Basil Time-Lapse

Trying to make a time lapse of some basil growing, using my 20D connected to an imac. I shot 2534 raw pictures which I then converted to jpeg after cropping the pictures to 16:9 and correcting some colours. I used quicktime pro to make the stills into a movie (60fp/s) and FCE4 to increase speed by 250%. The hardest part is to get the video not to flicker in between frames, if anyone knows how to get this to disappear I'm happy to hear from you. Any questions? Like it? Leave a comment, thanks!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• basil
• time-lapse
• plant
• time
• lapse
• growth
• speed
• green
• nature
• eos
• canon
• 20d
• imac
• fce
• fce4

[RadiQal]

Looks great! Did you manually took the shots? That explains the flickering.

[johankeijzer]

@RadiQal

Thanks! The camera was tethered to an imac using automator to repeat the shots with a set interval and yes all the shots are manually configured and all the same. The flickering occurs because of tiny variations in the actual exposure time despite they're set to be all the same.

[johankeijzer]

@RadiQal The only 'solution' I found is to increase the exposure time so the deviation (in terms of percentage) decreases in between shots… off course increasing exposure time brings in a whole lot of other problems during time-lapse recordings, but it's fun to try and solve those problems =)

Johan

[hitachi088]

nice.

[Wildman25]

Hello if anyone would care to post does the steam to basil ever turn green. I ask because I tried growing tomato seeds indoor and after three weeks under a normal cfl light they the steams stayed white and the plant died. so im trying something different with a more daylight friendly bulb. its my second day since the plant poked out of the ground. I have it in a glass container with lots of humidity. Any and all comments on basil would be a great help . Thanks

[loopofpoop]

i like to watch the water dry instead of the basil growing :3