Timelapse Video of Kanyakumari on a Full Moon Night

As always weekends are the time I experiment- sometimes photography sometimes on VFX and stuffs... A well-known technique called- Time lapsing caught my attention this time, have seen some awesome time-lapse video on YouTube and what to say- I was dying to try the technique... The problem was I didn’t have some equipment essential to make a good time lapse such as Tripod and cable release... But I was determined to give it a try... I choose Kanyakumari as location as it is a familiar location for me and shooting the sunset from there was the Idea!

The time was not right- in this time of the year it will be cloudy at the end of the day which I knew in the first place but still I hoped that I will get some interesting cloud formation and a colorful sunset. Disappointed and tired I decided to go back home and as I Looked back to east I was stunned to see the moon rising behind the “Thiruvalluvar statue”. If I had a 500 mm or above lens I would have got solitude of Thiruvalluvar statue and Vivekananda memorial from sunset point with the rising moon as background. A foreigner was there with a DSLR and some fancy gears and am sure that he got a frame as mentioned above.

Leaving the disappointments behind I race to the sunrise point- also the moon rise point now- hoping for some good shots of the moon rise. But when I got there the moon was already above the Vivekananda memorial. I ran here and there looking for different frames and fired a few shots.

Then the idea- time lapsing- came to my mind, I looked for spots from where I can get a decent composition and most importantly a support structure of some kind to use as Tripod. Finally I found the spot near the temple and after many test shots I began to shoot 2 sec long frames to sort of smoothing the rough sea a bit with a 1 sec gap between each frame and all done manually. Huh….! Hardwork… Later at home a few editing in Lightroom and final composting in After Effects and with that my first Time-lapse video was ready to be published… Not a perfect one but am happy with the result… Hope you guys will also enjoy my work…! Watch it here…




One of 87 pics used for the timelapse video...

Kanyakumari moon rise

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