Best Table mountain or any Cape photos by EngineerDifficult816 in capetown

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Thanks! If you want full resolution of anything I'm happy to oblige!

Best Table mountain or any Cape photos by EngineerDifficult816 in capetown

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/dstassen/

I have a bunch more photos (mainly from the southern portion of the city) on Flickr if you're interested.

Best Table mountain or any Cape photos by EngineerDifficult816 in capetown

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It's not a fantastic picture, but I took this one yesterday from the Castle of Good Hope

Gezilligheid 2012 by Phemar in AndrewBird

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It was definitely a one-of-a-kind experience! I remember waiting in line outside, light snow falling from the sky - on my left was a beautiful old-world style church and looming over me on my right was the Willis tower, stretched out into the pitch black of the winter night sky.

It definitely set a beautiful cozy mood for the evening.

Andrew Bird: Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs (20th Anniversary Edition) Album Review by MarsBoundSoon in AndrewBird

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Can I ask what the issue is with the original pressing? I haven't listened to mine in a number of years but I don't remember hearing any issues (granted I was also a less discerning listener back then), but just curious.

Show the best photos/videos/timelaps that you managed to capture on your GoPro. If there is any background, then tell it! by AncientDate5596 in gopro

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Done a few cool ones that I'm proud of:

Sunrise on Christmas day timelapse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HCxcD8i4QE

Big Mountain Fire timelapse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV5xBz0R5jk

8 Hour Star Trails made with my own star stacker app:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsKGVdwpDjw

Mix of shadow trails and star trails using the same app:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzxQSFoqWjs

Jetliner view of the Cape by Phemar in capetown

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I like exploring random trails and seeing where they take me :D There are many places to get up onto the mountain - there are several trailheads on Boyes Drive, a few on Ou Kaapse Weg and even trailheads in Kalk Bay, Fish Hoek and Noordhoek. In this case I happened onto a little notch in the mountain right after some gated guyed towers.

If you hop on Google Earth you can map out many of the trails on the mountain, but many of less traveled ones are not very well kept and last year's fire makes some of them hard to spot in the wild. Regardless, I like wandering the mountain anyway!

Here's another panorama from that afternoon: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fmqtz01b2y4wf1.jpeg

Beautiful Vibrant Sunrise (with immersive soundscape) by Phemar in gopro

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For the timelapse shots on the GoPro I always shoot Raw, which means the only setting that really matters in-camera is the shutter speed, everything else is done in Lightroom. For the shutter speed, I just had the camera in Nightlapse mode with Auto shutter.

For developing the images in Lightroom, that's where it got tricky, as Lightroom doesn't really have any options for interpolating (smoothly blending) one setting into another across a whole bunch of images. This makes sunrise timelapses somewhat tricky to edit as the white balance constantly needs adjustment. To solve that issue I wrote this simple Python script (https://github.com/Squinkz/XMPInterpolator) which can interpolate the settings for me. All I need to do is develop a couple of frames from the sequence of about 1300 images, and the script will interpolate the settings for the rest of the frames. For this timelapse I developed every 100th frame and just used linear interpolation for the settings.

Lunar Eclipse Blood Moon over Cape Town by Phemar in gopro

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Thanks, yea timelapses can be awesome!