Tag: shadows

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  • Lightweight clouds, blowing in the winds of steep…

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    Scene notes:

    … clifftops, dance over a lone tree. Water vapor, condensed by the extra wind as it rides over peaks. It will not behave in the way a cloud does without the sharp differences of the Earth. The snowy mountain peak has many aiguilles and towers, and the top edges are cornices and snow ridges. A large fluting spans the height of the peak to the base. At right, the fall-colored red-yellow leaves on the main tree quiver slightly in the breeze that pushes the cloud shadows slowly overhead and the landscape. The
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    10 seconds and 20 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | From Pikes Peak, clouds cast shadows

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    … on fog far below that appear to slosh on forest. The continuation of another clip. The camera’s orientation and position has been adjusted.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    17 seconds and 27 frames.

  • Mushrooms on snow, which is melting

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    Several small mushrooms growing are around melting snow. A close-up with no sky in the frame. The mushrooms are on moss, located on the left side of the frame.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    17 seconds and 21 frames.

  • Small yellow forest spring flowers in the grass under shifting shadows

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    Scene notes:

    The camera physically pans to the right. Bulbous buttercup flowers among the grass. The sun, moving towards evening, makes the shadows of the trees shift longer over the forest floor.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    17 seconds and 6 frames.

  • Night on Monument Valley monoliths

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    Scene notes:

    Airplanes crisscross the night sky over the monoliths in the desert. Distant clouds on the horizon with minimal light pollution. The amount of coma is medium, and the exposure length is long enough to capture several flashes from aircraft lights.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 17 frames.

  • The sun sets on a forest hillside

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    Scene notes:

    A single Bigleaf maple tree, slanted from being windblown so often (such is nature), on a hillside in the woods. The beyond area visible in the background as openness. The sunset is reddening the scene, and the breeze is playing on the leaves harmlessly until the dark. Not included in the Dawn and Dusk since no visible sky is shown.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    17 seconds and 8 frames.

  • 8 of 10 | Sierra Nevada Mountain range and midday clouds

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    Scene notes:

    Stationary shot; the continuation of another clip. The camera orientation has been adjusted.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    18 seconds and 20 frames.

  • White flowers follow the sun until they're in the afternoon shade

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    Scene notes:

    Close-up (macro) shot of flowers that resemble white anemones tracking the position of the sunlight through the forest canopy. Shadows move with the wind- that also pushes the delicate plants.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    16 seconds.