The Time-lapse photography page

Just a quick note this was written a considerable time ago so you will not be amazed by the cutting edge equipment used. You could probably use a camera so small you can accidently eat it rather then the 1kg lump I used then. Anyway enjoy.

Equipment: I use a Sony TRV120e digital camcorder with a Jessops Atlantic 325 Tripod (a basic tripod does the job). This camera gives you 1 hour maximum filming short play and 2 hours long play. I then use Premiere to take certain number of frames per second. e.g If 60 minutes of film is sampled at 1 frame per second (25 fps normally that works out 1500 frame per minute) sampling at 1 fps means 1 minute of film works out at 2.4 seconds of film.


I also work in traditional film. My film equipment consists of Eumig 880 super 8mm which is as old as me. This camera has single frame advance (which is not possible on camcorders) I've yet to do any stop motion animation with it, that might be a project if I get the time. This camera also allows you to do timelapse photography over a longer period as you can manually set the frame rate 1 frame per minute to 60 fps. You can buy super 8mm cameras in junk shops, also ask your grand parents or older friends as they tend to have them knocking about. A few shops specialise in these (see the links page) fps (frames per second) Sunsets, sunrises and traffic are next for the timelapse treatment (standard stuff I know), I am going to use some of these in the backgrounds of some of my animation’s at some point. I like my work to be 100% me rather from free textures with standard lighting coupled with dodgy stock 3d models from cover disks.


1. This was filmed on the edge of Salisbury Plain in North Wiltshire 1.04mb




2. A Bit of filming I did while on Holiday on the Kennet and Avon Canal spot the 2 crashes 1.88mb



3. My first attempt at timelapse photograpghy 1.21mb