Timelapse Photography

lenso · 02-03-2012 12:47pm #1

Hi, this is my first timelapse animation with plasticine, just looking some opinions.. helpful criticism welcome! Thanks

Rew · 02-03-2012 12:56pm

Without being too pedantic thats stop motion animation not time-lapse photography.

Good job. You need to work on your lighting and camera position. These both need to be 100% consistent for the effect to be maximized.

Here is a time lapse I did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efi1NbYgq34

Hogzy · 03-03-2012 11:05am

^^^
Was that a Husky and a Samoyed or 2 Huskies?

ronanc15 · 03-03-2012 11:29am

I think thats excellent especially for a first attempt!

Rew · 03-03-2012 5:28pm

Hogzy wrote: »

^^^
Was that a Husky and a Samoyed or 2 Huskies?

3 dogs, a husky, a husky cross and a Samoyed

humberklog · 03-03-2012 10:12pm

Dear Mr. Lenso, why do you ask for c+C? when you don't bother your arse to either no.1. Contribute generally to the Boards.ie photo group and no.2. Even responding to those on your thread.

I'm almost arsed to say well done but think this might fall on deaf ears.

Time lapse response?

vader65 · 05-03-2012 10:10am

think its really good but is more of a stop motion video rather than a time lapse, you do need to work on lighting and maybe think about changing the page for every scene next time as it does take away from some of the scenes eg.flip phone

bustercherry · 05-03-2012 10:22am

humberklog wrote: »

Dear Mr. Lenso, why do you ask for c+C? when you don't bother your arse to either no.1. Contribute generally to the Boards.ie photo group and no.2. Even responding to those on your thread.

I'm almost arsed to say well done but think this might fall on deaf ears.

Time lapse response?

Is that really called for?

wololo · 05-03-2012 10:35am

although you havn't branded any names there is phones that you do recognise and it definitely makes you think about how much technology has moved on, i'm by no means an expert but good great!

windingo · 05-03-2012 10:43am

I wouldn't worry about ^humberklog^ you have obviously just starting to use boards as a way of getting c+c which is fine. Your animation is great would maybe like to see another?

lenso · 05-03-2012 10:54am

humberklog wrote: »

Dear Mr. Lenso, why do you ask for c+C? when you don't bother your arse to either no.1. Contribute generally to the Boards.ie photo group and no.2. Even responding to those on your thread.

I'm almost arsed to say well done but think this might fall on deaf ears.

Time lapse response?

Thanks to everyone else for their replies they have been great really appreciate it. As for humberklog, I have just starting using boards, and sorry I didn't realise that you expect me to reply so soon I don't have much time to check on things like this. I try to once a week which I think is fair enough. Thanks for the well done though, glad you liked it.

magicbastarder · 05-03-2012 10:58am

only fair to point out that lenso appears not to be a mister either!

PopeBuckfastXVI · 05-03-2012 11:50am

That was brilliant, really original idea, and well put together!

im...LOST · 06-03-2012 6:56pm

Excellent!

Like the others said, consistant lighting and some different camera angles would work well.

And clean the board every so often.

But really, really good job with this.

humberklog · 07-03-2012 1:11am

I think I still use the phone in the first few seconds.

Cracking time laps and please excuse the crankyness in my first post.

wheelbarrow001 · 07-03-2012 2:40am

thx very much for sharing with us!

Adriatic · 07-03-2012 4:07pm

Very innovative, the music works well too.

I made a time lapse of Stephen's Green last Wednesday.

ThOnda · 07-03-2012 9:45pm

Adriatic, go for ALL manual settings, aperture, shutter speed, white balance, focal length and switch off autofocus (that is the constant movement of the picture, tiny bit in and out).
Me thinks :-)

Rew · 08-03-2012 2:23pm

ThOnda wrote: »

Adriatic, go for ALL manual settings, aperture, shutter speed, white balance, focal length and switch off autofocus (that is the constant movement of the picture, tiny bit in and out).
Me thinks :-)

Yeah I was about to say that, lovely time lapse but I was getting seasick with the movement!

Adriatic · 08-03-2012 10:22pm

Yes, I had autofocus on apart from that it was all manual, well now I know for the next time.

Pulse8 · 20-03-2012 12:17pm

Was waiting for a remote timer to arrive for nearly 3 weeks so as soon as it did I got out & about over the weekend, short stroll around Wexford to test it out

My first real proper go at doing a timelapse, I think in the last scene I must've left the autofocus on by accident as it seems to jump slightly, also the manual focus I think might have been a bit arseways in some of the others as the pics dont seem sharp & detailed?....what I was generally doing was pressing the button half way to autofocus, letting it focus & then switching it off (is this a bit of a focusing faux pas or?)

Really wanna get a ND filter now so I can drag the shutter more in daylight (for use with my kit 18-135 as the fisheye lens is obviously curved) but not sure about the varying grades?
Was thinking maybe the Hoya HMC ND400 67mm if anyone can advise or are the Pro1 series better?
Have seen some reviews online saying the Pro1 "digital" series are a bit of a scam & the HMC allow more natural colour into the lens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSHKqHvX2Ng

pullandbang · 20-03-2012 9:30pm

I'd forgotten I'd done a time-lapse at Peoples Photography last year.
This is my one and only ever time-lapse and I'll probably never do another one (until next time;))

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40jhBgMrNHU

trooney · 21-03-2012 2:48pm

Snowpocalypse'd - One I did a while back...

dirtyghettokid · 21-03-2012 3:00pm

did one in january... it was a good learning experience!
next one i do, will hopefully be more interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Ii0u2dxfw

Rew · 21-03-2012 3:26pm

Here's one of a Dublin sky in January. Didnt have screen for the GoPro at the time hence the horrible framing:

homerun_homer · 22-03-2012 8:09pm

Here's one I made for a friend with help from this forum on what tools to use to create it.

openxcellaus · 29-03-2012 7:30am

The given information is very interesting.

Iancar29 · 11-04-2012 1:11pm

FINALLY Got my timelapse done from Yesterday.
Watch , enjoy... comment , share.... like... all that jazz

CUPimus · 22-01-2013 12:16pm

well done lenso, this is an an excellent piece of stop motion animation. would consider it time lapse though!

Iancar29 · 27-03-2013 2:19pm

Timelapse of the snow and a snowman i did this morning

, sorry for the vignetting rings , compression after twice editing it brought that in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioTlPh5QsQk

stedabee · 27-03-2013 4:42pm

Here's one i did, wasnt happy with the camera setting but still worked out well, was done over 6 hours with 2 photos every minute!

kaitlynn · 12-05-2013 7:14pm

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 · 18-05-2013 5:44pm

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 · 21-05-2013 11:07am

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 · 22-06-2013 5:59pm

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 · 24-06-2013 8:54pm

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 · 24-06-2013 9:32pm

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 · 25-06-2013 10:18am

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 · 25-06-2013 11:54am

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 · 25-06-2013 11:12pm

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 · 25-06-2013 11:55pm

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 · 30-07-2013 7:55pm

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

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

Timelapse Photography

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