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Professional photographer and Panasonic Lumix Global Ambassador Shiv Verma delivered a presentation at B&H Optic about timelapse photography and Verma's techniques for capturing timelapse photography that visually showcases the passage of time. The presentation also discusses common mistakes photographers make when doing...
Sony Artisan of Imagery Drew Geraci has done a lot of professional timelapse work with his production company, District 7, including for films with acclaimed directors like Steven Spielberg and David Fincher. To share his knowledge and experience, Geraci and Sony have launched a new video series, 'Reframed with Drew...
Adorama recently released a two-part video series about mixed lighting. What is mixed lighting? It's a challenging situation when a scene has different types of lights. Lights can be different colors, different brightness or both. It can be an unflattering light...
Zeiss contributor and photographer Brian Leary recently headed to Mexico City to create a series of videos about shooting time lapse photography. In the five videos below, Leary uses various Zeiss lenses while discussing necessary gear for a good time lapse video and showing us how to set up our cameras. If you’ve ever...
Recently, there has been a proliferation of great timelapse gear. It used to be that creating a motion timelapse was difficult and expensive, but there are so many well-built and reasonably affordable options out there today. Although on the more expensive end of the spectrum, photographer Adam Gibbs recently shot with...
A holy grail timelapse is when you make a timelapse which goes from day to night or vice versa. As you can imagine, this situation poses unique challenges, particularly with respect to exposure and color balance shifting over time as the lighting conditions change.
In the video below, David Bergman shows us how to make...
In 2012, Syrp launched one of the most successful campaigns on Kickstarter, earning over $630,000 in investment and surpassing the original goal of $150,000 in just 5 days. At the time, those were absolutely boggling, unheard-of numbers. The Syrp, a small, powerful timelapse and motion control machine, was the first of...
Sony Artisan Miguel Quiles was recently in Red Rock Canyon with the new Sony A7 III and as part of an episode of Adorama's "The Breakdown," he shows us how to shoot a timelapse on the A7 III without using the PlayMemories app, which is no longer available using the latest generation of Sony cameras.
Instead of using...
Time-lapse videos are a great way to tell a story, says photographer Adam Karnacz. In his new video, Karnacz shares how he makes his 4K time-lapse videos.
Many cameras these days include a built-in time-lapse mode. However, Karnacz prefers to capture still images and manually turn his stills into a video sequence....
Martin Heck of Timestorm Films recently ventured to the Dolomites in northeastern Italy. He came back with the files for a beautiful 8K time lapse video, which you can see below.
Using a Sony A7R II and a RED Epic-W camera with Zeiss Otus 28mm f/1.4, Canon 11-24mm f/4, Tamron 15-30mm f/2.8, Sigma 50mm f/1.4, Zeiss...
Photographer Mike Olbinski is not only a wedding photographer, but he's also a storm chaser. You've likely seen one or more of his storm-chasing time lapse videos before, we've shared them on a couple of occasions. Olbinski started working on his latest video in late March and spent the spring travelling 28,000 miles...
Syrp has announced the coming Genie II and Magic Carpet Pro slider, a combination that should bring fans of the system everything they've wanted in a timelapse and motion control device. Though details are a somewhat limited, as it appears Syrp wants to incentivise interested parties to visit their booth at NAB, we do...
There is a lot of competition in the motion capture/ timelapse device space, and nearly anyone can get started with it in some respect with just about any budget. The most challenging thing for many is finding the best quality you can at the desired price point. You can spend an absolute fortune and grab something like...
Cinetics, the company that brought you the gorillapod on wheels, has announced their latest motion control device: the Lynx. Stepping up the tech that they put into their Axis360 system, the Lynx is their advanced, premium offering that should appeal to the professional timelapser and videographer. The motor is...
Who says you can’t make art using Google Maps images? Graphic design student Matteo Archondis has used over 3,300 screenshots from within Google Maps – which just turned 12 years old – to create a hyperlapse video showcasing cities and landmarks from all over the globe, including Venice, Paris, London and many more.
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We have featured the excellent time-lapse work of Mike Oblinski before. The wedding photographer has a passion for storm photography and storm chasing. He has always shot his storm photography and time-lapse videos in color, as he loves the vibrant colors of storms. But as he says about his latest video, PULSE, “......
We frequently cover excellent or distinct timelapse videos on Imaging Resource, but DigitalRev In-Focus has a neat new video discussing timelapses in general, including their history, the techniques behind the videos and their artistic aspects.
Firstly, what is timelapse? It's a photographic technique where a...
If you have spent any time looking at landscape images on the internet, you have almost certainly seen photos from Iceland. The small island nation in the North Atlantic is a treasure trove of amazing vistas that would make any photographer smile. A recent timelapse video from Nick Kontostavlakis called “Whispering...
Are you tired of dealing with occasionally clunky and often limited smartphone apps to remote control your camera with your mobile device? MIOPS has just the product for you with the MIOPS Mobile. Launched on Kickstarter earlier this year, the camera remote has nearly doubled its Kickstarter target with 18 days to go in...
Wouldn't it be nice if you could preview your time lapse while it was still recording? What about having a time lapse device that could automatically bulb ramp to "deliver perfect results for sunset, sunrise or night sky captures?" The Timelapse+ VIEW intervalometer ticks both those boxes and more. You can view a preview...