Timelapse @ Home

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GMC

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Hi Folks,

I was very busy lately, giving me no time to get out and shoot, coming home late at night and heading out early in the morning. Under these restricitions I thought to have a closer look from my home, setting up my GH1 and doing timelapse shots.

Wow, I was surprised what could be seen early in the morning and at night just from my home in the middle of Vienna!

Have fun watching:

http://www.vimeo.com/8149467

All shot with kit lens, editing in Edius Neo 2. As a member, 1080p file can be downloaded from vimeo.

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tflak said:
VERY nice! Care to share some techniques, settings?
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Thank you!

I am using a JJC TM-D timer, I was using the medium resolution photo mode, smooth film mode with sharpness, contrast and NR set to -2, saturation to 0.

During the day WB set to 5500K, at night to 3500K. For the night shots I used an exposure time of 15s, every 30s a shot, iso 200 (at higher iso's it was too noisy - thats the drawback of the slow kit lens). During the day, I was varing the shots per minute.

In Edius Neo 2 I used a 1080p23.98 preset, and picked (in the general settings) a duration of 1 frame for the stills. Then I just had to select all photos, and with one mouseclick dragged them into the timeline. Thats a very efficient workflow in Edius.

best regards, Gunther
 
GMC said:
...For the night shots I used an exposure time of 15s, every 30s a shot, iso 200 (at higher iso's it was too noisy - thats the drawback of the slow kit lens)...
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Gunther,

Very nice work - finding the extraordinary within the ordinary.

Do you remember how many stills were needed for the night shot?
 
skinny! said:
Gunther, this was very cool...i commented on your vimeo/added as contact. i'm enjoying your work.
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Dear Chris,

Thank you. I've added you as well to my contacts on vimeo. Great to get to know a lot of creative people.

best regards, Gunther
 
tflak said:
Thanks, Gunther...great info.

Here's a site you might be interested in. Lots of folks doing some very high-end stuff:

http://www.timescapes.org/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=a7fb6e88865173d338c600d64968591f

And there's a fascinating thread about a technique called bulb-ramping. It's a bit over my head (okay, a lot) but great stuff:

http://www.timescapes.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1381&sid=7b1252b94c4f84ad86acbd2a3c5a1524
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Thanks for the link! Thats a great site, wow!

best regards, Gunther
 
Very pretty Gunther. I'm thinking of buying the TM-D, what do you think of it? Also does its shutter release button work even without batteries installed, for basic triggering?
 
g.l said:
Very pretty Gunther. I'm thinking of buying the TM-D, what do you think of it? Also does its shutter release button work even without batteries installed, for basic triggering?
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It's a good timer, and serves every need. I am using it for more than 1 year now and I still have the first batteries installed, after more than 20.000 photos. I think it will not work without batteries (but I have not tested it).
 
GMC said:
It's a good timer, and serves every need. I am using it for more than 1 year now and I still have the first batteries installed, after more than 20.000 photos. I think it will not work without batteries (but I have not tested it).
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That sounds great, thanks. If you do get a chance, please try it quickly without batteries. In theory it doesn't need them for the basic shutter button, but it depends how they implemented it on this remote.
 
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