Here’s a time-lapse video of a lilac tree and some sunflowers growing in a corner of our backyard from May 3 to October 16 of this year. We took one photo just about every day. We stopped taking the photos when a storm destroyed all the sunflowers.
We’ll post more photos of our sunflowers later on.
Nice work! How did you do the move around the yard at the end? Stills or still frames from a video?
The whole thing was done with still digital photos from my Sony Cybershot DSC-S700. Not the greatest camera in the world but good enough for snapshots. The movement at the end was done by taking the photos in “burst” mode — the camera takes 3 shots one after the other in about 3 seconds. I slowly moved the camera as each set of 3 shots went off, freezing as soon as I heard the 3rd shutter click. Then repeating the process until I stopped on the shot of my cat. The camera movements were not planned. I just thought I’d give it a go and see how it turned out.
I used Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 to create to time-lapse sequence. Premiere allows the user to set the number of frames for each photo. I picked 10 frames. (The short version on Steel White Table is 2 frames for each image.) I used another program to add music and titles and the rest of it.
I didn’t know what I was doing, but I guess it turned out alright.