On the first day of the Colorado High Park Fire (June 9) I was in the Red Feather Lakes area, so I took a couple short time-lapse videos of the smoke plumes. As of this writing the fire has burned more than 82,000 acres and destroyed over 190 homes, and is only partially contained.
Both time-lapse sequences consist of around 600 photos taken at 1 second intervals on my Nikon D5100 and rendered at a rate of 24fps. In other words, each video depicts roughly 10 minutes. I was on the Northeast side of the fire which was still several miles away on the South side of Hwy 14. I hope to go back to this same spot in a couple weeks for a before and after shot.
I spent more time tweaking the first sequence which is why it contains significantly less flicker than the second sequence. I was quite happy with the way the time-lapse videos came out considering that these are the first that I have ever created.
Sequence 1: ISO 100, 18mm, f/18, 1/50sec.
Sequence 2: ISO 100, 34mm, f/18, 1/60sec.