{"id":6413,"date":"2016-03-22T12:37:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hayesvision.com\/home\/?p=6413"},"modified":"2016-05-10T20:50:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T01:50:30","slug":"neighborhood-sunset-time-lapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hayesvision.com\/home\/neighborhood-sunset-time-lapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Florida Sunset Time Lapse Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been fascinated by time lapse photography for a while, but never really took the time to try my hand at capturing the images and putting them together.  Recently I took my Nikon D7100<\/a> camera down to the neighborhood lake and captured a few hundred still images of a really beautiful sunset over the water (video shown below).  One of the great features on most of the Nikon DLSR cameras is that they have an interval timer feature built in, allowing you to select the interval you want between each image.  After you lock in the interval time and the number of photos,  you put the camera on a tripod, or extremely steady surface, and get comfortable.  The camera works its magic and takes an image every few seconds over a 45 minute to 90 minute time span, depending on your patience level.  At 30 frames per second, it takes a while just to make a video that is 30 to 45 seconds long.<\/p>\n

Below is a photo of my setup which was a picturesque scene overlooking the lake down the street from us with a fountain in the middle.  In the videos I have watched, I always find it more appealing to have some form of subject in the time lapse, along with the sunset, to make the action a bit more interesting.  Of course capturing the photos is just step one, the real magic happens in the video program where you stitch the photos together to make them into a video.<\/p>\n

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It was a beautiful night but, as many of my nights go, I didn’t plan well for the onslaught of mosquitoes that would make me target that evening.  Aside from my legs looking like a bad case of chicken pox, I thought overall it was a pretty successful first attempt as the sky had lots of great color and the clouds provided for some neat motion  Give it a watch and let me know what you think in the comment section below.<\/p>\n