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\"2015-11-11<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s been a while since I have dabbled with time-lapse photography. \u00a0I had some time the other day and decided to give it another whirl. \u00a0It was a picture perfect morning for a sunrise. \u00a0The clouds were a bit thick, but that ended up to be a great feature. \u00a0The sun rose through the clouds during the whole shoot. \u00a0The sun rays danced on endlessly through the early morning.<\/p>\n

Shooting time-lapse is a significant investment of time – or at least I think so. \u00a0I brought along a book to pass the time. \u00a0The three sequence were shot between 6:58 a.m. – 9:04 a.m. on 2015-11-11 in Bay City, WI.<\/p>\n

\"2015-11-13<\/p>\n

I planned on capturing slightly different views and mashing them up together afterword. \u00a0As it were, the intervalometer on camera 2 was only set for 90 frames (instead of 999). Live and learn; check every single setting twice. \u00a0Set white balance. \u00a0Compose and focus; then switch to manual focus so lens doesn’t attempt to focus for each frame. \u00a0Manual mode for exposure. \u00a0Check those setting twice to be sure. \u00a0It is rather\u00a0disappointing when you spend a few hours capturing time-lapse only to hundreds of unusable frames. \u00a0I started shoot these sequences at ISO 200, 18mm; I did however make some adjustments along the way. \u00a0I started at F\/11 @ 1\/40 sec and end up at F\/14 @ 1\/640 sec. \u00a0The changes where gradual with several frames between changes.<\/p>\n

I took this learning opportunity to move and setup with a dramatically different angle of view. \u00a0There was a nice-sized bit of drift wood on he beach that created an interesting foreground. \u00a0I’ve only used my new Manffroto PIXI Table Top Tripod<\/a> a few times; this is exactly what I envisioned using it for.<\/p>\n

\"2015-11-13<\/a><\/p>\n

I ended up with two shorter segments and one longer one – longer being completely relative here as the final product is only 57 seconds long. \u00a0The time-lapse sequences were produced in VideoVelocity 3<\/a> by Candy Labs. \u00a0The sequences were mashed up together in Windows Movie Maker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The final product is below with music added by Kai Engle – With Redemption.<\/p>\n