Night Timelapse

  • Moonrise from behind POV causes similar colors to dawn

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    Scene notes:

    …or a sunset on snowy bright mountains. The moon rising sends enough alpenglow to the mountainsides to brighten them like a sunrise. The stars overhead in the top half of the frame wheel around as the Earth spins at night.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    16 seconds and 25 frames.

  • Over a mountain silhouette the night sky has stars

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    Scene notes:

    The mountain rises into the night sky, cloudless, and starry. A low to medium amount of coma is evident.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    15 seconds and 29 frames.

  • Higher level clouds over desert monoliths transform while the moon rises

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    Scene notes:

    A moon-rise over Monument Valley. Cirrocumulus and Cirrostratus clouds moving in a starry night sky against three massive monoliths in the far desert. An eight second interval is used with a long exposure to capture more light than what is visible to the naked eye.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    21 seconds and 4 frames.

  • Clouds roll around the lower fifth at night with bright stars

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    Scene notes:

    Low mist pouring over darkened mountains at night. Stars move overhead in very long exposure and large aperture.