Panning and tilting time lapses

Just fooling around with a new pan/tilt head and my Nikon D300. Thanks milapse for introducing us to such a great tool!

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• mountain
• sunrise
• sunset
• cloud
• clouds
• time
• lapse
• pan
• tilt
• panning
• tilting
• timelapse
• nikon
• D300
• head
• scenic
• beauty
• land

[neverglorious]

this was beautiful! awesome work! does the d300 have a time lapse function built into it?

[cdwither]

It has an intervolemeter function within the camera so you are able to take multiple shots at specified intervals. Then you have to assemble them using a third party program such as Quicktime Pro or Final Cut Pro.

[hakondawg]

Hey! Very nice lapses! I have a D300 myself:) What kind of software do you use to convert the pictures into a video?

[cdwither]

Hi. Glad you liked them. I actually just use quicktime to assemble the photos. If you go to the File menu and click on "Open Image Sequence" it is pretty straight forward. Just make sure all your photos are in a single folder, and you select the first picture in the folder. Once and a while I bring them in through Final Cut, but only when I want to tweak some of the colors or add effects.

[Tambako]

Wow, your timelapses are great. I also tried with my D300, without the pan/tilt head, but I have problems with the light measuring at low light, some consecutive frames are differently exposed which makes the video blink. Any idea how to correct that? Is it the fault of the matrix measurement?

[cdwither]

That's interesting that you are experiencing the flicker issue in low light. The Granite Bay Software website has a good description concerning the issue, but I have not used their filter. Because the issue only happens to me in bright light (white clouds, and sun) I use a ND .9 filter that seems to do the trick. Glad you liked the time lapses!

[choufeizhu]

my arm hair stood on end at 2:40

[klemming]

I like your timelaps movies!

looks like a lot hours you've spent with shooting them :-)

the music is from the composer phillip glass ( austrian) ?

greetings

[maxytaxi]

this isn't "fooling around"

its beautiful

[iammaeling]

in a word?

Sublime

[mr2monster]

How are managing to pan so smoothly?

[milapse]

Shoot manual whenever you can and slow that shutter down. Cameras are prone to high speed shutter inconsistancy as well!

[milapse]

camera compressed movies a no no. you want the most data you can handle! scale down=good - scale up=noooo

[milapse]

Just watched this again and all I can say is... damn. you rocked that spot. Please give us a glimpse of it HD:vimeo etc. damn!

[btnmasher]

Love your time lapses. I too am suffering through the flicker issue with my D300 and 18-200 G lens. Are you using Nikkor G lenses? I also see flicker in the blacks. How have you been smoothing out exposure changes time lapsing sunsets? Can you post the link to the Granite Bay Software discussion of flicker? Their de-flicker software is Windows only, unfortunately.

[btnmasher]

Love your time lapses. I too am suffering through the flicker issue with my D300 and 18-200 G lens. Are you using Nikkor G lenses? I also see flicker in the blacks. How have you been smoothing out exposure changes time lapsing sunsets? Can you post the link to the Granite Bay Software discussion of flicker? Their de-flicker software is Windows only, unfortunately.