In this post I will show you how to build a quick and easy rig to get your camera flying (without any magic wands and jumping from nukem driven airplanes).
Yes, welcome to another boring tutorial... wait I say boring loud? Is not, it is fun, relaxing and sometimes adrenalin twisted outdoor exercise - welcome to Kite Aerial Photography 101.
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I know that the title is a bit counter intuitive, how can you make a time lapse from of an event that only lasts a fraction of a second?
Water drop Photographer Extraordinaire Corrie White managed to take a time-lapse of two colliding drops, by composing 357 photographs. Each shot is taken a fraction of a second later in the collision process. Although the drops don't match 100%, the result still gives a pretty good idea on how the mushroom pastern is formed.
Of course, is way cheaper than getting a bazillion FPS video camera alternative.
Vimeo member Stavros Koulis shares a great video and a set of instruction on how to make a cool little motorized skater dolly.
Getting your camera to move while doing time-lapse movies is not a trivial thing. First you need to set a path for the camera to move in (like a slider, a dolly or a skateboard), then you need to make the camera move slowly, and lastly you need to get the camera to shoot at the right intervals (using an intervalometer).
While there are plenty DIY solutions out there (especially for the slider and intervalometer parts), building a controlled time-lapse dolly is not trivial.
The Genie is a New Zealand based project set to change that. The Genie' claim to fame is to be A simple, affordable and extremely easy to use device used for motion control and image capture for Time Lapse Photography + more. Click to continue ›
The Triggertrap mobile (and Triggertrap free) do something really simple and yet really clever. They connect your iPhone to your camera amd act as remote release devices.
It's simple because cable releases are simple devices - they usually have two contacts: a focus contact and a release contact. Closing one contact will trigger the internal focus mechanism and closing the other contact will release the shutter. In fact, its so simple that you can make one from a dead mouse.
What release cables usually lack is brains. I mean they will trigger a camera when you tell them, and some o the mode advanced models even have HDR, BULB and timelapse modes, but they cant act upon external events. Click to continue ›
Taking a 360 degrees panorama is a cool thing on its own, but taking a video-lapse takes it to a new level.
Hugo Baptista created an interesting clip they call a panolapse. It is a combination between a timelapse and a panorama done by mounting a camera on a motorized Meade controller and taking a host every 5 minutes as the mount rotates for 90 minutes.
Here is how Hugo describes it:
"A 360+ degree panoramic time-lapse. The camera shot one picture every 5 seconds while the motorized mount slowly rotated. I then I assembled the images into this panoramic movie, in which each "pane" is actually the same movie, slightly offset in time" #
Derek Mellott is no stranger to Timelapse sliders and dollies, he is a genius. In fact our most popular slider design on the blog is Derek's design. Today, Derek explains how to DIY the Slidetracked, a fully featured, easily assembled, 3D printed DIY dolly. If you just want the features, but do not want to build one, you can get a pre-assembeled one from Indiegogo too.
Apparently taking a sequence of images for a time lapse is no reason enough, and you need to be able to tell what "they are for" or prepare to get busted.
That was the sad experience of Pennsylvania based photographer Jason Macchioni.
Wood worker Brian Grabski and photographer Josh Van Patter collaborated both photographic know-how and superb craftsmanship to create this beautiful piece of work. They then used it to shoot Fade around Lake Powell.
It is not often that we see tow of our favorite techniques used in a single film. photographers Colin Mika & Brandon Vedder of All Cut Up Films created this beautiful time lapse of Los Angeles with a twist (or actually two).
The first is that the entire film was shot through a snow globe, which I assume means that the camera was upside down for the entire duration of the shoot.
The second is the use of paper cut filters to achieve a shaped bokeh.
