Tag: mid-level clouds

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  • Time-lapse on beach under partly cloudy skies…

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    … with multiple layers of colorful glowing clouds at dusk. Looking up from a beach on Kauai, there are different cloud layers to be seen above. As the sky darkens, the upper-level clouds are illuminated from below. These small rain showers are common on the island chain where surface heating makes them bloom in the sun during daylight and dissipate at night. The lower storm cloud is raining moderately out-of-frame.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 12 frames.

  • 2 of 2 Light shafts created by taller altocumulus…

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    …mid-level clouds at sunrise. UAS hovering at altitude at dawn. Altocumulus Castellanus are ideal clouds for creating light rays that persist. First, their presence in the sky indicates moisture at the medium levels. As droplets glow in the sunlight, areas of thicker cloud create the shade necessary for the ‘light ray’ to show with definition. Since Castellanus clouds have these small patches of thick density, stark sunbeams are cast toward the camera’s general point of view.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10:25.

  • Morning dawn heralds glowing pink medium alt clouds…

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    Scene notes: …with low meandering or desert wind. In this rapidly brightening scene that takes place in the high desert of southeast California, upper-level clouds brighten past the exposure as the sky quickly brightens. Extremely fine and subtle details of the lower parts of these mid-level clouds are illuminated from below the horizon. This is due to the fact that the Earth, round, allows the light to enter into the atmosphere at angles low. This light is shown as reddening through atmosphere, with the distinctive pinkness of a sunrise.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 22 frames.

  • Light from the sun reflectsoff the ocean onto clouds

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    Where light is reflected off the ocean and lights from beneath the mid-level clouds, it makes these gold colors. A clear view of the sun to the ocean with clouds overhead the observer is not an everyday occurrence where the balance must be ‘just so’.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    18 seconds and 6 frames.

  • Drone hovering at sunset into dusk, mid-level cloud…

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    …Clouds still lit from below. Hovering above the city (bottom-right) Sacramento. Mid-level clouds with light from below the horizon’s sunlight.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds.

  • Drone hovering at sunset into dusk, Sacramento skyline

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    A nearly five second clip of a sun setting far in the distant hills behind a city’s skyline. A highway is seen with traffic moving on it far into the shaded urban landscape below, complete with the UC Davis Health Center and hospital, traffic light quickly alternating traffic flow. The UAS captures two thirds of the sky in the upper frame. Behind clouds, the shadows demonstrate a takeover of the sky, where the sunlight once glowed on the lower fringes of these mid-level clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    04 seconds and 27 frames

  • Drone hovering at sunset into dusk, mid-level cumuliform clouds

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    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 26 frames

  • 1 of 2 light shafts created by taller altocumulus mid-level clouds at sunrise

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    Night in the Alabama Hills near Mt Whitney, the arch is silhouetted by a starry night.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    7 seconds and 18 frames.