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Drone hovering into dusk, Sacramento skyline under…

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… after-sunset lighting on high clouds. This mid-level cloud layer dominating the sky with small patches has clouds resembling Lenticulars. If the layer of cloud were thicker in its altitude, the lens shapes would be more apparent. A wispy row of Cirrus is absorbed in the cooling sky, pink colors fading with them, and below on the surface, a highway curves by a skyline of Sacramento, and extend west with lights of individual cars passing by in hyper speed; 90 x 60 mph = 12900mph apparent ‘playback’ speed. 90 represents the speed of the time-lapse over ‘real’ time. The Time-lapse length of the clip at 30 fps is eight seconds and ten frames.

blues | city | dusk | evening | mid-level clouds | oranges | pinks | Sacramento | skyline | yellows
Drone hovering at sunset into dusk, mid-level cumuliform clouds

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Time-lapse length (30 fps):
11 seconds and 26 frames

blues | city | dusk | evening | mid-level clouds | oranges | pinks | Sacramento | skyline | yellows
1 of 2 | Overhead mountains, clouds loom after sunset as blue surrounds gray forms

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Cumulus clouds shifting in the dusk light above the Sierras and point of view. It’s blue hour, as the light fades from pink to dull gray, the sky remains blue.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
44 seconds and 25 frames.

blues | California | clouds | cumulus | darker | dusk | layers | low clouds | mountain | oranges | pinks | shadows | short | silhouette | sunset
Near but not colorful, formation of upper-level clouds moving overhead

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An example of what happens most evenings with clouds beyond the horizon. No light comes through below to illuminate. The thicker the cloud, the less light passes through it. A finely detailed Cirrus formation with interesting feather-like shapes. For periods of under-lighting, see almost any other clip in the Dawn and Dusk.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
38 seconds and 21 frames.

blues | cirrocumulus | cirrus | clouds | layers | slow | sunset
2 of 2 | Altostratus clouds cloaking the sun at dusk with scattering of color

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Cirrostratus (layered stratus) appears to be more Cirrocumulus when shined on by the sun below the horizon. A very distant mountain of the coastline in Oregon is backlit and made to look so small by the very colorful sky above with the colors of orange, pink and red, made better by a clear, flat, and blue patch of sky for contrast.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
13 seconds and 17 frames.

clouds | dusk | glow | golds | layers | reds | sun | sunset | yellows
Light shaded through CirroCumulus clouds…

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… also glow and shifts with the sun’s movement. A six second interval is used. Floridian trees are silhouetted from afar, slash pines and others, dense trees under ninety five percent sky. Where the humid air is glowed upon and the shadows, made from thicker patches of cloud obstructing the glow of the light, changes as the sun moves downward.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 21 frames.

blues | cirrocumulus | cirrus | Florida | layers | light rays | start and end thumbnail | trees
Lenticular formation of clouds above rocky landscape, blue sky at sunset

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The continuation of a clip from Day. The camera’s orientation and position has been adjusted.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
9 seconds and 25 frames.

blues | California | cumulus | darker | dusk | layers | lenticular clouds | rocks | silhouette | sunset
Pink subdued behind lower dark clouds with sun setting, seen from viewpoint

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From the viewpoint on the hill, the valley and lake is seen below. While nine-tenths of the frame is composed of the sky’s clouds and glowing on distant mountains. Two layers of clouds are present, a low-level and medium-level. On the medium level, the glow of light supplements the direct under-lighting on it. Pinks, oranges, and reds play out on the sky as the sun peaks out one last time for the day in 2005. The lower-level clouds moves towards the camera.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 3 frames.

clouds | dusk | glow | golds | layers | rain | reds | storm | sunset | viewpoint | yellows

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