Time lapse - links, info and info sharing :)

jasonstonejasonstone Registered Users Posts: 735 Major grins
edited March 21, 2011 in Video
Hey all,

I'm interested in doing some time lapse videos... have been reading up like made on it trying to get my head around the technical challenges of it...

Is anyone doing any time lapse? any successfully movies resulting from your efforts?

Would be interested in sharing links, videos, how to's etc.

For example some good tutorials can be found here:
http://www.timescapes.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=1871
http://timothyallen.blogs.bbcearth.com/2009/02/24/time-lapse-photography/
http://digitalartwork.net/2007/01/30/time-lapse-tutorial/
http://www.spiritofbaraka.com/

Anyway hopefully we can get a bit of a time lapse discussion going on here and learn from each other :thumb
Jase // www.stonesque.com

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  • dixondukedixonduke Registered Users Posts: 197 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2011
    I am just learning about this as well.

    I see that your shooting a Nikon D7000. One of the neat things that Nikon's Camera Pro software will do is timelapse.

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    I have also taken my old Canon S90 and hacked it with the CHDK software. Pretty fun and simple to use.

    I haven't produced anything worth sharing yet... but its fun to experiment and play around a little.
    Duke
  • jasonstonejasonstone Registered Users Posts: 735 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2011
    dixonduke wrote: »
    I am just learning about this as well.
    I see that your shooting a Nikon D7000. One of the neat things that Nikon's Camera Pro software will do is timelapse.

    or luckily with the newer nikons you can do it all in camera with the timelapse function built in :)

    I'm wondering if it's faster to shoot time lapse tethered to a laptop or direct to SDHC/CF card??
    Jase // www.stonesque.com
  • dixondukedixonduke Registered Users Posts: 197 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2011
    OK... I am officially jealous. Not only does the D7000 have great ISO ability, it has a built in intervalometer!?!?!?!?!

    Thanks for the links above. I was supposed to get some sleep tonight, but have been so engrossed in timescapes, its almost time to get up.
    Duke
  • piolet_rampepiolet_rampe Registered Users Posts: 94 Big grins
    edited February 10, 2011
    What other software is good for pulling together a series taken with an intervalometer? I have taken some tests with my 60D and am looking to pull them together, eventually converting to a video file of some kind.

    At a George Lepp workshop a few months ago he was showing off some stuff he had done, ultimately stitching it together using Quicktime Pro.

    One of the interesting tips from this lecture was that he always shot intervalometer stuff using the setting for lower quality JPG files and not RAW or anything HQ. I guess it makes sense that when you stitch together 300 images you would then want the resulting file to be manageable.

    What other software can do this?
    http://www.mountains2sea.us
  • aquaticvideographeraquaticvideographer Registered Users Posts: 278 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2011
    Dioramaramamomenter!
    jasonstone wrote: »
    ...

    Is anyone doing any time lapse? any successfully movies resulting from your efforts?

    Would be interested in sharing links, videos, how to's etc.

    I use the "Art Filters" on my Olympus E-PL1 as a kind of intervalometer. Some of them are so resource-intensive that they actually introduce shutter lag. So, you can make some weird time lapse-y stuff with them.

    Here's a short one that I think is semi-weird & -wonderful:

    http://www.vimeo.com/12539809

    The diorama filter seems to work best when the camera is perched at a fairly steep angle above the scene.

    Once I get the footage onto my computer, I use QuickTime to trim it.

    I have used iMovie HD to do time lapse, too, using the Faster/Slower effect, although that's not nearly as much fun as using the Art Filters. :D
  • piolet_rampepiolet_rampe Registered Users Posts: 94 Big grins
    edited February 10, 2011
    I hadn't considered "iMovie". I can transfer all these images onto a Mac laptop we have and work on that if iMovie is sufficient. I just need a simple "stitch it together" kind of thing right now.
    http://www.mountains2sea.us
  • aquaticvideographeraquaticvideographer Registered Users Posts: 278 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2011
    I think iMovie HD is brilliant. It's super easy and pretty powerful for what it is. Of course, I'm no pro...

    I've had trouble grokking the newer versions of iMovie, but I know you can stitch stuff together pretty easily if you can understand its interface (?!). If you can scrounge up a copy of iMovie HD-they don't have it available for download anymore-I think it's pretty easy to do that.

