It was a cold, clear winter's evening on the North Wales coast as my wife Liz and I enjoyed a stroll along the side of the Conwy estuary at Deganwy.
The sun had set about an hour ago and the temperature was plummeting as we made our way back to our car.
Low in the sky to the west a new moon hung pendulously in the twilight glow, a glowing white crescent with the unlit face still visible in the reflected earthlight.
It was a virtually windless night, so I set up my camera and long 100-400mm zoom lens by our parked car and set it off recording still images for the production of this video.
Normally it's impossible to use this lens at its full extent for a time lapse sequence, as any stray breeze causes a noticable twitch in the finished video, so I took full advantage of the lack of wind on this occasion to capture shots of the moon as big as I could get them.
It only took around forty minutes for the moon to reach the horizon, and we packed up and headed home after the show was over, happy to have witnessed such a beautiful sight.
Filename - moonset timelapse 07.mp4
Camera - Canon EOS 6D
Lens (1st sequence) - 100-400mm zoom @ 400mm
Lens (2nd sequence) - 100-400mm zoom @ 370mm
Exposure (start of sequence)
1 sec @ f5.6, ISO800
Exposure (end of sequence)
1 sec @ f5.6, ISO3200
Capture interval (1st sequence) - 3 seconds
Capture interval (2nd sequence) - 3 seconds
Location - Deganwy, North Wales
This clip - HD 720p
Clip duration - 21 seconds
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