Showing posts with label time-lapse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time-lapse. Show all posts

Friday, June 24, 2016

1 Completely Free Stock Footage Clip of My Slowest Time Lapse Yet.

I've been experimenting a little more with time lapses and my intervalometer. I've been really interested in the correlation between interval and focal length. Most of my time lapses have been around 1-second intervals at around a 38mm focal length (I'm factoring in the 1.6 crop factor on the Canon I normally use). This one was done at roughly a 24mm focal length on a full frame camera at 2-second intervals.  I was amazed at how much slower the time was passing on screen.  I guess thought that the changes I made would somehow cancel each other out.  I'd like to get more accurate in reading a situation as to what settings to use to achieve the speed and look I want.  Up until then, I guess I'll have to make available to you all everything that is fit to publish.

You are welcome to use this video in your projects you are working on or keep it in your clip library for future work.The only thing you cannot do is turn around and offer it AS stock footage. Have fun with it!

You can preview and download the video file by clicking "read more" below.  Happy Downloading!




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This video was shot using a Sony A7SII and a Canon EF 24-105mm L Lens with a Commlite EF to E-Mount Adapter


Tuesday, September 15, 2015

1 Completely Free Stock Footage Clip Is Calm, but Under Pressue

Here is another time lapse I was able to capture while I was in the Adirondack mountains. This was the beginning of what looked like a beautiful morning. Calm waters, wispy clouds, nice sunrise. You see though, that the water quickly changes as the wind picks up. The clouds come in, the sky darkens and before you know it ... torrential rain lasting a good part of the day.  I had to cut my capture short, fearing that the weather might get the best of my naked DSLR.

You are welcome to use this video in your projects you are working on, or keep it in your clip library for future work. The only thing you cannot do is turn around and offer it AS stock footage. Have fun with it!

You can preview and download the clip by clicking "read more" below.  Happy Downloading!


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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX DG Lens

Thursday, October 30, 2014

1 Free Stock Footage Clip Is Cloudy with a Chance of Awesome

One of my favorite things about autumn is the drastic weather patterns that hit us here in the Northeast US.  I was lucky enough to catch this front that moved in that offered a lot of contrast.  To me the different types of clouds present, layered, and varying in speed, make the whole clip something MORE that just a time lapse.  I've chosen to label this "Epic Clouds",  I hope you see why and I hope you can find a good use for it.

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various types of clouds are present in this completely free to use stock video clip


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These videos were shot using the Sony NEX-FS700 and a Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens


Tuesday, July 1, 2014

2 Free Stock Footage Clips are Feeling Sluggish

The idea for these next two shots came up when a user in a Facebook group I am a part of called "Share Footage" requested a stock shot of a slug.

I had in my head already an plan to do a time lapse of my garden at night, but I had been putting it off for some time.  I decided to put it off a little longer to scour my yard for slugs.  I see them every day... shouldn't be too hard to pop on out and get some good footage right?  Well they must have know I was coming.  After a few failed attempts, I ended up partially abandoning my search and instead set my camera up to do this night time lapse.  The first clip was shot close to midnight with just the lighting from my front porch.  The camera is shooting at 1 frame per second and there is a little bit of in camera gain applied to get a good exposure (The FS700 holds up pretty well huh?).  After about recording for 45 minutes I played back what I had gotten and what do you know?  A little tiny slug pops out from under the mulch and travels up part of a plant in the background.  I jumped up and readied my camera again ... I ran out to where the first shot was and searched the surrounding plants.  There he was, checking out his dinner situation.  I let the camera run for a while, but he quickly moved out of focus.  I re-positioned, but by that time he had settled in and was just hanging out, not doing too much.  So there you go, hopefully this is useful to you sometime down the road.  I had a great experience shooting it.  I feel like I will be back out there very soon.


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free royalty free footage of mulch
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These videos were shot using a Sony NEX-FS700


Thursday, June 26, 2014

1 Stock Footage Clip is Taking a Day Trip

The "driving" force (pun intended) for this clip was a request by a YouTube visitor, asking if I had any driving time lapses that took place during the daytime.  I actually never really thought about doing one up until now, you don't really see too many of them out there... and I now know why.  They are HARD to get.

I initially had to wait for good weather conditions.  The next part was mounting my camera somewhere that would move naturally with the car and not shift or have the potential to shift while driving.  I ended up using a magic arm with a clamp to mount my T2i to my rear view mirror upside down.  I then flipped the image in post.  Those 2 testing points made up the first few failed attempts.

