Time-Lapsed Photography Ideas, Tips, Tricks, Pics.

I am getting a new camera soon, A Canon A95, and one of its many features that I am most

excited about, is that fact that it can do Time-Lapsed Photography ! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

For those that do not know what Time-Lapsed is...
Ever see a video of ice melting real fast? A flower growing from seed to 2 foot tall in

30 seconds?
Alot of the time, those are made from leaving the camera in a fixed position, and

telling it to take a photo on a set interval of time.
Every 15 secons, 5 minutes, 7 hours, 8 days, etc.

I am wanting some input, on what you guys and gals would like to see in Time-Lapsed.

Hmm, I figure there are goning to be alot of ideas here, so, lets start a list.
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Ice Melting
Material Burning Away
Plant openning up to the Sun
Plant growing from seed
Clouds rolling by
Sun Rise/Set
Candle Burning Down
Seasons Change
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Thanks for the upcomming ideas guys.

~John

as a flashaholic, you are required to timelapse a runtime /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Re: Time-Lapsed Photography Ideas, Tips, Tricks, P

Ticey,

You are going to love it! My family has one, and it is fabulous. It has has a high-speed burst mode, for fast action events, like diving into a pool or kicking a soccer ball.

How about some time-lapse photography of your flashlight collection growing. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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lol, I KNEW someone would say a runtime. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

Yea I am excited to see how well it can burst also, and freeze fast moving objects better than my other digicams.

Re: Time-Lapsed Photography Ideas, Tips, Tricks, P

or you could just capture video, more frames per second but lower resolution, and then import into vid editing app and export individual frames as stills.

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How about mould growing on a slice of bread or maggots eating away a piece of meat? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eeew.gif

Ok sorry, I'm in a slightly morbid mood at the moment.

There's a cool piece of software for timelapse/stop-motion animation called iStopMotion you might want to have a peak at...

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That program seems pretty nice, though it keeps mentioning MAC /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon15.gif
Might be a Windows version though.

My A95 comes with software for remote capture, and time lapse, though I dont yet know how advanced and feature packed that it.

If it isnt too great,,,, all I need is a program, that will allow me to tell it what pics I want to use, and it make them into a movie.

~John

I use PSRemote Pro with my cam. It gives you remote capture, time-lapse, image downloading and a lot more. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Thanks legtu,
I remember seeing that on Steves-Digicams
Seems to be just what I wanted, I love how it has just about EVERY camera control on it.

Does it actually join the photos for you though? Into a movie?
I THINK it just takes them for you.
I also need a way to take the images and create a movie from them.

~John

@jtice
It only takes still images. You'll need another application in order to combine them into a movie or animated GIF(ie. jpeg2avi, Windows Movie maker, etc.). /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

How about the moon moving across the night sky?

If you are lucky (or destructive) you can get a spider building its web or even

ants taking over some piece of food and carrying away its bits (instead of the maggots).

What about ants building/rebuilding its nest?

Thanks alot for the input guys!

I am having a good bit of trouble finding a program, to join jpgs to a movie.
I have only found a couple programs, and they werent too great. One wouldnt make the jpgs actual frames, but wanted to display each image for at least a second. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

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Ice Melting
Material Burning Away
Plant openning up to the Sun
Plant growing from seed
Clouds rolling by
Sun Rise/Set
Candle Burning Down
Seasons Change
Moon moving Across Sky
Spider building Web
Ants carrying away food
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jtice said:
Thanks alot for the input guys!

I am having a good bit of trouble finding a program, to join jpgs to a movie.
I have only found a couple programs, and they werent too great. One wouldnt make the jpgs actual frames, but wanted to display each image for at least a second. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

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I looked too and didn't find anything. It can't be too hard. There is a codec called MJPEG that uses the JPEG codec for "AVI" files. I think the little movies that the camera takes uses MJPEG.

I imagine all you need to do is combine the JPEG files together and add the right header.

I still have a few more places to look. If I find anything I'll post it here.

Re: Time-Lapsed Photography Ideas, Tips, Tricks, P

The ultimate time lapse photography is the Analemma in brief:

to take a picture of the sun every week for a full year at the same day and hour on a single piece of film (not digital)

The obtained photo is called Analemma and shows a 8 figure in the sky.


enjoy


Pablo