Critique - My Timelapse (please)

*pbartram*

*pbartram*

Member
So ive done a little HDR (don't hate me) timelapse project and I would love it if you would take a look and see what you think over it. If you could comment with your feedback that would be great. So here it is:
 
really great. i know a lot of people say stuff about songs being used too much. but ghostwriter? really?

also, i have the same exact setup as you

t2i, kit lens, sigma 10-20, and a 3rd party intravelometer
 
all were pretty good! a couple tips that I'd give are:

Avoid having people in a timelapse of clouds. Don't know how well that makes sense, but if you were to take a cloud timelapse it would be sped up much more than a timelapse of people. If you are doing a timelapse of people, for instance in a city, its fine to have clouds, but the speed will probably only be like 400%. The clouds would move slightly faster than normal. If you were to be speeding up a timelapse of the clouds over a field, you could speed it up to anywhere like 30000%. in this situation though, if there were people in the field, that could look really bad because they are moving waaaay to fast and just jumping around the screen. Thats the best I can explain this phenomenon, and i hope it makes sense.

(I don't know what you're shooting on, but when i say speeding it up, that could either mean setting the intervalometer to shoot at a slower rate on a DSLR, or speeding it up after shooting a video in editing software.)

Try a slower shutter speed on the creek shots if at all possible. it will make the creek look really smooth (this really only works on DSLR,and you may need an ND filter to do this.)

Obviously these were all shot by your house, but the more variation in location the better the video will be (as long is its not all over the place).

I personally like to have my nature timelapses have absolutely no sign of civilization (e.g. no buildings, roads, etc.) and then if i want to have civilization in my shot that is the focus of the shot (like in a city). that being said, this is 100% personal preference and thats just what i like to do.

Lastly, I wasn't huge on the shot with the bees by the flowers (the one through the window), because the bees were really flying too fast around the frame.) maybe slowing that would help. again though, this is personal opinion.

anyways, that was some good work! and i am not hating at all with these comments, just trying to help!
 
oh yea i almost forgot this. especially if its windy, try to avoid trees, bushes, and even tall grass if its close to the camera. If its further away, you don't need to worry nearly as much about this.
 
i loved it. my favorite shot was the towards the end when the clouds were moving perpendicular to each other. pretty sick.
 
Sorry I didn't know it was over played on Newschoolers, would have chosen something else if I had. Good to see someone else with the same setup, I love my 10-20mm sigma
 
I liked it.

there were only the two first shots of the little stream i didnt care much for. but the third shot of it was better.

but the overall edit was nice i thought!

nice job, and you seem to live in a nice place, i like it.
 
cool idea, song is wayy over used! like said above, avoid trees, bushes, etc. but the sky and lighting looked good.

What was your process for editing? cause I know CS5 will HDR on a single raw file. did you edit 1 photo down from 3? That seems like so much work. Instead of HDR I'll use gradients and fill light in Lightroom to create a balanced image.
 
good work! The HDR was a little over done in the first shot, but the rest were pretty subtile, which is always nice. Some of the shots were a little boring (like the inside ones), but some were nice. Try to pick a theme and focus on one particular subject or group of things, not just random timelapses. The bugs bothered me a lot, and you had quite a few of them moving around in different shots, but thats something you can't really control.
 
I first set the camera to manual and set it to take 3 shots each time at varying exposures (-2, 0 and +2). Then i set the interval which varied depending on the situation. I used photomatix to create the HDR photos, then lightroom to resize the images, then lrtimelapse to deflicker. The photos were then exported from lightroom and then I used quicktime 7 to combine the photos. The resulting videos were edited in Final cut pro.I did also edit the photos in lightroom a bit, but i didn't want to edit them to drastically as lightroom works destructively, thats why I wanted to use an HDR method as it would allow me to bring out all the colour available while not damaging image quality. I tried to keep the clips as realistic as possible but some im not overly happy with. As for the bugs, I agree they are a bit annoying but there wasn't much i could do about them. Thanks for all the feedback its all really useful, keep it coming...
 
wow, that's quite the process! The deflickering program interested me because I have flickers in my lapses after using Lightroom. I'm really excited to try out that LRTimelapse program now. Thanks.

You can see the red flicker at the end of the first shot in this video.

/static/images/flash_video_placeholder.png
 
You should definitely use lrtimelapse if you having trouble with flickering, although i think you have to have lightroom also, in order to use it
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top