Having been in an uber creative state recently, I put together a video to go on the ”ME AND MY BLOG” page of this site.
You can watch the video below.
I enjoyed the process of making it. I went on a bushwalk in search of a good location to shoot cloud formations. I mounted the camera on a tripod (which is essential) and shot around 20 mins of Hi-Def footage (which maxed out my 8GB memory card!)
Back at home, I sped up the ‘time-lapse’ scenes at around 32X real speed and was rewarded with the the effect I’d been hoping for. I decided to go Black & White with some monochrome sections thrown in. It was a fun exersize.
I learn’t two things:
1. Expose for the sky/clouds – not the land
2. Take something heavy to weight down the tripod if you are shooting at high magnification (long focal length of the lens). When you speed up the footage afterward, the wind that you didn’t realise was buffeting the tripod suddenly becomes very obvious!
If you are into photography or video, you should give time-lapse a go. It makes a fun project.
