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Questions tagged [timelapse]

Timelapse photography is the process of taking a series of photos at a set interval with the intention of playing them back as a movie at a much shorter interval. This gives the appearance of high speed movement, such as in the growth of plants.

Timelapse photography can have 2 major applications (among others):

  1. Make a very slow movement, usually not visible to the human eye, visible; Such as the growth of plants, clouds changing their shape
  2. Speed up normally visible movements to reveal patterns and rhythm in movements; Such as the movements of large masses of people over a street crossing etc.

Common tools for a timelapse:

  • Camera internal or external Intervalometer to time the pictures correctly
  • battery grip or external power supply
  • dolly or automated panning heads to allow camera movement
  • software to combine the individual frames into a movie
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What settings should I use for a timelapse of my wedding?

I'm planning to do a time lapse of my wedding from 9 am to midnight (I know that's a lot of photos) Thinking of doing one every 5 seconds to capture everything (space is not really an issue). I have the following kit Nikon D60 Sigma 10-20mm f4.5 -…
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Canon Rebel XT - do electronic shutter instead of mechanical?

I am planning to take a bunch of photos for time-lapse and it is easiest for me to setup with my XT; however, it will definitely require a bunch of shutter actuations which would ultimately kill my camera. Is there anyway to disable mechanical…
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What equipment for long-term time-lapse photography?

I'm looking to take time-lapse photography (likely one shot per hour over the course of a year) from a fixed position (indoors). I'm wondering what equipment would help with this to overcome challenges of image transfer, battery, etc? I'd probably…
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Why are my time-lapses flickering?

On my way on experimenting with time-lapse, I'm facing a flickering of brightness after I stitch the images together and make a video. I understand that if I use Av mode while I'm taking the pictures, per each shot, the camera will recalculate the…
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How to create time-lapse video with unevenly spaced photos?

I have a bunch of pictures taken without an intervalometer that I'd like to assemble into a time lapse video. Is there a method of using the pictures' randomly spaced timestamps to space the frames correctly in time? Preferably using linux.
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What's the difference between Time-lapse, Hyperlapse and Flow Motion?

I want to know specifically what differs between a Time-lapse video and a Hyperlapse video and a Flow Motion video. In question is the accurate definition of the category of this video Thank you very much for your help in advance.
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How can I get exposure times shorter than a second with an intervalometer?

I am learning to do timelapses and I have a "Shoot" brand intervalometer. The shortest exposure setting I can do on the intervalometer is 1 second. If the exposure setting on my camera is set to something shorter/quicker than 1 second what should…
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How to setup a long running timelapse?

I would like to setup a timelapse capture of a building site. I would like to take approximately 5 photos every day for the next 3 months. What is the most economical way of doing this? I have a Raspberry Pi, a Canon Ixus 100 and a GoPro. I can…
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Doing a time lapse of my backyard for 1 year

Just picked up a simple all in one Brinno TLC 200 Pro. I'm going to put it on a shelf looking out the window and pretty much forget it for 1 year. There is a setting where I can pick the hours to shoot. This will be challenging as daytime hours are…
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How does one do a time lapse video in the public?

How does one do a time lapse video in the public? I can understand if the time lapse is taken from indoor looking out to a window or something like that. But how does one take, say, a time lapse looking up into the Eiffel tower? Do you literally sit…
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Is it possible to set up a Timelapse with a Nikon D90 without and Intervalometer? and how?

I've been trying to figure out how to set up a timelapse and have seen that it might be possible to set up using my computer (Macbook Pro)
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How do I stabilize a shaky timelapse?

I did a timelapse during a boat ride on the Huangpu river when I visited Shanghai earlier this year. When I had put it together on my computer I noticed that some parts seem "shaky" because the boat was moving up and down from the waves. I've tried…
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How can I shoot sunrise/sunset timelapses with a smooth sky gradient transition?

I want to shoot a timelapse sequence of a sunrise using my Canon 200D. It does support a timelapse video mode, but the settings are quite limited - I can either set everything manually, set auto-exposure for the first shot only or set auto-exposure…
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Easy timelapse from pole

We are organising some outdoor volunteer works, and looking for a solution how to shoot the "construction site" time-lapse over the day from the "bird's eye" view - e.g. from the approx. 5m high (sturdy) pole. My time-lapse needs/calculations: HD…
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Rearranging photos for time lapse

My camera has 2 camera slots and I have captured a lot of images. Now when I put them into one folder they are not in the order they were taken. I am using Time Lapse Assembler. How can I make sure that images are assembled correctly?
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