I thought my first attempt at Time Lapse came out fairly well. All I did at the time was set it up and hit go. Yeah… there were a few more steps, but that was the forethought. Pretty jazzed about those results, I tried a few more things, without luck. One note: if you expect a spider to do anything, even after you poke a few strategically-placed holes in his web, maybe reconsider. Anyway, I liked the little taste of long-exposure nighttime action in the first time lapse, so I set it up at sunset this time. What do you think?
I also did a little more processing on this one. Instead of leaving it at defaults, I did some contrast correction and resized the photos down a bit since they get resized so much in the end anyway.
One last word about taking stills for a time lapse at night. During the day my battery was lasting for hundreds of shots with no problem. In this sequence, I only got just over 200 before it died since the night shots had shutter speeds of 30+ seconds. If I was going to do it again, I’d crank open the aperture a bit more to make the shots a bit shorter and get more life out of the battery.
UPDATE: For another more recent time-lapse attempt, see me building my fence.
Tags: clouds, madison, madisonvalley, night, time, timelapse
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i like it.
Dude, awesome.
Dude–are those shooting stars?
Flightpath – those are planes, all in a line. I don’t think a shooting star would register since they’re so quick, but before the planes kick in, I’m pretty sure there are real stars (or maybe satellites) moving across the horizon.
Yeah, super cool man. The sky is pretty lively there. Nice work
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