Time lapse

The time-lapse

Have you heard of the time lapse without knowing its meaning?

To put it simply, time lapse is an accelerated effect performed on a large series of snapshots of the same place at regular intervals, then assembled as a video at a certain rate of frames per second. You have already seen the blossoming of a flower or building a building at lightning speed.

The technique is relatively simple and the result is often breathtaking. You will only need a camera and a tripod since the technique is to photograph a fixed place.

To have photos that are homogeneous over the entire duration is to photograph entirely in manual (both the shooting mode and focus).

The shooting

Before all carefully prepare your installation and your settings because once started, we cannot stop a time lapse to resume afterwards.

Obviously, this kind of video is more interesting when there is a fixed part and a moving part. All the rules of the photo therefore apply to the framing necessary for a successful time lapse. It's the same for your speed and aperture settings.

Once all this is done, you just have to take your measurements with test photos and continue.

Use

1. Choose the average size of the photos and the number of frames per second of the final video

2. Choose the data you are looking for (Event duration, Shooting interval or Clip length)

In the bottom area

3. You get:

• The event duration
• The shooting interval
• The clip length
• The number of photos needed
• The memory size needed to store photos

The selection of one of the 3 data to be searched will open a window with the data of the 2 others to be completed.