times and I realized after that the motion stabilizer was on, not full but on basic. I try to keep it off for tripod recording.
If you want to know anything about this observation please ask or check out my last few videos with some basic info on the location. I will be making more videos of this observation soon. Still working on a long video from observation #3 and more stuff from all 4 days and counting..
