time-lapse – The Fotobug

Hidden Camera Timelapse

Jim — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:46:36 +0000

A dutch designer hid a camera inside a parcel and shipped it off to see what steps and how many people were involved in the package delivery. The little camera was 3mp and the photographer, Ruben van der Vleuten, also built an arduino based circuit to fire the camera and shipped the package to himself. A small hole was cut into the side of the package for the camera’s lens to see through. After the package arrived, he created a timelapse of the captured images.

What happens when you send something by mail? What happens in between you sending it off and someone else receiving it? What people and processes are involved and how many steps does it take?

Those all were questions I was dealing with and wanted to find out. So instead of sitting back I started a simple project to actually see it myself. I put a small camera in a box, build a timer circuit using Arduino and shipped it.

We recently mentioned this video and project on our podcast and so now it can see it for yourself!

The original blog post can be found HERE.

Hyperlapse created with Google Street View

Jim — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:12:40 +0000

This is really cool – Teehan + Lax has come up with a program that allows you to take street view images from Google maps and create a “Hyperlapse” time-lapse video. Best of all, the program is offered free!

The results are pretty spectacular, and the free online tool allows you to create a hyperlapse video showing transit between any two points in Google Maps. While the video is playing, you can pan around the view just as you would when using Google Street View in its conventional mode. The default controls are minimal (and by default, the hyperlapses rush between points A and B very very quickly), but the source code for this tool is available on GitHub, allowing developers to experiment with things such as different frame rates.

Click here to read the full story on the Teehan + Lax blog

Click here to create your own Hyperlapse

If you make a video of your own, please let us know and share it with us!

LRTimelapse and the Holy Grail

Jim — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:43:51 +0000

The “Holy Grail” of time-lapse photography is the ability to successfully record a sunset or sunrise and be able to maintain the changing exposure. Gunther Wegner’s LRTimelapse is a program that allows the photographer to correct the changes in exposure that are necessary. It also has the ability to correct minor exposure variations which can cause flicker in the final video. In addition my blog post at www.elusiveimage.net – I would like to share this instructional video that Gunther put together. You will need Lightroom in addition to LRTimelapse, but the program is brilliant and highly recommended!

Gunther wrote:

In this tutorial you will learn to master the best way to shoot and process day to night (and night to day) time lapse shots using Lightroom and LRTimelapse 2. This workflow can be used with Adobe Camera Raw and LRTimelapse as well.

Please check out lrtimelapse.com for further information.
If you never worked with LRTimelapse please make sure to watch the Basic Tutorial first!
lrtimelapse.com/tutorial

If you have questions, let us know! I have been using Gunther’s program from over a year now and Gunther has been on The Fotobug podcast twice!