Moonrise Timelapse over Thames river in North Greenwich

Happy new year, Tej!

That's a lovely timelapse, I like the boats in the foreground! There is a bit of flicker, but I think you did a good job of adjusting in post as it is not that noticeable!

Happy new year, Tej!
That’s a lovely timelapse, I like the boats in the foreground! There is a bit of flicker, but I think you did a good job of adjusting in post as it is not that noticeable!

Thanks Sumitra, I didnt adjust during post at all, I adjusted exposure during capture...if you recall to your "horror" I sat for hours clicking manually on my laptop trying t keep the histogram consistent 🙂 The first frames starts from 1/13 second exposure to 5 seconds in the final one. There are software available to automatically increment exposures during a timelapse session which I read is called "bulb ramping" (have you heard of that?). But one still needs to know the bracketing exposure required in advance and I am no where that level of expertise to even guess what exposure I need. Even if I went back to the same spot and did it again, I am sure it would be very different exposure brackets each time anyway because of different lighting levels due to cloud cover etc. SO I prefer to keep monitoring for varying light conditions but I would always welcome automacy if I can suss how to use it well!

A nice attempt Tej, despite the various problems you experienced! I love the light reflections on the water near the end... it would have been nice to see more of this, but I suspect you would have frozen to death!

If you're really serious about timelapse photography, I'd seriously consider buying LRTimelapse . It is not at all cheap, but I've used the demo version and it works really well. It has a superb de-flicker routine, and also has settings for the so called "holy grail" time-lapse - seamless transitions from day to night.

But, as I say, not cheap. However, I think it's probably the best time-lapse tool that I've seen.

Ah, I thought you'd used something like LR timelapse to smooth the exposures. I haven't bought it but I use the free version which is good.

I haven't bought it but there is also Panolapse which you can use to deflicker. I haven't used it for the deflickering purpose but I've used it for panning. I thought your timelapse would have been quite nice with some panning, perhaps if you find the time, it's quite quick to do.

I haven’t bought it but there is also Panolapse which you can use to deflicker. I haven’t used it for the deflickering purpose but I’ve used it for panning.

... or you can buy some hardware to pan your camera... I know, I know, more money! A relatively "cheap" motion time lapse product is "Radian", which can be programmed from your iPhone or Android device.

Yes yes... but I stay on the cheap side. 🙂
But I've got the nice paying job in 10 days, so I might afford more gadgets soon 🙂

A nice attempt Tej, despite the various problems you experienced! I love the light reflections on the water near the end… it would have been nice to see more of this, but I suspect you would have frozen to death!

If you’re really serious about timelapse photography, I’d seriously consider buying LRTimelapse . It is not at all cheap, but I’ve used the demo version and it works really well. It has a superb de-flicker routine, and also has settings for the so called “holy grail” time-lapse – seamless transitions from day to night.

But, as I say, not cheap. However, I think it’s probably the best time-lapse tool that I’ve seen.

Oh that whole video is just a fraction of the whole moonrise that I shot and I did freeze to near death, lol. Problem is if you recall, it came to a point where I was "fooled" by my histogram which was based on the Liveview and not test images. That bit where I faded it out was a chaotic part where I didnt know what the hell was happening to my exposure, lol. So I had suddenly notched up the ISO when it went behind the clouds and I ended up with a starkly different kind of exposure sequence. I have since learnt that lesson, so I monitor the actual images live in PS to gauge the histograms.

I wanted to do panning and deflickering though but I rushed to get it up for new year. I'm going to leave it as is as a record of my stepping stone progressions. I'll set out for doing new timelapses on moonrises, sunrises, milky ways with knowledge gained...so much to go for 🙂 For deflickering, I was thinking of purchasing a plug-in called GBDeflicker.

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I haven’t bought it but there is also Panolapse which you can use to deflicker. I haven’t used it for the deflickering purpose but I’ve used it for panning.

… or you can buy some hardware to pan your camera… I know, I know, more money! A relatively “cheap” motion time lapse product is “Radian“, which can be programmed from your iPhone or Android device.

You are intent on getting us broke! I have looked at that software (its where I learnt about bulb ramping) and I absolutely intend to buy or get what it takes to achieve super timelapse and holygrails but that software still requires a sense of knowing what range of exposures are needed. Only experience can improve on my timelapses and I feel if I continue doing it manually just for another couple of sessions for a short while, I'll develop a better sense of lighting fluctuations during moonrises and sunsets...well, theoretically! Having said that, I also want to do HDR so I can get details on the moon as well as foreground and no way I can do that manually but I must master my basics and essentials first before jumping the gun.

I have a super Dell Ultranotebook that is light, portable yet highly specced (250gb SSD, 8GB Ram, i7 proc) and has been a key item for most of my astrophotography so when I purchase astrophotography capture software, I prefer it to be PC based rather than smartphone/tablet based because I like my images stored direct on my laptop drive, see the images live on the bigger screen and not worry about wanting to use the phone for something else. Having said all that, smartphones sure as hell rock in their phenomenal diversity in use! They'e just wow, not even past science fiction could imaging their power!