Timelapse Photography

kaitlynn

Hey guys!
I know this is more of an appreciation of timelapse type forum but I was just looking for a bit of advice if anyone can offer it? I'm planning a timelapse with a 550d using the EOS utility software as I wont have a remote timer. Ill have the mac plugged in but I will not have an AC adapter for the camera. I only really need to capture a room filling up so I dont think Ill need to shoot for too long but probably at a higher interval rate. My question is though how long will a battery last? Ill have it on manual focus and the room is fairly well lit so depending on that it shouldn't be too long an exposure. Any other tips and advice for this kind of timelapse is always appreciated!!
Thanks
K

L31mr0d

Some short timelapses I've recorded.

Sunset and Sunrise:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=368509866603968

Clouds:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151253291050780

I tend to try and record a few timelapses and use them in my end of year recap video. You can see all of my timelapses from last year in this video.

https://vimeo.com/54058608

af_thefragile

That was really well done!!

As someone who has dabbled into stop motion ckaymation, I can truly appreciate the time and effort that goes into producing something that may appear as simple.

My only critique would be that you need to improve the lighting a bit. The animation was a bit dark and there was flickering which results from changing lighting such as when using natural light as a light source. Too avoid it you'ld need good quality lights to control the lighting of your set... But its still very good!

Edit: just realised thread is a year old... Dah!

PaleHorse

kaitlynn wrote: »

Hey guys!
I know this is more of an appreciation of timelapse type forum but I was just looking for a bit of advice if anyone can offer it? I'm planning a timelapse with a 550d using the EOS utility software as I wont have a remote timer. Ill have the mac plugged in but I will not have an AC adapter for the camera. I only really need to capture a room filling up so I dont think Ill need to shoot for too long but probably at a higher interval rate. My question is though how long will a battery last? Ill have it on manual focus and the room is fairly well lit so depending on that it shouldn't be too long an exposure. Any other tips and advice for this kind of timelapse is always appreciated!!
Thanks
K

3-4 hours I should think. I have the same camera and shoot timelapse too. I think you'll have more than enough battery life to get what you want. Late reply I know, but I only JUST started using this again to post in this thread.

L31mr0d wrote: »

Some short timelapses I've recorded.

Sunset and Sunrise:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=368509866603968

Clouds:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151253291050780

I tend to try and record a few timelapses and use them in my end of year recap video. You can see all of my timelapses from last year in this video.

https://vimeo.com/54058608

You're literally living my dream, man. Love the video.

Old Perry

Okay so, the guys beside me had a house party last night which carried on till the wee hours, this in turn left me with no choice but to stay awake all night and as such i stumbled upon this little beauty of thread. in my delirium i left my apartment at 7 this morning and amassed a couple of thousand pictures which i intended on working into a time lapse. However it has not worked out the way i thought it would.

Would any of you kind ladies and gentlemen care to suggest an appropriate program to help stick all these photos together? I used my trusty kickon dslr to gather the pics and succeeded spectacularly at failing Adobe After Effects.

Any advice appreciated. Please and thank you.

PaleHorse

Old Perry wrote: »

Okay so, the guys beside me had a house party last night which carried on till the wee hours, this in turn left me with no choice but to stay awake all night and as such i stumbled upon this little beauty of thread. in my delirium i left my apartment at 7 this morning and amassed a couple of thousand pictures which i intended on working into a time lapse. However it has not worked out the way i thought it would.

Would any of you kind ladies and gentlemen care to suggest an appropriate program to help stick all these photos together? I used my trusty kickon dslr to gather the pics and succeeded spectacularly at failing Adobe After Effects.

Any advice appreciated. Please and thank you.

The program LRTimelapse is supposed to be the best. I've never used it so I can't say. At the moment I use Adobe Lightroom. It gives you the ability to sync any edits you make to one photo to the other thousand or so you may have. There's also a "slideshow" section in Lightroom that you can use to export a video but you need to download the add-ons for the frame rate and quality. Before that I used Windows Movie Maker and it was absolute hell. I had a terrible laptop too so I had to export the photos to video 100 at a time. Then join the short clips together to make longer clips. I'd recommend Lightroom because it's the best I've used. Hope this helps.

homerun_homer

Go here for a 4 part guide/tutorial on timelapse. The last part deals with Post Processing and putting it all together and recommends some tools that can be used.

Old Perry

Thanks peoples, i noticed a sharp drop in the quality of the pictures once the file is rendered. is this normal/something to do with the file type i am choosing?

Will stick up a video once a sort it.

tylercollins

I LOVE timelapses, I've been doing a few over the 3 months since I got my D7000.

This was one of the first ones I did which I though turned out pretty decent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZxgT2fs_Gg

Here's another one I did, alot of mine have just been tests, trying different things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcuTeJ9kQRY

I've got 2 more which I still have to finish editing which I must try and get done this weekend.

I was in London last week and have recorded one from Westminster bridge looking over to the London Eye. I Recorded 500 photos during daylight and then I was going to do another 500 in the dark but it started to rain so only managed about 150/200 photos. I then blended in post so it looks as if it turning from day to night. Just need to finish editing it, but I'll get it thrown up this weekend if I get a chance!!

For people looks for some great tips on timelapse photography, Preston Kanak is the GOD of doing them, check out his website for tutorials and workflows.

PaleHorse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqyM491ALLU

One shot from my window.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcFMz3GGJLA

First time lapse shot in raw.

I also have an astro time lapse that I haven't shared with anyone yet. I really need to shoot more!

GhostInTheRuins

I threw this together over the last few weeks while we had some lovely weather.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VURkhRgrLfk