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Posted on 06/04/21 09:16:33 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2884 Reply  |
iPhone time lapse video
http://vimeo.com/533431125 Time lapse video using iPhone of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Anzac Bridge and Spit Bridge while heading out the city and back home again. _________________ Dorothy: "there's no place like home!" |
Posted on 06/04/21 10:33:31 AM |
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GKB
Magical Montagist Posts: 3958 Reply  |
Re: iPhone time lapse video
Excellent Anna. The iPhone has handled it well. Was there any tweaking in post? I was a little concerned at the final frame when you were approaching the stationary car at ‘high speed’, though. _________________ If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is not for you. |
Posted on 06/04/21 11:59:54 AM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3092 Reply  |
Re: iPhone time lapse video
That's great Anna. Makes me want to replace my old flip phone. |
Posted on 06/04/21 1:44:06 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5522 Reply  |
Re: iPhone time lapse video
Incredible what these phones can do now. Stop frame or 300fps high speed! So this flashes back to something vaguely relevant. Stop frame and the earliest days of the mobile phone. It's very fuzzy I am afraid. I shot this somewhere over 35 years ago when cellphones, as they were then called, only existed in cars or similar. To shoot it I needed a massive specialised camera with two shutters: the regular one behind the lens and an external 'capping shutter' in front of the lens. The intervalometers which regulated the exposure and frame rate independently were huge heavy boxes of electronics and the whole set up required a 230v mains supply or a small generator. It was difficult and cumbersome to move even with a team of about eight of us. The short spot you see here needed five nights of shooting. Digital post was in its infancy and the 'flying text' was a nightmare to produce. Viable digital 3D was still in the future. The satellite was a physical model shot in the studio. The reason I thought it would fun to post is that it is an interesting reflection of the dangers of trying to peek into the technological future. At the end of the spot the man takes a huge clunky hand held phone out of his briefcase. Hand held phones quite simply didn't exist then. This was a mock up model by the client's technical department of how they envisaged the handheld phone of the future might look! No one could envision that in a few decades I would be able to shoot the entire spot in a single night using a phone! http://vimeo.com/533500844/115b6fdf44 _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 07/04/21 05:07:03 AM |
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tooquilos
Wizard of Oz Posts: 2884 Reply |
Re: iPhone time lapse video
Thank you Loyd! Gordon, the only tweaking I did is reduce the speed of the original recording by 25% in Premiere. Other than that, the footage is as it was taken. I didn't intend for it to end on such a cliff hanger  however I received a phone call just at that moment so and as I went to answer I accidentally cancelled the recording.
It's incredible to read how time lapse used to be done, David and great the see the footage. I did a bit of it about 10 years ago and the effort, time and equipment involved was not really worth the output. Do I understand it correctly when you say the intervalometer needed a small generator to operate? The one I used attached directly into the SLR camera and used a battery for power. _________________ Dorothy: Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore |
Posted on 07/04/21 10:57:22 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5522 Reply |
Re: iPhone time lapse video
Separate intervalometers for frame rate and exposure time. Both they and the camera itself required mains voltage. Not very much (about 250w I think) so a portable hand carry Honda generator was sufficient. The alternative was an inverter or rotary converter powered by a 12v car battery but that was just as heavy. As you say, ten years ago such things were possible on battery power. But remember I was talking about twenty five years earlier than even that.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 08/04/21 7:41:07 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2996 Reply  |
Re: iPhone time lapse video
Love it! |