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Time Lapse Tutorial – BBC Human Planet

Time Lapse Tutorial – BBC Human Planet
Tips and techniques One lump or two? Update: If you have questions about time lapse please contact me via my new Facebook page or join a photography workshop HERE. Time lapse photography can be a lovely way to spend a quiet afternoon somewhere. Before we start, it would be good to see an example of a time lapse film. (You must forgive me for adding the music – it seemed apt) OK, so it’s badly exposed and poorly composed, but it is nevertheless a time lapse film. Equipment Firstly, you need a camera. Using an ND 3.0 filter, in Spain I was able to shoot a 1 minute exposure in bright sunlight at f22 Starting out OK, now onto the practical side of things. Interval Once you’ve framed your shot with the camera firmly on your tripod, you’ve now got to decide how much interval to leave between each frame. Put simply, the shorter the interval between each frame, the more slowly the action will move in your film. There is one final thing to say about interval length. Exposure Great! Remember 1. 2. 3. 4.

The Time-lapse Photography How to Guide - Learn Time-lapse Photography | Learn Time-lapse Photography Hello and welcome to the time-lapse photography how-to guide, an evolving road-map for the evolving art of altered time perception cinematography. This page attempts to weave together separately covered tutorials, tips, and resources into one location that can hopefully act as a launching pad for your own time-lapse experiments and productions. Time discovers truth. We’ve come a long way since Occident’s hooves left the ground but time-lapse still requires patience, dedication, and some special tools and know-how in order to get the scene we design in our minds to show up on screen. Outstanding forums: Let’s go ahead and get started: Don’t worry, it’s not nearly as bad as you might think. Stability (or controlled movement) is the most essential component for a time-lapse photographer. What makes a good time-lapse camera? I have broken the external intervalometer world down into 4 segments. Neutral Density (ND) Filters You’ll end up with a shot just like everyone else’s. 1 second 1 – 3 seconds

My Painting done on Fresh Paint 7 Tips for Shooting better Timelapse A guest post by Neelima Vallangi from the Wandering Soul’s Wander Tales. Timelapse photography is one of the very interesting ways to capture motion. The results are almost always stunning. Timelapse photography is essentially shooting images of a chosen subject continuously at a specified interval and then making a movie out of it. Below you can see the timelapse video that I had shot during my recent visit to the Himalayan Desert Valley of Spiti, India. Get Rid of Auto – Everything in your camera has to remain constant as the subject changes. This video above was shot at a 3MP resolution in Manual Mode with a remote shutter release. What do you think of the timelapse that I have shot and what are your learnings so far? See more from Neelima Vallangi on her Travel and Photography blog and Flickr Page.

Pentax K-5 Time Lapse Guide « Bob-O-Rama Overview The Pentax K-5 is an extremely competent camera, and offers an APS-C sensor with best of class low light performance. As is typical with Pentax, there are many in-camera processing and shooting features which can be used in combination, maximizing the flexibility of the K-5. The K-5 includes 3 axis image stabilization, in camera HDR, flexible bracketing, in camera LCA and geometric distortion correction when used with Pentax lenses. It makes an excellent instrument for time lapse work for a number of reasons, but it also presents some difficulties which can make it somewhat more difficult as well. The aim of this guide is to cover these features broadly and how these fit into the usual aspects of time lapse. Timing – Free Running The K-5 offers a Lo speed continuous shooting drive mode which will actuate the shutter at a rate of about 1 – 2 frames / second. You don’t want to sit there holding the shutter button for 4 hours. Limitations of Continuous Shooting Special Drive Modes

Tutorials - LRTimelapse On this page you can find my tutorials about LRTimelapse editing and time lapse photography in general. Starting with the basics and ending with more complex techniques like the full automated 3-way ramping of shutter time, ISO and aperture for transitions. If you’d prefer a written variant, you can find the LRTimelapse-workflow in written form here. Please check out my written instructions as well! Basic Tutorial for LRTimelapse 4 In this tutorial you will learn quickly how to import, edit and render your time lapse sequences with LRTimelapse 4. Holy Grail Tutorial for LRTimelapse 4 …and this is the result of the editing from the Holy Grail Tutorial as “Before and After” video: Tutorials from LRTimelapse Users Japonese LRT4 Tutorials by Koichiro Oka next page » Basic Tutorial for LRTimelapse 3 In this tutorial you will learn all the basics to get started with LRTimelapse, the new Importer and the new Video Export Process for Lightroom 3, 4 and 5. Other languages: German, Italian. Older tutorials

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