Something of a departure for me: a video post! Film making has never ranked highly on my creative list, preferring the power or beauty (or both) of the still image to get my point across, but now that I have the ability I feel it okay to dabble on occasion, if only for a bit of fun.
To be accurate, the above clips are the result of time lapse photography and not real time action, and I achieved this with a DSLR. This is one function that would be next to impossible to create on film stock (for those out there who maintain that digital capture is still just a passing fad - you know who you are), with the same type of camera. Interchangeable film backs are available to take the required amount of images to produce anything more than a fleeting glimpse on-screen (a bulk-film 750 exposure (35mm) specialised film back for Nikon cameras, for example), but imagine having to scan all those negs/trannys to get them onto a computer's hard drive. Time consuming, or what?
Oh, how I danced around the room when I first read the specs of my first serious digital camera (Nikon D200), that included an intervalometer function, but that merriment was short-lived when I realised that I had no suitable software to process the final images. It took the recent move to Adobe Lightroom 4 to realise that potential and get my thinking (shooting) cap on.
I did have a tentative stab at this technique two weeks ago, but it is the low tide and changeable weather at Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset, that spurred me on to try something a bit more watchable. I am still very much at the experimental stage, but as ideas come to me I have every intention of including such methods in my photographic compass.
I have included a link on the right for better viewing (in YouTube), and any future clips.
24-70mm f/2.8 AF-S Nikkor lens. Manual everything - focus; exposure; white balance. ISO 200. Tripod.
Top: 700 images - one every 5 seconds - 1/250 second at f/11
Below: 999 images - one every 2 seconds - 1/400 second at f/11
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