Pride and Prejudice – Time lapse photography 28th Jan 2014

As a reminder the phrase that I have chosen is “The day passed much as the day before had done”.  So i’ve been looking for ways to go from sunrise to sunset.

The manufacturing part of the company that I work for is called Impact Ducting Sales.  They currently have a two storey office on Oakland Road, but the top floor is vacant.  I decided that their yard might make a good subject for a time lapse project.  So I borrowed a key form the MD and went in on Sunday night to set a time lapse running at midnight till midnight on Monday 27th.  So photographs taken every 5 minutes over 24 hours.  I used similar settings to my first attempt, 100ISO, f8, 1/50, Manual focus, but forgot to set manual white balance and I think it shows.  As before I dragged the photo’s into iMovie and made a fast slideshow (0.1 sec per picture, so 10fps playback, I think this is as fast as iMovie goes).  I actually only used photo’s from 7am till 5pm as everything outside that was pretty much pitch black.

Here is my video:

 

I picked up my camera and tripod from work today.  Tuesday is badminton night, so I drive from Leicester to Hinckley and back.  So that my camera wasn’t bouncing about in the boot I sat it on the passenger side seat next to me.  Which gave me an idea!  I remembered those sped up/time lapse car journeys.  So before leaving Hinckley I wedged my tripod into the passenger side footwell to point out of the windscreen.  I knew the battery might be struggling, so I just set the camera to take a shot every 2 seconds, until it went flat.  I got 184 frames.  I dragged these into iMovie and did the same.  It sort of works, a bit jerky and it’s a shame it was raining.  I’d like to try again, but take shots every second or quicker.

Here is my driving video: