Category: Video
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Two and a half hours of stormy weather on the north Cornwall coast in November, condensed down to 23 seconds
This timelapse sequence shows the North Cornish coast in late November, over a period of two hours from shortly after dawn. A series of winter showers and squalls blow in over the Camel estuary from the north/north-east. The images were taken on a Panasonic GF1, taking one shot every 15 seconds until the card was…
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A technical update to the star trails article
Since writing about my first attempt at creating a star trails image I have carried out a few further experiments, and thought about what went wrong and what I would do differently next time. Intervalometer settings Firstly, I mistakenly believed that my interval timer (the Canon TC-80N3; good grief, what a name…) could only be set…
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Creating time lapse videos using multiple digital images
One of the interesting things that I have recently come across is photographers/film-makers using images from DLSRs to create high-definition time-lapse videos. As an experiment, I thought I would try to create a short time-lapse video of the river Thames and Hammersmith Bridge in London. One of the quickest and easiest ways to create a…
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Star trails over Cornwall – an experiment in image stacking
This is a short article of my first experience of trying to capture star-trails. The whole thing didn’t quite go as planned, but I will share my experience with you in the hope that you can learn a little from it. I had decided to try a technique for taking star-trails images by ‘stacking’ a…