Golden Sunset Time lapse

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fmaggi

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I'm not as experienced as most, but a gorgeous sunset last night lent itself to beautiful timelapse. I shot with auto-iris because I can't think of any other way of handling the extreme changes in light conditions over time at sunset. Suggestions? BTW, there was also some pretty fine surf pumping through; check out the surf video if interested (all shot from shore with max tele, standard lens). Fun.

http://web.mac.com/frankmaggi/iWeb/Site/Golden Sunset.html
 
Looks great. We tend not to use auto iris for sunset timelapse because a natural darkening of a landscape is real, and therefore more dramatic. The idea is to capture the changing light, not to compensate for it. The surf footage reel is quite nice. I would though avoid the infommercial titles, and the studder edits. The music is also verging on cliche. Lot's of great footage there. Let it breath without the gimics.
 
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Nice very nice,

I played around with the HVX today and did some time lapse shots however I didnt have the chance to capture a nice sunset like you did.

Question. what fps did you use? was it 2?

Cheers mike
 
You can do the 2fps Hack. Search for it here in the forum. But I think they meant they did one frame every two seconds. Big difference. :)
 
Yes, I was using the intervalometer (sp?) function. You need to be in video (not film) mode and use one of the supported rec modes (I think I used 1080i-60i for this one), set record function to interval and set interval time for whatever you want (I had it on 2 fps). This is different than under/overcranking in one of the Native modes. I believe the hack Kevin referred to allows you to get to unsupported frame rates while in Native mode.
 
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