Wild Camping

I spent a beautiful night wild camping on top of Errisbeg, Roundstone in June and had meant to post this blog much sooner but had a number of issues with my external hard drives. Unfortunately I ended up losing a lot of work and photography, despite a trip to England to try and recover the data.

The stills from that night's wild camping are lost, as are all the images captured for the two short time-lapse movies below. Fortunately I had already done the rendering work for the two movies and had saved the movie files to my desktop.

It was a good excercise to get to grips with shooting time-lapse. I think the set up video works well. The sunrise video burns out towards the end as the sun breaks the skyline and I'll need to adjust the settings for future sunrise/sunset shots to ensure a more even change in light from dark-bright and bright-dark. 

The other benefit to testing out the set up on Errisbeg is that it's only an hours walk up so I got to work out how much gear is needed. I did take a picture of all the items I took up in my 95 litre rucksack and it was amazing to think it all fitted in.

The weather has been great over the last few weeks which bodes well for a venture up into the higher mountains of the 12 bens.