After having spent an afternoon looking at the beauties of the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales, my wife Liz and I decided to head over the Menai Straits to the Isle of Anglesey to catch the sunset and incoming tide from the shore overlooking the Straits themselves.
We arrived at the ideal time to start a time lapse shoot, with low angled late afternoon light picking out the exposed sandbanks in the middle of the Straits that were rapidly disappearing under the onslaught of the rising tide.
The particular sandbank featured in this time lapse video started at the downstream edge of a decaying jetty which, thankfully, stayed above the waterline while I stood on the end with camera taking an exposure every six seconds.
It only took thirty minutes of shooting before the sandbank went from fully exposed to fully submerged, such is the fierceness of the tides in the Menai Straits.
Needless to say, I beat a hasty retreat back to the shore when I'd finished as the jetty on which I had been standing just a few minutes previously disappeared under the sea.
Filename - menai straits timelapse 06.mp4
Camera - Canon 6D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @28mm
Exposure (start of sequence)
1 secs, f4, ISO100
Exposure (end of sequence)
1 sec, f4, ISO100
Time between exposures - 6 secs
Location - Menai Straits, Anglesey, North Wales
This clip - HD 720p
Clip duration - 13 secs
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