What are the skills of time-lapse photography?

Judging from the moving distance of the camera, the common delays are mainly fixed position or auxiliary shooting with slide rails, and the moving distance is generally less than 2 meters; However, large-scale time-lapse photography usually has to move tens of meters or even hundreds of meters to shoot, so it is almost impossible to operate with slide rails. Usually, we shoot by moving a tripod. Let's take a look at the skills needed for time-lapse photography!

Necessary skills of time-lapse photography

Shooting frequency

How much does a scene need to be shot? Zhang Cai is the available project format for time-lapse photography? I suggest you take at least 250-300 pictures. In the later stage, it can only be converted into the number of similar pictures of about 10 second, and because time-lapse photography is presented in a flowing way, it takes about 2 seconds to deduct the special effects (such as fading in and out) between the scene and the scene before and after editing, so the actual film presented is only 6-8 seconds. In the visual experience, a picture of about 6 seconds can keep the viewer's attention, and the same picture is played for too long, which is easy to make people feel impatient; Of course, if the captured image is particularly bright, you can also consider playing it for a while.

The format selected for shooting.

If you encounter the environment in Gao Fancha, I suggest you shoot in RAW format, and then highlight the dark parts later. If you shoot with a smooth light source, it is sometimes useful to shoot directly in JPEG format. In addition, when shooting at night, use the RAW format, and there will be more space later. If you can choose the camera at hand, it is recommended to choose the RAW format of 14bit (or the RAW format that takes up the most memory card capacity), because this format will be more tolerant, especially in the environment of Gao Fancha, which will help to remedy the mistakes.

measure

It is recommended that you use comprehensive/average photometry (matrix photometry, weighing photometry), because the shooting time of time-lapse photography is very long, during which the scenery changes constantly. If you choose central dimming or spot metering, there may be metering errors, resulting in the problem that the bright part is too bright or the dark part is too dark.

Exposure compensation

Generally speaking, if shooting can be reduced by about 0.3EV, the color of the picture will be saturated; If you don't add/subtract light at all, the overall color will be very dull.

concentrate

When shooting during the day, you can turn on autofocus first, then turn off autofocus and switch to manual focus. This is to prevent some moving scenes, vehicles or people from affecting the focusing system during shooting, resulting in the focusing area running to the wrong range.

Anti shake

Nowadays, many new lenses or fuselage are equipped with the convenient function of anti-shake, but time-lapse photography is similar to landscape photography. When shooting through a tripod, the anti-shake related functions are turned off, and a more stable shooting effect can be obtained.

Mirror pre-lifting

If the camera at hand has this function, I suggest that you pre-lift the reflector, which can reduce the vibration of the reflector during shooting and make the picture quality more delicate.

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Although the basic shooting method of time-lapse photography is to take one picture every once in a while, the actual shooting interval will vary according to different themes.