Chicago Skyline Time-lapse
I did my first real test of the of the “holygrail” of time-lapse where you go from daylight to night-time (or the reverse).I used the Timelapse+ VIEW intervalometer and software plugin for Lightroom CCto handle the exposure changes. I did this from the Montrose Harbor arealooking down to Chicago, an iconic view of this beautiful city. We started theexposures at 6:40pm and finished 2 hours and 44 minutes later at 9:24pm. Thisgave us just under a minute of video from the 1,408 images shot. For thoseinterested it was shot with the Canon Mark 5d IV with the 24-105 lens set atF/11. The ISO started at 100 and ended at ISO 8000. The shutter speed startedat 1/80 of a second and ended with an exposure of 4.0 seconds. A total of 14.5stops! Timelapse+ VIEW was setup to change the shutter speed first and then theISO. Timelapse+ VIEW Intervalometer will automate night to day time-lapse usinga light sensor and advanced algorithms. This system worked really well and onceyou take it into Lightroom in post processing the plugin finds the keyframeswhich you can use to do the initial processing in Lightroom Development windowto make any exposure / color corrections you require. The software then makesthese corrections for the entire selection in subtle increments so you have afinished piece with smooth transitions for a beautiful time-lapse.
Now one thing I know I will try next time isstarting with at least a 1 second exposure to make the water smootherthroughout the time-lapse. I would also go longer into the nighttime view togive a little more room in editing to be able to use a longer nighttime scene.
This Timelapse+ VIEW intervalometer and what wewill be able to do with it will be a great addition to The Sweetwater Seas –North America’s Great Lakes documentary! It will be in the equipment bagsfor every shoot from now on! Can’t wait to get outside along the Great Lakes and do some day to night withthe Milky Way winding its way across the screen, and maybe even back todaylight.
Enjoy,
Richard
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