r/nextfuckinglevel • u/obsidiansolstice • 1d ago
Milky Way time lapsed
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u/LurkishEmpire 1d ago
Didn't like being on camera. Please don't go and try to find it - it's clear it wants to be left alone
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u/ACoderGirl 1d ago
Please stick to the rivers and lakes you're used to
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u/SkyFallingUp 1d ago
I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all
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u/LurkishEmpire 1d ago
Than line literally just went through my head, and I was going to post later that there are clearly no millennials in this thread!
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u/adventurousintrovert 1d ago
The start of a modern day Shel Silverstein poem. The river that didn’t like being streamed
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u/asdf_lord 1d ago
Mountain no melt night night.
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u/Funkgun 1d ago
Yeah, melt off probably turned into freeze
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u/LEGITIMATE_SOURCE 1d ago
Melt off simply stops at night at altitude.
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u/Loucifer92 1d ago
It’s stunning how many people don’t intuitively grasp this. I suppose I spend more nights sleeping on a mountain than the average bear, but still. Elevation + no sun = cold af.
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u/Zebulon_IV 1d ago
That's like me, a sea level dweller, saying "it's stunning how many people don't understand how rip currents work. I may spend more time at the beach than the average seagull, but still. Waves + beach = water moves away from beach.
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u/adeptus_chronus 23h ago
This is clearly something very specific to mountainous melt off streams, why would anyone not familiar with it "intuitively grasp it" ?
The concept is very simple, yes, but for a large majority of peoples only used to streams fed by rainwater or underground sources it's very unintuitive when they have spent their whole life around streams that do not dry up at night.
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u/five_of_five 1d ago
I kept waiting for the sun to come back so we could see how long it took for the water to start flowing 😕
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u/DMmeNiceTitties 1d ago
Damn, even the river went to sleep at night.
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u/Processed-Cheese 1d ago
Damn that River by Alice in Chains just popped in my head.
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u/TheSodernauts 1d ago
no, didn't you watch the video, the earth tilted the other way so the water flows another way
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u/sfc-Juventino 1d ago
River left the chat.
But beautiful clip. I'd like to be able to do that one day.
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u/Exotic-Frame9425 1d ago
A fkn camera gets to see the aurora before i do 💔😞
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u/vermillion_phoenix13 1d ago
Don't worry, I have a feeling that's airglow not aurora 😁 if you wanted to send me a PM I can help you with it - I live in the south of England near Stonehenge and I've seen it 3 or 4 times in my back garden. It's possible 😁
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u/Appropriate-Sound169 1d ago
I live there too, saw the aurora up at old Sarum. Well I say 'saw', I got it on camera but didn't see it with my eyes lol
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u/vermillion_phoenix13 1d ago
That's so cool, I would have loved to see it at Old Sarum 😎 I've seen it at Ludgershall castle which was cool! In January, I had it overhead in Ludgershall best thing ever 😍
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u/OneHundredFiftyOne 1d ago
I have seen very faint aurora by the sea in reykjavik only for my phone camera to pick it up in full color. I guess that’s the power of HDR ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/SirPizzaTheThird 1d ago
The camera sees better than us too so we don't get to experience it exactly like this
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u/maldovix 1d ago
usually the reason why the river disappears is because it is snowmelt fed and the river swells during the hottest part of the day when the snow melts the fastest
typically the best time to cross a swollen river is very early am
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u/Fun_Trip_Travel 1d ago
“early am” but that’s when I’m also asleep!
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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord 1d ago
My body has always chosen that time to be the sleepiest. My wallet chose otherwise :(
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u/Geroskii 1d ago
Awesome! Curious about the technical side—did you fix a 180 degree shutter and put ISO on auto? Was your aperture wide open? Full-frame, micro four thirds, or apsc cam and what lens? Awesome Timelapse
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u/ElliotsBuggyEyes 1d ago
I'm not OP but I have shot photos like this a few dozen times. I'm not sure what you mean by a 180° shutter, the camera is on a tripod and turned 90° to get the vertical 'portrait' look.
