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June 15, 2019 at 10:37 pm #135694
One of my other hobbies is photography. Today I made my first attempt at time lapse photography. It’s only 10 seconds long. But here it is.
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June 16, 2019 at 7:12 am #135709
Time lapse is an easy to use option on iPhones. Works like a charm. But what I found is if you want a time lapse say for an hour, just shoot the video for an hour, then compress it down using your video editor.
Sunjamr Steve
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June 16, 2019 at 1:58 pm #135732
Time lapse is an easy to use option on iPhones. Works like a charm. But what I found is if you want a time lapse say for an hour, just shoot the video for an hour, then compress it down using your video editor.
I used my Nikon P900 on a tripod for this. I let it run 10 minutes. In the future I think it would be cool to let it run for half an hour on a sunset over our local lake
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June 18, 2019 at 7:13 am #135805
Hi Roger I have played about with timelapse on DSLR cameras a wee bit you may know this stuff neutral density filters can help open the aperture up and give a smoother picture, small apertures give a more jerky motion video. Opening the aperture up can also help avoid flicker as electronic lens apertures are not always exact when they close down resulting in flicker. Some use old manual lenses to avoid this. There is website called LRtimelapse which has some useful software for time lapse using Adobe Lightroom. So we might get some guitar and timelapse from you.
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June 18, 2019 at 7:22 pm #135834
Roger,
There’s a great forum over at http://www.timescapes.org which has been discussing timelapse for years. Sadly there’s little activity these days, timelapse has become so common and easy to do but there’s a fantastic archive of wisdom on the subject and plenty of examples in the showcase to inspire you. If you decide to get into camera motion for timelapse there are plenty of design ideas for building equipment and discussions on software as well. There’s also a brilliant series of posts on getting high quality astonomical images with an ordinary dSLR.After playing with timelapse and then moving into stop-frame animation (the technology is essentially the same for both) my main gripe with most people’s timelapse examples was that they were just timelapse for the sake of timelapse, often with a bit of vanilla musak tacked on. It get’s very boring very quickly and I always felt that any film you make by any means needs to tell a story. I quite fancied using moody timelapses of mountains and skies as a backdrop to reading poetry but never got round to doing that. I did make a video of turtles nesting near where I live using only moonlight which was a bit of a chalenge (link below).
These days I ocasionally use it as part of a video showing making things on my home built CNC router, a whole different hobby that grew out of the knowledge I gained building camera motion control gear for timelapse and animation. You just never know where these things will lead you!
Kit
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June 19, 2019 at 8:16 am #135847
Hi Roger I have played about with timelapse on DSLR cameras a wee bit you may know this stuff neutral density filters can help open the aperture up and give a smoother picture, small apertures give a more jerky motion video. Opening the aperture up can also help avoid flicker as electronic lens apertures are not always exact when they close down resulting in flicker. Some use old manual lenses to avoid this. There is website called LRtimelapse which has some useful software for time lapse using Adobe Lightroom. So we might get some guitar and timelapse from you.
OdinThankyou. That is some helpful information.
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June 19, 2019 at 8:22 am #135848
Roger,
There’s a great forum over at http://www.timescapes.org which has been discussing timelapse for years. Sadly there’s little activity these days, timelapse has become so common and easy to do but there’s a fantastic archive of wisdom on the subject and plenty of examples in the showcase to inspire you. If you decide to get into camera motion for timelapse there are plenty of design ideas for building equipment and discussions on software as well. There’s also a brilliant series of posts on getting high quality astonomical images with an ordinary dSLR.After playing with timelapse and then moving into stop-frame animation (the technology is essentially the same for both) my main gripe with most people’s timelapse examples was that they were just timelapse for the sake of timelapse, often with a bit of vanilla musak tacked on. It get’s very boring very quickly and I always felt that any film you make by any means needs to tell a story. I quite fancied using moody timelapses of mountains and skies as a backdrop to reading poetry but never got round to doing that. I did make a video of turtles nesting near where I live using only moonlight which was a bit of a chalenge (link below).
These days I ocasionally use it as part of a video showing making things on my home built CNC router, a whole different hobby that grew out of the knowledge I gained building camera motion control gear for timelapse and animation. You just never know where these things will lead you!
