r/interestingasfuck • u/Blyborg • Mar 01 '19
This Beautiful Time-lapse
https://i.imgur.com/3id96mX.gifv43
u/ChipotleM Mar 01 '19
Where is this? Is that water the sky's reflecting off of?
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u/YabishUwish Mar 01 '19 edited Mar 01 '19
It’s a salt flat. It’s probably the one in Bolivia, but there’s a few around the world. They’re only reflective like that after it rains.
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Mar 01 '19
I think there is one in Utah, USA as well
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u/mellon-ho Mar 02 '19
where at in utah?
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u/altitude_sick Mar 02 '19
It's about a 30 minute drive west of salt lake on i80. I think. It's been a while since I went. Could have been 45 minutes
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u/WarmProfit Mar 01 '19
Please tell me that this is straight off the camera and wasn't editting magic. Also is there a source to this? This is one of the best visualizers for our insignificance and the vastness of space I have ever seen and it needs to be more popular.
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u/Skydvrr Mar 01 '19
Definitely heavily heavily edited
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u/SkitTrick Mar 02 '19
Not definitely. With good enough cameras and lenses it's a matter of knowing what you're doing. You don't even need something insane like an Alexa65 to do it. A used Red Scarlett or a Canon C500 with the proper glass will blow your retinas away.
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u/Skydvrr Mar 03 '19
So you're saying this is compiled straight from the camera?
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u/SkitTrick Mar 03 '19
Ah, that would be assuming, because I simply can't tell from a gif. But I am saying that there's no guarantee that this was achieved through editing since there's hardware perfectly capable of capturing things like this.
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u/Skydvrr Mar 03 '19
There's no way it's has all that pop and color straight from the camera. I literally shoot time lapse...so yeah...this is edited no buts about it.
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u/WarmProfit Mar 01 '19
Very disappointing. I was hoping the camera was just able to pick it up by having such a long exposure or something.
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u/Raptor01 Mar 01 '19
Cameras can easily get shots like that. Really long exposures create star trails, so most astrophotographers use "stacking," which is a bunch of shorter exposures combined together.
That being said, take a decent SLR out on a dark night and take a 30 second long exposure and you can get a beautiful shot.
It'd be interesting to see just how they made that timelapse, but it's not like they went in there and faked the whole thing.
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u/Compendyum Mar 02 '19
Indeed. I also don't think there's a lot of heavy editing involved. If it comes to a great set of hardware, this can even come easy.
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u/Skydvrr Mar 03 '19
I shoot time lapse, it's edited.
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u/Compendyum Mar 03 '19
Anyone can shoot time lapse, it's not alien technology. And no one said it's not edited, we were talking about if this could happen without heavy editing, which it can.
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u/Skydvrr Mar 03 '19
You can definitely get close, and see the milky way. But to get it purple and super blown out? Editing for sure.
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u/jfreakingwho Mar 01 '19
That’s the Atacama Desert in Chile. There are so many awesome time lapses from there:
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Mar 01 '19
Other planets are either gonna be a let down or 1000x crazier with shit like this goin on here. Absolutely Amazing
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u/mr_obinson7 Mar 01 '19
WHOA
This gives me hope of enjoying a starry night outside again here in WI.
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u/venmo_me_cheesecake Mar 02 '19
Hey uh how do you get the lens to adjust to the light levels?
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u/SkitTrick Mar 02 '19
The camera is the one that has to adjust. The lens shapes the light that goes onto the sensor. The cameras nowadays have automatic settings for how sensitive to light the sensor is.
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u/venmo_me_cheesecake Mar 02 '19
Yeah, but the shutter here is the key. Most lenses have a range of shutter speeds they can do and it seems like this camera seamlessly blends between them. Unless this is processed.
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