With improving night shooting capabilities, the GoPro Hero 11 lets you show off the beauty of your surroundings even when it’s dark. With Night Lapse, you can capture how the world around you changes during the hours of darkness. As the name suggests, night lapse refers to time-lapse videos shot in dark and low-light environments.

GoPro Hero 11 Night Lapse is a superb tool to capture how beautiful your city or the place you’re visiting looks at night. In this guide, you’ll learn about all the GoPro Hero 11 Night Lapse settings.

 

What is GoPro Hero 11 Night Lapse?

Night Lapse is one of the three Time-Lapse presets on the GoPro Hero 11 Black. In this mode, Hero 11 can capture some amazing time-lapse videos in dark and low-light environments.

To learn more about GoPro Hero 11 Time Lapse & Time Warp read this guide.

When the GoPro Hero 11 night-lapse mode is on, the camera allows for longer exposure time to capture clearer nighttime shots when there isn’t much available light around you. To achieve this, it automatically adjusts the shutter speed to let more light in and picks the interval that will give you the best results.

What are the best night setting for low light? Find the answer in this article.

In the night lapse mode, users can also manually choose different shutter speeds depending on how lit their surroundings are at any given moment. Lower lighting usually needs higher exposures. This helps you capture more detail in the darkness. Brighter areas like city skylines under streetlights would require less intense photos since they’re already illuminated by artificial sources such as lamps and windows. But, in case you aren’t sure, you can set the shutter speed to ‘Auto’ and let your GoPro decide.

When the Night Lapse preset is ON, you can record 4K night lapse videos with a Wide digital lens. Note that to reduce blur when using Night Lapse, you should mount your camera on a tripod or place it on a stable surface where it won’t wobble or shake.

 

How to Enable Night Lapse on GoPro Hero 11

Enabling night lapse on the GoPro Hero 11 camera is pretty easy!

Here’s how to enable Night Lapse on your Hero 11:

  1. Swipe left until you reach Time Lapse mode.
  2. Tap the current Time Lapse mode setting, then scroll down to Night Lapse.
  3. Tap the pencil icon to adjust your Night Lapse settings.

Find here 7 useful tips for epic GoPro night lapse.

GoPro Hero 11 Night Lapse Effects

Here are the three new night lapse effects that have been introduced in GoPro Hero 11 Black:

#1. Star Trails

Star Trails uses the Earth’s rotation and the stars to create beautiful trails of light across the sky. Mount your camera to a stationary object or tripod, point it toward the night sky and let physics take over. Use the trail length effect to choose maximum, long, or short trail lengths.

#2. Light Painting

Light Painting uses a long exposure to let you create brilliant brush stroke effects with moving light. Mount your camera to a stationary object or tripod, grab a flashlight, glow stick, or another light source, and get creative.

#3. Vehicle Light Trails

Mount your camera to a stationary object or tripod and point your camera at moving vehicles to create stunning light trail footage. Be sure to use the trail length effect to choose maximum, long, or short trail lengths.

 

GoPro Hero 11 Night Lapse Settings

Once you’ve chosen your preferred GoPro Hero 11 night lapse effect, it’s still possible to tweak the camera settings according to your needs. Here are those settings:

Interval

Interval refers to how much time is taken between photos captured in the night lapse. Here’s how to Adjust the Night Lapse Interval on Your GoPro Hero 11:

  1. Once in Night Lapse mode, press and hold the icon in the bottom middle of your camera screen, OR tap this icon and then tap the pencil icon next to Night Lapse
  2. Tap Interval
  3. Use the sliding scale on the right side of the screen to choose your desired photo Interval

Shutter Speed

Shutter speed refers to how long the shutter of your Hero 11 camera is open. The longer the shutter is open, the more light is captured. Here’s how to Adjust the Shutter Speed on Your GoPro Hero 11:

  1. Once in Night Lapse mode, press and hold the icon in the bottom middle of your camera screen, OR tap this icon and then tap the pencil icon next to Night Lapse
  2. Tap Shutter
  3. Use the sliding scale on the right side of the screen to choose your desired Shutter speed

Output

Output refers to the file type of the resulting image. The available options are Raw or Standard. Choose Raw if you want to do post-processing of the image.

Timer

Timer lets you set the amount of time from when you press the shutter button to when the capture actually begins. This is good to eliminate camera shake during the capture which may cause blurry results.

Protune Settings

Lastly, you can tweak the various GoPro Hero 11 Protune settings  according to your own preferences:

  • EV Comp: Used for fine-tuning exposure levels.
  • White Balance: Adjusting the overall color tone (the warmth of the lighting).
  • ISO Min/Max: Adjusts the camera’s sensitivity in low-light environments, and creates a balance between brightness and resulting image noise.
  • Sharpness: Alters the acutance (the severity of transitions and borders) in the image.
  • Color: Allows you to adjust the color profile.

 

Ready For Epic Night Lapse Shots?

So, use the above-mentioned GoPro Hero 11 Night Lapse effects and tweak its settings according to your own situation and preferences. This will help you capture some epic night lapses. However, since time-lapse shooting takes time, please ensure that your camera has enough battery available when you start. For lengthy time-lapse sequences, consider connecting your GoPro to a power source, or have a few spare batteries. Happy shooting! 🙂

 

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