The Ultimate Guide to Time-Lapse Photography. Boy, are we excited. We’ve spent every waking moment these last months cooped up in the Photojojo Labs, working tirelessly on what can only be our greatest experiment ever. We’ve finally done it. We’ve found the key to… Time Travel. Well, time-lapse photography. So go ahead, read our guide on the ins and outs of time-lapse and start churning out your very own time-lapse videos from your photos. Then, take up your mantle in the halls of history, beside legends such as Bernard, Hoagie and Laverne, Dr. P.s. Time Lapse 101: An Overview Alright, so it’s not time-travel. Time-lapse lets you see the natural progression of time, while not having to wait through the actual length of it… so you could watch the sunset (at least, yesterday’s sunset) as you always wanted to, without staying up late to do so – and you could fit it all within a nice, brief commercial break in-between episodes of “Dr.
Here’s an example of a time-lapse we put together just for you: Music by Loena Naess, who is awesome. Time-Lapse Tutorial - digitalartwork – Multimedia Journalism. Tutorial: How to create a HDR time lapse. In the last few years, HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography evolved to a serious photography technique. Here an example which is slightly over the top, which I made in 2006 from the telescope I write my phd thesis about. HDR gone bad: and another one from Agua Azul in Chiapas, Mexico. Kitsch as kitsch can: Once one gets over the initial phase of playing with the settings and going to the crazy settings resulting into the images above, one can achieve great results.
Technically, HDR images are taken using the bracketing mode, which is included in all DLSRs and even some compact cameras. For HDR time lapse movie, I first follow the general rules of time lapse photography: Focus to manualManual white balance (I use SRaw1 on the Canon 50D to be able later to change the white balance when developping the raw images. 7.5 MegaPixel is more than enough for time lapses)Manual exposure time and aperture.Furthermore, I use either a neutral density filter or a polariser. That's it! "deshake" a time lapse sequence taken in windy conditions.
In Barcelona I shot some time lapses in very windy weather and I only had the gorilla pod as a tripod with me. The result makes you seasick when watching.Here is a still from that sequence: Luckily, there is photoshop with its great "auto align" function. This will nicely deshake the movie. To use it, proceed the following way:First load all the images as a stack into layers (File... Then use Selection... The auto alignment dialog is opened with Edit... With the selection of Auto: and clicking on "ok", the alignement procedure starts.
When it has finished, you can save the single layers again into seperate images with File... Then choose a folder and an image format. Here is the result of the raw and the deshake barcelona movie: www.magictimelapse.ch. Pans and Zooms with Adobe Premiere (Elements) People (like me) whose photo equipement is already heavy enough, do not want to carry a Meade mount or something similar in remote places.
Still, pans look great in time lapse sequences.To some amount, these pans and even zooms can be done in post production, what I will explain here with Adobe Premiere Elements.To save some memory on the memory card, I usually shoot in sRaw1, with 7.5MegaPixels (3272x2178). The final movie should be HD (1080p, that means 1920 x 1080 pixels), what leaves lots of space for pans and zooms, as illustrated below: The window denotes the HD window, which can be moved to create the panning effect.
The keyframes in Premiere are great to do that.To use them, I import the images as "image sequence" in Premiere. I drag the sequence into the scene window, then click on the "Effects" tab and on "edit effects": Then open the "Movement" menu and click on the "show keyframes" symbol: Then click on the little watch ("show/hide animations"). Remove dust spots with Adobe After Effects. It's been a while since I wrote a tutorial how to remove dust spots with Photoshop, see here: .
Now if you have After Effects (I use AE CS4), you can skip this photoshop step and do it directly in After Effects.Shooting on Sahara's dunes in Morocco's desert, I caught a large amount of sand grains in my camera (without actually changing the lense at any time, the sand just came in...), so I had to find an efficient way to remove the resulting dust spots...Being an Adobe product, After Effects comes with a few filters that are also included in Photoshop, luckily also with the Dust & Scratches filter. As in Photoshop, you do not want to apply the filter to the whole frame, but only where the dust spots are. To do so, in AE one uses Masks:First import your images into a new composition. Copy your ground layer by clicking on it and pressing ctrl-c ctrl-v: You have now two layers. Select the upper layer. AE Quicktips #8: Camera Raw Sequences : Adobe After Effects Vide.