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Robert Southerton's Blog: originally about the fun I was having with my camera, now much less specific.

Sunday, July 24, 2005

Gettin into the Time Lapse

Here is my second attempt at time lapse photos, the first one i've already made into a gif which is waaay to big for posting. I did this one on my birthday and it came out rather well. It was really easy, just set the camera up to take a photo every 5 min for 100 frames.

A real easy way to turn time lapse shots into a GIF:
  • Upload, export and re-size all the photos to 150px using Picasa.
  • Open the first image in theGIMP (Photoshop for people with no money).
  • Then open each of the files as a layer.
  • Save the file as a GIF and let theGIMP take care of the rest.
Started at about 1pm in the afternoon and finished at 7pm. If you've got problems seeing the animation, click on the picture and open it in a new window. Apologies if you're on Dialup, go get Unwired or something, might just be quicker than waiting for this to download.

2 Comments:

  • At 8:41 am, Blogger Drew said…

    I like it! Very cool. It's a pity it can't be bigger - but it would be too big then, I guess.

    Does the camera automatically determine shutterspeed etc on time lapse mode? I mean, it does the night shots reasonably well too - this would be a lot of time and effort on a manual SLR...

     
  • At 10:51 am, Blogger BOB said…

    Yep, I it set on Aperture Priority and it auto adjusted the shutter speed for the evening shots.

     

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