Lighting Moment: 4 hour Time Lapse

The first time lapse I took was observing the light coming in from my partner’s kitchen windows. This was taken from roughly 4am - 5:30am - unfortunately, the GoPro (at full battery!) died within 1.5 hours. With the GoPro Hero 4, there is an option to use the Night Lapse mode, which adjusts its shutter speed to allow as much light into the camera. In retrospect, I should have kept a standard shutter speed to observe the natural changes without the camera compensating for the amount of light coming into the sensor.

I imagined that the pink over the stove light would slowly fade as the radiant morning light flooded into the kitchen as it typically does. There are quick flashes of the lights from passing vehicles, and slight glimpses into the neighbors’ morning activity.


The second time lapse I took was from roughly 1:30pm to 6:30pm. I set up the GoPro by the window facing southwest towards Willoughby St. With the darkened, gloomy sky, I did not observe dramatic light changes. As the sun went down, the reflections of the windows became more apparent, so it was possible to observe the light coming in from the ITP floor in the same shot as the buildings outside.