Friday, 3 January 2014

TimeLapse Testing






To do some testing for the time lapse we will use in our trailer I went to London and did a couple of test time lapses to find the most effective ways of doing them, how often to take the picture and how long to take pictures for. 
For the first time lapse I took a still picture every 30 seconds for 40 minutes. This then created a 4 second time lapse when put together. I took an image every 30 seconds, as there was nothing quickly moving that would be affected by long gaps between pictures. And it would create more movement between pictures to create a more dynamic time lapse with more movement happening. 
For the second one I took a photo every 5-second for 10 minutes. This also created a 4 second time lapse when put together. I left such a short time between the photos, as I wanted to be able to follow the pods moving individually in the frame. 
The time lapse we do for a trailer will be looking out over the river, and will have moving people and boats. There for we will have to take relatively frequent photos to follow the movement of objects. it is important to keep the time gap between photos the same for the whole time lapse as the clouds will move through the sky and will not flow if the gaps are different. 

To do this we could use an intervalometer, which will automatically take a photo when plugged into the camera to how often you program it too.

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