Croagh Patrick time-lapse

Sabre Man

I bought a Hähnel Giga T Pro II wireless remote some time ago, so when I was at Croagh Patrick a few days ago I had an interesting subject for a time-lapse video.

I took the pictures with a Canon 60D + a Sigma 10-20mm F3.5 EX DC lens and created the video using Windows MovieMaker.

This is my first time-lapse so I am interested in feedback and criticism. It was also my first time using my wireless remote so it took me a little while to figure out how it worked.

I created two versions. One short version (20 seconds) with 30 frames per second and another one with about 20 frames per second (32 seconds), which I thinks works better in this case.

Short version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQAFtOPAwCI

Long version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCXCjXBVn-k

DaireQuinlan

if I had a criticism is that it's just kind of dull. The viewpoint is boring, the clouds aren't doing anything interesting, the crowds of people flicking to and fro aren't particularly engrossing. It is short though.

Sabre Man

DaireQuinlan wrote: »

if I had a criticism is that it's just kind of dull. The viewpoint is boring, the clouds aren't doing anything interesting, the crowds of people flicking to and fro aren't particularly engrossing. It is short though.

Thanks for your comments. What would you have done to make it more interesting? There was not much I could do about the weather.

I wanted to give an impression of how busy Croagh Patrick is on a typical weekday.

Stella Virgo

i take it , you did not climb it ........

Sabre Man

Stella Virgo wrote: »

i take it , you did not climb it ........

I did, on Wednesday.

The summit was permanently covered in cloud and the winds were blowing. There was intermittent rain and I got some nice fog and rainbow pictures, which I will post on Flickr after I have had a chance to post-process them. The weather on the summit was sadly too bad to hang around and I didn't want to get my camera wet. I'd like to go back up on a day with better weather.

It was only the next day it occurred to me to do a time-lapse. Speaking of which, in hindsight I should have composed to remove the tree from the video.

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Hey Sabre,

I created my first time lapse video very recently too :P. I read up a good bit about it before taking my pics. My pics were not meant to be anything special, but I had an idea of what I wanted.

There's some important points to keep in mind when taking your pictures.

You will need to calculate the amount of time you want your timelapse to be, if the subject is fast or slow, light change, and the fps.

I will post back tomorrow on my experience (missus is giving out about the typing :P)

Sabre Man

I followed this tutorial for MovieMaker. It helped me figure out the time between each picture.
http://timelapseblog.com/2010/04/12/windows-live-movie-maker-time-lapse-tutorial/

I set the remote to take one photo every 5 seconds by the way.

baaba maal

I only mess about with cameras so it isn't the voice of experience talking:) But for a set up like that, I would have really reduced the frequency of shots (anything from once every five minutes or above) and use a slower shutter speed to get a blurred effect for the people. I appreciate there is a practicality of babysitting a camera on a tripod in a busy site for long periods, but I think this approach would give a greater interest to the sky and lighting. It would also give a literal sense of flow to the mass of people.
Others may consider this to be a clichéd approach but there you go!

Effects

For those things to be interesting these days you need to pan them. Hyperlapse I think they are called. Time lapse is soooo 2008!