A couple weeks ago, we had an amazing sunset. I posted some photos here. Even local weather guru Cliff Mass had a post - it was that spectacular.
I was shooting a time-lapse and caught a little bit of the action towards the end:
There are some artificats at the end (blockiness and banding) that result from greatly reducing the image size from 6000 by 4000 RAW original down to 640 by 480 JPG) for processing. Some of the artifacts also result from the way JPG handles low light levels. I have the original 500 RAW images and will be playing around with them in Adobe Lightroom and will try rendering another series at higher resolution. Even on a decent machine, 30 seconds of time-lapse at 6000 by 4000 can take 20-30 hours to render but the results are gorgeous!!!
More later...