Mount Teide, thanks to timelapse, like it has never been seen before

In the project 'Teide, laboratory of clouds', astrophotographer Daniel López achieves masterful work resulting from an entire year capturing timelapse images of the World Heritage volcano in Tenerife.

Daniel López, considered by NASA to be the best astrophotographer in Spain, is capturing the surroundings of the Teide National Park with a unique beauty never seen before. in your project Teide, cloud laboratory This man from Huelva based in the Canary Islands achieves, using timelapse techniques, images of great plastic beauty, the result of an entire year of filming.

For this production, which has the collaboration of the State Meteorological Agency and the Teide Cable Car, López works with several DSLR cameras (three Canon 6D and two 5D and one Sony A7S) along with sliders and motorized cranes located at the Izaña Atmospheric Research Center. From there, at intervals of several minutes (depending on atmospheric variables) images of both the volcano itself and the valley of La Orotava and Las Cañadas are collected. The cameras are remote controlled from this astrophotographer's mobile phone thanks to an application developed by himself, which allows him to vary the interval of capturing the images depending on the time of day, the light or the movement of the clouds. To work with the RAW and convert it into video, Daniel López has used Adobe Photoshop Lightroom y LRTimechild.

In this work, the volcano declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO is observed bathed by a sea of ​​clouds or “brushing” a giant full moon thanks to images obtained 143 kilometers from the neighboring island of La Palma. This privileged environment goes, thanks to the magic of timelapse, from flowering in spring to snow in winter in a matter of seconds.

En este proyecto, Daniel López ha empleado ya más de medio millón de imágenes que ocupan hasta ocho terabytes de capacidad. El vídeo que se muestra es solo la tarjeta de presentación del proyecto que acaba de comenzar y que tendrá continuidad en forma de exposición e incluso, quizás, llegue a extenderse a otros entornos naturales de las islas.

Ingeniero de profesional y fotógrafo de vocación, López se inició en astrofotografía con solo 14 años. Buena parte de su minucioso e interesante trabajo puede seguirse desde su web El Cielo de Canarias.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5McbP8259DA