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Thanks guys.
PHC, those are planes that you see zipping across. where I was standing there were planes going right over head whilst I was shooting it, they were quite low. It would have looked pretty sweet if I’d got them in the shot, but once I'd started I didn’t want to move.
Ok, so how it's done is like this.
I have a DSLR and an remote for it that will allow me to trigger the camera. I set the camera to manual, set the focus, then set the remote to take a 4 sec exposure every 6 seconds. Then sit back and wait, and wait, and wait and then I wait some more. This shot would have taken an hour to shoot.
The reason I take a 4 sec exposure ever 6 seconds is because at night you want to capture the movement of things like plane and cars. And the reason I set to take a image every 6 seconds is so that the camera can clear the buffer in time to take the next image. If I was to take a 4 sec exposure every 4 seconds my camera would spit the dummy and miss frames. That would make the sequence jumpy.
Once you have your images; you need between 500 to 800 for a decent timelapse sequence, you’ll need some software to create a movie. This one was 60 frames per second, thats 60 pictures every second. Although it feels more like 30 to by I’m new to this as well so....
You can calculate how long your sequence is going to be because you want to have at least 25/30 fps there for if you want a 30 second clip you need 30*30 fames.
That’s all there is to it. The hard part is finding something thats interesting and to honest this is first one that I’ve had turn out well so it a trial an error type of thing.
Thanks for watching.
Sandy
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