"Clouds" My first timelapse movie
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havasuphoto
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I like this one;
Just used a Go Pro HD camera on interval setting, then joined in Vegas and played with the colors.
Time lapsed is sort of an "art form".....being that it's not really a still photograph, and it's not really a video-it's an amalgamation. So, what you shoot, and when and were you use the footage, is totally up to you, and defines the "art".
Some things look great for time lapsed(like your clouds video-nicely done), and some things fail(like parts of my video-were there really isn't a whole lot going on).
But, the best advice I can give is to shoot everything in manual....and practice. There are some jaw dropping time lapsed video's on You Tube(mine isn't one of them-it was just for demonstration purposes of what the little Go Pro HD could do).
Also, you didn't tell us what you used to shoot the images???
There are a lot of creative things you can do, once you have the time lapsed footage. Like pans and zooms-depending on the resolution. Remember, you're only going to render down to 1920X1080/24 or 30 fps. So if you shoot 12 mega-pixel images(4000X3000), you have a lot of room in there to crop/zoom/pan. It can be very painstaking work in Photoshop, and can take days to finish, or longer. But, the end result will look cool.
Just used a Go Pro HD camera on interval setting, then joined in Vegas and played with the colors.
Time lapsed is sort of an "art form".....being that it's not really a still photograph, and it's not really a video-it's an amalgamation. So, what you shoot, and when and were you use the footage, is totally up to you, and defines the "art".
Some things look great for time lapsed(like your clouds video-nicely done), and some things fail(like parts of my video-were there really isn't a whole lot going on).
But, the best advice I can give is to shoot everything in manual....and practice. There are some jaw dropping time lapsed video's on You Tube(mine isn't one of them-it was just for demonstration purposes of what the little Go Pro HD could do).
Also, you didn't tell us what you used to shoot the images???
There are a lot of creative things you can do, once you have the time lapsed footage. Like pans and zooms-depending on the resolution. Remember, you're only going to render down to 1920X1080/24 or 30 fps. So if you shoot 12 mega-pixel images(4000X3000), you have a lot of room in there to crop/zoom/pan. It can be very painstaking work in Photoshop, and can take days to finish, or longer. But, the end result will look cool.
havasuphoto
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Yea, the color negative was just an experiment that kind of went awry. I kept it, because I really didn't like the footage without it.....kinda bland. the Go pro is not a very good still camera, so colorizing it was the only way to save it and make it interesting. I was just trying to show the smoothness of absence of flicker........so colorizing it really drew out any flaws the camera might have had...and I think the little go pro does pretty well, for what it is.
It's the only time lapse I have, that's online unfortunately. I've done quite a few with my Nikon's. I love doing them...and I think you did a great job on yours. Nothing really negative jumps out at me at all-they look fine.
Did you shoot all of your in manual everything?? Not sure what feedback your looking for......???
I've found that you will get more critique on time lapsed on a still photography site, than a video site.
check out this, could get rid of some flicker on the clouds: http://lrtimelapse.com/
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