Timelapse

thanks guys. I'm planning on some longer more dramatic ones as a part of a stock footage portfolio I'm building. this was more of a short test, the sixth I've done so far, and the first one that really turned out good. but I finally think I've got an idea of what I'm doing. Great fun-cheers!
 
since I have some free time I thought I'd share some additional thoughts on this thread, The tricky thing for me to figure out with timelapse photography was the interval at wich to record. what I discovered was that it depends a lot on your subject, and the look you want to achieve. For fast moving subjects such as cars or people you want to have a SHORTER interval -1 to 3 seconds between shots. generally your record time will be shorter too. with slower more static subects-clouds,sun,stars you can push the interval up to,say 5 seconds to a minute or more for longer record times. in this instance,say if you wanted to record the stars all night while you slept, the longer you record the longer you should set your interval. anyways just my observations from the tests i've done.happy shooting
 
yes I was shooting in M mode. the opteka fisheye is an all manual lense, and frankly I never check the numbers when I dial in the exposure, I do it by eye. I shoot a lot of stills,in RAW of course, but to streamline the process of post on a timelapse I started shooting JPEGs and using a custom profile. that clip was the JPEGs-no color corecction at all,no adjustment-straight out of camera. it takes longer to set up, but it makes it a couple-click process in post.
 
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