Time Lapse Photography is fun. And with modern digital camera's and computer software, it's relatively easy. All it takes is patience.

Below time lapse movies were made using a Canon Digital Ixus 400. The camera was controlled directly from the lap-top and images were directly transferred to and saved on the lap-top harddisc by means of  Cam4You Utilities software. Images were batch-resized to 400x300 using IrfanView, and combined into the final .avi video file using Antechinus Animator.  The original .avi movies are all of better quality than the compressed YouTube versions shown here.

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"Tulips"    Duration: 11 seconds

Tulip flowers opening and moving under the influence of sunlight. This is a 4.5 hour sequence at 1 images/minute (270 photographs in total) shot on January 14th 2008 (music is "Arcadia" by Kevin Macleod)  





"Dusk Approach"    Duration: 48 seconds

The approach of dusk over my home in Leiden: with cirrus clouds that move and dissolve like cigarette smoke, aircraft shooting across the sky like shooting stars, and a brief glimpse of the setting sun.

This is a 4 hour sequence at 3 images/minute (711 photographs in total) shot on July 12th 2006. Shooting started 2.5 hours before sunset and ended 1.5 hours after sunset (music is "Village Dawn" by Kevin Macleod)





"Good Bye Blue Sky"    Duration: 18 seconds

This was shot on July 9th 2006 and shows flying clouds and a dramatic change in cloud cover over my home in Leiden, Holland. It is based on 264 photographs taken with 20 second intervals over a 1.5 hour period. I think I have to re-assemble the .avi with another video codec to reduce the current "blockyness" (music is by Kevin Macleod)






"Can I Get There By Candle-light?"    Duration: 12 seconds

Shot in the evening of July 10th 2006, a concept try-out. I misprogrammed the software so the photo-session ended too early. This movie represents a 2 hour timespan in real-time and consists of 377 photographs. The melting-icecubes-in-glass concept was inspired by Clates.  Music again by Kevin Macleod

"Dutch Weather"        Duration: 18 seconds

My very first time lapse movie. Low frontal clouds arriving. Shot on 7 July 2006, 1.5 hours in real-time.


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