<iframe src=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/34896084?dnt=1&app_id=122963″ frameborder=”0″ title=”Ningaloo Turtle Nesting” allow=”autoplay; fullscreen” allowfullscreen=”” id=”fitvid0″></iframe>Kit
That is an awesome video. I am completely new to time lapse. And my camera is a bridge camera limited in what it can do with it. I have been doing wildlife and landscape photography for years. I used to always use SLRs then I got a DSLR. Then I saw this bridge camera that does a beautiful job with it’s own onboard lens. I still have my Canon OES Rebel I need to see what kind of time lapse capabilities it has.
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June 19, 2019 at 9:32 pm #135909
Roger,
If your camera has an external trigger socket you can buy an ‘intervalometer’ from ebay. Just stick that name into google and you’ll be presented with a million choices. Don’t be fooled into buying the expensive one with Canon written on it, the $15 one is exactly the same. Just make sure you get one with the right connector for your camera.This will let you take a preset number of frames, or run continously, at set intervals from 1 sec upwards.Then there’s the ‘Holy Grail’ of timelapse, maintaing correct exposure throughout a sunset without getting a flickering image, which requires a whole new set of toys including the right software for assembling the result. I haven’t looked at it for a number of years but the LR Timelapse package Odin mentioned was one of the best.
Taking video and then speeding it up is certainly an easy option during daylight but you can get much more interesting effects using discrete frames with longer exposures for each and well controlled depth of field. For the turtle video each exposure was half a second using a 50mm f1.8 lens wide open allowing the use of only moonlight.
One of the old regulars at Timescapes, Chris Field, now works under the name Biolapse. Look at his work for where this hobby can take you. The Timescapes archive has details of his early experiments and the gear he built in his Colorado basement.
Kit
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June 20, 2019 at 8:55 am #135917
Roger,
If your camera has an external trigger socket you can buy an ‘intervalometer’ from ebay. Just stick that name into google and you’ll be presented with a million choices. Don’t be fooled into buying the expensive one with Canon written on it, the $15 one is exactly the same. Just make sure you get one with the right connector for your camera.This will let you take a preset number of frames, or run continously, at set intervals from 1 sec upwards.Then there’s the ‘Holy Grail’ of timelapse, maintaing correct exposure throughout a sunset without getting a flickering image, which requires a whole new set of toys including the right software for assembling the result. I haven’t looked at it for a number of years but the LR Timelapse package Odin mentioned was one of the best.
Taking video and then speeding it up is certainly an easy option during daylight but you can get much more interesting effects using discrete frames with longer exposures for each and well controlled depth of field. For the turtle video each exposure was half a second using a 50mm f1.8 lens wide open allowing the use of only moonlight.
One of the old regulars at Timescapes, Chris Field, now works under the name Biolapse. Look at his work for where this hobby can take you. The Timescapes archive has details of his early experiments and the gear he built in his Colorado basement.
Kit
Kit
My Canon has an external trigger socket. I had chances to sell it but I am glad I held onto it. My Nikon is a bridge camera. In some ways it is limited, in other ways it is the most versatile camera I have ever had.
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June 20, 2019 at 8:57 am #135918
Roger,
If your camera has an external trigger socket you can buy an ‘intervalometer’ from ebay. Just stick that name into google and you’ll be presented with a million choices. Don’t be fooled into buying the expensive one with Canon written on it, the $15 one is exactly the same. Just make sure you get one with the right connector for your camera.This will let you take a preset number of frames, or run continously, at set intervals from 1 sec upwards.Then there’s the ‘Holy Grail’ of timelapse, maintaing correct exposure throughout a sunset without getting a flickering image, which requires a whole new set of toys including the right software for assembling the result. I haven’t looked at it for a number of years but the LR Timelapse package Odin mentioned was one of the best.
Taking video and then speeding it up is certainly an easy option during daylight but you can get much more interesting effects using discrete frames with longer exposures for each and well controlled depth of field. For the turtle video each exposure was half a second using a 50mm f1.8 lens wide open allowing the use of only moonlight.
One of the old regulars at Timescapes, Chris Field, now works under the name Biolapse. Look at his work for where this hobby can take you. The Timescapes archive has details of his early experiments and the gear he built in his Colorado basement.
Kit
Kit
My Canon has a trigger socket. I am glad I held onto it. My Nikon is a bridge camera. In some respects it is limited. But mostly it is the most versatile and useful camera I have ever had.
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