Tag: sunset

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  • Vivid colorful light rays on clouds from mountain peak of Mt Whitney

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    Light rays at sunset. Crepuscular rays fall from high humidity on mountaintops. The sun glows on the clouds as it sets behind Mt Whitney and the mountain ridge. The middle and background dims. The sunbeams shift as the clouds move and the sun sets below. The vivid, sharp rays are defined by the staggered peaks.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 25 frames.

  • Moonlit night with heavier clouds above a desert

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    …Landscape and highway with cars headlights, comatics. Car headlights travel quickly along the highway, which is at the foot of some mountainous foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The moonlight provides illumination to the towering, massive clouds overhead, and the orangeish headlight brightening of the lower portion of clouds is observable.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    8 seconds and 10 frames.

  • Between Juniper trees, Grand Tetons range under fading pinkish high clouds

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    The finest details are shown as these mid-level clouds above the Grand Tetons mountain range peaks above the tree line, far away. The very fine texture of a smaller cloud in particular, glowing in reds and pinks, lives shortly as the sun fades after it has already set. Juniper trees frame the mountains and span the vertical axis of the frame.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 14 frames.

  • Rain cloud looms above at sunset as the sky is enveloped in a tinged storm

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    Panning downward slowly, a slow moving rain cloud complex over a plan during dusk. Rain can be observed in the distance at the very bottom of the frame, as well as a distant tree line. The clouds range from strongly tinged pink to Halloween orange as the sunset progresses.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    17 seconds and 12 frames.

  • Sunset with shade growing on Half Dome, Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point

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    The sunset on Yosemite Valley. The shadows of the nearby mountains and ridges fall on Half Dome last, with colors shifting redder with time. Facing east towards Cloud’s Rest in the distance.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 28 frames.

  • 2 of 3 | Sliding over mountain past green bushes and above the fog layer at dusk

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    The partially mined-out north face of Mt Bohemia is displayed in the dusk light, behind a foreground of verdant shrubs with small flowers. Snow is laden in shadow on its scree (broken rocks) areas. The fog slowly laps on the foot of the mountain in the dusk light. The camera moves slowly on a dolly towards the left.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    12 seconds and 14 frames.

  • 2 of 2 | Altostratus clouds cloaking the sun at dusk with scattering of color

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    Scene notes:

    Cirrostratus (layered stratus) appears to be more Cirrocumulus when shined on by the sun below the horizon. A very distant mountain of the coastline in Oregon is backlit and made to look so small by the very colorful sky above with the colors of orange, pink and red, made better by a clear, flat, and blue patch of sky for contrast.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    13 seconds and 17 frames.

  • Mid and upper-level clouds shine and fade at sunset

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    Floating past, a rapidly deteriorating Cumulus congestus (towering cloud) is absorbed by the slightly dryer air it moves into. Above, many layers of thinner clouds and medium-thick clouds also transform in the rapidly setting sun, which is out of frame at right the sky darkens, but brighter portions of clips can always be trimmed for use.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds.