First of all, a very happy new year one and all :)
I must apologise in advance as this is not a wildlife shot or a beautiful landscape - however it's been quite well recieved in the Uk section of the site so thought I'd share it here in the general area too.
I haven't taken too many photos lately but this is something else I've been working on that's slightly out of the ordinary for this forum. And so, I present to you a timelapse video I took on my D3...which is made up of over 2300 photos.
Miami timelapse. I wasn't able to get a video embed to work so the link takes you to the video on my blog.
It was inspired in part by some of the sequences on the recent Life series on tv here in the UK so it's roots have kinda come from nature and wildlife
I also did one with a pelican but it didn't stay quite still enough to work. Maybe next time! Although I'm thinking an alligator would make a more static subject!
Hope you enjoy
Posted by Ken Smith on January 2, 2010 at 10:19 PM
Creativity! That was a delight to see. Congrats to you for the patience and effort.
Posted by Paul DeCesare on January 3, 2010 at 1:31 AM
Well done Richard! I especially like the pull-back during the shot with the city block and all the cars. THAT had to take patience! If you don't mind me asking, for the night skyline segment, what was your shutter speed and how long was the interval between images? It came out very good.
The pull out shot was actually all done in post processing. The original footage was the same res as a D3 RAW image and because you are scaling down to 1920x1080 or 1280x720 it gives you a large amount of room for zooming and panning the shot in software whilst still keeping good quality. I know you can set up rigs that move the camera as you take a timelapse sequence but don't think you can get anything that can zoom your lens in small steps between shots.
The final night shot was done with 5 second exposures with 2 seconds between each exposure :)
Posted by Caleb Royer on January 3, 2010 at 9:40 AM
That's a really cool video. I've been experimenting with some DSLR time lapse myself. What programs did you use to take the photos and edit them?
Excellent!
I'm impressed. You did this with a DSLR? The panning and zooming are so smooth - thanks for the explanation. Your first timelapse video as about is professionally done as it could be.
Caleb, the process is described a little more in my blog link but to break it down: I didn't use any programmes to take the photos, just the D3's built in interval shooting mode and they were compiled, edited and rendered out in to a movie using After Effects and Premier Pro :)
Buck, many thanks. It was good to put the D3 to a new use
Posted by Brian Jackson on January 3, 2010 at 3:07 PM
Discussion
8 repliesI must apologise in advance as this is not a wildlife shot or a beautiful landscape - however it's been quite well recieved in the Uk section of the site so thought I'd share it here in the general area too.
I haven't taken too many photos lately but this is something else I've been working on that's slightly out of the ordinary for this forum. And so, I present to you a timelapse video I took on my D3...which is made up of over 2300 photos.
Miami timelapse. I wasn't able to get a video embed to work so the link takes you to the video on my blog.
It was inspired in part by some of the sequences on the recent Life series on tv here in the UK so it's roots have kinda come from nature and wildlife
I also did one with a pelican but it didn't stay quite still enough to work. Maybe next time! Although I'm thinking an alligator would make a more static subject!
Hope you enjoy
The pull out shot was actually all done in post processing. The original footage was the same res as a D3 RAW image and because you are scaling down to 1920x1080 or 1280x720 it gives you a large amount of room for zooming and panning the shot in software whilst still keeping good quality. I know you can set up rigs that move the camera as you take a timelapse sequence but don't think you can get anything that can zoom your lens in small steps between shots.
The final night shot was done with 5 second exposures with 2 seconds between each exposure :)
I'm impressed. You did this with a DSLR? The panning and zooming are so smooth - thanks for the explanation. Your first timelapse video as about is professionally done as it could be.
Buck, many thanks. It was good to put the D3 to a new use