I've been playing around with learning timelapse -- I still have a lot to learn. This was more a test of the equipment than an attempt at a good storm timelapse, though given that this was a pretty boring popcorn summer storm and that the camera still caught a cool rolling sky wave, I'm pretty excited. This was shot near Kearney, Nebraska.
Shot this with a Canon 50 using a Tokina 11-16 in sRAW1 mode. Exported to JPEGS in Adobe Camera RAW, then ran the JPEGS through VirtualDub with the MSU DeFlicker plugin, then loaded the resulting JPEGS into Photoshop to create the video. Surprisingly time consuming process.
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All photos by Ryan McGinnis.
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Very cool. Looks very similar to underwater video of wave breaks.
Very cool stuff!
If you want a simpler time lapse process once you get to JPEG just use Quick Time Pro, and use the "Open Image Sequence". I've done a bunch of time lapses this way and the quality is decent--not as good as staying RAW all the way, but pretty good. Lots of examples here: http://www.controlgeek.net/blog/category/time-lapse
Love your stuff, keep up the great work!
Yeah, thought about getting QTPro if only for the video editing features. Photoshop CS5 (believe it or not) will also assemble a pano into a video using just about any codec -- that's what I've been using so far. But it's not so hot with video editing, since of course that's not what it's designed to do.
Beatiful! I'm glad you deflickered it, that's the most annoying thing on time-lapses.
When shooting clouds I prefer a larger interval, between 3-5 seconds. Sometimes I just speed-up the video to give it a bit more dynamism, but you need a bit more sophisticated video workflow to achieve that.
Great job, and keep posting more examples!
Thanks! Yeah, I'm going to experiment with different intervals -- 1 second seemed okay for this shot, but would be kinda slow for a lot of supercells. Twice as fast would better show the motion of the sky, though at some point you get into the problem of needing to recompose.
At some point if I really get into this (and if there is a market for the footage) I think I'd probably get a dolly setup to get a bit of foreground motion in these shots.
Yeah, those dolly shots are awesome. I'm thinking about getting one too.
In the meantime you can always add some motion via post-production with a video editor like Vegas (I use the cheap version).
BTW, the forums at timescapes.org are a great place to learn stuff and showcase your work.
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