Posted: 1/23/2014 3:45:43 PM EDT
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Shot using GoPro 3. I shot it with 1440 video resolution, 30 second time lapse rate. I'm planning on getting pre-dawn to dusk tomorrow. I've been wanting to capture this for literally 10 years. The view is nearly straight East, so sunrise should be nice.  I'm looking for beginner guidance on the editing side. And by beginner I mean, explain to me as if I were a first time user-because I am.  I realize this is really basic for those of you with the high end cameras, but until I got this I have been using my phone for all my photos  Edit-this is about 6 hours of photos.  |
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I'd say you've got the right idea. One critique, I'd reposition the camera so we don't see your deck in left side of the shot. The white-ish color reflects a lot of light, and with rolling clouds and sun the deck board seems to pulsate.
I'm not sure how you did it, but only get about 2-ish hours out of my batteries in my GoPro3 (black edition if it makes an difference). Good work. Best thing I'd say to do is keep shooting time lapses as much as possible. Dawn/dusk is a good thing. But generally speaking anything that takes time to happen, or accumulate generally makes for good time lapse video. Think rising or falling tides, storm clouds rolling in, I once shot one of me re-roofing my garage, it was kind of fun to watch the progress. Some food for thought. |
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I tried to reposition the camera, but I have it rigged up hanging out my office window on a 4 foot section of roof. The wide angle either captures the wall or tree limbs on the right. I may try to climb up to the roof and do it up there. The pulsing may have been due to one shot per minute. I just did another for the whole day (same view) with 10 seconds between shots. I'll try and get it up. I watched it and realized how boring it is out of my window, but somehow I like it. I originally got about 80 minutes of time out of my battery, but figured out that if you have the usb plugged in to a power source (can't be the PC/Mac), you can power it indefinitely. That combined with the wifi via my iPad I can periodically check the view. Edit-Here's the all of yesterday. I was disappointed there was so much cloud cover in the morning, because usually the sun peaking over the trees is really nice. I'm going to have to read up on the exposure stuff, since the sun seemed to wash out the picture at times. |
| It's usually just try and repeat and it's fun. Couple of tips though are to photograph things that will move or adjust over time. Things like the tide coming in or animals moving around are fun to watch later. Plants following the sun, etc. The more 'lively' things are the quicker you can shoot the timelapse. For animals moving around one frame every couple seconds is probably fast enough while a tidal switch might need much longer. For a fun addition you can get a manual egg timer or something to put the camera on so that it pans over an entire scene. GoPros are fun just play with it and enjoy the results. |