GF1 + 20mm (f1.7) panasonic pancake lens + tripod and a wireless interval timer. Aperture was set pretty tight (f9) hoping to keep most of the room in focus, and a fairly slow shutter speed 0.8 seconds along with a 400 iso, hoping things would still pan out when I turned the lights on. Post processing was minimal, adjusting for white balance and then throwing some music on it. It was fun and will be much quicker the second time. (The blurriness is a bit of compression you tube applies. The photos, all 2,000+ of them are actually pretty sharp).
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First just let me say, "Nice Tree!". I can certainly appreciate your effort in setting this up but now Ivy wants to try something similar,so Thanks alot! By the way, what was the total time (aprox)? We enjoyed seeing you step over the pup several times... nice post, thanks!
ReplyDeleteHey thanks! Should be good fun. The key is planning out your subject matter and the interval required. So working backwards;
ReplyDelete- I thought the total time would be no greater than four hours
- I used a few internet resources to choose the interval (I chose one picture every three seconds in the first video and two seconds in the second video.
- This put me at several thousand images, so I had to check battery life and a large enough memory card.
- Once the images were complete I used lightroom to batch post production on the white balance and then quicktime pro to lapse them together, and imovie to add music.
Here are a couple of references I used (they are neither exhaustive nor even likely the best, but they helped me muddle thru them).
How to Make Time-lapse Video-Ultimate Guide
Timelapse Photography: A Complete Guide for Beginers
Last I used a free iphone app called, "Timelapse" to help estimate the number of images needed for a specific frame rate per second (fps) on the finished video. (Both of these were in the lower frame rates, I think in the 6-10 frames per second).
Don't let the techno-babble be daunting. Its was pretty fun!
BTW, to answer your question; the first video was probably about two hours of activity and roughly 2,000 photos at a fps of around 10fps.
ReplyDeleteThe second video was more like an hour of acitivity at ~1,000 photos at an fps of around 6 or 8 fps.
Have fun! Can't wait to see how it turns out.