Cairns Total Solar Eclipse 2012 - Moon shadow across the landscape! Jochen Spencer 2012-11-19 | Timelapse and real-time footage of the North Queensland Total Solar Eclipse, November 14th 2012. Watch the shadow of the moon move across the earth during totality. This video gives a close to real impression (its a bit darker than the actual event :-) of what it was like to observe the progression in and out of totality during the eclipse. Looking at the edges of the frame and the horizon you can observe the movement of the moon's shadow across the landscape. This has been sped up a little to enhance the effect, but the slide in and out of totality is in real time - it all happened very quickly!This was the most surreal 2+ minutes of my life! I hope this video conveys even a small sense of what it was like to see this and encourages people to go view a total eclipse in the future. Unreal!!!Location: Near Palmer River, North Queensland Australia
Out of the Ashes - A story about a communitys battle with bureaucracy to prevent the next bushfire. Jochen Spencer 2022-12-15 | Find out more: www.mtwilsonbackburn.comA story about a community's three year battle with bureaucracy to prevent the next bushfire.A half hour documentary on how the communities of Mt Tomah, Berambing, Bilpin and Kurrajong Heights have recovered from the Rural Fire Service (RFS) Mt Wilson backburn on 15 -21 December 2019. The film has been released in acknowledgement of the upcoming 3rd anniversary of this disaster.The documentary takes you on a journey through the lives of Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury residents whose homes were burnt down, and businesses destroyed by the fire as they struggle to make sense of what happened, rebuild and advocate for change to make sure it doesn't happen again.The video was funded with a small grant from Wentworth Healthcare, provider of the Nepean Blue Mountains Primary Health Network to the Kurrajong Heights Bowling Club. A preview was held to an overflowing Bilpin Hall on 2 December where residents gathered and cried, laughed and clapped and danced the night away in celebration of their recovery efforts.
Record Mega Jenga Timelapse and Tower Collapse Jochen Spencer 2014-01-07 | A short timelapse video of a 2hr game of Giant Jenga. This game broke the family record of 43 2/3 levels. Great slow motion footage at the end capturing the collapse of the tower on one of the players (me)!
The Milky Way - Our Galaxy Star Timelapse from the Blue Mountains Australia Jochen Spencer 2012-06-19 | Short timelapse of the Milky Way Galaxy shot from Pierce's Pass Grose Valley in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia.
Timelapse of Transit of Venus and Partial Lunar Ecplipse 2012 (Sydney) Jochen Spencer 2012-06-07 | This Short timelapse of the Transit of Venus 2012 (6th June) and the partial Lunar eclpise (4th June). These were shot from near sydney using a Canon 7D and sigma 120-400mm lens. I was surprised how well the sun images came out.For the Transit of Venus I used a 9 Stop neutral density filter to block most of the suns glare. I actually would have liked another ND filter to go on top for when the sun was in full glare.The hardest part was stabalising the footage (and its still not perfect). For this i used after affects (stabalising feature) as well as some tedious frame by frame re positioning. The results aren't perfect but good enough to illustrate the lunar eclipse quite well. Unfortunately given the weather and time constraints the actual movement of venus across the sun is barely noticable.All in all it was fun - but am a little bit disappointed with the final.This is my first experiment in capturing either of these events.There are plenty of full length videos of the Transit of Venus that are pretty awesome also on youtube that i highly recommend checking out also.
Blue Mountains Timelapse - PART 2 Jochen Spencer 2011-04-19 | Timelapse from Anvil Rock near Blackheath looking towards the greater Sydney basin. The clouds created really nice shadows in this but were ultimately too thick (it started raining about 10min after this finished). The short glimpse of stars at the end is tantilising but was very short lived.See Blue Mountains Time Lapse - PART 3 for the following night with no clouds!
Blue Mountains Timelapse - PART 3 Jochen Spencer 2011-04-19 | Shot from near Mt Hay looking north towards Mt Banks and further up the Grose Valley. Blue Gum Forest is in the bottom left corner with mist forming above it. About 8 hrs of realtime compressed into 1min. Would have continued but batteries ran out. A pitty because dawn was only about half an hour away. You will notice a small jump in the middle which (I presume) is the unfortunate result of the camera filing system clicking over from IMG_9999 to IMG_0001. Perhaps a good lesson to remember as i take my next 10,000 photos on my 7D! There are a couple of slight meteors if you look closely - the very beginning of the Lyrids Shower on the 16th April.
Timelapse Test - Sydney from Blue Mountains.f4v Jochen Spencer 2011-04-09 | In anticipation of upcoming 2011 meteor showers I set out to find a good location and experiment with camera settings. The clouds were a real pain at times.Because it is so dark, you wouldn't notice that i was set up on the edge of huge cliffs. Hopefully the moon will help me out next time so we can see the landscape more.
Blue Mountains Nature Documentary (HD) Jochen Spencer 2010-09-07 | UPDATE: my new Blue Mountains film has been released here: youtube.com/watch?v=4XY4kEESC6EPHYSIS by Jochen Spencer ::: A Short film shot in the Blue Mountains wilderness near Sydney, Australia. Explores natural poetics and the beauty and strangeness of the wilderness.Shot entirely on a Canon 7d with Tamron 17-55mm and 70-200mm lenses.
sunrays_2_FLV.flv Jochen Spencer 2010-08-28 | Timelapse footage of beautiful afternoon sunrays in the Blue Mountains. Shoot from near the South Head of the Grose River. Part of short film called Physis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XOsbW4kzyA
Physis - Blue Mountains Documentary, Australia.f4v Jochen Spencer 2010-06-18 | HD version is now uploaded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_F--tx1hksThe Nature of Things. A short film shot in the Blue Mountains that explores the natural world of beauty and strangeness. Shot entirely on a Canon 7D with Tamron f2.8 70-200mm lens and f2.8 17-55mm lenses. Many thanks to Wollemi Wilderness Retreat for the use of their land for filming. Visit: http://www.wollemiwilderness.com.au
