How to shoot time-lapse photography

I am used to shooting with EOS 5D Mark III or EOS6D. Because shooting delays are mostly based on large scenes, we try to use Quan Huafu's SLR to get larger scenes. The lenses are mostly wide-angle lenses, such as EF 14mm f/2.8L II USM and EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II USM. In addition, you need to prepare tripod, cable releaser with time delay function, time delay photography track (optional) and other equipment.

Equipment needed for time-lapse photography.

After the equipment is ready, the next step is to set the camera mode.

Camera mode: m range, ensuring continuous exposure.

Focus: focus manually to adjust the shooting scene to infinity; If shooting in narrow conditions, it can be adjusted according to the shooting distance.

Shutter interval: it depends on the individual's sense of the picture (for example, shooting clouds objectively depends on the speed at which the clouds move, and subjectively it is the speed at which we want the clouds to move in the later period. )

Pre-shooting: after fixing the tripod and shooting the scenery, cable release will set the time interval regularly (see how long it will meet your needs, remember not to have uneven time interval or the picture will jump. ) Set the number of sheets. Generally, I will set the total number of sheets to 400-500, so that when I export later, I will get 15-20 seconds of material, which is convenient for my later editing.

As long as everything is ready, we can start shooting. About the early shooting of time-lapse photography, it is not complicated, just according to the experience of shooting landscape photography. Make sure that the camera is stable during shooting without any deviation. The shooting process of time-lapse photography is long and lonely. If shooting at night or in the starry sky, we need to take warm measures. After the shooting, there are usually hundreds of photos in our memory card. Next, all we have to do is convert them into videos.

Post production:

Post-production is the focus of time-lapse photography, and the software I use is Lightroom, After Effects and Premiere. Next, I will break down the production process for everyone to see.

1, batch processing and photo format conversion

First of all, I will convert the original image in RAW format into JPEG format in LR, and batch process the image to adjust the exposure and contrast.

The material is opened in LR, and the photo is finished. The screenshot is the video size of 16:9.

Select all materials and synchronize.

Then export the photos.

2. Import multiple photos into the video.

After the photos are ready, we open AE(After Effects) and finish the photo-to-video synthesis. First, click "File" in the menu bar and click "Import".

File—Just import and click on the first picture of the material.

Explanatory materials-main

The frame rate of the pop-up window becomes 24.

Then drag the layer of the imported photo to the position shown below.

Then click Composition-Pre-Rendering on the menu bar.

You can change the size of the video here. Now many SLR's have achieved 4K, 6K or even more.

The generate video can then be rendered.

3. Edit and score the video.

PR is actually very simple, which can realize the synthesis of video and music. After importing the material, drag it to the lower right window. Mirror video and music correspond to their respective tracks, then edit them into what you want, and finally export the video.

Long-time freeze time delay shooting. Also known as low-speed photography or fixed-time photography, "time-shrinking" photography. A means to record and reproduce the slow changing process of the scene with obvious changing images at regular intervals. For example, it takes about 3 days and 3 nights for a bud to bloom, which is 72 hours. Shoot one frame of it every half hour, record the subtle changes of flowering action in turn, shoot 144 frame at * * *, then show it with a projector at normal frequency (24 frames per second), and reproduce the flowering process for 3 days and 3 nights within 6 seconds.