Bulb Ramping in detail ...

Bulb Ramping
Professional timelapse photography with Bulb Ramping from t-moco ...

Up to 6 bulb shutter stops with smooth exposure gradients …

Example: A 6-stop sunset bulb ramp (1/8 sec [125ms] to 8 sec) at an interval of 6 minutes results in a smooth and continuous 6-stop exposure increase during 36 minutes of reduced ambient lighting. If more stops are needed, you can add up to 6 ISO steps.

 

Bulb Ramping

Description

Adjusting shutter speed dynamically as the ambient lighting changes (eg. at sunset or sunrise) is called exposure 'ramping'

Details
As timelapse exposures are usually performed with the shutter in 'bulb' mode the exposure adjustment in this case is referred to as 'bramping'