r/timelapse

I mounted a GoPro to my head and went for a late night cruise.

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/

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

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.

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

pickleball tournament

I planted tamarind seeds for a timelapse video. Interestingly, the closest one to the camera, turned out to grow without any chlorophyll. Destined to be an albino. I think it is not going to survive.

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 🌺🌺🌺