“Soft Lines”
I thought this one was going to be a dud for a few reasons. I got set up late, so I only caught the last bit of the sunset, and I was using my super telephoto lens while it was quite windy, so there was a lot of camera shake. (not the kind that makes your photos blurry, but the kind that makes your timelapse video look like it was shot during an earthquake) Stacking a shaky timelapse usually just makes a mess (mostly of the horizon in my case) but when I tried stacking this with the mean stack mode, it gave me a crisp horizon and soft cloud trails.
I almost deleted this timelapse before even processing it, but I’m glad I gave it a whirl, because I consider this a save, and I learned a new trick in the process. (which I’m sure I’ll use in the future)
I made this time stack by combining 100 photos into one image, using the “mean” stack mode in Photoshop.
K. Evan Coles 