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Lesson Info
5. Camera Gear
Lessons
M0 - Introduction
1An Introduction from Alex
01:25 2Coffee Q&A with Alex
09:26 3Introduction to the Workshop
01:51M1 - Timelapse Basics
4What is Timelapse
04:48 5Camera Gear
06:05 6Timelapse Gear
06:49Support Gear
03:14 8Field Essentials
03:46 9Key Takeaways
01:01M2 - Shooting
10Motion Timelapse
11:11 11In the Field: Manual Exposure Ramping
06:31 12In the Field: Shooting Waterfalls with Motion
07:55 13Astro-Timelapse
08:47 14In the Field: Shooting Moonrise
09:07 15How To Do A Lens Twist
03:17 16Day-to-Night Timelapse
06:42 17Day-to-Night at Tunnel View
05:01M3 - Editing
18Import Structure
10:37 19Basic Timelapse Editing
21:40 20Advanced Timelapse Editing
19:58 21Outro to Editing
00:56M4 - Developing and Planning a Project
22Seeing Life In Timelapse
03:57 23Finding Purpose In Your Timelapse
01:43 24Mood Boards & Shot Lists
08:39 25Production Schedule
02:55M5 - Outro
26Q&A with Alex
20:14Lesson Info
Camera Gear
(calm instrumental plays) We're gonna start out with camera gear. So let's just grab the bag with all our camera gear. Let's just talk about what's in the bag. First we're gonna look at the camera. This is the 5 DSR. This is a really great full frame camera. Full frame has a larger sensor so it'll capture a lot more light, giving us better images at nighttime. It also captures captures raw images which is great because it provides us more control when we're editing our time lapses later, allows us to change the settings rather than shooting JPEG where you don't really have so much control. It also has a higher resolution for each image which allows us to crop down our image, gives us some flexibility there, and it's really weather resistant. This camera can withstand a lot of beating. I've had it out in the rain or the snow and it just kept shooting. It's pretty amazing. Next thing is gonna be talking about this lens right here. This is the 16 to 35 millimeter lens. It has a aperture...
of 2.8 which is really great for those astro time lapses I do. I can capture a lot of light with the wider aperture. And this is kind of the only lens I use. I shot most of the Project Yosemite video using this lens, and I think it's great because it's a lot lighter than some of the other lenses I've used. And sometimes when I'm packing my bags, I just have to sacrifice, make sacrifices and bring less lenses or lighter lenses because it's easier for me to carry. So this lens, I think fits a lot of my needs for time lapse. I also use this lens right here. This is 100 to 400 millimeter lens and this allows me to capture some really great shots between 100 and 400 millimeter. I can frame almost everything that I'm looking to frame and get more detailed shots for things in the environment that I see but I can't reach with the 16 to 35. This is a great lens. Next thing is the memory cards. Memory cards they use are CF cards. And these are really important to use 'cause they're much faster than SD cards that allows you to save your images faster to the card and the faster you save those images, the quicker you can clear the buffer in your camera, allowing you to shoot another photo to shoot each photo in your time lapse quicker. And this one's 128 gigabytes and that's overkill for most situations, but if you want to just keep shooting and not worry about memory just get as big of a card as you can. 128 gigabytes allows me to shoot anything that I can think of. It allows me to shoot from day to nighttime lapses. I can shoot a whole day of just maybe 10 time lapses all in one card. It's great for that. And this card holder is really nice. As soon as I fill up a card, I flip it over so I know not to delete those images until they're copied to the computer. We got some batteries here. Got another holder made by Think Tank for the batteries. These are Canon batteries. These are really great, they last a long time. Canon says they can take about 850 photos per full charge if it's a brand new battery, sometimes less if it's been used quite a bit. I use the Canon camera and the Canon batteries because they last a lot longer than other batteries. You might have a mirrorless camera. You might have used those before. And those don't take as many photos as these batteries can because they just don't last as long. If you're done with your battery, I like to flip it over. Allows me to know that I have used that battery and it needs to be charged so I can look at all the batteries I have and know how much, how many more time lapses I can shoot. Let's put these away. Grab the last thing in our bag. Let's grab the intervalometer. Now this plugs into your camera. And what it does, is it controls the interval between each photo of your time lapse. So I can set that and I can also set a delay, so I can make delay when the time lapse starts. And if I'm doing some test shots at nighttime when the camera shutter is open for longer periods of time, I can use this button right here to trigger the camera without touching the camera. It allows me to take crisper images since the shutter is open for longer periods of time. Let's move on to the last thing. We've got some cleaning supplies. We've got this little rocket thing. You squirt some air in your lens and that clears any moisture that might be building up on your lens. And we have this residual oil remover. Now that's important to use rather than rubbing some water on your lens to clean the lens because lenses have a coating on them and they're sensitive to anything that would be other than this kind of clean material. So make sure you're using the right clean materials for your lens and a soft tissue. It's recommended for cleaning lenses. So that's everything I got in my bag. I try to keep all my camera equipment in one bag if I can so that I know that's the bag that has my camera equipment in it. And if there's another bag, it has different types of camera equipment in it. (calm instrumental returns)
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Ratings and Reviews
Ondrej Dvorak
I have seen tons of timelapses, but there is no other timelapse film that touches my soul as much as Project Yosemite 1 I never forget the moment when I saw Project Yosemite for the first time! That moment I knew that that’s what I wanna DO! Colin is the reason that I bought my first DSLR! Thank You Alex for getting together with my hero and make this awesome idea happen!
Bryce Lord
Clear and concise workshop to understand the process of Time-lapse photography Being new to this aspect of photography, I found this workshop informative and directional. If I were to give a critique, it would be regarding equipment choice for the entry level bridging to pro-level for the introductory student. Otherwise, it lays a nice foundation to build from.
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