The dynamic range between the really bright sky and the detail in the road and cars was also an issue, especially when you try to drag your shutter for almost half a second in order to get some much desired motion blur.  This meant I had 2 ND filters stacked on the front of my camera (a ND 2.1 and a ND 1.8).  I had to cut a lot of light out to keep my iris wide open to reduce the "strobe" effect that presents itself when doing time lapses on a DSLR.  When you shoot with the iris closed even a little bit,  there is a slight chance you will get an inconsistency in exposure between two shots.

This was actually my 8th attempt at getting something I felt was useable.  Many times, the light couldn't be cut back enough or the cars (which are the main subjects) were too dark when I tried to expose the sky.  I am going to do a LOT more testing to see if I can get something I am REALLY proud of, but I do like this one and felt it might be useful to some of you.  Hope this helps in your projects!

You can preview and download the clips by clicking "read more" below.  Happy Downloading!


Free Royalty Free Footage of Cars on an Expressway


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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM Lens



Thursday, May 8, 2014

1 Stock Footage Clip is Limited

This is a shot that I've been wanting to get for a while.  I love traffic time lapse shots.  I find them very useful when trying to tell a story.  They can be used to shot the passage of time or a change in location beautifully.  I also like how this shot has something stationary and prominent in the foreground, yet being a radar, still shows a lot of motion.

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This video was shot using a Sony NEX-FS700


Sunday, April 27, 2014

1 Stock Footage Clip is Uplifting

Something I've enjoyed doing with the FS700 is capturing clouds by shooting at 1-2 fps using the camera's adjustable frame rate feature.  Doing something like that in the DSLR is tricky because it takes some time to write the information onto the card from the buffer and usually you can't get a reliably smooth time lapse.  The video is also compiled in-camera, meaning instant playback.  With my T2i, I need to load it into the computer, compile it, and render it in order to see what I got. Obviously the benefit to DSLR time lapses is the ability to record higher than HD in the RAW format.

I was able to catch this great cloud swell the other day and wanted to share it with you.  Those of you who have been following the blog might know that I am a big fan of negative space in my shots (even though I try to properly frame everything to keep it as "stock" as possible).  I was hoping to have the formation hold at the bottom third of the screen, but the billow that happens is pretty cool too.  I've been told that you can't have too many cloud clips, so i hope you don't mind one more!


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This video was shot using a Sony NEX-FS700


Monday, April 21, 2014

1 Stock Footage Clip is Seeing Stars

Usually twice a year, the family and I travel about 90 miles outside of the city to a very small town in a valley to visit my wife's grandmother.  It is a wonderful place free of things like cell signals, which force you to be more "connected" to the people and things around you.  I've brought my camera down ever since I have started this blog in order to get star time lapses (something I cannot do in the light polluted city limits).  Since we don't go that often, rarely do i have a clear sky to capture (this was the only other one I've been able to get).  This past weekend gave me the perfect opportunity though and I was excited to employ the A/C adapter for my camera that tested so well during the "rotting banana" time lapse.  I also came this time with a much more scientific/mathematical approach to shooting vs. my previous star time lapse.

Most notably, I was able to put into practice something called the "500 rule" which is a calculation that you can perform to figure out how long you can keep your shutter open before you start to capture "star trails" instead of stars.  The formula goes as follows: 500/ (lens focal length) = max. shutter duration in seconds.  I was using my Sigma 24mm f/1.8 lens on my Canon T2i.  The Rebel line of Canon cameras has a 1.6x crop factor that needed to be included as well.  So my calculation was a followed: 500/(24 times 1.6) = 13.  So I had the max time my shutter could be open (13 seconds), I ended up dialing it back 1 second for safety.  Since I was focusing to "infinity" the depth of field did not matter on the camera, so I was able to keep it wide open at f/1.8.  These two known values allowed me to then dial in my ISO to something that would allow me a good exposure.  I settled on 800.  So for those of you interested, this sequence was shot RAW at f/1.8, ISO 800 and a shutter speed of 12 seconds.  I set the intervalometer in my Magic Lantern hacked firmware to 16 seconds, allowing my camera 4 extra seconds to write the RAW file out of the buffer to the 32GB card.  1,464 images later (or 6.5 hours) and what you see below is what I can offer you.

