3/1/2023 0 Comments Ebook lrtimelapse![]() Get a few fun tests under your belt and the time-lapse bug is sure to carry you through to the next steps. Your first few tests should focus more on experimenting with different changing subjects and a little less stress about creating a technically perfect rendered sequence (there’s plenty of time for that later). I can’t stress this enough: If you are new to time-lapse, review these basics then get out there and play. Here’s a page to help you gauge the file size implications of your decision: High resolution images will provide the freedom to crop as well as program in movement by panning, tilting or zooming into a sequence in post. RAW images will allow for non-destructive tweaking and correcting in post production (using standard or transitional editing). ![]() There’s a lot to discuss here but if I were to boil all this down into a simple recommendation it would be this: Shoot in the highest resolution (actual image dimension) RAW format your card capacity, camera write speed and time-lapse planning will allow. Size, quality, space and speed It’s nothing new if you’ve worked with digital images before but with time-lapse sequences poor planning can quickly cut a scene too short or leave you with a blinking “Card Full” message just as the sun peaks out over the mountains. Balancing Time-lapse Image Settings: Size, Quality, Space and Speed If you are really looking to push the limits of your creativity we’ll introduce some advanced gear to build and buy in the eBook and I wanted to be sure to include an example video a little later in this post. Since a stable shooting platform of anykind is so important I wanted to include a page on tripod stability. Here are the minimum gear requirements for a new shooter. The Gear You Need To Tell Your Own Time-lapse Story:Ĭhances are if you’ve been shooting with a DSLR camera you probably have just about everything you need to get started in time-lapse photography. It’s so much more than a gee whiz editing effect. Timelapse – The City Limits from Dominic on Vimeo. The ones that give you a better understanding about how nature changes and cities work. What I am talking about are the compilations that really grab your attention and make you think about the world around you. Now I know you have seen some before, (especially if you watch reality TV) but I’m not really talking about those short clips between tribal counsel elimination decisions, it can go a little deeper if we let it. The best way to get a greater feel for the power of time-lapse is to watch a few. Objects and events that would normally take several minutes, days, or even months can be viewed to completion in seconds having been sped up by factors of tens to millions. Time-lapse photography is a cinematography technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured (aka the frame rate) is much lower than that which will be used to play the sequence back. Let’s take a closer look: What is Time-lapse Photography? But what’s really going on in the background? We know that time-lapse is all about the capture of change in a way that we can’t normally see. Since there have been some great written introductions here on DPS I decided to use a few videos and screenshots from the eBook Time-Lapse Photography: A Complete Introduction (currently 20% off) instead and focus on creating a launchpad for your experiments. I thought I’d share a few tips I’ve learned over the years as well as touch on the basics for new and intermediate DSLR photographers who might want to try time-lapse. I’m a big fan of time-lapse photography and I love seeing the amazing work that people create from all over the world. Maybe it was a construction project or a cityscape at night, full of activity and production. ![]() ![]() A flower blooming, a sunset or a moonrise. Possibly you are fascinated by nature and the slow changes that occur over a period of time. You’ve probably stumbled upon an incredible work of time-lapse where you just couldn’t get the images and the feelings out of your head.
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