Yesterday, I decided to try time-lapse photography.
I tried to figure out the best place for my camera where I would have power and decided to aim it out my front window.
My camera was on a tripod with a hard line for power. It was tethered to my laptop via Firewire. My computer essentially became the dashboard for my camera. I set all of the settings on the computer screen.
After I was content with my capture settings, I went into the time-lapse (intervalometer) settings. This allows me to set the intervals between pictures and how long I wanted it to shoot. I set it to shoot one picture every 30 seconds for 1,200 frames. That’s ten hours of recording images.
So I let it run. I watched a lot of TV. Thank god there were movies on!
About eight hours into it, I decided that was probably long enough since this was just a test anyways.
So after 900 frames and some heavy compression, here is what I ended up with:
Now I have to go find more things to time-lapse! That is if I’m patient enough!
That’s awesome. Do more! The computer setup sounds ideal. Can you possibly do one that takes shots with long shutter speeds? For example, if you were doing a time lapse of a street using long shutter speeds (with appropriate filter/iso/iris for exposure of course) the pictures would leave out fast moving objects like cars, and you could get a timelapse of the scene without the human commotion. I think that would be interesting just to see a vista change over time. Of course seeing the little blinks of activity is also neat, but what I just described I haven’t seen anybody do.