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Sky Time-Lapse

June 20th, 2009 by Maria Langer
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The latest.

I set this one up on the spur of the moment yesterday afternoon. I happened to look up and see some small, low, wispy clouds moving and shaping themselves in the sky. I had no afternoon plans, so I set up the camera with the snapshot interval set at one shot every 10 seconds.

I let it run for about 3-1/2 hours. During that time, a storm came through, dumping water on the campsite. It was fortunate that I had the camera under the awning and odd that it was pointed away from the storm clouds. The only evidence of rain is some blurriness in a few shots; I wiped it away between exposures.

I assembled the 1700+ images at 15 frames per second. This is the result.

I’m going to repeat this exercise later in the week for a longer period of time with a larger image. Someone on Viddler said it would make a great screen saver; it would be neat to make a movie large enough to fill a screen.

It would also be neat to set this to some kind of new age music.

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  1. Andy Piper
    June 22nd, 2009 at 15:34 | #1
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    OK, now I know I’ve missed something here, but I went back and did a search and couldn’t find an answer. I can see you have a Piclix shutter control to take the photos – but what are you using to assemble the movies? iStopMotion or something similar? Just curious :-)

    • Maria Langer
      June 22nd, 2009 at 18:17 | #2
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      QuickTime Pro. I think I need to do a how-to about this. You’re not the first person to ask.

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