I plan on going back to the RAW files and trying my hand at creating a star trail time lapse by gradually stacking the images.  This is obviously something that will take a while, so I wanted to initially post this video for people who might be able to find a good use for it.  The lights on the trees are actually from trains that pass through town.  I was amazed that the images picked the light from them up.


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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX DG Lens


Wednesday, April 16, 2014

1 Stock Footage Clip is Bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S

I was finally able to pull out my A/C adapter for my T2i and put together a setup to capture a very long-form time lapse.  After blacking out a room in my basement, I set up a very simple shot and employed a F&V R-300 LED ring light around my DSLR.  The light and the camera were plugged in and the Canon was programmed to utilize the intervalometer in the Magic Lantern firmware.  I was VERY happy with the consistent output of the light.  No flicker whatsoever.  This video was shot over 8 days.  Each frame is 15 minutes apart.  The hardest part was not having my camera at my side during my day to day routine.


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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX DG Lens


Saturday, December 28, 2013

1 Stock Footage Clip Mist the Boat

This time lapse was definitely a labor of love, a test of patience and a possibly a fools errand all rolled in to one.  I actually shot this close to 5 months ago while I was camping with the family in the Adirondack Mountains.  I had a beautiful scene framed, with the clouds, water and mist all moving along different planes, but the lake wasn't as isolated as this final product makes it out to be.  There were actually quite a few early morning adventurers out in kayaks during my capture.  When the time lapse was compiled when I got home, it looked like a group of dragonflies were darting around the screen the way their paddles kept popping up and down and how they seamlessly moved through the water.  I ended up individually re-touching 570 images using Photoshop's "Content-Aware Fill".  It worked out wonderfully thanks to the rolling mist over the water, which was consistently giving me motion.  That helped hide any inconsistencies the software created.

Since my trip was short, and this was really the only clip I could get while I was there, I was determined to make it work. Hope you can use it for something!!!


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A still image of a stock video clip that shows footage of a lake in the morning with mist on the water


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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens


Wednesday, November 6, 2013

1 Stock Footage Clip Rises in the East

I haven't quite gotten down the right method to capturing sunrises (tips and suggestions welcome). Obviously the dynamic range during one is absolutely huge and I've miscalculated a few times how much I needed to stop down, or how much ND to add.  Just like getting cloud time lapses, I also needed to become familiar with the correct interval between frames in order to establish a somewhat rapid yet visually natural pace.  I had a request a while back for a sunrise clip, so I thought I would upload one, but don't think you have seen the last ... or the best from me yet.

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These videos were shot using a Sony NEX-FS700


Sunday, May 26, 2013

1 Clip is Cumulus

I managed to capture this time lapse the other day on my quest to film what I call "Toy Story" clouds.  While I believe I got the right conditions, the interval of 1 second between shots seemed too long considering how fast the clouds were moving.  I plan on taking advantage of Magic Lantern's FPS override feature next time to try to get a much more slower, fluid, dreamy like movement.  The only downside is that I will lose the RAW imaging flexibility I get from doing stills.  We'll have to see how far my ND filters and polarizers can balance things.

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Cumulus clouds rush past the screen an an otherwise sunny day.

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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens

Friday, April 5, 2013

1 Clip Watches from the Rooftop

I offer you a time lapse that I shot during a beautifully overcast day.  You can click "Read more" and I will share the interesting process I had to go through to make this clip usable.  This is also available for the first time as a WebM file for those of you repurposing these clips as backgrounds for your websites.

You can preview and download the clip by clicking "read more" below.  Happy Downloading!

Storm Clouds seen from a rooftop


 
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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

1 Clip is My Way On The Highway

Hello All!

Here is the first Time Lapse I feel comfortable releasing created from my modified (CHDK Hacked) Canon Powershot S95.  

So this clip offered is my travels along my local expressways at night.

You can read about my experience as well as preview and download the clip by clicking "read more" below.  Happy Downloading!

POV of a car traveling on the highway
 
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Monday, January 21, 2013

2 Clips are "WALKIN' HERE!!!"



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I was fortunate enough to land myself in New York City a few months ago and managed to bring my camera along.  While performing other duties, I managed to grab a few time lapses that I hope would be helpful to some people.  The first one at dusk is in Manhattan while the second one during the day is across the river in Brooklyn.

As you may know, recently I am pushing the boundaries as far as how many media files I can associate with each clip through Archive.org.  You have the option of downloading a PhotoJPEG, H.264 or WMV file. I'd also like to go back and update all of the earlier clips and will do so eventually.  Doing so is a very big time commitment for me with the current processing power of my computer.

