Sometimes a high wind gust will come along and cause the tripod to move slightly. In these rare instances, the clip may be stabilized digitally or divided in two. This shot of the Alabama Hills at night under a nearly full moon has a cut that divides the scene into two clips, one with a longer shutter speed.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
9 seconds and 78 frames.
Mt Whitney is seen among its neighboring peaks in the Sierra Nevada range of mountains at night. With the long shutter speed of three seconds and an interval of five seconds and clouds quickly float overhead. The stratus clouds floating high enough fly over, the lower ones are caught and piled up on a few of the peaks. A landscape of hills made of smooth and rocks of varying sizes, from massive to minute, climbs to the left of the frame.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
6 seconds and 80 frames.
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.
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.
…out and high clouds moving rapidly, moonlit The full moon rises behind high clouds. The view from this light is dynamic, made more so by smoke from nearby fires. The smoke is seen as a nebulous cloud, only thinly veiling this view. Stars are seen above the clouds. How is this a moonrise? The long exposure of the individual frames allows for more light to be captured in the image, enough to be of comparable levels to a sunrise at certain times. The view of the canyon is deep, the point of view is from Duck on a Rock viewpoint facing northeast.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
8 seconds and 13 frames.
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Now clip NGT087. The desert night sky around the rim Canyonlands. The moon sets late in the clip, taking with it the illumination of the landscape, now trees silhouette on the hills, which comprise a fifth of the frame. and the night sky is just as starry this cloudless night.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
15 seconds and 29 frames.
The continuation of another clip. The camera orientation and position has been adjusted and lens changed.
Time-lapse length (30 fps):
12 seconds and 11 frames.
…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.