Magnolia Timelapse

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

http://muvipix.com/cpg/albums/userpics/ ... gnolia.wmv

[Steve Grisetti]

Very nice work, John! I especially liked that changing light and the occasional bee.

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

Very nice work, John! I especially liked that changing light and the occasional bee.

Nothing to do with me! Divine providence!

[Dave McElderry]

Beautiful! I love this kind of stuff.

[momoffduty]

Awesome John! The flower barely gets opened and the bees come swarming. What was the length of time capturing?

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

One photo every minute for one hundred and fifty minutes. Then import into PPro, crop and zoom, export as .wmv then re-import the .wmv and adjust the running time.

I missed the beginning of the flower opening from the tight bud and the camera position was not ideal as it was limited by the length of the power lead. An electrical extension lead is on my shopping list.

[momoffduty]

Thanks for the info on how you did this. Have you thought about a 24 hour timelapse? Here is one that was shot in a kitchen cabinet with low wattage bulbs for the light. More info on the video page.

https://vimeo.com/47097788

[sidd finch]

John that was really cool. The bee flying in for some breakfast was great.

Sidd

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

I'm working on the originals. This really was a genuine "grab shot" opportunity. The .wmv loses a bit of saturation and contrast but I live in the (vain?) hope that I can "correct" for the changing light on groups of shots and also the contrast - if only for the sake that it gives me practice in PPro and the various correction tools.

Takes me back to my wedding photography days when the challenge was to make sure that the bride's dress retained some "texture" rather than appearing just bland, washed out white.

[momoffduty]

White is so hard to shoot video or photos and retain texture. Your flower video was very good white balance and not washed out.