Dawn and Dusk Timelapse

  • 2 of 3 | Ocean flight at sunset over waves

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    Scene notes:

    The UAS floats and moves slowly over the ocean at sunset without focusing on the sun. A light haze tones the highlights to moderated brightness. Not time-lapse. No interval, since the source is video.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    33 seconds and 16 frames

  • 3 of 3 Waves splash on rocks ocean flight at sunset

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    Scene notes:

    … over waves, with takeoff from the ground. As is evident by watching, no interval is used, since the source is video that is full motion.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    1 minute, 29 seconds and 26 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | V slow light shaft moving toward POV on top Bryce Canyon

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    Scene notes:

    Capturing a moment of time at dawn in the winter among the positively red hoodoos of sandstone and dolomite, which owes their odd shapes to the erosive patterns from these rocks. Snow blankets this unusual and wild landscape, as it stretches and flattens out into the distance where a ridge separates land and sky. The sun, out of frame, rises, and with it the snow brightens, and shadows recede.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 17 frames.

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  • Sunset and dusk over cloudless skies in a meadow

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    Scene notes:

    In a sky that is perfectly clear of clouds, a small mountain valley with a single ridgeline sloping downwards gently further in the distance, which is lit by the sun slightly longer than the foreground. The sky quickly turns dark into a night sky, with lights from cars on a road passing, and planes flying. Over the course of the clip, several hours pass. Facing east at sunset and blue hour is less typical if this collection.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    16 seconds and 6 frames.

  • Rapid dusk and fast pink windy multilayers

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    Scene notes:

    There are vibrant and pink-gold midlevel clouds around 10,000 feet, or 3,000 m. Almost half the upper left frame is occupied by the vaporous clouds at their level where the sun is still shining. At the lower levels two thirds of the way to ground, the sun has already passed behind other clouds. These medium to heavy lower clouds move in from the right against the upper levels which move opposite. The scene darkens as the clip progresses past the halfway point, but small areas of distant sky persist into blue hour.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 5 frames.

  • Gold storm with majestic mammatus shifts on sunset…

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    Scene notes:

    …over ocean time-lapse. Intricate and delicate, the underside of these clouds are illuminated minutes after the sun has set to the observer. How is this? The sun is below the horizon to the observer, but not to the sky above. At that moment, you would still see the sun if in an airplane at that height. You would be in its light, as are these clouds. Since these clouds are attached to a storm, their altitude could in fact be 30,000 ft or more. This would make sense, due to the low movement of the delicate parts of the cloud, which would have frozen droplets. Some lower clouds that make up lower thunderstorm bodies have a mix of frozen droplets, gaseous vapor, and liquid.

    On a sliver of ocean with distant palm trees silhouetted far away, another younger storm is at the right of the lower frame portion. Blue sky persists in an area that homes other colorful clouds at higher altitudes of 45000 feet, or about 15000 m. The sun sets and the ‘mammatus’ clouds from the storm redden.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    25 seconds and 10 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | Behind trees, a small fog blanket rolls on Lake Tahoe at sunrise

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    Scene notes:

    In the distance over Lake Tahoe, a fog bank is rolling. In the sky, clouds and crisscrossing contrails are illuminated around 40,000 ft in the morning sun, when colors change fastest (with the exception of dusk). The chardonnay yellows of the horizon and bluish-purple of the deep sky this dawn are on display.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    7 seconds and 11 frames.

  • Sun going beneath horizon and clouds at sunset

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    Scene notes:

    Telephoto time-lapse with 1 second interval. The sun is observed at the ocean with a short exposure to capture the shape as it moves behind clouds. The sky is dark once the sun sets. The last few seconds remind one of a liquid droplet as the sun moves through more and more atmosphere on the far edges of visibility. Slivers of a long-distant cloud deep in the Pacific Ocean are completely silhouetted.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    22 seconds and 12 frames.