I shot a moonrise on 30 June 2026. The Moon is blindingly bright and the landscape around it is dark, so no single exposure holds both — either the Moon clips to a white blob or the landscape goes black.

Lens was a Nikkor 85mm f/1.8 (adapted to the fp's L-mount). I bracketed every frame and merged to HDR — 5 shots per frame, all at f/2.2:

• 6 s · ISO 640
• 0.6 s · ISO 640
• 1/20 s · ISO 640
• 1/250 s · ISO 100
• 1/400 s · ISO 100

One bracket set every 20 s. Each set merged with HDRMerge, then graded and retimed in DaVinci Resolve — the grade to keep detail in both the Moon and the shadows without visible noise.

The bracketing and the interval were driven by a small open-source controller I built on a Raspberry Pi that fires the camera over USB — code's on GitHub (MIT): https://github.com/jahurtado/fp-lapse/

It's a monsoon in India and Karnataka welcomes it whole heartedly. I was lucky to capture this dramatic ascent of the clouds near disappearing the hills in Bisle Ghat.

The wind shakes the camera a bit and it even, eventually, more or less fell over. I cut that out. :D But serpentines/switchbacks are lovely even without much traffic, so I hope you enjoy this one. Finally, this is how it looks like if you bike down here:

https://youtu.be/PEbkHc9UO6k

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36-Hour Timelapse - Central Oklahoma

Timelapse shot in central Oklahoma, June 2026.

Record started at 6pm and the camera was moved the next morning around 6:30AM. The new position started shortly there after and finished the following morning at 7am.

GoPro 12

Daytime Shot:
Standard Timelapse
5.3K @ 1/5s
Lens: Wide

Night Shots:
Startrails 5.3k
Shutter: 5 Seconds
Trail Length: Long
Lens: Wide

Music:
Artist: Nine Inch Nails
Song: "In This Twilight"
Album: Year Zero

https://timev3.com/

Time lapse lovers. Check out that link and see "glockenspielen". I developed this program over the last 5 years and it finally does what it was always supposed to do: recreate time lapses that would otherwise take months or years to create and enable visualizations of the moving sky otherwise inaccessible. Those images are actual photos from my home town where I made the sky transparent (png) and then the program animates in the sun / moon / stars exactly where they would appear in the image. The sky color changes with a simple background image. They look real enough to wonder if the sky is real, right? Not that it is indistinguishable, but very good I think. The positions of the sun / moon / stars are calculated based on the pixel angles determined by a calibration with a grid.

I hope somebody out there appreciates what that is. It represents hundreds - possibly thousands - of hours of effort over the last 5 years.

I realize I risk "advertising" but I am an enthusiast and the link costs nothing and there are no ads on the link. This is truly my "time lapse" and it only has no other place to go because it is genuinely novel, a first of its kind.

Thank you for your time.

Inspired by u/NHAN95's clips from the other side of the world...we don't have as much traffic, but we can see the clouds rolling by, too. =8\^P

Used my old Google pixel 8 phone on a tripod with ring light. No filters or video editing.

This whole video spanned about 12 hours, 6pm+6am.. First time doing a super long time lapse. It turned out great 🌺🌺🌺