time lapse – YLovePhoto https://www.ylovephoto.com/en Intrigued by photography Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:58:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Time-lapse videos of North American cities at night https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/08/16/time-lapse-videos-of-north-american-cities-at-night/ https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/08/16/time-lapse-videos-of-north-american-cities-at-night/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:00:04 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=10357 Dominic BoudreaultPhotographed between late 2010 and early 2011, Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Manhattan, and Chicago have been captured by photographer Dominic Boudreault using a Canon 5D Mark II at night.

Timelapse – The City Limits from Dominic

http://www.dominicboudreault.com/

Mindrelic (another guy from RedBubble) spent a weekin Manhattan shooting time lapses of the city day and night.


Mindrelic – Manhattan in motion from Mindrelic on Vimeo.

http://www.mindrelic.com/

]]> https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/08/16/time-lapse-videos-of-north-american-cities-at-night/feed/ 1 Repair the D300s https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/06/03/repair-the-d300s/ https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/06/03/repair-the-d300s/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:00:34 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=10368 Repair Nikon D300sBefore the D400 comes and replaces the Nikon D300s, let’s see how you can repair the pent bent pin from a CF card connector. A time-lapse video.


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]]> https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2011/06/03/repair-the-d300s/feed/ 3 Time lapse 6: Introductive lesson https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2009/04/28/time-lapse-6-introductive-lesson/ Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:14:57 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=2591 When I started writing a short series of posts about time-lapse photography, I thought it would be quick. But I keep getting information about good web sites and articles about it. So, I could not close this without mentionning the introduction to time-lapse photography just posted on Digital Photography School (an excellent web site, by the way).


Eclectic 3.0: The Roads Less Traveled from Ross Ching on Vimeo.

]]> Time lapse 5: Moon eclipse https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2009/04/27/time-lapse-5-moon-eclipse/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:01:37 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=2544 Sometimes, the time-lapse collation of images does not lead to a video, but to a complex picture. Like this one from NASA.

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A Time-Lapse Lunar Eclipse
Credit & Copyright: Forrest J. Egan (Digital Astro)

Explanation: During a lunar eclipse, our Moon appeared to disappear.

As the Earth moved between the Moon and the Sun, the Earth’s shadow fell on the moon, making it quite dark.

In the above picture the Earth’s rotation, multiple exposures, and digital enhancements are used to create a time-lapse effect that dramatizes how the Moon looked as it faded out and re-appeared during the three hour lunar eclipse.

As the Earth’s shadow engulfed the Moon, the lunar images became less and less bright, practically disappearing during totality.

At this time, the Moon, which normally shines by reflecting direct sunlight, shone only by sunlight refracted through the Earth’s atmosphere.

]]> Time lapse 4: Flowers https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2009/04/19/time-lapse-4-flowers/ Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:05:49 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=2442 To close this week’s series about time lapse videos, here is one of the most classical and traditional subjects: Growing plants and blooming flowers.



Lily Time-Lapse in HD from danLinfield on Vimeo.


Amaryllis Awakening from David Lanier on Vimeo.

]]> Time lapse 3: Nights and stars https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2009/04/18/time-lapse-3-nights-and-stars/ Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:00:42 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=2307 There is no doubt that time lapse videos made of pictures taken at long time intervals and stitched into a a single video, require mastering a difficult technique. But waht about doing it at night shooting the starry sky? Everything gets more difficult. So, kudos go to SkyTimeLapse!

]]> Time lapse 2: How? https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2009/04/17/time-lapse-2-how/ Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:28:54 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=2314

A few recommendations for time-lapse videos:

  1. Use high-definition: Your photo camera can do it, the video will be great in HD.
  2. Include some attractive central subject: Don’t just shoot clouds and skys.
  3. Make sure that there is a lot of activity: It would make no sense to speed up a boring single move from right to left (or similar).
  4. Innovate: Let’s be original, a rotting piece of food has been shot hundreds of times.

After you’ve shot a few hundreds or a few thousand images (you’d better have a big memory card, right?), you should make the video. Here is a list of software programs that you could use:

  • GBTimeLapse is able to control Canon cameras, and assemble pictures ($79, or trial version)
  • QuickTime Pro ($29.99). Just start with menu command: File>Open Image Sequence…

    • Instructions for using MPlayer can be found at the end of the “How to Create Time-Lapse Movies with a Digital Photo Camera” article.

  • Free MPlayer (available for Linux and Windows) will do it all with a couple of command line instructions (see the box at the right).
  • Flix ($10.00 for new users)
  • Older versions of Jasc Paint Shop Pro used to include a program called Animation Shop (unfortunately, Corel removed it from recent versions).
  • For the Mac (I did not try it), the most famous solution seems to be iStopMotion (from $49).
]]> Time lapse 1: Snails https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2009/04/16/time-lapse-1-snails/ https://www.ylovephoto.com/en/2009/04/16/time-lapse-1-snails/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:27:24 +0000 https://ylovephoto.com/en/?p=2309 Time-lapse movies are actually photos taken at a relatively slow pace (for example, one photo per minute or one photo per second) and assembled into one long sequence displayed as a video movie. What is slow will appear fast.

Interestingly, it can be done by nearly anybody with:

  • A good camera
  • A tripod
  • Some patience or a timer

Remember that you can easily do it with your own camera (not even an SLR camera), that you should use the following settings to have the best possible result:

  • Manual focus
  • Manual exposure (set diaphragm aperture and shutter speed)
  • Fixed white-balance

One example from PlayingWithTime is shown here:



QuickTime™ 5 is required to view this movie. Click here to download the plug-in.

So, you too can have fun and show us your work.

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