I’ve been at it again. I have taken time lapse of Marsh Violets and Lesser Celandine. Neither did anything very much so I resorted to a Daisy again. That didn’t do much either.
It’s been a grim few days with heavy rain showers. It’s turned out grand now though.
I’ll give these videos a rest for a while. They are fine for passing several hours on on miserable days but do involve work out of all proportion to their entertainment value.
MISTY MORNING
I have no Otter images but am here until Thursday so there is time yet.
I’m going to watch the Grand Prix now so have a good week.
You did really great with those landscapes. Love the fog rolling in. At what intervals did you shoot outside?
ReplyDeleteMersad, 2s or 3s I can't remember exactly.
ReplyDeleteWorked out well. The motion is very smooth.
DeleteMersad, the plantswere taken at 10s intervals. Frame rate was 25fps.
DeleteI used a set of ADORAMA tutorials to get the general idea.
Thank you for the link, i will bookmark it for future use!
DeleteBut what happened to the plants in the fridge?
ReplyDeleteFrances, the marsh violet and lesser celandine I put in the fridge to keep them dark didn't do anything at all. The daisy did precious little but grow a bit.
DeleteHamilton wins, Rosberg 2nd, Ricciardo 3rd, good run Hami babe.
ReplyDeleteBob, yes I watched it on I-Player. Thanks, a good result.
DeleteThe soundtrack worked really well with the mist.
ReplyDeleteI can only imagine the ammount of work that goes into these Adrian. You must have the patience of a saint.
Keith, it was luck. There must be a way of doing a quick render but I've not found it yet.
DeleteI did manage a bit of pan and zoom. the individual frames are about eight times bigger than the 1280x720 video size soit is easier than I thought to add key frames. PS does the rest. God knows how.
Great video of the landscape Adrian..but next time, if you're going to have a brew up while you're filming, it might be best to move the kettle further away or downwind from the camera then the view won't be obscured by all that steam!
ReplyDeleteI think Daisy was having a bit of a lay in this morning?
Excellent work once again Adrian...[;o)
Trevor, I wondered where the whistling was coming from.
DeleteI was lucky the first time with the daisy. I sat with the camera clicking away for over two hours and all she did was grow a millimetre or two. The clover responds fast to light though.
Even with big computers the natural history folk must spend hours making their time lapse movies.
Adrian, I've just seen an item on BBC Countryfile...a time lapse of a growing cucumber!...it took six hours to film it growing 2 inches...[;o)
DeleteTrevor, I could probably just about manage that. I have a 64GB card and the sRAW files are around 5MB. The camera battery will last that long or somewhere close.
DeleteThe time-lapse mist turned out well as did the zoom.
ReplyDeleteI seem to remember you process RAW to jpg. Wonder what you use. Have you ever looked at IrfanView. (excellent freeware) As well as being a piccy display pgm it has batch processing with many tweaking choices. 'Twill load a vast range of picture files including Canon CRW/CR2 format as long as you also install the plug-ins for them. It's one pgm I really miss on the Mac.
John, I find it difficult to get fades, zooms and title movements just how I would like them. There must be a quick render command somewhere.
DeleteI'm happy with the PShop. CS6 software. The RAW converter is capable of just about anything including the vignette I used here. I oversharpened a bit this time.
I now save out as TIFF files I think I'm being a bit silly but colour seems better than saving as JPEG.
PS. John, most of the jobs I can automate. I scrub through the individual shots in PS Bridge. if there are any duff ones I discard them.
DeleteDrop the rest into a new folder
Batch rename so has to have the shots with consecutive file #'s.
Then load into RAW process. This is all quick as I don't have to open every file I just pick one from the middle of the stack adjust it then select all and synchronise.
Still in Bridge I then go to image processor and save out as TIFF, I can resize at this stage but don't bother. I use the free transform tool in editor.
If I get the start frame right then press a little stopwatch icon to key frame it then move along the time line and move the image to the end of the pan/zoom then key frame again. PShop works it all out.
Titles I do the same way but on a separate video layer.
It does get a bit of a pain as I start to run out of space.
So what else can you do on dull rainy days? You might as well put some time in on videos.
ReplyDeleteYou are quite right Red. This took about seven hours to shoot and process.
DeleteThanks for the entertainment. There might be something slightly wrong with my imagination but "The Hound of Heaven" crossed my mind as I watched. Maybe it was the music.
ReplyDeletePauline, you are welcome.
ReplyDeleteI love that with the music and flower time lapse. How dramatic!
ReplyDeleteMaria, I enjoy doing time lapse. I wasn't really thinking about anything but the titles when i did this. CS6 is very good at the job but it doesn't have a quick RAM render preview. After Effects does but I haven't got that.
DeleteAnother good one and I must say well chosen music.
ReplyDeleteJay, I'm learning all the time. They are big files to edit and despite a list of jobs I always manage to miss a bit out.
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