The shooter may have had an auto ISO set with limits, my guess is a dynamic ISO range with aperture priotity probably in the f/13-20 range given the amount of the image that's in focus.
This camera is likely full frame or crop, my guess is that if yours shooting like this it's FF.
As for a lens, I have no idea what lens but I would guess based on my experience is around 24-28mm, if it is infact a FF camera. If it's crop probably closer to 17mm.
Again, not the OP but just a nerd who likes cameras.
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u/Geroskii 1d ago
I kind of made an assumption that this was a video timelapse, meaning it was captured using video, but now I’m getting the impression that this is a photo timelapse based on comments. 180 degree shutter refers to a cinematography rule wherein your shutter speed is double the frame rate you are recording in. 24fps~1/48 but usually set to 1/50, 60fps~1/120 and so on. This rule is meant to achieve a natural looking motion blur when recording video. I assumed this was a video timelapse because of the way the water looked but now I’m not so sure.
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u/ElliotsBuggyEyes 1d ago
Ah, I do still photography and wasn't familiar with that term. I would bet money that this is a compilation of stills shot over night. The 2 cables coming off the camera are likely a power bank and a shutter timer mechanism that is set to press the shitter every x amount of time.
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u/Geroskii 1d ago
No worries, yeah that makes a lot of sense, I figured one cable was a connected to the power bank but the second one had me stumped, but that shutter timer makes a lot of sense. I think you’re right
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u/geekjimmy 1d ago
The camera looks like a Sony full-frame with a battery extender. One of the cables is for power, and the other appears to be for a lens warmer to prevent condensation. The shoot timing can be programmed into the camera itself without the external timer.
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u/tlmbot 1d ago
Oh man, do people stack exposures and process them into single frames? I guess you can get some phenomenal time lapse video of you are willing to process it all frame by frame
I’m guessing it’s all been done to death, but yeah, snap 5/10/20 whatever number of frames makes sense per time step and process them down
Astro-time-lapse photography would be so fun
To many hobbies $$$
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u/Haber_Dasher 1d ago
I'm not sure if I love the idea of astro photography, or if I just love getting to actually see the stars so much I'm obsessed with photographing it as best I can whenever I get the rare chance 😅
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u/Foghorn225 1d ago
Fortunately with software these days, you can edit a single frame and apply the edits to all for a timelapse, but yes stacking exposures is a normal thing to do for astrophotography.
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u/KiwieeiwiK 1d ago
Oh man, do people stack exposures and process them into single frames?
That's how most astrophotography works. Lots of shots of the same thing layered on top. Often a lot more than 20 frames though
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u/nlutrhk 1d ago
I wonder especially how you can do this without motion blur. You need pretty long exposures to get the milky way at 0:36 with that much detail and that little grain. You can stack lots of short exposures, but it's either motion blur on the stars or motion blur on the mountains.
If you do a composite (different stacking for the stars than for the mountains), then you get trouble near the edges of the sky when stars are behind the mountains in some frames but not in others.
I can think of magnifying the sky a bit before overlaying the mountains, but that would feel like cheating.
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u/rkiive 1d ago
I've taken exposures on my farm where the Milky way came out that clear at around ~9s exposure and this was probably 6/7 years ago now. Camera techs probably way better now too in terms of pumping up the ISO / grain - haven't really kept up with it.
But back then could take photos on 3200iso before there was noticeable grain
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u/ElliotsBuggyEyes 1d ago
If you look at the water, before it leaves the chat, as the night gets darker the surface gets more silky indicating a long exposure for those frames.
Stacking typically is used to create a brighter long exposure. The edges of the image isn't where people are looking anyway and you can ignore them or fake it in post.
Every amazing photo or video you have ever seen has been post processed to some extent.
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u/nlutrhk 1d ago
The edges of the image isn't where people are looking anyway
But I was talking about the edge/boundary between the mountains and the sky, not the edges of the image - which you would crop anyway.
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u/ElliotsBuggyEyes 1d ago
I don't think there was much stacking in this given it's a video and not a star trail photo.
