Walnut Sunset

After trying a few time lapse sequences, I decided to have a go at a HDR time lapse. Here's my first attempt!

 

Technical jibber jabber

 

- D700 resting on window ledge

- Shooting in JPG to allow a couple thousand frames on a 8GB card

- Aperture priority mode

- ISO 200

- Auto-bracket +/- 1 stop

- Intervalometer set to take 3 shots at each 10-second interval over a period of approx 1.5 hours

 

This gave me a total of about 1.5k JPGs which I batch processed in Photomatix, tone mapping each of the 3-bracket shot sequences into a single tone mapped image. Each of these tone mapped images was imported into Quicktime as an image sequence (I think I left it at the default 12fps), then exported/imported into iMovie.

 

The panning and zooming is a feature of iMovie. The JPGs are large enough to crop and still produce HD output.

 

24fps version here.

Done