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How to shoot static timelapses
Brightontl:
Static timelapses.
How to shoot them with examples on the field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsMLJCSQHB0
Uncle Pete:
--- Quote from: Brightontl on January 08, 2018, 08:23 ---Static timelapses.
How to shoot them with examples on the field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsMLJCSQHB0
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Good explanations. I will add tha clouds changing the exposure will drive you crazy. For me that's worse than anything else as the images will not only change color balance but get lighter and darker and lighter again. I enjoyed seeing the water change from sharp to smooth with the different shutter speeds. I generally try to get overall sharp images and now I see there's room for a softer version to look just fine.
Mostly calm waters reflections, Sunset, (a million others similar) ducks swim in on cue? ;) 5 seconds between shots, 24 seconds total once it was assembled.
https://ak8.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/2072288/preview/stock-footage-sun-setting-over-a-marsh-lake-as-clouds-pass-overhead-with-reflections-in-the-water-time-lapse-anim.mp4
Brightontl:
Thank you for your input.
Yes, ND filters give of lot of freedom to play around with slow shutter speed.
Timelapses are not easy, a lot of things to control, especially flicker
Uncle Pete:
--- Quote from: Brightontl on January 09, 2018, 05:58 ---Thank you for your input.
Yes, ND filters give of lot of freedom to play around with slow shutter speed.
Timelapses are not easy, a lot of things to control, especially flicker
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And how do you do that? I think I used to use frame blending. For now I haven't made, or tried to make a decent time-lapse in some time. I recognize that controlling the exposure and making lighting consistent will help make the flicker less evident.
What do you suggest?
Here's one I tried to save but I didn't want to spend a whole day on something that was just for fun. Flower (actually a dandelion) fairly full day cycle, with insects. It jumps and the shadows are a killer for ruining what I intended. Also looking for advise or suggestions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM9qQ7biW70
Some of the others are just a GoPro on a mount of some sort. Especially fun was driving across the state, one highway, state 33, the whole way, from the Mississippi River to Lake Michigan. I boosted it up to 60fps to make the video version shorter. Around 235 miles on mostly two lane roads, through towns, up and down a mountain in a state park... sometimes I do stupid things, just because they are there to do. 8) GoPro was mounted on the dash and had continuous power from the car power, batteries would have never lasted that long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhrC34nOkyo
At Sunset the GoPro will go nuts, compensating, bright, dark, bright, dark. :(
increasingdifficulty:
--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on January 09, 2018, 09:00 ---And how do you do that? I think I used to use frame blending. For now I haven't made, or tried to make a decent time-lapse in some time. I recognize that controlling the exposure and making lighting consistent will help make the flicker less evident.
What do you suggest?
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Everything on manual, WB, ISO, fixed shutter speed, locked aperture (disconnect lens from camera) will eliminate any flicker introduced by the camera. Of course, flicker introduced by nature itself is harder to control. :D
Sometimes it makes sense to use some form of auto mode, with Auto ETTR being the best if your camera supports it. Your driving video, which is cool, is a good example. Something spanning a very long time with radically changing conditions (tunnels, shade, etc. etc.) needs to have exposure changes.
This will result in flicker, but it can usually be removed in post. The best tool for this is Flicker Fixer by Boris FX. It works wonders.
Ideally though, I would have used a much longer shutter speed to create motion blur on the road and passing cars. Hard to do on the GoPro since the aperture is fixed, but there are ND filters you can buy.
--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on January 09, 2018, 09:00 ---
Here's one I tried to save but I didn't want to spend a whole day on something that was just for fun. Flower (actually a dandelion) fairly full day cycle, with insects. It jumps and the shadows are a killer for ruining what I intended. Also looking for advise or suggestions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM9qQ7biW70
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This one is cool too. Hard to foresee insects and clouds, but a longer shutter speed could've been used to smooth out the insects.
But as with most things, it's the subject matter that's most important. I see timelapses full of flicker in big tv shows and movies, and they seem to accept it. Boris FX Flicker Fixer would turn both of your timelapses into flicker free, smooth clips.
And no, I don't work for Boris FX ;D - it's just the best flicker fixer I've found, and I've tested MANY...
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