Sunrise at Dead Horse Point. The morning after I made the previous video, I got up and drove out here early to try and catch sunrise from this amazing viewpoint. When you see a series of time lapse shots in a movie like Koyaanisqatsi you think "Oh, that must have been fun, driving around Utah to a different place for every sunrise and sunset, I could put something like that together with 2 weeks worth of shooting". But, the environment has to cooperate or your results will be underwhelming.

This video suffered from clouds hanging low on the horizon to the east. The rocks are illuminated with the red color I was hoping for only briefly as the sun passes between clouds on its way up. This would have been fine for a still photograph where one can wait for the perfect lighting, but for time lapse you need perfect lighting for the entire sunrise. It may take numerous trips to the place that you're trying to record.

The tip that I can give based on another problem with this video is to set your camera to manual focus once you have your scene set up. Not only can a problem with autofocus delay your camera from taking its picture, changes in focal point can slightly change the framing of the shot and give the video a jumpy quality like the picture is popping forward and backward as the focal setting changes from shot to shot.