Good morning Abe Kislevitz here and we are camping in Mammoth right now...
We're doing a little mountain bike and camp mission! I set up a night time lapse last night on my GoPro and one
of the things i always get requested of is how to properly shoot a night time lapse so i'm going to
walk you through a little bit of my process what the settings are and hopefully you guys
will get your night time lapses in a good spot after watching this video, thanks for tuning in !
Abe is setting up my hammock! I'm pretty sure it was a gift to both of us... it was sorry... OUR hammock
Christmas 2020. Thanks mom and dad! L ast night i set up a time lapse to get the stars a night time lapse.
what i like to do is first set it into night photo mode and get all my settings dialed in
night photo mode and also use my phone to snap the photo and then also review the photo then i
can switch it over to night time lapse and then just shoot it without having to move the camera
but i get it dialed with night photo so that i can check the angle check the settings make
sure everything looks good before i start the time lapse i'm just using this joby tripod
because it's easy and super sturdy so the wind's not gonna blow it over gopro actually recently
released this side door it makes it so you can plug in the camera and it's pretty water resistant
while it's plugged in which is really nice and i just used any standard usb battery pack to
keep it going all night long 6 000 milliamp hours which is really not that much but it'll last all
night it was still going this morning and then the last thing that i like to do just in case
is remove the cover glass anything that can help me reduce the amount of light flares or
anything coming into the shot and help me get the best exposure out of the shot then
i'll try it and see if it works so for the shutter speed i always max it out for night photos at 30
seconds so we get as much exposure as we can the next biggest determinant of what your photo's
going to look like for night photo is iso and so i did iso min at 100 iso max 800 since it's the
middle of the night and the white balance isn't a huge key factor in it uh i just did white balance
5000 because that's usually a nice middle ground and then sharpness low EV comp 0, I shot this one
in raw so it's exporting us photos but you could also just shoot his video if you do raw you're
going to be able to pull out a little more of that detail and do some better noise reduction for the
time lapse i do a interval of auto and that just means when the previous photo is finished it'll
start taking the next photo so for this night time lapse last night it was a half moon and
then no moon for most of the night so i knew i wasn't gonna get very good foreground stuff so
trying to get the campsite i think you need a bit of moon for that to work very well
and so i just ended up pointing it straight up and capturing a little bit of the perimeter of the
trees kind of in a circle going straight up and then hopefully we got a good uh lapse of the stars
i saw where the milky way was and i think the milky way goes and crosses the middle of the frame
so i'll show a couple of these test shots here's one and another one and another
and ultimately i decided on straight up and then here is the final lapse
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cheers thanks for tuning in i hope you guys get some good time lapses out there
this is my favorite
favorite morning activity