Night Timelapse

  • 1 of 5 | Night lightning illuminates approaching…

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    Preview synopsis: Do not watch if you have had an epileptic seizure; if using in a project, include a similar content warning as a best-practice. An ad-free, 720p, 30 fps preview of this clip to stream and play for your consideration.

    Scene notes:

    Ominous, towering, coming towards the point of view. These night clouds, partly shrouded by mid and high-level clouds, would not seem so intimidating if they are not flashing with cloud-to-cloud lightning- different from heat or sheet lightening, cloud-to-cloud lightening is full-power energy release, only it never touches the ground. That’s the main difference in the name of this versus cloud-to-ground. The city orange lights illuminate stratus and silhouette the growing clouds which appear to light up from within, naturally strong light pollution from a large city.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    18 seconds and 13 frames.

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  • Night moonrise at Grand Canyon looking northeast

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    Scene notes:

    From a point in Grand Canyon, the horizon may be level, but the land isn’t; this is owed to the nature of the geography of the surroundings of the National park. The bright object illuminating the landscape is not the sun, but the moon. A long exposure captures the light for a period of time to greatly intensify the brightness of the scene in comparison to the human eye. Smoke wafts in the canyon from a wildfire.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    32 seconds and 8 frames.

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  • Night sky galaxy with galactic cloud, meteorites, satellites, airplanes

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    Scene notes:

    Deep in the desert next to a small face of rocks and stone, jaggedly sticking out into the backdrop of stars. The crop moves to enlarge the galactic cloud slightly. The very faint light pollution in the distance does not intrude into the sky’s features. A variety of objects can also be observed in the night sky.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    14 seconds and 25 frames.

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  • San Francisco Bay Bridge traffic at dusk with skyline behind traffic and bay

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    Scene notes:

    From a unique viewpoint on Yerba Buena island, the Bay Bridge has two directions of traffic on different levels, and is a gateway into the city. The skyline is silhouetted on the evening light. The daylight is left with the sun and transitions to night, and thousands of cars and vehicles pass through the bridge during this time.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 10 frames.

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  • 5 of 5 | Night lightning illuminates approaching

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    Preview synopsis: Do not watch if you have had an epileptic seizure; if using in a project, include a similar content warning as a best-practice. An ad-free, 720p, 30 fps preview of this clip to stream and play for your consideration.

    Scene notes:

    A single, silhouetted cloud at the left of the frames is absolutely dwarfed in comparison to very active electrical storm. It grows rapidly as it nears the point of view. At lower right, the palm trees are by the side of the road, which lights from cars pass by rapidly.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 2 frames.

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  • 1 of 2 | Comet Neowise, as the night sky appears…

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    Scene notes: Appearing to rotate, it is the Earth that spins. Comet Neowise passed by Earth in the summer of 2020. The comet’s tail is a fine contrail in the starry sky. Near the horizon, where it seems stationary in the rotating sky, the frame is enlarged using digital pan ‘n scan, a nineties term, meaning digital zoom. The extra resolution of the original images allows this. Meteorites can be observed in digital frames, as well as airplanes, zooming by in just a few frames.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    15 seconds and 28 frames.
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  • 2 of 2 Clouds at night illuminated partly by city…

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    Scene notes:

    City lights under stars, aircraft flying over. The Big Dipper, the famous constellation, is observable at the top of the frame. The lower left corner has stratus clouds, but the sky is otherwise clear. A couple of airplanes can be seen flying through, under a starry night sky with a long exposure of several seconds and interval of just as much time.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    25 seconds.

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  • San Francisco street-view of downtown at night

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    Scene notes:

    Looking down a side-street in mid-town San Francisco at a view of several large buildings including a sharply-pointed skyscraper called ‘Transamerica Pyramid’, an ominous looking building of office space and nearly 900 ft (300 m) tall. Busy city streets, with mid-2000s cars, cross paths, as traffic alternates turns moving with the traffic lights. This side street the observer looks down is dimly lit and mostly empty, a steep downward slope.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    32 seconds and 8 frames.

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