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Lesson Info
24. Mood Boards & Shot Lists
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
Mood Boards & Shot Lists
(calm music) Let's take a look at some mood boards and shot lists we've created for this particular assignment. So I made some mood boards here and you can see, I'm gonna scroll through the different pages and then we'll go over what each page is being used for in this project. So on page one, we have a collection of webcams and Google Earth images that I've collected. Just to help us understand a little bit better what happens in the winter. Some of these are pictures that were taken recently actually. And this image right here shows us where, I think, roughly the moon will be rising for the time that we'll be working on this project. So that will guide us in framing our image. And this is a picture from Ahwahnee Meadows. And these two images show what El Capitan in Yosemite Valley can look like in different winter weather conditions. And up over here, we have images from Glacier Point showing how weather can also change the way that the Valley looks from another position in the Val...
ley. So what we learned from that is that we can have a really clear day, or we can have a really cloudy day, and those transitions can happen fairly quickly. Some of these images I was capturing in periods of one hour or a couple hours, and that's what I learned from gathering that information. So on the next page. On this page we're looking at pictures of El Capitan. We can see what it looks like with climbers on the wall and that perspective it gives us. We can see varying lighting conditions when seeing the wall from different perspectives and with different framings. And we can see what happens when weather moves into the Valley. Here. Weather moves into the valley here, and here. And we're also interested in shooting El Capitan at nighttime. So right here, we can see an idea of framing and also what the sky looks like at nighttime above El Capitan. We also see in this image right here where there's moonlight and there's a deep shadow. So that may be another thing we can capture. On our third page, we're moving on to a second location. This is Tunnel View and it also presents us with some ideas. The first one is the position of the sun at sunrise. The sun can rise and hit various parts of the Valley. And at other times you might see clouds rolling into the Valley and we might have more winter conditions. We also see up here in the middle is the moon rising over Clouds Rest. And over here, we have the moon rising over Half Dome. So that's something to take into consideration when we're trying to figure out where certain bodies will be in the sky during our time lapse. Back to whether we can see the way that the clouds interact with El Capitan, the way that the light interacts with El Capitan at sunset, and other ideas for where the light can hit the Valley and how it will reflect off the snow when we have more snow coming down into the Valley. So this is all things we could see in that location. The third location on the fourth page, is Ahwahnee Meadows. And from Ahwahnee Meadows we can see some really iconic locations within Yosemite. We can see Half Dome and also not too far from Ahwahnee Meadows we can see Upper Yosemite Falls and Lower Yosemite Falls. So we're exploring in this picture right here the position of the moon rising above Half Dome, which is a shot we're interested in. Also the way that light hits the Valley, hits the Meadows is an interest to me. You can see the strong contrast when the light hits certain trees and not others. Also the way that the clouds interact with the walls of the valley around Yosemite Falls is interesting. And the way that the light hits Half Dome is interesting at sunset. Now also one thing to consider when shooting Yosemite Falls is the way that the waterfall can transform in the wintertime. A lot of ice builds up up around the Falls and that can change with the swing in temperature from the day, through the day. When there's more light hitting the Falls you may see the ice breaking off, and then when it's colder and snowing, you may see more ice form. So that's an interest to us. On page five we just have a detailed look into a style of time lapse we're interested in getting. And that's silhouettes. So here you can see Half Dome being framed in different ways, and you can see various color palettes. And you also get an idea of framing. How you could frame it tight, or you could frame it wider and capture silhouettes in different ways in Yosemite Valley. All right. So now that we've done that we can hone in on some specific shots that we're interested in capturing. Now we have six shots here. We have three different locations and we're gonna go through each one. The first one is a sunrise on El Capitan and it's at El Cap Meadows. The idea is to capture the first light on El Capitan as it moves down the wall. And this is gonna be a three axis shot. We're gonna frame it fairly wide. So you can see everything in the seam using a 1635 millimeter lens. And this is all the equipment we're gonna need to execute that shot. Second shot takes place in the same location and it's the same seam. It's more detailed. Look at the movement of the light on the wall. It's gonna be a static shot and we're gonna frame it tight on the wall. We want to capture the light in more detail. So we're gonna use a 100 to 400 millimeter lens, and we only need the tripod and an intervalometer for that shot. The third and fourth shot are all gonna be capturing storms in Yosemite Valley. So this is gonna be shot from Tunnel View. And we're gonna wanna see the storm develop over the course of the day, because we've seen this in the forecast. And it's interesting to just see how a storm can go from just a light storm to a big storm. We're gonna do a day to night time lapse. We're gonna capture around sunset to nighttime, actually. And we're gonna do this statically and do it really wide so we can see all the detail of he environment. We're gonna use a 16 to 35 millimeter lens and we're gonna use a tripod and The View to made by Timelapse+. The same thing for scene and location for the fourth shot. We're gonna get more detailed shots of El Capitan with storm interacting with the wall. And the rest of the settings are here for that shot. The fifth and sixth are gonna be shots of the moonrise over Half Dome and the moonlight in the Valley. And these are both from Ahwahnee Meadows. We're gonna capture the moon rising over Half Dome at night. So we're gonna do that with more- We're gonna do that statically with a telephoto lens. And we're just gonna use 100 to 400 millimeter lens so we can frame the moon and the subjects closer together. We're gonna use that equipment. And then we're gonna do another shot that's gonna be a motion shot in the Meadow. It's gonna capture the moonlight move into the Valley and reflecting off the walls as the moon rises higher and higher. And so we're gonna do that with motion gear like we did in shot one. And that's the lens we're gonna use. So that's our shot list. And those are the steps you should follow in order to put together a template for your project. All right. Yeah. Yes. Can I bring pasta? (laughs) Collin, make you dinner? I'd like to apologize for all the sounds, which is... I'm not the one who heard the sounds. (chuckles) I'd like to apologize if heard any clings and clangs it's 'cause we're cooking spaghetti. You were like, smacking the tongs. You know, RJ was like (scraping metal) All right. (laughing) Are they tongs? Ah, good. (chuckles) Good, I didn't have to tell her. (laughing) It's Pasta Leolio. Where's your plate, RJ? Come on, have dinner.
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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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