You can preview and download the clip by clicking "read more" below.  Happy Downloading!





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These videos were shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX DG Lens

Monday, December 3, 2012

1 HD Clip has a Silver Lining

Came across a beautifully silver sky the other day.  The sun was coming through a patch of clouds to the right of this time lapse, projecting it's rays onto some of the others.  I was quite pleased with this one.  One of the challenges I gave to myself recently was to learn as much as I could about creating time lapse videos of clouds.  You cannot imagine the wild variables you run into in this environment.  I have learned a lot, and I hope some of you may be able to benefit from it.  Hope this helps!

As you may know, recently I am pushing the boundaries as far as how many media files I can associate with each clip through Archive.org.  You have the option of downloading a PhotoJPEG, H.264 or WMV file. I'd also like to go back and update all of the earlier clips and will do so eventually.  Doing so is a very big time commitment for me with the current processing power of my computer.

You can preview and download the clip by clicking "read more" below.  Happy Downloading!

clouds displaying their silver lining



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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Sigma 24mm f/1.8 EX DG Lens

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

1 HD Clip Passes on the Left

I shot this on a whim the other day while driving down an access road near one of our busier expressways.  I am really happy with how it turned out, but it did take me a good amount of time to edit out the amazing amount of birds that flew through the shot.  Here is where I am very thankful for Photoshop's "content aware fill".  It made editing these frames very easy.

As you may know, recently I am pushing the boundaries as far as how many media files I can associate with each clip through Archive.org.  With this file you have the option of: 10-bit DNxHD (Avid and Premiere Users), PhotoJPEG (Final Cut and iMovie Users), H.264 (Native to DSLR Cameras) and WMV (Windows Movie Maker).  I'd also like to go back and update all of the earlier clips and will do so eventually.  Doing so is a very big time commitment for me with the current processing power of my computer.

You can preview and download the clip by clicking "read more" below.  Happy Downloading!

A busy highway silhouetted by the crisp blue sky and fluffy clouds behind it.

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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM Lens

Thursday, August 9, 2012

1 HD Clip Keeps You On Course

I've wanted a shot like this for a while, and am actually very happy with how this HDR turned out.  It was shot as a Time-lapse, but with how calm the trees were (mixed with the soft bokeh) the shot looks real time with beautiful HDR detail. 

Also it should be noted that this is our 100th clip!!!!!!!!!!!

As you may know, recently I am pushing the boundaries as far as how many media files I can associate with each clip through Archive.org.  With this file you have the option of: 10-bit DNxHD (Avid and Premiere Users), PhotoJPEG (Final Cut and iMovie Users), H.264 (Native to DSLR Cameras) and WMV (Windows Movie Maker).  I'd also like to go back and update all of the earlier clips and will do so eventually.  Doing so is a very big time commitment for me with the current processing power of my computer.

You can preview and download the clip by clicking "read more" below.  Happy Downloading!

A High Dynamic Range Still of a Hiking Marker on a trail in the woods

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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM Lens

Monday, August 6, 2012

1 HD Clip Needs a Pot of Gold

I was fortunate enough to stumble across Attila Vago's blog "BitsBits".  It is there where you can find the best free things on the internet.  He posted an offer by Daz3D  for free licensing of the 3D modeling program Bryce 7.1.  I used Bryce over a decade ago in college, so I was interested in trying it out again. 

Getting back into the swing of things, I was able to put this little clip together in very little time, but rendering it out proved to be a resource hog on my tiny little laptop.  To me its an abstract look at what it may be like to travel through a rainbow if it was something more than an optical illusion and refracted light. 

This clip is loopable.

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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

1 HD Clip is on the Grid

I have been wanting to get a shot like this for a while, and came across a beautiful day with some speckled clouds in the background.  This time lapse takes us from dusk to night.

I am also pushing the boundaries as far as how many media files I can associate with each clip.  With this file you now have the option of: DNxHD (Avid and Premiere Users), PhotoJPEG (Final Cut and iMovie Users), H.264 (Native to DSLR Cameras) and WMV (Windows Movie Maker).  I'd like to go back and update all of the earlier clips and will do so eventually.  Doing so is a very big time commitment for me with the current processing power of my computer.

You can preview and download the clip by clicking "read more" below.  Happy Downloading!


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This video was shot using a Canon EOS Rebel T2i and a Canon EF 50mm f1.4 USM Lens