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karafutoWanted to do this for the longest time and finally did it. Solstice day in Iceland, from midnight to midnight
akiran_n@akiran_n I used a tripod, a webcam and a timelapse software so I don't have to wake up every half an hour. Really simple setup. But next time I'll use my DSLR - the webcam quality is very poor, and it made the image annoyingly too dark - this is how it actually looked like at midnight, way more light
Christian Alder@karafuto That's so cool 🤩 Really captures how much light there is that day. I also like how the clouds (or possibly reflection on a window?) make some columns have a pixelated effect
@hejchristian yuppp, the 5AM sun was not very supportive of my idea to make a nice clean image 
maybe next year I'll do it from the balcony
maybe next year I'll do it from the balcony
@karafuto Still so amazing - thanks for sharing the whole frame at 5am, makes me appreciate how much like there is even more 🤩
xs4me2@xs4me2 I was really hoping for a clear sky the whole day (though this is not a thing in Iceland, I should know better), so that it would be even more striking how much light there is during the night. But some say the image is more interesting with clouds
WildRikku@wildrikku @xs4me2 yep. I deal with it by using blackout blinds and an eye mask
@karafuto Yeah, I slept in a tent and used an eye mask, too, it was fine. But I also noticed some people have a completely shifted or random day cycle, some will do outdoor work at 1 AM because what's time. I also heard people say they find the constant brightness harder to deal with than the constant darkness in winter.
@wildrikku 100% true. Icelanders have two modes, cozy hibernation in winter and manic raging in summer. Sleep is hard, and the lack of it shows. Darkness is not as annoying as the black ice covering all sidewalks
@karafuto Yeah, I'd imagine it's kinda wild. Iceland sure has its share of weird perks. I absolutely want to return some time.
Huh, so I guess since there will be new ice immediately, nobody bothers to ever remove it? Or is it harder?
Huh, so I guess since there will be new ice immediately, nobody bothers to ever remove it? Or is it harder?
@wildrikku it melts during the day and then freezes again overnight. But surely they could do _something_, at least putting salt on the sidewalks. This winter it was terrible, as if Reykjavik municipality encountered icy roads for the first time in their lives. Hundreds of people ended up with broken bones and concussions within days. But hey! It's a great place. Don't let me stop you from coming again! Winters are nice! We have auroras!
@karafuto Ah yeah, the weird phenomenon of municipalities losing their memory of previous years. It's not like it's a lot better here. We don't get that much snow and ice, but when we do, you usually have to switch between sidewalk on the left and right side and the street every couple meters or take a risk.
And yeah, guess I should come in winter next time to see the other extreme! Just shouldn't rely on a tent then I guess haha.
And yeah, guess I should come in winter next time to see the other extreme! Just shouldn't rely on a tent then I guess haha.
Julien Deswaef@karafuto beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
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Admiral Memo@karafuto Half-hour increments, it seems.
I wonder what it'd look like at a finer temporal resolution.
@AdmiralMemo I might test it next time, for winter solstice. Gotta get all those shades of black
Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈🌹@karafuto where'd the night go?
xyla!! 🐀@karafuto hm, i’d love to grab individual photos if you wanna share! i feel like it’d be a nice dynamic wallpaper
---> []@karafuto oh nice, I did the same kind of stripes a few years ago (only not in Iceland) 🙂
@karafuto
I currently have no access to my archives, but here’s one I did over a year. Only the sky is one shot. The landscape is a composite of 6 differents photos, merged together.
The other ones I made were more like yours, with very sharp stripes, I will dig in my archives tonight 🙂
@karafuto
I also created a timelapse over those 365 days with photos every day
The quality is unfortunately quite poor but it gives another idea of the changes (especially the trees blooming)
Noon (UTC+1) :
https://youtu.be/P91rGk7fR2Y
Timelapse sur 365 jours, photos prises à 12h (UTC+1)
Timelapse sur 365 jours, photos prises à 18h (UTC+1)
@YannC wooow thanks for sharing! the tree on the right is amazing. I also loved the sun going up and down in the 18:00 one.
You don't seem to get a lot of snow there :-)
You don't seem to get a lot of snow there :-)
@karafuto
Well, we have "lasting" snow maybe once every 6 or 7 years (meaning snow that lasts more than 24 hours), and just airborne snow (melting when touching ground) maybe once a year…
Well, we have "lasting" snow maybe once every 6 or 7 years (meaning snow that lasts more than 24 hours), and just airborne snow (melting when touching ground) maybe once a year…
@karafuto oh I’ve found the long version for the timelapse, including all of the images (1 per hour) for the full year.
I recommend watching it in higher definition and double speed :)
Enabling subtitles will also diplay dates.
Timelapse 365 jours
Softwarewolf@karafuto Gorgeous view of Reykjavíc!
Otte Homan - remember Geordie@karafuto ooooooh it's a space-time image!
Hugo Slabbert ⚠️@karafuto okay now you have my interest piqued. I'm trying to do a "photo a day" view of a spot on our property looking down a field towards the other side of a valley. I was planning on stitching it together into a "year lapse" at a few hundred milliseconds per frame, but this vertical slice composition could also be quite neat.
@hugo I'd love to do that too - but I'm not sure (yet) how to automate the vertical slicing of images. I did this one manually, but with hundreds of photos that would be too much
@karafuto yea. I was planning on messing with ffmpeg for the time sliced version; thinking about it, there might be a way to get it to do vertical slice thing as well.
Good point re: number of images. Probably I'd need to sample it down to 1 in every 10 or 20 images or such, at which point it might start to miss out on some key differences. Part of the fun in the big "year lapse," though, is definitely things like different cloud patterns, seeing the colours in the field change, etc; all things that would show up much better in full images versus vertical slices.
Good things to think about, thx.
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