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Time lapse shoot – Keeping Your Canon DSLR battery Powered

Lithium-Ion DSLR Camera Battery

Skip to Section0.1 Canon DSLR battery life1 So what can be done?2 Do DSLRs have an external power supply input?3 The solution3.1 Dummy DSLR Battery3.2 Making your own dummy battery4 The power source4.1 Wall plug power supply (Wall-wart)4.2 USB power banks4.2.1 Auto-off feature4.2.2 Always-on USB power banks4.2.3 Disabling a USB power bank’s auto-power-off feature4.2.4 Using […]

Make Money From TimeLapse Photography

Make Money From Time Lapse

TimeLapse is a fun hobby which combines technical photography and videography with creativity. You can spend many hours of (sometimes quite difficult and frustrating) work setting up and capturing a timelapse recording, but it’s so satisfying when you see the final result. But can you turn this passion into an actual source of revenue or […]

How To Shoot a Lego Time-Lapse Video

How to shoot a LEGO time-lapse

Skip to Section1 Aren’t time-lapse photography and stop-frame animation the same thing?2 Why would you shoot a LEGO time-lapse?3 What equipment do I need?3.1 A Camera3.2 A Tripod3.3 An Intervalometer3.4 Artificial Lighting3.5 A LEGO Set4 Preperation4.1 Charge your batteries4.2 Set up your equipment4.3 Set up your camera4.4 Set up the intervalometer4.5 Test, test, test5 Start […]

Top 5 Most Impressive Time-Lapse Videos

Top Time Lapse Video

Skip to Section1 5. Bean Time-Lapse – 25 days | Soil cross-section2 4. Portrait of Lotte, 0 to 18 years – Age Time-Lapse3 3. A Journey To The End of Time – Time-Lapse of The Future4 2. 30 Days Timelapse at Sea Though Thunderstorms – Torrential Rain & Busy Traffic5 1. “The 3 Year Construction […]

What Is Magic Lantern, And Will It Run On My Camera?

Magic Lantern on a Canon Camera

Skip to Section1 What is Magic Lantern?2 Does It Overwrite My Camera’s Internal Software?3 Is Feature ‘x’ Available On My Camera?4 Will Using Magic Lantern Void My Camera’s Warranty?5 What Camera Models Will The Software Run On?6 Will Magic Lantern Run On a Nikon Camera?7 Is There Any Support Available For The Software?8 How Do […]

Time-Lapse Proof Of Extreme Ice Loss

Glaciers

A little different from our usual content. This video is a Ted talk by James Balog, who is a nature photographer with over 40 years of experience. In the video, James presents time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss in the polar ice caps. The video was shot by what is called the ‘Extreme Ice Survey’, […]

Editing Timelapse On iPhone

Smart phone filming time lapse video

Skip to Section1 Options For Capturing and Editing Your time-lapse:1.0.1 First Option, shoot in Built-In time-lapse mode1.0.2 Second Option, A time-lapse-specific App1.0.3 Hyperlapse From Instagram1.0.4 Lapse-It2 More Advanced Options2.0.1 iMotion2.0.2 Timelapse for iOS3 Additional Editing3.0.1 iMovie for iOS4 Can I Slow Down Time-Lapse on an iPhone?5 Can I Change The Time-Lapse Speed On iPhone? There […]

Can I Make a Timelapse Video from Pictures?

The simple answer is yes. Time-lapse is typically created by taking still images and using them as frames for a video or film. This allows time to move forward more quickly depending on the interval between each photograph. You are very unlikely to be able to decide to produce a time-lapse after having taken photographs […]

How to produce smooth timelapse videos.

Smooth Waterfall

When shooting a time-lapse, sometimes the footage can come off jerky or jumpy – it is often referred to as the staccato effect. This is when the exposure times for each image in the time-lapse are too short to incorporate enough motion blur to allow the moving elements of the scene to smoothly transition frame […]