Thanks! I’m rather happy with it myself, and I’ll probably try it again with some improvements:Originally Posted by Minerve101
1. I thought an interval of 10 seconds would be sufficient, but the moon moves more than I expected in 10 seconds – next time I’ll try a shorter interval for a smoother timelapse.
2. Next time I’ll bring a remote trigger. I hadn’t planned shooting a timelapse, so I hadn’t brought any this time. (I got the idea when I had set up the tripod and was waiting for the moonrise.) I used the 2 seconds delay trigger, and that’s probably the reason for the slight variations in composition (the island is for sure a fix point, but it moves around a bit in the timelapse).
One thing that worked out quite well was the selection of camera position. The day before I used Google maps, photoephemeris.com and an old-fashioned pocket calculator to select a point along the shoreline. Then I went there and selected the exact rock for the tripod. On the shooting day I was quite pleased to see the moon show up right where I had expected it.
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