The Teide, thanks to Timelapse, as before had never been seen

In the ‘Teide, Cloud Laboratory’ project, Astrophotographer Daniel López achieves a masterful work fruit of a whole year by capturing images in Timelapse of the Tenerife Volcano Heritage of Humanity.

Daniel López, considered by NASA as the best astrophotographer in Spain, is capturing the surroundings of the Teide National Park with a unique beauty never seen so far. In your project Teide, Cloud Laboratory This Huelva based in the Canary Islands achieves through Timelapse techniques some images of great plastic beauty fruit of a whole year of filming.

For this production, which has the collaboration of the State Meteorology Agency and the Teide cable car, López works with several DSLR cameras (three Canon 6d and two 5d and one Sony A7s) together with sliders and motorized cranes located at the Izaña Atmospheric Research Center. From there, in intervals of several minutes (according to the atmospheric variables) images are collected from both the volcano and the La Orotava and Las Cañadas Valley. The cameras are removed from the mobile of this astrophotographer thanks to an application developed by himself which allows him to vary the image collection interval according to the time of day, the light or the movement of the clouds. To work with the RAW and turn them into video, Daniel López has used Adobe Photoshop Lightroom y Ltimsa.

This work shows the volcano declared by the UNESCO World Heritage Bathed by a sea of clouds or "touching" a giant full moon thanks to images obtained at 143 kilometer from the neighboring island of La Palma. This privileged environment passes, thanks to the magic of the Timelapse, from flowering in spring to the snow of winter in seconds.

In this project, Daniel López has already used more than half a million images that occupy up to eight capacity Terabytes. The video shown is only the presentation card of the project that has just begun and will have continuity in the form of exposure and even, perhaps, it extends to other natural environments of the islands.

Professional engineer and vocation photographer, López began in astrophotography with only 14 years. Much of your thorough and interesting job can be followed from your website The Cielo de Canarias.

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