    I'm pretty sure you can use the latest version of QuickTime to stitch stuff as well, although I've mostly used it to trim.
  • piolet_rampepiolet_rampe Registered Users Posts: 94 Big grins
    edited February 11, 2011
    Add "Grokking" to the list of things I needed to Google this week. I thought it must be a bittorrent client.

    To grok (pronounced /ˈɡrɒk/) is to share the same reality or line of thinking with another physical or conceptual entity. Author Robert A. Heinlein coined the term in his best-selling 1961 book Stranger in a Strange Land. In Heinlein's view, grokking is the intermingling of intelligence that necessarily affects both the observer and the observed. From the novel:
    Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthly assumptions) as color means to a blind man.
    http://www.mountains2sea.us
  • aquaticvideographeraquaticvideographer Registered Users Posts: 278 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2011
    piolet_rampe wrote: »
    Add "Grokking" to the list of things I needed to Google this week. I thought it must be a bittorrent client.

    To grok (pronounced /ˈɡrɒk/) is to share the same reality or line of thinking with another physical or conceptual entity.

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  • LadukebobLadukebob Registered Users Posts: 67 Big grins
    edited February 20, 2011
    I've been playing around with it a little the last few days and what I've been using is a simple remote tied to my D90. I set the camera to the smallest Jpeg size. In this clip I shot at an interval of 20 seconds for about 3 hours. I use Quick Time Pro because it's cheap and crazy easy. And the reason for shooting such a small file size is to keep the total file size low. Lots of fun for sure. But I am worried that I'll wear out the D90 using it this way so I might look for a used D50 or something along those lines.

    http://vimeo.com/20150561

    Dan
    Nikon D90
    18-105 mm
    85 mm 1.8
    10-20 mm
    35 mm 1.8

    kleinsmith.zenfolio.com
  • aquaticvideographeraquaticvideographer Registered Users Posts: 278 Major grins
    edited February 20, 2011
    That's a really great video, Dan. Is that Mt. Hood?
  • LadukebobLadukebob Registered Users Posts: 67 Big grins
    edited February 20, 2011
    aquaticvideographer wrote: »
    That's a really great video, Dan. Is that Mt. Hood?

    It is Mt. Hood, as seen from my home in Hood River.
    Nikon D90
    18-105 mm
    85 mm 1.8
    10-20 mm
    35 mm 1.8

    kleinsmith.zenfolio.com
  • aquaticvideographeraquaticvideographer Registered Users Posts: 278 Major grins
    edited February 20, 2011
    Wow-nice view. Lucky you!

    Hello from Portland.
  • LadukebobLadukebob Registered Users Posts: 67 Big grins
    edited February 20, 2011
    aquaticvideographer wrote: »
    Wow-nice view. Lucky you!

    Hello from Portland.

    Hey neighbor,
    Cheers
    Nikon D90
    18-105 mm
    85 mm 1.8
    10-20 mm
    35 mm 1.8

    kleinsmith.zenfolio.com
  • LadukebobLadukebob Registered Users Posts: 67 Big grins
    edited March 20, 2011
    Recently I picked up a used Meade DS2000 pan tilt telescope mount. I fab'ed a camera mount and it works great. It needed a little TLC when I first received it but the price was right. Here is a short test I did today in my shop.

    <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/21270298" width="400" height="265" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/21270298">cleaning up</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user6073316">Dan Kleinsmith</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
    Nikon D90
    18-105 mm
    85 mm 1.8
    10-20 mm
    35 mm 1.8

    kleinsmith.zenfolio.com
  • jasonstonejasonstone Registered Users Posts: 735 Major grins
    edited March 21, 2011
    funny thing is first thing that came to mind was - NICE WORKSHOP!! <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/rolleyes1.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >

    and damn that is a really nice smooth time lapse <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/thumb.gif&quot; border="0" alt="" >
    Ladukebob wrote: »
    Recently I picked up a used Meade DS2000 pan tilt telescope mount. I fab'ed a camera mount and it works great. It needed a little TLC when I first received it but the price was right. Here is a short test I did today in my shop.

    <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/21270298" width="400" height="265" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/21270298">cleaning up</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user6073316">Dan Kleinsmith</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
    Jase // www.stonesque.com
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