You should choose one that fits your needs □ There isn’t something like the perfect camera, so it’s a bigger topic. There’s not much to say about the camera, just use the one you have □ If you want to buy one for timelapse, I’ll probably disappoint you because I won’t cover that subject here. You’ll need basically three things to do your first timelapse: This article should teach you the basic knowledge for a timelapse photographer, although I won’t talk about other gear, you can easily translate this technique for any of your devices. So there won’t be smartphones or GoPro, but DSLR/DSLM type cameras □ Of course, you can use any camera to make a timelapse video. I’ll be talking about gear, that you should use for this job. This blog is addressed to those, who want to be professional. There are a lot of timelapse tutorials, that are about using your smartphone or the easiest software available. If you want to increase the level of your work (or just start at the higher level), check out my in-depth tutorial about Motion blur in Timelapse. I won’t get into details here, however, it’s an important matter to make your timelapses look really good. But if you want to do that ‘for real’, you’ll start shooting RAW some day (I highly recommend that) □ I use JPGs straight from camera only for things like a BTS timelapse that goes just to facebook. Probably some of you will shoot JPG, not RAW. And basically that’s why I am still using my old Canon 550D □ The video from that camera is not great, especially compared to GH4, but 18MPix stills are good for timelapses. For me there are three main things here:įirst two are things that lead to one advantage: better quality. Now let’s jump to the advantages of timelapse photography. We are here to learn how to make good timelapses, not just any □ Of course, I can’t recommend you to shoot video. That’s the main advantage of using speeded up a video instead of timelapse. So, it would be much easier for beginner to shoot video and then speed up that to get the speed that he want. It’s a common problem, you can read tutorials and table on the internet with an example intervals, but you are the one who should choose the interval, not some stranger □ That comes with experience, you can’t learn that from an article. Lots of beginning timelapsers have issues with setting the interval between shots. That’s so popular issue for beginners or people not involved with timelapse I decided to make w hole post on this subject: Timelapse vs. Here we’ll take a closer look at the differences. I mentioned earlier, that you can get the same result using speeded up video, and that’s kind of true. There are a few things in setting up a timelapse shot that could be difficult. I’ll show you that in the next paragraphs □ So, maybe it’ll be better to just use the photo mode in your camera? □ If you shoot one picture every second, and combine them to play at 24 pictures per second, the result would be the same speed video, but you get lots of advantages. That means, if you shoot video, you captured 23 useless frames every second because you’re using just one from the 24. ![]() What if you want to speed up your clip even more? Let’s assume that you want to speed up your clip 24 times (2400% speed) – that gives us effects of ‘only’ 1 frame captured every second. You can do timelapse without that knowledge, but it’s important to really understand what you are doing □ ![]() Check out the graphics below to be sure you understand that. This way you don’t record frames you don’t need. You’ll get the same result if you record your footage at 12fps and play the footage at 24fps. Now the software plays every second frame of your footage, but still at 24fps (so 12 frames of every second of the footage was cut out). If you want to, for example, speed up your clip twice, you just put 200% in speed value. To record a standard, “real-time” video, your camera should record 24 frames every second, and it’s played in 24 fps. Let’s consider cinema standard – 24 frames per second. It’s not magic, just photographs displayed fast enough to simulate motion – just like a flipbook animation above (I’m not the best drawer, but I did my best )). Let’s translate that – I always explain this technique to the pedestrians, that are curious what I’m doing, that I’m combining photographs into a video, and the result looks like a speeded up video.Įvery film is a set of still images. This section is addressed to beginners, I’ll try to keep it simple □ According to Wikipedia, “time-lapse photography is a technique whereby the frequency at which film frames are captured is much lower than that used to view the sequence”. If you’re thinking about starting using this technique & do it like a pro, it would be very useful for you □ I call that place a timelapse blog, so it’s a shame not to have a timelapse tutorial □ It’ll be basic, but in-depth tutorial.
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