https://youtu.be/FjbU7R-y0BU I used Magic Lantern to shoot 30 photos of this scene yesterday evening and made a video of it with ffmpeg. ffmpeg -framerate 2 -pattern_type glob -i “2015-12-13*.jpg” -vcodec libx264 -s 1920×1280 -pix_fmt yuv420p -vf fps=25 out.mp4 Combining them into one one photo looks like this..

Santa arrives in Blarney and the Christmas lights go on in the village square!

A few months ago I experimented with Imagemagick by using it to merge very similar photos of flowing water to give the impression of a longer exposure. Here are a few more examples. By merging a series of thirty photos taken two seconds apart I created a pleasing image that looks like a sixty second…