I experimented time lapses, by shooting on a Canon 600D. I filmed slots of 5 to 6 minutes of movement throughout college life, which I then put into premiere pro and increased the footage by 3000% in order to create the fast movement. When I was happy with the speed of my time lapse, I then added my music. Here is my final video:
Tuesday 21 January 2014
Monday 13 January 2014
Long exposure and light paintings
What is long exposure?
Long exposure is the method of capturing an image whilst movement occurs in order to create a blur, smear or obscurity. This is done with having little light in the camera by having a large aperture value and the use of a long exposure on the camera (anything from one minute upwards), in order to capture the movement.
When can we use it in real world context?
Long exposure is most commonly use in water photography allowing the water movement to be captured and appear with a mist-like quality yet keeping the land surrounding the water sharp. Long exposure is also used to create night photograph, which is produced in the night time yet to create a daytime effect in the photo. Also there is light paintings, where the scene is kept very dark in order to capture little movement of pen lights to create a pattern.
To introduce ourselves better to the idea of time lapses and how they work, we started by focusing on creating images using long exposure in practice for creating a time lapse. To experiment this, I would first explore the technique on my own. Here are some of the images I captured while experimenting long exposure:
After creating my long exposure images on my own, I then set up the studio in order to take some more images. However, in the studio I used long exposures to create light paintings. Here are some of the images I took:
Time lapses
What is a time lapse?
A time lapse is a technique used in film and photography in order to capture a period of time. For example, in the photograph above you can see how the photographer has captured the beach and fairground from the daytime, to mid day and then to night by merging a sequence of photographs together.
What is the process of a time lapse?
In photography, a time lapse is captured by one long image or just lots of images which are placed together. For a photographer to create one long image, it would simply be done by creating a long exposure on the camera in order to capture one long photograph without the shutter closing. As in the day an exposure would last up to a few minutes, yet at night it could last up to an hour.
Moreover, a photographer could also create lots of different images of one place and the merge them together with manipulation, like in the picture above. Or the images could be of the same place yet slightly different, and then put in to a sequence in order to create a time lapse, this can be seen below.
What can it be used for?
A time lapse is used to capture a place, a person, or a thing over a period of time. This could include capturing a women as she goes threw the stages of pregnancy, right threw to capturing construction as a building is built over a time period.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)