The Moon Turned the Night into Day!

[JimFox]

Watch as the Night turns into Day as the Moon rises in Death Valley. The Rare lake that formed in Badwater Basin there adds a unique touch to it.

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Jim

 

[AlanLichty]

I like the disappearing shadow at the end.

 

[JimFox]

I like the disappearing shadow at the end.

Thanks Alan. I thought that was cool. My favorite part was watching the moon reflecting off the ground as it moved in the sky. At times, it doesn't even look like there is water out there, and then the reflection from the moon would come and go as the breeze moved the water? That's my favorite part.

 

[Dan Moorehead]

Stunning

 

[Mike Lewis]

That is one of your very best timelapse works IMHO (and that is saying something given your amazing body of work in TL). What a wonderful job. I would be very interested to hear about how you managed the varying exposure on this. I guess the Moon is starting out behind you is that right? The play of cloud shadows on the rare little lake and then the reflections after the Moon crosses into view, along with the ever present stars rotating overhead make for a truly mesmerizing spectacle. Awesome job.

ML

 

[JimFox]

That is one of your very best timelapse works IMHO (and that is saying something given your amazing body of work in TL). What a wonderful job. I would be very interested to hear about how you managed the varying exposure on this. I guess the Moon is starting out behind you is that right? The play of cloud shadows on the rare little lake and then the reflections after the Moon crosses into view, along with the ever present stars rotating overhead make for a truly mesmerizing spectacle. Awesome job.

ML

Thanks so much Mike! I appreciate your kind words on this. Hopefully all of my timelapses keep improving even if it's in little increments, it's a continual learning process.

For exposing on this, the key is manual exposure. If you try for example, shutter priority with Auto ISO as the camera meters for the exposure, the image technically will never change exposure. I like how the image will go from darker, to then brighter as the moon rises, and then darker again as the moon sets. So manual mode is the key.

Now that can be tricky for sure, since the moon when it is in the sky makes the sky brighter then when it's not, a scenerio like in this one is one of the trickiest there is to get right. What I have learned from experience and trial and error is to make sure my set manual exposure does give me a darker image when the moon is still not visible. And with this being a full moon, it makes it even more crazy.

For this timelapse my settings were 15 secs, f4 and ISO 400.

With my normal settings for a night time timelapse with an f2.8 lens being f2.8, 25 secs and ISO 4000. You can see just how bright it was, and that was before the moon had even risen, it was making the sky so bright.

I hope that answered your question. Maybe I over answered it.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Thanks so much Mike! I appreciate your kind words on this. Hopefully all of my timelapses keep improving even if it's in little increments, it's a continual learning process.

For exposing on this, the key is manual exposure. If you try for example, shutter priority with Auto ISO as the camera meters for the exposure, the image technically will never change exposure. I like how the image will go from darker, to then brighter as the moon rises, and then darker again as the moon sets. So manual mode is the key.

Now that can be tricky for sure, since the moon when it is in the sky makes the sky brighter then when it's not, a scenerio like in this one is one of the trickiest there is to get right. What I have learned from experience and trial and error is to make sure my set manual exposure does give me a darker image when the moon is still not visible. And with this being a full moon, it makes it even more crazy.

For this timelapse my settings were 15 secs, f4 and ISO 400.

With my normal settings for a night time timelapse with an f2.8 lens being f2.8, 25 secs and ISO 4000. You can see just how bright it was, and that was before the moon had even risen, it was making the sky so bright.

I hope that answered your question. Maybe I over answered it.

Thanks that is all very helpful info. Your technique produced spot on results here.

ML