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Old 11-02-2010, 08:17 PM
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My first time lapse

So after reading up on and viewing as many time lapse videos as I could I thought I'd take a crack. Rule #1, make sure you check that the camera battery is fully charged
Oh well, here's a quick 9 second clip showing cloud movement while snapping at the Milky Way and then a quick moon rise which is what I was hoping to capture in all its glory but alas, that wasn't to be
Each image was a 15 second exposure with a 3 second delay between each shot taken with a Canon 20D & Sigma 10-20 @ 20mm.
I then used Apple iMovie to create and export the clip. Quite a useful learning curve nevertheless

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Li2qa0NQfE
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Old 11-02-2010, 08:36 PM
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Pretty good really. It's a shame your battery became discharged!!

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Old 11-02-2010, 09:30 PM
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The time lapse looks really good. Very ethereal.

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Old 11-02-2010, 09:44 PM
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Great work Adam, looks good. The moon rise would have been a craker. Keep at it
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Old 11-02-2010, 10:14 PM
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Thanks for viewing guys, hoping for some clear skies soon so I can have another crack at it
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Old 12-02-2010, 04:52 AM
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Nice work Adam, it's fun doing that sort of stuff.
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Old 12-02-2010, 08:44 AM
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Cheers Mike, yes fun but time consuming
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Old 12-02-2010, 10:15 AM
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They are a challenge aren't they Adam? My biggest beef with time-lapse is the noise levels. When you take over 800 shots on a good night, it is depressing and energy draining to go and subtract darks from every single one of them....
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Old 12-02-2010, 10:16 AM
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I love the cloud effect.

Nice work Adam
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Old 12-02-2010, 10:28 AM
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I love the cloud effect.

Nice work Adam
Thanks Ric, the only time I like clouds at night
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They are a challenge aren't they Adam? My biggest beef with time-lapse is the noise levels. When you take over 800 shots on a good night, it is depressing and energy draining to go and subtract darks from every single one of them....
Baz, I was surprised to see so many hot pixels when looking at each frame. I was shooting at ISO400 and didn't think a 15sec exposure would be that bad but perhaps was combination of a number of things, wonder if turning on Internal Noise Reduction would have helped but then the duration between frames becomes as long as the individual exposure itself.
Anyhow, am planning something bigger and better for the next one with a bit of music thrown in as well
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thats a good effort mate to me, its a little bit jerky though. What frame rate were you working at? I do my timelapses through quicktime and work at 24fps and always have smooth results

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Old 14-02-2010, 10:04 PM
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thats a good effort mate to me, its a little bit jerky though. What frame rate were you working at? I do my timelapses through quicktime and work at 24fps and always have smooth results

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Thanks Ben, know what you mean about the jerkiness. Not sure what frame rate as I used iMovie to string all the shots together then set the interframe duration to something like 0.3 seconds or something like that. I think my next effort will be with Quicktime pro as it looks a lot easier
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Old 14-02-2010, 11:41 PM
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Well Done Adam i would love to give this a go myself one day
Thanks for the tip (jen writes in black book to make sure battery is fully charged) before trying this
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Thanks Ben, know what you mean about the jerkiness. Not sure what frame rate as I used iMovie to string all the shots together then set the interframe duration to something like 0.3 seconds or something like that. I think my next effort will be with Quicktime pro as it looks a lot easier
Yep thats what i'm using all you need to do is import the images and it will ask you what frame rate to play back as, just choose 24fps and its smooth sailing from there
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Nice work.
They're good fun to make.
I did one the other night of my spathphillium, reviving after a drink of water. Amazing stuff. Watching the leaves go from drooping to fully upright in just 8 or 9 frames.
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Old 15-02-2010, 09:13 AM
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Nice work.
They're good fun to make.
I did one the other night of my spathphillium, reviving after a drink of water. Amazing stuff. Watching the leaves go from drooping to fully upright in just 8 or 9 frames.
That'll be great to see Nettie, I've seen a few examples on YouTube and they're amazing

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Well Done Adam i would love to give this a go myself one day
Thanks for the tip (jen writes in black book to make sure battery is fully charged) before trying this
Thanks Jen, also make sure the memory card has lots of free capacity as you end up taking literally hundreds of shots (that is if the battery is fully charged )
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