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u/Foghorn225 1d ago
The poster isn't OP. OP is https://www.instagram.com/connorpatonphotos
But to answer your question, to do a timelapse through daylight and into the night you'd want to use aperture priority mode with a cap on ISO.
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u/AwesomTaco320 1d ago
Even though I’ve know that the earth rotates since I was a very small child I always need to remind myself that the earth doesn’t stay in the same spot. Confusing perspective here. Very nice to look at and serves as a reminder to how small we are.
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u/tlmbot 1d ago
Spinning like a top while in a nearly circular loop that is actually a spiral within a spiral… with gross motion beyond galactic scale - relative to the local center of mass of all the nearby galaxies (not my area so I’m just riffing but you get the point), and beyond that, everything flying away from everything else… right up to the speed of light somewhere towards the edge of all we see - the Hubble horizon. (And note there are other horizons - at closer and further distances depending on which horizon we are talking about)….
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And here we are; just a bunch of monkeys on a rock, hurdling through the vastness
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…Squawking at one another and pondering consciousness while crowd sourcing AI and wondering what it all means while we sit on our stockpiles of knowledge, all to often used for ill against each other.
Fuck, I wish we’d all just chill out and give each other a hug. This is amazing
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u/watercouch 1d ago
We probably wouldn’t have had half the world’s established religions if ancient people had had access to timelapse photography and the perspective it brings.
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u/Funny-Slip8415 1d ago
The river sleeps too.
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u/ConsiderationHour582 1d ago
I hate this. No explanation.
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u/Centurion87 1d ago
“Let’s see how!”
Water just lowers with no explanation or visual of how. 10/10.
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u/andysniper 1d ago
Ephemeral rivers are rivers that are not constantly flowing, but have clear courses and other characteristics of rivers. They often exist in mountains and are fed by snow melt, or very arid environments and are fed by short rain storms.
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u/e37d93eeb23335dc 1d ago
Either it is fake/AI, or the water source is a glacier that doesn’t melt when the temperature drops at night, or something blocked the water upstream like a landslide, stream diversion, dam valve closing, etc.
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u/Abecis01 1d ago
That's very beautiful amazing. Seriously. That place is, too. I'd just settle there and call it home.
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u/S4ndreen 1d ago
To think we are the last few generations that are able to enjoy this due to light pollution
But damn it is gorgeous to see the sky so full of stars and those beautiful colours. Tysm for sharing
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u/foxko 1d ago
This is beautiful but fills me with a certain sense of dread
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u/keymaster999 1d ago
It's the feeling of being insignificant compared to the vastness of the cosmos. Embrace it and be kind.
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u/Neither_Fruit_8129 1d ago
This is no joke. I experienced this while traveling in Iceland. 2 ft high water daytime and 0 nightime because of freeze.
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u/r2v-42nit 1d ago
All those meteors when you slow it down. Beautiful!
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u/StandardRaspberry131 1d ago
Those are most likely satellites. It is possible to get meteors on camera like that but they will typically not last near so long on camera. They will usually only appear for 1 frame in a Timelapse, whereas these are lasting multiple frames.
Source: I have taken Timelapses during meteor showers and that’s how it turns out
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u/TheRealDemonicdueler 1d ago
Whenever I see shots like this my second though is always, Damn how big is that memory card? First thought is of course, Damn that is beautiful lol.
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u/Jam-Beat 1d ago
Sorry to anyone who thinks I'm stupid or whatever. This is facing to North, yes? Does anyone know where this is located? I have extremely bad low-light vision, and I've never been able to see the stars in a way even semi-close to this in real life.
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u/Chris_B_Coding247 1d ago
I can imagine ancient people living MUCH slower lives looking up at the sky with no light pollution...just in awe and amazement.
I know times were ridiculously different and difficult back then, but damn… I’d LOVE to spend 3 days out and about a few thousand years ago with filled pack, then magically warp back.
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u/SideInitial3961 1d ago
I left my camera equipment in compton to illustrate the changing of the day and I can't find any of it now.
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u/obsidiansolstice 1d ago
It's a corporate river, available only from 9 to 5.