CHAPTER 4

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Time-Lapse Photography1

Chapter Outline

Expand Your Awareness

The Intervalometer

Understand Your Subject

Contrast

Shutter Speeds

Time-Lapse Rates and Formulas

Time-Lapse Photography and Pixilation

Motion Control

Expand Your Awareness

Time-lapse photography has been practiced for decades and it never seems to grow old. From the early work of Dr. John Ott in the 1930s to the phenomenal motion photography of Ron Fricke in films like Koyaanisqatsi to Baraka in the 1980s and 1990s, time-lapse photography has allowed us to see the world with a fresh point of view. This technique of stopping the camera and shooting frames at an even and given ...

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