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D. Eric Franks -> RE: Tips on how to shoot sunrise time lapse (10/14/2008 8:00:37 AM)
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I've shot probably a hundred sunrises/sets. I generally shot 10-30 minutes and then shortened it to 1 frame a second. Autoexposure will work (I almost always shot this way), but you can get a nice effect going from blackness to light with a locked exposure too. Zooming in 10x (or more) will make the orb bigger. Don't touch the camera at all during the shoot.
Here's a trick that might work, depending on what is in the foreground: Shoot a sunset and reverse it.
This will let you frame the shot more accurately (unless you wake up the day before and mark the exact spot where it's going to rise. The only thing that will give away the game is that sunrise tends to be a lot quieter, less cloudy and turbulent, waves flowing out to see, birds flying backwards, etc, but it's sunset is a lot easier to shoot. Oh, and watch out if you are someplace recognizable, esp. on the coast: Shooting a "sunrise" across an expanse of ocean from Los Angeles will seem odd to people paying attention (like in the movie Blade).
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