Time lapse test with Canon 7D

As a photographer your objective is to capture a story in just one frame and there are some skills that transfer to video (for example framing, exposure, lighting, focus points) but no surprisingly there are many new ones including scripts, movement, sound and time.

This is my first video time lapse experiment - this was a photo a minute for 8 hours which equalled about 480 shots.

Each shot given 2/25 frames per second on the sequence then sped up so that it came into at a total of 30 seconds.

A few little effects added as you can see and music by my very talented brother-in-law Justin FitzGerald, Blue Arrows Music.

Yes, there are quiet a few things I'll do differently next time.

1. Shoot in manual mode as opposed to Aperture Priority which resulted in constant correct exposure of the subject but varied shutter speeds between 1/1250 and 30 seconds. The result was being a poor sunset representation.

2. Movement - simply moving the camera around the object on a dolly to make more interesting.

3. A bigger f-stop (shot f4) / lens with better bokeh or learn how to create this effect in the editing software (Premiere CS5).

4. Something more interesting - Cityscape; beach; stars.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Canon 7D
• time lapse
• Adobe Premiere CS5

[TheMeister2011]

very nice! watch my timelapse videos!