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.
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I DECIDED TO REMOVE THE VIDEO BECAUSE IT CONTAINS SOME PHILIP GLASS MUSIC AND I DON’T WANT TO GET SUED BY SONY MUSIC OR WHATEVER MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATION THAT HAPPENS TO OWN THE RIGHTS TO THE MUSIC.
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.