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Lesson Info
17. Day-to-Night at Tunnel View
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
Day-to-Night at Tunnel View
(ethereal music) Right now we are at Tunnel View, and we are setting up another time lapse. This time lapse is going to go from day to night. So it's is going to be a longer time lapse. We're going to use this tool right here called the Timelapse+ view to control the exposure ramp over time automatically. Since we are changing the exposure so much, we're going to use a tool to do that for us. Right now, I'm thinking about how much battery do I need and how many photos do I want to take? As we get our exposure set up, we're taking that into consideration. We're going to think about how big our memory card is and how many photos maximum we can take. We're using a battery grip, carries two batteries. These batteries that Canon makes, on their website says they shoot about 850 photos each when the temperature's colder and 900 when it's a regular temperature. Think about that. Think about how many photos you're thinking for your time lapse. Also, take into consideration that those numbers...
are not guaranteed. I've been shooting time lapse and sometimes I'll get 600. Sometimes I'll get 700. Sometimes I'll get less per battery. Just think about that and make sure that you have extra. This shot is really good for day to night because there's just so much that can happen actually. We don't know what the weather is going to do and you might see a lot happen in this area, from this point of view. One thing that I'm looking for is any fog that's rising from the valley as the temperatures drop and that fog can move around. If those clouds that we see above us, they're kinda high up, but if they come down like I see over at Half Dome right now, they might come over to El Capitan. They might bounce off the wall and you have to think about what the weather is doing, where it's moving, and what that could look like throughout your entire shot. This is a good spot for that, I think. It's going to be fun to shoot this. This is going to be our framing for our shot. We're looking from Tunnel View down Yosemite Valley. You can see a lot of the sky. You can see a lot of the valley down here. But all of this won't be in your final shot. When you compile your time lapse later on, you're going to have to crop this for 16 by 9, which is the aspect ratio that most people will be using when they're editing their time lapses. This right now is 3 by 2. That means the top or the bottom is going to be taken out. You can choose how to crop it later on. Now I am going to go into my settings and just crop it to 16 by so I can see the black bar is on top and see how much of the frame I'm actually working with. Once I see that that works for me, I'm gonna go back in here, just make sure you always set it back to 3 by 2, or whatever aspect ratio your camera uses so you're using the full frame sensor. We have our time lapse going now, and we are just going to go over the settings that we are using for our shot. Now I am going to read off my phone because there is a lot to remember. We're going to start with the camera settings first. Number one, we have auto focus turned off and we have manual mode on. We're using ISO to start our shot. We're using ISO 200. We're also using a shutter speed of 1 over and an aperture of 2.8. Now for our intervalometer, our Timelapse+ view that we are using to meter our environment and change the exposure over time, the settings for that are a max interval of 18 seconds, and a max shutter of 15 seconds. That's the max interval for day and night. Now our max ISO will be 4, and our minimum ISO will be 200. The ramp parameter for this time lapse is going to be to ramp only ISO and shutter speed. We're not going to change the aperture because that can introduce some elements to our shot that just don't look very good for this type of shot. So we're going to stick with ramp, having the view only ramp ISO and shutter speed and that will all be handled automatically based on the software that is built into it. [ethereal music]
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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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