Timelapse Reel# 5 from 599 Productions on Vimeo.

I came across a great post on commercial photographer, Kevin Winzeler’s blog, which discussed the topic of timelapse photography.  This is one type of photography I’ve always had an interest in but when it came to execution, fallen short.  Included is a great video, along with a Q & A from the photographer who shoot the video, Andrew Walker.  Typically, when shooting timelapse, you can use a pocket wizard to trigger the camera, you’d have to use the MultiMax with the intervalometer setting.  I’ve messed with this a few times, but only to dig through the settings, never to actually create a body of work.  Probably be a great thing to work with once it finally warms up around here.  Reading through the Q & A, the photographer mentions using intervals ranging from 1/2 second to 15 seconds.  As far as exposure goes, that’s something you’d just have to experiment with, you may be able to get away with setting to manual and test your exposures, but this would depend on how late is it, if its closer to sunset, you’re going to have a change in exposure.  If you’re in the dead of night, I wouldn’t imagine your exposure would change all that much.  I haven’t done much of this photography, so I couldn’t give you too much information on the matter, but I found the video to be awesome!  Check out the post by Kevin, its worth your time.  I wanted to quickly add, if you like the video you see, there are plenty more if you want to check out the site for 599 Productions. Also, if you have any tips on how to take better timelapse photos, please feel free to comment.  Thanks.

Timelapse Photograph (on Kevin Winzeler’s blog)