Time-lapse photography is one of the most exciting recent developments from the DSLR revolution. With your DSLR camera, you can warp time! As humans, we see life happening to and around us at a certain speed and rate. It is difficult to grasp how a cloud specifically morphs in the sky because we can only grasp so much of the change in our short attention span. In normal photography, we have to choose what part of the day we want to capture and show to our audience because we have to shoot at a particular time. But with timelapse photography, thanks to our DSLR, we can rise above those limitations. You can take 5 hours and turn it into 5 seconds. You can take an entire day's happenings and show it in a minute. You can see specifically how the clouds change and morph, appear and disappear. You don't have to pick one moment in the day to take a picture of- you can show the entire day and it's changing beauty to your audience. Then there's the amazing starry night time lapses or the exciting, downtown traffic time lapses- all these new forms of expression and experimentation fall under Time-lapse Photography. It is an exciting time in photography!

We have all seen a cool time-lapse video somewhere and once you get the time-lapse bug- then you start seeing the world thinking, "Wow… what a beautiful sunset… this would be a great time-lapse…" or "The crowd coming into this basketball arena would be an interesting time-lapse…" Chances are, you were probably right. The only thing you need now is the knowledge on how to capture and create it. Making a good timelapse is all about a solid knowledge foundation. I know- you want to get the beautiful sunset, the stunning Milky Way arcing overhead, crowds buzzing around a community center- cool stuff like that. Well, you can and will, but for it all to come together to make a stunning, final video there is some important foundational knowledge you need to start with.

In this class we will talk about why an indoor timelapse is the easiest thing to start out with and how to use a controlled environment to your advantage. Next, we will go outside to make nature and people time-lapses. There are many challenging factors that arise once you set up a camera in one outside spot for an hour or more continuously taking pictures- we will talk about expecting those challenges and being prepared to overcome them. Next, it will be time to download, process, and edit all the raw material you have shot. We will talk about editing the specific images and editing the compiled video sequences. Finally, there will be an overview on the most challenging techniques of time-lapse such as city lights at night, stars passing overhead, sunsets and sunrises, and more.

After it is all said and done, you will have gone through all the steps of planning, shooting, editing, and posting a timelapse videos.

Equipment needed for this class:

DSLR camera
Tripodbr> Intervalometer - Here is a link to a couple - http://www.adorama.com/catalog.tpl?op=CustomList&List_Id=AAIntervalometer - of the most popular, but make sure you find the one that works with your camera body.

If you have any of the following nikon camera bodies, you don't need an intervalometer!! You have one built into your camera!

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