For the days around New Year 2015/2016 nearly my whole family moved en-bloc to a farmhouse near Abersoch on the Llyn Peninsula for a get together.
The weather was mostly atrocious, and I was despairing of ever getting any photography in, let alone the night time time lapses I was hoping for in this low light pollution area.
But on New Year's Eve we had a weather window, with the skies clearing to reveal a myriad stars.
I spent the time up to midnight shooting the stills for my time lapse showing Orion rising in a field of stars, but after an impromptu firework display at twelve o'clock I turned my attention to the rising moon.
Not wanting to waste the opportunity of the only non-rain soaked night of our stay, I fitted a new 32GB SD card and a freshly charged battery to my Canon 6D, dialled down the ISO somewhat to cope with the extra light from the moon and set it off running taking continuous 15 second exposures.
I then went to bed, relying on my teenage photographer grandson, Jamie, to bring the camera back in when he was finally going to bed (or if it started to rain).
As good as his word, he switched the camera off and brought it back in at around quarter to four in the morning, during which time the Canon had managed to shoot 660 15 second exposures over a period of three hours before the battery went flat.
Quite a performance, both from the camera's battery and my grandson!
The video didn't turn out half bad either.
Filename - abersoch moon timelapse 01.mp4
Camera - Canon EOS 6D
Lens - 14mm prime
Exposure - 15 secs @ f2.8, ISO1600
Location - Near Abersoch, Llyn Peninsula, Wales
This clip - HD 720p
Clip duration - 23 seconds at 30 frames per second.
Shooting interval - 15 seconds
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