D7000 Timelapse

May 23, 2011 @ 9:26AM

D7000 Timelapse

A rising tide does raise all boats!

By xxxx

Well, the video embedder here at Pixiq is working true to form (that is to say, it's not) so click here to see a cute little timelapse of a huge honking tidal change from my recent visit to Cornwall, in southwest England.

Tech: Nikon D7000, Tokina 11-16mm, 1 frame every 30 seconds for about 8 hours, put together with Quicktime.

More to come, now that I'm back from "vacation." (during which, I did a lot of work, as is often the case with the self-employed!).

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Comments

Jim Donahue

1 year ago

Looks like my long lost dinghy in the middle. Great Work and Thanks Bob.

Loki Cat

11 months ago

Bob, for something like this do you lock exposure on each shot to make the transitions more natural? If so, how do you select the "right" exposure for the duration?

I'm just now starting to experiment with using my 5100 for video and finding myself locking exposure most of the time.

Thanks

xxxx

11 months ago

Loki: We're kind of mixing apples and oranges here. For video (video), I always use the exposure lock, otherwise you get this miniscule flickers in your video. But what you just watched is a timelapse----a movie made of still photographs taken at longer intervals than the normal 24 fps, or 30fps, video.

For timelapses, I use aperture priority. I've read a lot of tutorials advising folks to use manual exposure, but what happens if the light shifts for a long time? I've gotten good results using aperture priority for timelapses.

Hope this helps. BK

Loki Cat

11 months ago

wow, thanks for the quick reply!

Yes, that makes total sense. I suppose if one were to show a specific time lapse that focused on the transition of the day to night, then manual exposure would make the entire sequence more pronouced whereas aperture priority would "flatten" the transition. But with your explanation, now I realize that one would also need a cloudless day to achieve that.

RuthCT

10 months ago

thats pretty cool, reminds me of tidal scenes I have seen up in Maine where I think they have a 12-13ft tide?
I know the Delaware River is about 8-9ft tide from our boating days.

I still haven't tried this yet, but guess I would have to find a spot that I could have my camera safely sit for long periods of time... or I don't mind sitting there watching for a few hours :))

adam

8 months ago

Hey Bob,I think i am the farthes fans of your images. I`m a Chinese.My english is not good ,but i like your photo.I have a nikon d7000 with 16-85mm lens,after i saw a video about nikon cls from you,i think the most important is not the lens . To use light is the most moving thing I felt.