Melting ice cube: time lapse photography

[wyantizer89]

ice.... it's so mysterious.

[wonderwall135]

this is cool. so you set up a camera for a couple hours and just fastforwarded the footage on an editor?

[MonoPhotography]

@wonderwall135 Pretty much, it's over 2000 photos stitched together then timelapsed in quicktime. It's over 3 years ago I shot this now, would definitely be able to do a better one now (though I don't imagine Youtube needs yet another melting ice video!)

[xseablueEyes]

cool xD!

[MonoPhotography]

@xseablueEyes Cheers :)

[TheDiscsOfPr0n]

lol what i do is just take an hour long video and make it 100x faster

[TheUnchainedMind]

@TheDiscsOfPr0n

Of course it works just fine but the problem is that you're limited to the memory and battery life of the camera.

That ice cube probably took a couple of hours to melt , and a small ice tower I made a time lapse of on my channel took seven and a half hours to melt all the way. Can't do that with an average camera. Plus, by using interval photography you can make month long, year long time lapses...there is no limit but your will.

[ibphotos]

Interesting. Giving any thought to applying time lapse to your landscape technique?

[MonoPhotography]

Thanks for viewing it. Yes this was actually my first test of the timelapse technique, the plan was to do a landscape/seascape one once I got the hang of it. Haven't quite got round to it yet but hope to sometime soon!

[cbauwifl6]

I'm experimenting with time lapse and I think I know why the ice cube dances near the end. A hair dryer was used to speed up the melt.

At least that is what I did.

Nice time lapse.

Charlei

[MonoPhotography]

Thanks, a hairdryer was used near the end to speed things up a bit, quite an interesting effect.

[TheUnchainedMind]

@MonoPhotography

Ah, as I thought, a hairdryer :)

Nice video, though I find it could've been shorter.

[MonoPhotography]

@TheUnchainedMind Yes agree actually, drags on a bit until I started firing the hairdryer at it.

[jakl12]

ur shur this aint real time in like florida or sumthin???

[uscs302]

what a track....

i think only a few people have a moment in their lives where this applies....

[hameyez]

beautiful.

i love how the ice cube "dances" near the end