This hyperlapse was taken using my DSLR – a Nikon D7100 and to ensure stability and consistency of shots, etc. was mounted on a tripod. I used an external remote to time each shot and control the overall number of shots for the length of video I wanted.
There’s nothing that exciting about this video clip – no big reveals, no UFOs flashing across the sky or anything like that. What I was trying to capture was a simple scene from home (this is from the dormer window in my attic) and show the graceful movement of the clouds on a reasonably well lit day over a long period of time. Hopefully I managed that.
When I came to working out how many shots I needed, I was working on the following:
- number of frames per second (25) x number of seconds of video required = length of video
This clip is 4 mins and 24 seconds long so the actual number of images =
- ((4 x 60) + 24) x 60) = 6,600 frames
There was 3 seconds between each frame which makes the elapsed time something like 5 1/2 hours condensed into those 4 1/2 minutes (or thereabouts) if my maths is correct.