Some times I travel long distances to capture a time lapse video, planning around weather, sunset or sunrise times, tide, angle of light on the landscape and all the other considerations that go into a well reasearched shoot.
And sometimes (rarely) I just step out of my front door to be confronted with an 'oven ready' (to quote Boris Johnson) photographic opportunity.
Such was the case on this lovely evening in May 2023.
It was half an hour after sunset and the sky over my house was glowing with cool blue tones of twilight as a thin crescent moon hung suspended like a jewel over the crown of a nearby oak tree.
I could see that the new moon would follow the sun downwards towards the horizon, and its trajectory would take it behind the tree canopy.
So I quickly set my camera up on our front path and set it off recording the hundreds of still images needed to create just a few seconds of time lapse video.
The sky rapidly grew darker as twilight faded into night and the moon slowly crept downwards, finally hiding itself behind the leafy boughs of the silhouetted oak tree.
Then it was time to stop filming, certainly one of my more impromptu shoots, but just as satisfying for all that!
Filename - moon crescent timelapse 07
Camera - Canon EOS 6DMK2
Lens - 100-400mm zoom @ 235mm
Exposure (start of sequence) - 1 sec @ f/5, ISO100
Exposure (end of sequence) - 1 sec @ f/5, ISO100
Filters - None.
Shooting interval - 3 seconds
Music - Surrender - Asher Fulero
Location - Buckley, North Wales
Video processing - Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Premiere Pro
This clip - HD 720p, 30fps (4K and 1080p HD formats also available)
Clip duration - 15 seconds
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