tflak
Veteran
This was a short experiment. Taking an early morning walk and saw some leaves I knew would be pretty colorful once the sun was high enough to hit them. Since that would be awhile, decided might as well do a time-lapse while I waited. Chose to shoot RAW.
So here's my question. Could this have been any better by shooting video instead of stills? And, if so, what settings would you have used? Shot this at 1 frame every 5 seconds with everything on manual except used aperture priority so the shutter speed would automatically change and control exposure.
In my experience, a scene like this with all the detail and rapid changes is a real nightmare for a compressor. And it didn't fare too well in the Vimeo version. Looks much better if you download the QT version. Everything considered, I think that turned out okay - the foliage looks pretty good, even though it's very detailed and constantly moving, which causes the compressor to fail to resolve some of the detail (yes, mud). And the exposure changes seem fairly smooth. The compressor struggled quite a bit with the clouds. But they're really tough; being basically fast-changing gradients so that is probably to be expected.
The butt-kicker is knowing how drop-dead gorgeous those RAW files are compared to once they get compressed.
So here's my question. Could this have been any better by shooting video instead of stills? And, if so, what settings would you have used? Shot this at 1 frame every 5 seconds with everything on manual except used aperture priority so the shutter speed would automatically change and control exposure.
In my experience, a scene like this with all the detail and rapid changes is a real nightmare for a compressor. And it didn't fare too well in the Vimeo version. Looks much better if you download the QT version. Everything considered, I think that turned out okay - the foliage looks pretty good, even though it's very detailed and constantly moving, which causes the compressor to fail to resolve some of the detail (yes, mud). And the exposure changes seem fairly smooth. The compressor struggled quite a bit with the clouds. But they're really tough; being basically fast-changing gradients so that is probably to be expected.
The butt-kicker is knowing how drop-dead gorgeous those RAW files are compared to once they get compressed.